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Larry Wilmore the World's Funniest MC (2016 National Book Awards)
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National Book Awards
National Book Awards Cipriani Wall Street New York New York Attendance by invitation only. All of the authors of African descent who have won a National Book Award. Watch vidoes the 67th annual Nati...
Franchesca Ramsey
Franchesca Ramsey NONE Franchesca Ramsey, also known as Chescaleigh, is a distinguished social justice advocate, comedian, actress, and writer. Renowned for her web series Decoded on MTV, she's also ...
Larry Neal Shorter
Larry Neal Shorter NONE Larry Neal Shorter, also known as “Big Larry”, is a Baltimore-born author who has made a name for himself in the urban literature scene. After moving to Los Angeles and studyi...
Larry Ward
Larry Ward NONE AALBC Mourns the passing of Larry Ward August 19, 2025 Dr. Larry Ward was the co-founder of The Lotus Institute and a beloved senior Dharma teacher in Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plu...
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka MULTIPLE Explore the life and works of Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka, influential figures in the 1967 Newark literary scene. Learn more about Larry Neal Learn more about Ami...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
Larry C. Fields III
Larry C. Fields III NONE Larry C. Fields III is an actor recognized for his roles in commercials for Samsung, Dave and Buster’s, and Jeep. Born in Detroit, raised in Virginia, Fields is also a vetera...
Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III
Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III MULTIPLE Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III are acclaimed authors known for their insightful and engaging works. Their compelling narratives h...
Larry Donell Covin, Jr.
Larry Donell Covin, Jr. MULTIPLE Dr. Larry Donell Covin Jr. is a globally recognized public theologian, ethicist, and author specializing in social justice, corrections ethics, theology, law, and hom...
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes MULTIPLE Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle, and Larry Niven are acclaimed authors renowned for their significant contributions to the science fiction genr...
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes MULTIPLE "Steven Barnes and Larry Niven are renowned authors, known for their contribution to the science fiction genre. Their collaborative and individual works have ca...
Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven
Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven MULTIPLE Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven are renowned authors known for their contributions to science fiction and fantasy literature, ea...
Top 50 Authors, Bestselling Books, and More
Top 50 Authors, Bestselling Books, and More Troy Johnson Article 50 Favorite African-American Authors of the 20th Century 1,826 readers cast votes, back in 2001, for their favorite African-Ameri...
Larry Eugene Rivers
Larry Eugene Rivers NONE Dr. Larry E. Rivers is a distinguished educator with degrees from Fort Valley State College, Villanova University, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of London. H...
Larry Niven
Larry Niven 0000000081151871 Award-winning author Larry Niven is renowned for his Ringworld series, Magic Goes Away series, and New York Times bestseller Beowulf’s Children. Recipient of the Nebula, ...
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Joseph Moore 9780313259951 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group Aware of M...
Larry Dane Brimner
Larry Dane Brimner 0000000082811384 Larry Dane Brimner, born 1949, is an award-winning author known for his innovative non-fiction for young readers. He won the 2018 Robert F. Sibert Award for his bo...
Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and Nature
Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and Nature Larry Ward 9798999247537 Poetry Lotus Moss Press Lotus Moss Press Welcome to Morning Night, Dr. Larry Ward’s first poetry collection. This book emer...
Criminal Element (A Larry Cole Mystery)
Criminal Element (A Larry Cole Mystery) Hugh Holton 9780312877873 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was...
Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali
Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali MULTIPLE Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali are distinguished authors, contributing significantly to literature and education, eac...
Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, and Larry Obadele Williams
Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, and Larry Obadele Williams MULTIPLE Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, and Larry Obadele Williams are renowned authors known for their signifi...
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward MULTIPLE Drs Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward are the guiding teachers and founders of the Lotus Institute. They are senior Dharma teachers trained under Zen Master Thic...
Larry Elder
Larry Elder 0000000046196003 Elder is the Executive Producer of the 2020 Film Uncle Tom Laurence Allen Elder, born in Los Angeles in 1952, is an accomplished American libertarian talk radio host, aut...
Larry Linwell Rowe
Larry Linwell Rowe NONE Larry Linwell Rowe is a lawyer, historian, and former West Virginia legislator with degrees from West Virginia University. Based in Old Malden, he's known for his research on ...
Larry Donell Covin Jr.
Larry Donell Covin Jr. NONE Larry D. Covin Jr., author of 'Thirteen Turns', is a Theologian-Religion Scholar at Trinity UCC Church and a seasoned educator with a BS, MDiv, DMin, and Postdoctoral-Rese...
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...
2016: Obama’s America
2016: Obama’s America Dinesh Sharma 2016-obamas-america.jpg Film Review 2016: Obama’s America (2012) In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Limited PG, 1 hr. 29 min. Documentary, Special Interest D...
The Left Hand of God (A Larry Cole Mystery)
The Left Hand of God (A Larry Cole Mystery) Hugh Holton 9780312867638 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Hugh Holton is the highest-ranking police officer writing novels today. His acclaimed Windy Ci...
