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Kelvin Boston
Kelvin Boston NONE Kelvin E. Boston is a Financial journalist, author, and entrepreneur. Kelvin Boston believes that financial education is the key that unlocks the doors to financial success. Bo...
Kelvin Bodley
Kelvin Bodley NONE Kelvin D. Bodley, a Chicago native and now Florida resident, is a social change advocate, author, and Minister of the Gospel. He served as the Special Assistant to Mayor Anthony Gr...
Kelvin Christopher James
Kelvin Christopher James NONE Trinidadian author Kelvin Christopher James, a former high school science teacher and lab technician, holds a Ph.D. in science education. He started writing in 1980, pro...
Augments of Change
Augments of Change Kelvin Christopher James 9781941861172 Fiction Harvard Square Editions Harvard Square Editions Kelvin Christopher James uses a panoramic canvas for this absolutely entertaining and ...
Who’s Afraid To Be a Millionaire?: Mastering Financial and Emotional Success
Who’s Afraid To Be a Millionaire?: Mastering Financial and Emotional Success Kelvin Boston 9780470067994 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley You don’t need to be a financial professional to achieve your financial ...
Smart Money Moves for African-Americans
Smart Money Moves for African-Americans Kelvin Boston 9780399522628 Nonfiction TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House The host of PBS’s The Color of Money presents his bestselling guide to personal wealt...
Stevie Wonder Concert Clip
Stevie Wonder Concert Clip Troy Johnson Article Stevie Wonder Concert Clip I drove from NYC and paid almost 3 times face for a pair of tickets to see Stevie Wonder perform on a chilly evening on the ...
The Boiling Pot of Injustice
The Boiling Pot of Injustice Kelvin Bodley 9781600341793 Nonfiction Xulon Press Xulon Press Come out, come out wherever you are, Kelvin Bodley shares from his own experiences battling against discrimi...
Jumping Ship and Other Stories
Jumping Ship and Other Stories Kelvin Christopher James 9780679411833 Fiction Villard Villard Vibrant, magical, musical, pulsing with the rhythms of Trinidad and Harlem, Kelvin Christopher James’s pro...
Ol’ Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story
Ol’ Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story Patricia C. Mckissack 9780823431861 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Mounting his horse, cold-hearted John Leep smiles as he anticipates evicting the widow Mayes for no...
AALBC in the Media
AALBC in the Media Troy Johnson article AALBC.com is Frequently Cited in Major Media (Clips Pre-2003) Lists AALBC.com, i...
Financial journalist, author, and entrepreneur, Kelvin Boston
Financial journalist, author, and entrepreneur, Kelvin Boston Author Interviews
Smart Money Moves For African Americans
Smart Money Moves For African Americans Kelvin Boston 9780399143274 Nonfiction Putnam Penguin Random House Seven steps to financial success for African-Americans include getting out of debt, saving mo...
Sam Cornish
Sam Cornish 0000000383831039 Sam Cornish (1935-2018) was the Poet Laureate of Boston from 2008 and authored seven poetry books. He taught poetry workshops at the Boston Public Library and was a promi...
Dick Lehr
Dick Lehr 0000000122793759 Dick Lehr, a Boston University journalism professor and former Boston Globe reporter, is a Pulitzer Prize finalist known for his investigative reporting. Lehr, who also pra...
Jeffery Boston Weatherford
Jeffery Boston Weatherford NONE Jeffery Boston Weatherford, an illustrator and poet, founded Triiibe Worldwide. His debut book, You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen, acclaimed by several organizations, e...
People and Peppers, a Romance
People and Peppers, a Romance Kelvin Christopher James 9781941861981 Fiction Harvard Square Editions Harvard Square Editions Gossipy, intimate, and provocative, and set in Trinidad and New York City, ...
Web of Freedom
Web of Freedom Kelvin Christopher James 9781450297271 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Set in the early 19th century and reminiscent of the grand storytelling of Alexandre Dumas, Web of Freedom reco...
The Sorcerer’s Drum
The Sorcerer’s Drum Kelvin Christopher James 9781440141706 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions The Sorcerer’s Drum is a thrilling coming-of-age novel set in North and West Africa at the turn of the nin...
Invisible Life: Special edition
Invisible Life: Special edition E. Lynn Harris 9780385494632 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Available at last, E. Lynn Harris’s beloved first novel in a hardcover edition.Just a few years ago,...
Fling with a Demon Lover
Fling with a Demon Lover Kelvin Christopher James 9780060173500 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins The author of Jumping Ships and Other Stories and Secrets delivers a mysterious novel abo...
