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Street Legends Vol. 2
Street Legends Vol. 2 Seth Ferranti 9780980068719 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications The Original Gangster – Legendary Figures from the black underworld and hip-hop’s...
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther Mateus Manhanini 9781984826176 Fiction Random House Worlds Pengui...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
Crossroads in the Dark 2: Urban Legends
Crossroads in the Dark 2: Urban Legends Kevin Wimer, Samantha Alexandra, and others 9780692820490 Fiction Burning Willow Press Burning Willow Press 32 tales…32 storytellers with a twisted mind to enti...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football Howard Bryant 9780147512567 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House From Lombardi’s Packers through Brady and the Patriots, here is the ult...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball Howard Bryant 9780147512628 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House “With the Legends series, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that sp...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football: Classic Super Bowls! Amazing Playmakers! Historic Dynasties! And Much, Much More!
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football: Classic Super Bowls! Amazing Playmakers! Historic Dynasties! And Much, Much More! Howard Bryant 9780399169045 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More!
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More! Howard Bryant 9780399169038 Nonfiction Philomel Books P...
Street Legends, Vol. 1
Street Legends, Vol. 1 Seth Ferranti 9780980068702 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications In Street Legends Vol. 1, Seth brings forth powerful biographies of six of the ...
Legends
Legends Kam Williams Book Review ’’Would America have been America without her Negro people?’ W.E.B. Du Bois wrote those words shortly after the turn of...
The Indie Author’s Guide: To Publishing 101
The Indie Author’s Guide: To Publishing 101 Johanna Sparrow 9781530398300 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC If you are an aspiring writer looking to become published, but not sure what s...
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History Vashti Harrison 9780316475143 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Vashti...
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason Seth Ferranti 9780988976016 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous an...
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends)
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends) Seth Ferranti 9780980068740 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gor...
Crack, Rap and Murder: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem (STREET LEGENDS) (Volume 6)
Crack, Rap and Murder: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem (STREET LEGENDS) (Volume 6) Seth Ferranti 9780988976030 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publica...
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...
Independent Voyces Literary Works
Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works
Independent Voyces Literary Works
Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines Karine Jean-Pierre 9781538777084 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group A groundbreaking, revelatory assessment of America’s...
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies Mireille Harper 9780744039092 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciate...
Share Info from Indie Black Owned Websites
Share Info from Indie Black Owned Websites Troy Johnson Article Add Huria Search Resources to Your Website or Blog Huria Search was created in reaction to the current trend in search results that f...
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing Stephanie Stokes Oliver 9781501154287 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Spanning over 250 years of h...
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda Jesse J. Holland 9781789095678 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda is a ground-breaking line-up of authors from across the Africa...
Moxie Mindset: Secrets of Building a Profitable, Independent Physicians Practice in a Competitive Market
Moxie Mindset: Secrets of Building a Profitable, Independent Physicians Practice in a Competitive Market Dina Strachan 9781948400619 Nonfiction Purposely Created Publishing Group Purposely Created Pub...
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda Jesse J. Holland 9781789095685 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group A ground-breaking anthology celebrating Marvel’s beloved Black Panther and his home of Wakanda...
Go - Cook Something!: A Cooking Survival Guide For Active Independent Children
Go - Cook Something!: A Cooking Survival Guide For Active Independent Children Tiana North and Taliba Holliday 9781450574402 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Hungry Teens Want to Eat Go...
Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
Follow Your Dreams, Little One
Follow Your Dreams, Little One Vashti Harrison 9780316475150 Nonfiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black m...
Independent Authors Book Festival
Independent Authors Book Festival Kean University, Downs Halls Union New Jersey Independent Authors Book Expo was created to help you the independent author intorduce your story to mainstream auidence...
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay 000000035624500X Ava DuVernay is an award-winning writer, producer, and director in independent film. She founded DVA Media + Marketing and the African-American Film Festival Releasing M...
Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby 0000000384780261 Margaret Busby, UK's youngest and first black female publisher, co-founded Allison & Busby Ltd and was a director at Earthscan Publications. An award-winning writer, e...
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You Julian Winters 9780593206478 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one … Winters sends a quiet...
Regina Abraham
Regina Abraham NONE Regina Abraham, a Harlem-based Academic Intervention Coordinator, is an educational consultant and author of the Harlem-inspired children's book series, “The Harlem Legends.” She ...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball Howard Bryant 9780147512574 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ...
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox 9780486409115 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on p...
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780575094680 Fiction Gollancz Victor Gollancz Ltd After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312320300 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A Neteru—-a hunter or a huntress—-is born every thousand years in favor of th...
Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend
Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend Debbi Chocolate 9780816728183 Fiction Troll Communications Troll Communications Magnificent illustrations and captivating texts tell the legends of Africa, Asia, the Cari...