June 2016 Newsletter Celebrating the Best in Black Literature
June 2016 Newsletter Celebrating the Best in Black Literature Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books The National Council for the Social...
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment Larry Dane Brimner 9781629797755 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press An ALSC Notable Children’s Book *...
Time of the Assassins (Larry Cole)
Time of the Assassins (Larry Cole) Hugh Holton 9780312873332 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Hugh Holton, the highest-ranking active police officer writing books today, is well-known for powerful, ...
Larry The Lending Lion
Larry The Lending Lion Aisha Hall 9780578660813 Fiction Manish Publishing Manish Publishing Larry the Lending Lion is a rhyming children’s book about finance. In this story, Larry goes on an adventure...
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka 9781574780390 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing was origin...
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal Larry Ward 9781946764744 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen ...
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative Troy Johnson https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Uncle-tom-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Rating: NR Genre: Documentary Directed By: Just...
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards Troy Johnson Article November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mi...
John Murillo
John Murillo NONE John Murillo is a renowned poet and professor known for his works “Up Jump the Boogie” and “Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry.” He's won numerous awards including two Larry Neal Writers ...
Why Are We Still Married?: Political Cartoons of 2016
Why Are We Still Married?: Political Cartoons of 2016 Darrin Bell 9781981413768 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The year 2016 in political cartoons by Darrin Bell of the Washington Post W...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin 0000000107503776 Jemisin, in 2018, Became the Only Writer to Win 3 Best Novel Hugo Awards in Consecutive Years (note) Nora K. Jemisin, born in 1972, is a renowned speculative fiction aut...
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Dick Gregory 9780062448699 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of ...
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor Paul Beatty 9781596911482 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing This book is less a comprehensive collection of African-American humor than a mix-t...
How is African American Literature Really Doing?
How is African American Literature Really Doing? Troy Johnson Article For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?” Some...
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes Charisse Carney-Nunes Article The Lit Bit Wall Street is in for another invasion… no, not just more protestors armed with ...
The Funniest Man in Baseball: The True Story of Max Patkin
The Funniest Man in Baseball: The True Story of Max Patkin Audrey Vernick 9780544813779 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A hilarious picture book biography about Max Patkin, a professional ballp...
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah 0000000430715306 Trevor Noah, a successful African comedian and host of the award-winning 'The Daily Show', joined the show in 2014. He has multiple comedy specials, including his 9th, 'A...
Bad News for Race Hustlers
Bad News for Race Hustlers Larry Elder 9781945630910 Nonfiction Creators Publishing Creators Larry Elder believes in the American people’s power to overcome almost any circumstance — if only governmen...
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida Larry Eugene Rivers 9780252036910 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This gripping study examines ...
Delta Farce
Delta Farce Kam Williams delta_3.jpg Film Review Nothing Works in Ill-Conceived Army Comedy Delta Farce MPAA:Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor. Runtime: 90 min Release Date:11 May 2007 (USA) ...
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do!
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do! Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III 9780593406267 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A little Black boy finds the courage to go af...
When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide
When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide Chuck Sambuchino 9781607747031 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House "Now in a updated and expanded 28th edition, the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Ma...
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor Larry Dane Brimner 9781590787663 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press In the nineteen fifties and...
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn 000000050158667X Nicole Dennis-Benn, an acclaimed author and Lambda Literary Award winner, is renowned for her debut novel 'Here Comes the Sun' which has received multiple accolade...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner 9781629795867 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner On May 4, 1961, a group of thi...
Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America
Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America Larry Elder 9780312320171 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America s...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v8 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2016 “Embracing D...
A Lot Like Me: A Father and Son’s Journey to Reconciliation
A Lot Like Me: A Father and Son’s Journey to Reconciliation Larry Elder 9781621577973 Nonfiction Regnery Publishing Regnery Publishing “I hated my father—really, really hated him. I hated working for ...
Double Standards: The Selective Outrage of the Left
Double Standards: The Selective Outrage of the Left Larry Elder 9781945630651 Nonfiction Creators Publishing Creators "Larry Elder calls them like he sees them. And in this collection of some of his b...
What’s Race Got to Do with It?: Why It’s Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America
What’s Race Got to Do with It?: Why It’s Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America Larry Elder 9780312541477 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers IS LIFE UNFAIR FOR BLACK AMERICAN...
Revenge (Larry Cole)
Revenge (Larry Cole) Hugh Holton 9780765301390 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers A brutally-wronged girl now a woman grown - cold, clever, calculating - mistakenly presumed dead. A macabre magician ...
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward 9781888375732 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press A collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary a...
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan Floyd Cooper 9780399242304 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Michael Jordan was once just an ordinary little boy growing up in a North Carolina subu...
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America Larry E. Sullivan 9781888451375 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A lively array of selections from the earliest recorded convict a...
The Art and History of Black Memorabilia
The Art and History of Black Memorabilia Larry V. Buster 9780609604250 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Black memorabilia is one of the most provocative areas of collecting in America t...
