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Leonard Pitts Jr.
Leonard Pitts Jr. NONE Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, known for his commentary on race, politics, and culture. Born in California, he now resides in Maryland. Originally a ...
Before I Forget
Before I Forget Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841435 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood — and by histories of mutual love, fear,...
Byron Pitts
Byron Pitts 0000000039302138 Byron Pitts is a renowned American journalist and author with ABC News. A multiple Emmy award winner, Pitts has over 20 years of experience, covering significant events l...
Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009
Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009 Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841329 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts’...
Mildred Pitts Walter
Mildred Pitts Walter 0000000074049983 Mildred Pitts Walter, born on September 9, 1922, in Louisiana, overcame segregation and societal barriers to become a renowned author. Despite limited access to ...
Sugar Ray Leonard - “The Big Fight” Interview
Sugar Ray Leonard - “The Big Fight” Interview Kam Williams Interview Sugar Ray Leonard - “The Big Fight” Interview One of the most prodigious pugilists of all time, Sugar Ray Leonard was born ...
Step Out On Nothing: How Faith And Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges
Step Out On Nothing: How Faith And Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges Byron Pitts 9780312577667 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera st...
Leonard Jenkins II
Leonard Jenkins II NONE Leonard Jenkins II, an author from Birmingham, AL, is a passionate sports fan and writer. He self-published “Relationships (volume 1): Lessons Before Dying” using his skills i...
54 Miles: A Novel
54 Miles: A Novel Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781572843370 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc The free-standing successor novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, L...
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781572842458 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire? Pulit...
Freeman
Freeman Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841640 Fiction Bolden Books Agate Publishing Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and ...
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 0000000057283946 Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is an award-winning writer and Harvard graduate, known for her work in notable publications and her book “Harlem is Nowhere.” A Fulbright Sc...
Corinda Pitts Marsh
Corinda Pitts Marsh NONE Corinda Pitts Marsh, a Florida State University graduate, is a writer and professor specializing in rural Southern heritage and social justice themes. She is passionate about...
Hal Leonard
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Hal Leonard
Hal Leonard Hal Leonard Hal Leonard Hal Leonard, the world’s largest music print publisher.
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Tasha Cobbs Leonard 0000000408031709 Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Tasha Cobbs Leonard (born July 7, 1981) is one of the most iconic artists in gospel music history. Winner of ...
Grant Park
Grant Park Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841916 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending t...
Becoming Dad: Black Men And The Journey To Fatherhood
Becoming Dad: Black Men And The Journey To Fatherhood Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841176 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger propor...
Before I Forget
Before I Forget Thumper Book Review *giggling* I’m going to love writing this review. A little while ago, I read and finished a wonderful debut novel, Before I Forget by Leonard Pitt...
Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill
Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill MULTIPLE Laureen P. Cantwell, a former librarian at the University of Memphis, loved the city's dark side and Elvis. Leonard Gill, a Memphis native, writes for the M...
Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth MULTIPLE Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth are renowned authors, known for their insightful works in literature and philosophy. They have contributed signifi...
Leonard N. Moore
Leonard N. Moore NONE Leonard N. Moore is a renowned American History professor at the University of Texas, Austin. A Jackson State graduate, Moore authored three books on Black politics, notably 'Th...
Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari
Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari Clinton A. Hutton, Michael A. Barnett, Jahlani A. H. Niaahand, and D. A. Dunkley 9789766405496 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press Unive...
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection) Susan Goldman Rubin 9781580893442 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge ”Life without music is unthinkable.”—Leonard Bernstein...
Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781563525018 Nonfiction Longstreet Press Longstreet Press The fatherless black family is one of America’s most damning stereoty...
Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good
Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good Tasha Cobbs Leonard 9780593600870 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House In this inspiring guide to the power of faithful resilience, Tasha Co...
A Civil War
A Civil War Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781480181441 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Southern stories step gently into our minds, and A Civil War starts out gently enough, but whe...
Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)
Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series) Mildred Pitts Walter 9780916718206 Fiction Vermont Folklife Center Vermont Folklife Center As a young boy born into slavery in Virginia, ...
Man Eater
Man Eater Gar Anthony Haywood 9781941298459 Fiction Cutting Edge Publishing Cutting Edge Publishing Shamus & Anthony Award winning author Gar Anthony Haywood’s brutally funny Hollywood thriller Man Ea...
This Is The Day: The March On Washington
This Is The Day: The March On Washington Leonard Freed and Michael Eric Dyson 9781606061213 Nonfiction J. Paul Getty Museum J. Paul Getty Museum This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring ...
Grant Harper Reid
Grant Harper Reid NONE Dr. Grant Harper Reid, author of award-winning biography, “Rhythm For Sale,” explores the life of his grandfather, influential theatre producer Leonard Harper. An arts graduate...
The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 Leonard N. Moore 9780807169032 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press For three days in 1972 ...