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston Howard Bryant 9780415927796 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston’s racial divide viewed through the lens of one of...
Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford
Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford MULTIPLE Mavis Staples is a renowned R&B singer and civil rights activist. Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book author and poet. B...
A clip from THE GILDED SIX BITS the film based upon a story by Zora Neale Hurston
A clip from THE GILDED SIX BITS the film based upon a story by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews
Debating the Black Agenda, a panel discussion - Video Clip
Debating the Black Agenda, a panel discussion - Video Clip Kam Williams Interview MSNBC PRESS RELEASE On Saturday, April 17th, msnbc will carry portions of the National Action Network's...
The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon
The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon Robert Parish 9781637279618 Nonfiction Triumph Books (IL) Triumph Books A memoir of basketball, dedication, and longevity from Boston Ce...
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom...
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford 0000000042539806 Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author, has written over 50 books, earning multiple awards including three Caldecott Honors and two...
Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders MULTIPLE Acclaimed writer and teacher, Rob Sanders, is known for works like Cowboy Christmas, Outer Space Bedtime Race, and Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk a...
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd 0000000028238169 Jonathan Todd, co-founder of Boston Kids Comics Fest and former teacher, is a distinguished comics author and illustrator. A Jacqueline Woodson Fellow, he studied writi...
What’s My Name
What’s My Name Kam Williams Book Review ’The most violent anti-busing demonstrations in America were not in Birmingham or Biloxi, but Boston. Every city has its stories of both racism and res...
Bros
Bros Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536258929 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press “Weatherford and Brown are giving us Black Boy Joy at its best.” — Varian Johnson, author of The Parker Inhe...
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Carole Boston Weatherford 9780063205291 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From the 2025 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, New York Ti...
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9781681198187 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From Young People’s Poet Laureate Carole Boston Wea...
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771507 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture boo...
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763697945 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming t...
Boston Book Festival
Boston Book Festival Copley Square Boston Massachusetts The Boston Book Festival celebrates the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire by holding year-round events culminati...
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593650165 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, i...
Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306345 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From an award...
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Carole Boston Weatherford 9781541581203 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group “Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Coop...
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536206296 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-openin...
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music Carole Boston Weatherford 9781534426368 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring picture book biography from...
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481449380 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative ...
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk 0000000110059709 Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is the founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, a psychiatry professor at Boston University, and director of the National Complex...
Jamarhl Crawford
Jamarhl Crawford NONE Jamarhl Crawford, also known as UNO The Prophet, is a Boston-based artist and poet deeply rooted in the city's Black communities. Coming from a family rich in artistic history, ...
Danielle Legros Georges
Danielle Legros Georges NONE Danielle Legros Georges, a professor at Lesley University, is a renowned writer and poet with interests in arts, education, American and African-American poetry, Caribbea...
Ronald Ancrum
Ronald Ancrum NONE Ron Ancrum, a nonprofit management and organizational development expert, has a diverse career as a professor, consultant, executive, and musician. A graduate of University of Conn...
Larry Tye
Larry Tye 0000000054373081 Larry Tye, a New York Times bestselling author known for works like 'Bobby Kennedy' and 'Satchel', was previously an award-winning reporter at Boston Globe. A Nieman fellow...
No One Left Alone
No One Left Alone Eryka Parker Book Review The inspirational book No One Left Alone opens with the author sharing how members of the Boston community came together and, united, dealt with their grief...
High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul
High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul Marcus J. Moore 9780358494881 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched...
Monster (Graphic Novel)
Monster (Graphic Novel) Walter Dean Myers 9780062275004 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’s New York Times bestseller Monster. Monster is a ...
Divine Intervention (Hallelujah Love)
Divine Intervention (Hallelujah Love) Lutishia Lovely 9780758265814 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The first family of the Mount Zion Progressive Baptist Church lives to preach. But when i...
The Boiling Pot of Injustice
The Boiling Pot of Injustice Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Kelvin D. Bodley has penned an explosive book. He has taken his experiences of discrimination in the workplace; and using Biblical princ...
amA–Zing: Black Joy from A–Z
amA–Zing: Black Joy from A–Z Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665971652 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Carole Bos...
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536235074 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press With dozens of major awards between them, a revered poet and a versatile...
Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation
Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation Carole Boston Weatherford 9798217031856 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Commemorate the innumerable ways the African American communit...
My Daddy Is Everything
My Daddy Is Everything Carole Boston Weatherford 9781464233609 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks A celebration of the love between father and child from Coretta Scott King Award–winning auth...