Larry Neal
Larry Neal 0000000108601036 Lawrence Paul Neal (1937-1981) was a significant scholar in African-American theatre and a key figure in the Black Arts Movement. Lawrence Paul Neal (September 5, 1937 &nd...
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority Steve Phillips 9781620973141 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The New York Times and Washington Post be...
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards W. Paul Coates Article Watch a Video of Walter Mosleys’s Introduction and Paul Coates Acceptance Speech. ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture MULTIPLE The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), established by Congress in 2003, is devoted to documenting Afric...
Crystal Wilkinson
Crystal Wilkinson 0000000041499179 Crystal Wilkinson is an award-winning author known for novels like The Birds of Opulence and Blackberries, Blackberries. She has received recognition from instituti...
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work Gwen Richardson Article African-American authors rarely receive national recognition for their work...
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact Troy Johnson Article This article was originally published in the April 2025 issue of the IBPA Independent magazine, the magazine for members of the I...
Nate Powell
Nate Powell 0000000078269174 Nate Powell, born in 1978, is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist known for “March,” the autobiography of John Lewis. A self-publisher from age 14, Powell's aw...
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Wesley Lowery 9780316312479 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "Electric…so well r...
George E. Curry
George E. Curry 0000000109873981 George E. Curry (1947-2016) was a renowned journalist and editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service. He also served as editor of E...
Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum: Proceedings of the First National Conference
Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum: Proceedings of the First National Conference Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, and Larry Obadele Williams 9780883...
Kisha Green
Kisha Green NONE Kisha Green is a multi-talented literary consultant and promoter dedicated to turning authors' dreams into published realities. Since 2006, she's written novels, hosted award-winning...
Ursula M. Burns
Ursula M. Burns 0000000445332455 Ursula M. Burns is a pioneering American businesswoman, the first black woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO at Xerox, where she served from 2009-2016. She was also Chai...
38th NAACP Image Awards (2007)
38th NAACP Image Awards (2007) Kam Williams Article Image Awards Upstaged by Resignation of NAACP President 38th NAACP Image Awards (2007) by Kam Williams &nb...
Black Books Galore! AALBC.com's November 2016 eNewsletter
Black Books Galore! AALBC.com's November 2016 eNewsletter Troy Johnson Article Picador USA – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for November Read one of the year’s most highly lauded – and highly provocative...
The 2016 Black Pack Party & BookExpo America
The 2016 Black Pack Party & BookExpo America Troy Johnson Article 10th Anniversary Black Pack Party We are hosting the 10th Anniversary Black Pack Party on the evening of Wednesday, May 11th. It is ...
The Burning
The Burning Devin K. Asante 9781980579113 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The Burning plunges readers into London, 1666, where the city is a tinderbox waiting for a spark. A...
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson Troy Johnson Article 2013, what a year! With so many great new books and films last year, there was a lot to celebrate. We also extended our reach through...
Nina
Nina Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/images/nina-2016-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Saldana Successfully Channels Simone in Controversial Biopic Nina In Theaters: April Mar 22, 2016 Limite...
On Top Of The World: Until The Bell Chimes
On Top Of The World: Until The Bell Chimes David Lamb 9780986445309 Fiction Woolly Mammoth Books Woolly Mammoth Books Read more about this wonderful new novel. 2016 Best Fiction—Pacific Book Awards. ...
Donna L. Washington
Donna L. Washington 0000000067719053 Donna L. Washington is a professional storyteller, multiple-award-winning recording artist, and children’s book author (Boo Stew). She performs at festivals, sch...
Ishion Hutchinson
Ishion Hutchinson NONE Ishion Hutchinson, a Jamaican-born poet and English professor at Cornell University, is acclaimed for his poetry collection, 'Far District'. His work has earned him several awa...
AAFCA Honored MOONLIGHT as Top Film & QUEEN SUGAR as the Top TV Show
AAFCA Honored MOONLIGHT as Top Film & QUEEN SUGAR as the Top TV Show Troy Johnson Article FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (AAFCA) HONORED MOONLIGHT AS THE TOP ...
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali 9780945708025 Nonfiction Blackwood Press Blackwood Press THE WISDOM OF THE EAST THE INST...
Tommye Blount
Tommye Blount 0000000497978952 Tommye Blount is a Cave Canem alumnus and acclaimed author of 'What Are We Not For' and 'Fantasia for the Man in Blue', which was recognized by the National Book Awards...
Beverly Jenkins
Beverly Jenkins 000000011691928X Beverly Jenkins, a USA TODAY bestselling author, is renowned for her African-American historical romance fiction, mainly set in the 19th century. With over thirty nov...
Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon 0000000040185776 Kekla Magoon, an award-winning author of eight YA novels, including The Rock and the River and X: A Novel, also pens non-fiction on historical topics. She's won an NAACP...
Elaine Meryl Brown
Elaine Meryl Brown NONE Elaine Meryl Brown, former VP Creative Services at HBO and Creative Director at Showtime Networks, is an Emmy Award-winning writer with work featured in Essence and Women's Wo...