Howard Bryant
Howard Bryant 0000000045145562 Howard Bryant is an acclaimed author, sports journalist, and media personality at ESPN and NPR. Renowned for his Legends series and award-winning baseball writing, he i...
5 Ways to Support Independent Black Voices
5 Ways to Support Independent Black Voices Troy Johnson Article The Digital Divide, or the disparity between internet adoption rates between various groups, has been a topic of conversation since the...
Q. B. Wells
Q. B. Wells NONE Q.B. Wells, founder of Art Official Media LLC, is a publisher of urban-themed books and media. Wells also writes for various urban literature outlets. An entrepreneur and former educ...
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 2 (1919-1945): A History of the African American Athlete
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 2 (1919-1945): A History of the African American Athlete Arthur Ashe 9780063162273 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “The most comprehensive reference source on African-Ame...
Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore
Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note: We published an update of our bookstores in March of 2014. One of the very first things I put on AA...
Are Reading Rates Declining in the African American Community?
Are Reading Rates Declining in the African American Community? Troy Johnson Article Frequent AALBC.com visitors may already know I consider search results biased toward large corporate sites t...
The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas Ira Berlin 9780714641720 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Slaves worked. When, where, and especially how, they worked determined the...
Hisani P. Dubose
Hisani P. Dubose NONE “The Best Black Director of 2005” —Kam Williams Hisani DuBose is a Seton Hall University graduate, former dancer and singer turned screenwriter. She's directed ...
Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons 0000000118746394 Karen “Kasi” Lemmons is a celebrated actress, writer, and director, known for roles in films like “Silence of the Lambs”, and for directing the highest-grossing independ...
Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism
Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism Rhone Fraser 9781796014303 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions In the 1905 letter to William Monroe Trotter, Pauline Hopkins wrote that she lost the editorship ...
Akilah Monifa
Akilah Monifa NONE Akilah Monifa, a lesbian freelance writer and independent journalist of African descent, works as a media trainer at SPIN Project and as a features editor for Arise Magazine. She l...
Hassan A. Akinbiyi
Hassan A. Akinbiyi NONE Dr. Hassan A. Akinbiyi is a seasoned Rehabilitative Medicine expert who actively partakes in health policy initiatives. He is the founder of DrHassanRehab.com, a platform for ...
Go Cook Something: A Cooking Survival Guide for Active Independent Children
Go Cook Something: A Cooking Survival Guide for Active Independent Children Kam Williams Book Review "My Mom and Dad separated when I was still in Underoos, so I’ve had to help Mom a lot&hell...
Doni Glover
Doni Glover NONE Doni Glover is the founder of the Original Black Wall Street SERIES and blackwallstreetnews.com. He's an influential voice in Maryland's black community, often sought for insights on...
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture Ron Stodghill 9780062323231 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A richly reported account of the forces threatenin...
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America Troy Johnson Article This is a follow up to an article, “Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Book...
Clarence V. Reynolds
Clarence V. Reynolds NONE Clarence V. Reynolds is an independent editor and journalist, former director of Literary Programs at the Center for Black Literature and editor-in-chief of the Killens Revi...
Tony Rose
Tony Rose 000000005879297X AALBC Mourns the Passing of Tony Rose Tony Rose (October 11, 1950 – May 27, 2025) was the Publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group, Inc. the nation’s large...
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates Todd Steven Burroughs 9781937306649 Nonfiction Diasporic Africa Press Diasporic Africa Press Created by Marvel Comics ...
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Black Power Encyclopedia: From Black Is Beautiful to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes]
Black Power Encyclopedia: From Black Is Beautiful to Urban Uprisings [2 Volumes] Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Stanford, and Jasmin A. Young 9781440840067 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Pu...
Great Minds of Science (Black Lives #1): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel
Great Minds of Science (Black Lives #1): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel Tonya Bolden 9781419752698 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Dive in to an exciting nonfiction graphic novel series about s...
The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum (paperback)
The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum (paperback) Valerie Wilson Wesley 9781496752505 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring...
Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum
Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum Valerie Wilson Wesley 9781496752499 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring ’20s, an indepe...
Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted—Should We Care?
Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted—Should We Care? Troy Johnson Article Back in the the summer of 2013, I joined the fight to help save Marcus Books. My motivation was not solely limited to savin...
Unified Black Movement In Brazil, 1978-2002
Unified Black Movement In Brazil, 1978-2002 David Covin 9780786424382 Fiction McFarland McFarland Brazil in the late 1970s was a country of racial tension and inequality. During this time, a number of...
Kathy Trusty
Kathy Trusty NONE Kathy Trusty is an independent historian and a Black history educator. She has been conducting presentations, creating displays, and producing Black history programs for more than 2...
Haki Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti 0000000114735014 Haki R. Madhubuti, a leading figure in Black literature, is a poet, publisher, editor, and educator. With over 30 published books and 3 million copies in print, he's o...