When I Move
When I Move Carole Boston Weatherford 9781454945550 Fiction Union Square Kids Union Square & Co., LLC. An ode to being active and dramatic play. For fans of I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss and The Most Magni...
Tangled Dreams
Tangled Dreams Kirkus Book Review A fantastic example of ancestry-driven fiction. In Friedman’s novel, a cultural anthropology professor at a crossroads receives a grant that draws her back into h...
Family Feast!
Family Feast! Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593898291 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the award-winning author and illustrator of Standing in the Need of Prayer comes a...
Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding
Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding Carole Boston Weatherford 9781478891864 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Try an ollie; take to the air! Jump and land; show off your flair! Award-winning author ...
Doll Test: Choosing Equality
Doll Test: Choosing Equality Carole Boston Weatherford 9781728477930 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Four Dolls. Two Psychologists. One Landmark Court Case. During the f...
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples
Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593624692 Nonfiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House Legendary singer and Civil Rights activi...
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536215540 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press From a multi-award-winning pair comes a d...
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland Carole Boston Weatherford 9781635923872 Fiction Astra Young Readers Astra Publishing House In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated p...
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250779502 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A singula...
Me and My Mama: Celebrate Black Joy and Family Love
Me and My Mama: Celebrate Black Joy and Family Love Carole Boston Weatherford 9781728242460 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks A beautiful love letter to everyday moments that celebrates the ...
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306505 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House Congressman and civil rights advocate Elijah C...
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You Carole Boston Weatherford 9781547608973 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning...
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer Carole Boston Weatherford 9781547608966 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing The inspiring story of the Black explorer who made the first successful...
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop Carole Boston Weatherford 9781499804119 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Explore the roots of rap in this stunning, rhyming, tri...
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481472067 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An incredibly moving picture book biography o...
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion Carole Boston Weatherford 9781477810934 Nonfiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing Wendell O. Scott made h...
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481468244 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African Americ...
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century Carole Boston Weatherford 9780375856068 Nonfiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A stunning picture-book biography of iconic African American op...
Obama: Only in America
Obama: Only in America Carole Boston Weatherford 9781477847633 Nonfiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing From his childhood in Indonesia to his teenage years in Hawaii, from his father’s homeland of Keny...
The Sound that Jazz Makes
The Sound that Jazz Makes Carole Boston Weatherford 9780761457329 Fiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing Two acclaimed picture book talents combine in this award-winning journey through the history and l...
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and...
Soft
Soft T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill 9781601624635 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavi...
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802853523 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Since the earliest days of slavery, ...
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590785072 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave bi...
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane Carole Boston Weatherford 9780805079944 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot...
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802795502 Nonfiction Walker and Company Bloomsbury Publishing Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but segregation never s...
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Dear Mr. Rosenwald Carole Boston Weatherford 9780439495226 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Renowned illustrator Gregory Christie joins the Scholastic Press list with this empowering story abo...
Boston’s Abolitionists
Boston’s Abolitionists Kerri K. Greenidge 9781933212197 Nonfiction Commonwealth Editions Commonwealth Editions In the years before the Civil War, Boston’s black leaders helped fight slavery from a vib...
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590784150 Poetry Wordsong Boyds Mills Press At every corner, down every block, a city percolates with people at work and play: girls jum...
The Sound That Jazz Makes
The Sound That Jazz Makes Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802787200 Nonfiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co A symphony of sound and color, The Sound That Jazz Makes is an eloquently rendered celebrati...
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill MULTIPLE
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn 0000000123214931 Howard Zinn, a renowned historian, playwright, and social activist, was a professor at Boston University. Known for his political activism and award-winning nonfiction wo...
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley 0000000121244897 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was the first published African-American female poet, originally enslaved but later emancipated by the Wheatley family. Despite her d...
Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma
Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma MULTIPLE...
Richard Kigel
Richard Kigel NONE Richard Kigel is an experienced literacy professional and veteran teacher with a focus on inspiring students in reading and writing. He is notable for his revealing article on Phil...
Maria Smilios
Maria Smilios NONE Maria Smilios is a New York-based author and educator with a Masters of Arts from Boston University. She's a former university writing instructor and high school teacher with exten...
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford MULTIPLE JR and Vanessa Ford are renowned advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, particularly for transgender youth. Featured in major publications and part of the Human Rights Campaig...
Liz Walker
Liz Walker NONE Liz Walker is an Emmy-winning journalist, activist, and minister, known for her work in post-traumatic healing. A Harvard graduate, she served as Boston's first Black evening news anc...