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The Loving Story

by Kam Williams

The Loving Story Kam Williams the-loving-story.jpg Film Review Civil Rights Documentary Recounts Landmark Supreme Court Decision on Interracial Marriage The Loving Story (2012) In Theaters: Dec 10...

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Loving Donovan

by Thumper

Loving Donovan Thumper Book Review Bernice McFadden continues to embellish her literary reputation and mastery of storytelling with her new novel, Loving Donovan. In this tale McFadden focuses on...

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Loving

by Kam Williams

Loving Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/loving.jpg Film Review Excellent (4 of 4 stars) Rated PG-13 for mature themes and ethnic slurs Running time: 123 minutes Studio: Big...

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True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

by Kam Williams

True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself Kam Williams Book Review "Writing my first book was an adventure [which] comes from my heart with love… This is not an autobiography. It&rs...

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Playing with Destiny

by Thumper

Playing with Destiny Thumper Book Review As incredible as it may seem, I’m a tad bit in shock. I recently finished reading and actually LOVING a novel published by BET under its Sepia imprint;...

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Once Is Never Enough

by Idrissa Uqdah

Once Is Never Enough Idrissa Uqdah Book Review If Loving You Is Wrong, I don't Want To Be Right The old rythmn and blues tune, If Loving You Is Wrong, I don't Want To Be Right aptly desc...

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I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving a Child with a Life-Altering Disease

by Kam Williams

I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving a Child with a Life-Altering Disease Kam Williams Book Review "This is a personal story of a family’s ability to love and support each other through the...

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Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together

by Kam Williams

Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together Kam Williams Book Review “Jamillah and David Lamb are the dynamic couple behind the successful Off-Broadway play...

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Cosby: His Life and Times

by Kam Williams

Cosby: His Life and Times Kam Williams Book Review “[Bill] Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother&...

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Trading Dreams at Midnight

by Idrissa Uqdah

Trading Dreams at Midnight Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Mothers and Daughters: A Family of Women For more than twenty years, Neena has been searching for her absent, mentally ill mother, F...

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The Last Love Letter

by Robert Fleming

The Last Love Letter Robert Fleming Book Review Amanda Easton, the author of The Last Love Letter, has a history of letter writing going back to her college days when she sometimes said the...

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The Deal

by Idrissa Uqdah

The Deal Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Money, Money, Money, Money…Money! Who wouldn't jump at an offer of five million dollars, free and clear? The main characters in Victoria Christopher...

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Love In A Carry-On Bag

by Idrissa Uqdah

Love In A Carry-On Bag Idrissa Uqdah Book Review As Wild As The Wind Modern technology has made a long-distance love affair more of a reality. The characters in this novel took the concept and made...

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Forever An Ex

by Idrissa Uqdah

Forever An Ex Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Where Does The Love Go? Only the women in Forever An Ex know for sure. The sequel to Murray’s wildly popular The Ex Files centers on the specifics of b...

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The Conversation

by Kam Williams

The Conversation Kam Williams Book Review ’One of the things I’ve heard a lot from young brothers and sisters during my recent travels is ’I want a woman like Mich...

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Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man?

by Kam Williams

Why Do I Have to Think Like a Man? Kam Williams Book Review "This book is dedicated to all women who are ready to ask themselves, ‘What could I have done differently to get what I wanted out ...

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How To Knock A Bravebird From Her Perch

by Carol Taylor

How To Knock A Bravebird From Her Perch Carol Taylor Book Review Inspired by family and friends who have been victims of abuse, D. Bryant Simmons, an advocate of female empowerment and children&rsq...

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Shadows of the Blues

by Emanuel Carpenter

Shadows of the Blues Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Whitney J. Leblanc’s sequel to "Blues in the Wind," readers are introduced to the lives of the Ferguson and Broussard familie...

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Beauty And The Beast

by Idrissa Uqdah

Beauty And The Beast Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Deatri King-Bey has stepped out of the box and given her readers a Black fairy tale in Beauty And The Beast that I really enjoyed.  Set in modern...

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Not Easily Broken

by Idrissa Uqdah

Not Easily Broken Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Can This Marriage Be Saved? Dave and Clarice have been married forever; yet the things that they do not know about one another could fill up a small house...