Meteor in the Madhouse
Meteor in the Madhouse Leon Forrest 9780810151147 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press In the wake of his watershed novel Divine Days, Leon Forest began an even more ambitious proj...
Rhythm for Sale
Rhythm for Sale Kam Williams Book Review “I went into the Countee Cullen library… and saw a book titled: The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era… I peeked i...
Memphis Noir
Memphis Noir Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill 9781617753114 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume…Something for everyon...
Rhythm For Sale
Rhythm For Sale Grant Harper Reid 9780615678283 Fiction Dr. Grant Harper Reid Dr. Grant Harper Reid Rhythm For Sale is a Bona-Fide FIVE STAR book. This CLASSICAL/MASTER EDITION is the account of Harle...
Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher
Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth 9780226317762 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his...
Teaching Black History To White People
Teaching Black History To White People Leonard N. Moore 9781477324851 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years...
Black Rage In New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Black Rage In New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina Leonard N. Moore 9780807177372 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas...
Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power Leonard N. Moore 9780252071638 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press As the first elected black mayor of a major U.S...
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Caleb Gayle 9780593329603 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "An important part of American history told wi...
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships Leonard Jenkins II 9780971280502 Nonfiction EKOL Enterprises EKOL Enterprises In this novel, Lessons Before Dying, the lives of five very powerful and in...
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 9780316017237 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group “Most everything I write here is true and happen...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781500924850 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Two strong Southern women, one a slave and the...
Blue Butterfly Days: Dreams and Regrets
Blue Butterfly Days: Dreams and Regrets Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781496132963 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group How many lives can we live? Is there a part of us that remains aft...
Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street’s Last Days
Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street’s Last Days Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781494904135 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group "Holocaust in the Homeland tells the story of one...
The Ghost of Blackwater Creek: Secrets of the South
The Ghost of Blackwater Creek: Secrets of the South Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781482639582 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Man’s soul is never content in isolation, but there he...
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Mildred Pitts Walter 9780061958915 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make ...
Mississippi Challenge
Mississippi Challenge Mildred Pitts Walter 9780689803079 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Incorporating the reminiscences and thoughts of many of the participants, this study of the history...
Mississippi Challenge
Mississippi Challenge Mildred Pitts Walter 9780027923018 Nonfiction Bradbury Press Bradbury Press A two-part chronicle of the history of African Americans in Mississippi documents the slavery, Civil W...
Trouble’s Child
Trouble’s Child Mildred Pitts Walter 9780688042141 Fiction Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books HarperCollins Martha longs to leave her island home off the Louisiana coast and go to high school where she can ...
Because We Are
Because We Are Mildred Pitts Walter 9780688022877 Fiction Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books HarperCollins After a misunderstanding with a white teacher, black honor student Emma is transferred from the int...
My Mama Needs Me
My Mama Needs Me Mildred Pitts Walter 9780688016708 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Jason wants to help, but isn’t sure that his mother needs him at all after she brings home a new baby from the ...
Step Out on Nothing
Step Out on Nothing Kam Williams Book Review ’We all have those defining moments in our lives. Moments of great joy. Moments of unspeakable sadness and fear. We usually thi...
Forget It
Forget It Anastacia-Reneé 9780997952445 Poetry Black Radish Books Black Radish Books Poetry. Anastacia Reneé’s FORGET IT draws the reader into the churning seas of dissolution — marriage, famil...
The Music Moguls Who Bled Millions from a Black Legend
The Music Moguls Who Bled Millions from a Black Legend Reclamation Project Article Originally Published by the NOI Research Group The recent death of the great Rock & Roll pioneer Chuck Berr...
Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer’s
Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer’s B. Smith 9780553447125 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House “I know where I’m going. I’m still myself. I just can’...
Twisted Entrapment
Twisted Entrapment N’Tyse 9781593096144 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Blazing with scandal, deception, temptation, and revenge, this third installment in the Twisted series blurs the li...
John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher
John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher Barbara Eleanor Adams 9781617590122 Nonfiction A & B Book Dist Inc A & B Book Dist Inc Featuring a forward by Dr. Leonard Jeffries The purpose of this book is to of...
James Frey
James Frey 0000000109218418 James Frey is an American author and CEO of Full Fathom Five. Known for his debut books marketed as memoirs, his works like 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'My Friend Leonar...
Julie Iromuanya
Julie Iromuanya NONE Julie Iromuanya was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Cir...
Beyonce 4
Beyonce 4 Beyoncé 9781458415295 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). All 12 tracks from Ms. Fierce’s blockbuster fourth album, including: Best Thing I Never Had * C...
Best of Peter Tosh
Best of Peter Tosh Peter Tosh 9781423492207 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 11 classics from Peter Tosh, a Grammy-winning reggae musician who was a core member...
Beyonce - I Am … Sasha Fierce
Beyonce - I Am … Sasha Fierce Beyoncé 9781423475743 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Introducing her alter ego/stage persona, Beyonce’s third CD snared five Gra...