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Hanif Abdurraqib 9781984801197 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from t...
Tell All The Children Our Story: Memories And Mementos Of Being Young And Black In America
Tell All The Children Our Story: Memories And Mementos Of Being Young And Black In America Tonya Bolden 9780810944961 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams The first book to trace growing up black in America...
Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis NONE Bridgett M. Davis is a Detroit-born author, professor, and filmmaker. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University, she now teaches English at Baruch College. Her film...
Jackie Ormes
Jackie Ormes 0000000055572904 Jackie Ormes, the first nationally syndicated African-American woman cartoonist, revolutionized the portrayal of black characters in the 1930s-50s. Her four comic strips...
Icons of Design (Black Lives #2): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel
Icons of Design (Black Lives #2): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel Tonya Bolden 9781419752711 Nonfiction Abrams Fanfare Abrams Learn about the remarkable work of costume designers, toy makers, and architect...
Juneteenth Rodeo
Juneteenth Rodeo Sarah Bird 9781477329542 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now a...
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1 Gabrielle David 9781940939797 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Since slavery, Black women have st...
Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer
Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer Elva Diane Green 9781593939670 Nonfiction BearManor Media BearManor Media “A Good man is hard to find,” as the famous 1919...
Poet On Watch
Poet On Watch NONE Poet On Watch is a renowned performance poet and multimedia artist, who collaborates globally as an independent art director. She's authored two poetry collections and has contribu...
LaShawnda Jones
LaShawnda Jones NONE LaShawnda Jones is an independent author and publisher at Spirit Harvest Publishing, known for her focus on spiritual growth and social justice. She is a national speaker on self...
Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)
Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition) Donald Bogle 9780826416759 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing With a wink or a nod, a shake...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
Old Gangsters & Young Guns - The True Tales of Two Worlds
Old Gangsters & Young Guns - The True Tales of Two Worlds Cavario H. 9780692446119 Nonfiction Body of Power Publishing Body of Power Publishing “These are the true stories of several of America’s most...
Michael La Ronn
Michael La Ronn NONE Michael La Ronn is a prolific author in science fiction, fantasy, and self-help genres for writers. Renowned for his Decision Select and Magic Trackers series, he's been publishi...
Nothing Can Separate Us: Healing for Souls and Nations
Nothing Can Separate Us: Healing for Souls and Nations Howard Thurman 9781636081731 Nonfiction Plough Publishing House Plough Publishing House The spiritual advisor to civil rights legends reminds us ...
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021789 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here—ones steepe...
Destiny of the Diamond Princess
Destiny of the Diamond Princess Sherri Winston 9781547617029 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing The Princess Diaries meets From the Desk of Zoey Washington in this story about a g...
The Watkins Book of African Folklore
The Watkins Book of African Folklore Helen Nde 9781786788962 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination, and careful research, this is the u...
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent Mark Green 9781963874099 Nonfiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing As the owner of Celebrity Talent Agency, a venture 25 year...
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It Ms. Tee 9780692396889 Nonfiction Royal-T Publishing Royal-T Publishing Tonia Taylor’s life changed forever on the nigh...
The Pleasure’s All Mine
The Pleasure’s All Mine Naleighna Kai 9780982682944 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Naleighna Kai once again brings you deep, heartfelt emotion, beautifully crafted prose, and a ...
Blues in the Wind
Blues in the Wind Whitney J. Leblanc 9780913515471 Fiction River City Publishing River City Publishing First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phi...
Independent Black-Owned Bookstore: 44th & 3rd Bookseller
Independent Black-Owned Bookstore: 44th & 3rd Bookseller Book Spotlights
The Importance of Independent Black Owned Bookstores
The Importance of Independent Black Owned Bookstores Book Spotlights
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paula J. Giddings 9780060797362 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Id...
Peter Akinti
Peter Akinti NONE Peter Akinti, a London-born author of Nigerian descent, studied Law and worked at HM Treasury Chambers. He founded Untold Magazine, the first independent British magazine for black ...
Aya de León
Aya de León NONE Aya de León is an award-winning author, activist, and educator at UC Berkeley. She's known for her Justice Hustlers series and has written for numerous publications. A Harvard alumn...
Moore Black Press
Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press is one of the all-time bestselling Independent publishers on AALBC.com. ...
Moore Black Press
Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press is one of the all-time bestselling Independent publishers on AALBC.com. ...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780375413797 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, the Sarah Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Hu...
Cheryl Robinson
Cheryl Robinson NONE Cheryl Robinson, a Detroit-born author, transformed her life from a career in marketing to writing. She began with self-publishing, before transitioning to Penguin Books' imprint...
Eric July
Eric July NONE Eric Dewayne July (born April 17, 1990) is a comic book writer, entrepreneur, musician, and media personality. He is the founder of Rippaverse Publishing, an independent comic book co...