BEYONCE B’DAY (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
BEYONCE B’DAY (Piano/Vocal/Guitar) Beyoncé 9781423422747 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The second solo CD from R&B diva Beyonce features ten tight and potent...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition Donald S. Passman 9780743293181 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been ...
The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Ziggy Marley 9780634087912 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard 18 of the best songs from Bob Marley’s son and a backup band comprised of Ziggy’s brothers ...
Rick Ross
Rick Ross 0000000058867353 "Born in 1976, Rick Ross, also known as William Leonard Roberts II, rose from the rough streets of Miami, amid the city's crack epidemic. Despite numerous setbacks, Ross ne...
Last First Kiss
Last First Kiss Julian Winters 9781250326263 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers “The stuff romance dreams are made of.” — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author Sparks fly ...
Louder Than Words
Louder Than Words Ashley Woodfolk 9781338875577 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. This amazing collaboration brings together two inspirational Black artists, NYT bestselling author Ashley Woodf...
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free Ben Jealous 9780062961747 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New...
Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not Brenda Jackson 9781335906120 Fiction HQN Harlequin Enterprises Limited Don’t miss Forget Me Not, the next heart-stirring novel in the brand-new Catalina Cove series, from New York Times ...
Lest We Forget: An Army Ranger Medic’s Story
Lest We Forget: An Army Ranger Medic’s Story Leo Jenkins 9780991286508 Nonfiction Leo Jenkins Leo Jenkins A rare look inside the life of an Army Ranger medic. The compelling true story of what it tak...
Never Forget the Bridge That Crossed You over
Never Forget the Bridge That Crossed You over Adriene Pickett 9781401081027 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Never Forget The Bridge That Crossed You Over takes place in the fictionalized town of Miss...
The Creative Power of Self Reliance: Live your best life and forget the deception of the past
The Creative Power of Self Reliance: Live your best life and forget the deception of the past Questlove 9781982976231 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published QUESTLOVE—musician, ban...
We Were Here
We Were Here Matt De La Peña 9780385736701 Fiction Ember Ember The story of one boy and his journey to find himself.When it happened, Miguel was sent to Juvi. The judge gave him a year in a group home...
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit Velma Maia Thomas 978060960030...
Helen’s Scars: A Memoir: The confessions of a young woman’s battle with abuse, drug addiction and prostitution
Helen’s Scars: A Memoir: The confessions of a young woman’s battle with abuse, drug addiction and prostitution Johanna Sparrow 9781547166572 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Everyone, h...
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Diane D. Turner 9780883782262 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in stan...
War Room
War Room Kam Williams war-room.jpg Film Review War Room In Theaters: Aug 28, 2015 LimitedRateing: PG for mature themes Genre: DramaDirected By: Alex KendrickWritten By: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kend...
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night by E.K. Robertson
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night by E.K. Robertson Denolyn Carroll Book Review From its prologue to its epilogue, E. K. Robertson’s Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night delivers on the hallmark...
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s Jamel Shabazz 9781648230059 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the stre...
Strawberry Spring
Strawberry Spring Ruth P. Watson 9781593096809 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From beloved author Ruth P. Watson comes the latest historical novel following Carrie Parker and her family ...
Her Sweetest Revenge 3
Her Sweetest Revenge 3 Saundra 9780996084437 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications The streets don’t forget. And neither does she. Mya Bedford’s hopes for a normal life, free from the hu...
On The Seventh Day
On The Seventh Day T. D. Jakes 9781439170502 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Based on the film Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day, executive-produced by T.D. Jakes, this novel follows...
Doña Julia
Doña Julia Alberto O. Cappas 9781403307378 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions Clear. Natural. Poignant. These words accurately describe Alberto O. Cappas’ work.Cappas understands the suffering...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
The Cottage on Pelican Bay
The Cottage on Pelican Bay Brenda Jackson 9781335458124 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins Sometimes one hot night simply isn’t enough. Two years ago, Zara Miller found herself heartbroken a...
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words
Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words Viola Ford Fletcher 9781737168409 Nonfiction Mocha Media Mocha Media “Every day, I have lived throu...
Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t You Forget About Me Naima Simone 9781648393150 Fiction Oliver-Heber Books Oliver-Heber Books Whoever said be careful what you wish for had a serious gift for understatement. As one of the wor...
Malaika’s Surprise
Malaika’s Surprise Nadia L. Hohn 9781773062648 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press When Malaika finds out she is going to have a new baby brother or sister, she worries that her mother will forget a...
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable Teri Woods 9780967224909 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing This book represents the drug game during the late 80’s from the inner city streets of...
Lion’s Blood
Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Sequel to Lion’s Blood is Equally Magnificent “Have you ever heard the expression ‘Zulu Heart?’” “No," he said, and t...
Blacktrospective 2006
Blacktrospective 2006 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/akeela46sm.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2006 ’ Annual Look Back at the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema by Kam Williams How d...