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Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village

by Carol Taylor

Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village Carol Taylor Book Review “I am a native Washingtonian, but I did not ‘live’ where most people want t...

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Rough Crossings

by Kam Williams

Rough Crossings Kam Williams Book Review  ’Seeing the Revolutionary War through the eyes of enslaved blacks turns its meaning upside down. ’ The vaunted war for liberty was a...

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Little White Lies By Cole Riley

by Michelle Paynter

Little White Lies By Cole Riley Michelle Paynter Book Review Little White Lies is more than a pathetically sad and heartbreaking story of Melvin, a young, aspiring Black high school athlete, who wr...

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Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones

by Paige Turner

Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...

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Motion Sickness

by RAWSISTAZ

Motion Sickness RAWSISTAZ Book Review Terry O’Neal shares her collection of poetry in her first book entitled Motion Sickness.  It is a compilation of poems that range in topics including ...

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Am I Not a Man?

by Robert Fleming

Am I Not a Man? Robert Fleming Book Review What a curious book to be written by Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah’s Attorney General! This well-researched historical novel, Am I Not A Man?,...

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4 Guys and Trouble

by Thumper

4 Guys and Trouble Thumper Book Review I invite you to sip this premise and swish it around your mind for a minute to see how it tastes. Take five young men that meet and pledge to the same fratern...

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Daddy Interrupted

by Thumper

Daddy Interrupted Thumper Book Review Van Whitfield has made me a happy man with his new novel, Dad Interrupted because Shawn Wayne is back in the house! I am crazy about Shawn Wayne. I am not a bi...

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Fifth Born

by Thumper

Fifth Born Thumper Book Review My copy of Fifth Born, the debut novel by Zelda Lockhart, came by way of this year’s Book Expo America convention (BEA). I met Ms. Lockhart and her son at The B...

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Leaving

by Thumper

Leaving Thumper Book Review Leaving, the debut novel by Richard Dry, is an epic tale that spans three generations of a black family, from the 1950s to circa 2000. Leaving is an epic not only in siz...

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Love

by Thumper

Love Thumper Book Review Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison released a new novel, adding another jewel to her already brilliant literary crown. Love, Morrison’s eighth novel, introduces...

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Rockin around That Christmas Tree

by Thumper

Rockin around That Christmas Tree Thumper Book Review Denise Morrison has been married to her husband Edward Morrison for over 27 years.  The couple has two children, Anthony and Christine.&nb...

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Seven Full Days

by Robert Fleming

Seven Full Days Robert Fleming Book Review Ferris Shelton’s debut novel, Seven Full Days, is a cautionary tale of white racism, corporate burnout, and powerful identity issues. He crafts a blac...

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Momma: Gone

by Tony Lindsay

Momma: Gone Tony Lindsay Book Review Nina Foxx’s personal story Momma: Gone is full of literary surprises. The reader’s expectations and predictions that are garnered from the story-line ...

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Hair Love

by Neoma Nwasike

Hair Love Neoma Nwasike Book Review When you were a little Black girl, growing up, did you embrace your beauty? Did you love the deep richness of your blackness and the uniqueness of your hair? Do yo...

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Yesterday Will Make You Cry

by Thumper

Yesterday Will Make You Cry Thumper Book Review Yesterday Will Make You Cry is the first novel by Chester Himes. This is the complete, unabridged version of Cast The First Stone. This novel is about ...

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Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church

by Robert Fleming

Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church Robert Fleming Book Review In this modern age of random death and mayhem, there are powerful voices shouting for the church to retake...

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Place of Cool Waters

by Michael A. Gonzales

Place of Cool Waters Michael A. Gonzales Book Review As a book critic, I rarely know what to expect when handed a project to review. There are veteran writers who drop projects that make me question ...

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American Imam

by Robert Fleming

American Imam Robert Fleming Book Review Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s sharp and stylish memoir, American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition, concerns itself with the causes and consequences...

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More Like Wrestling: A Novel

by Thumper

More Like Wrestling: A Novel Thumper Book Review More Like Wrestling, the debut novel by Danyel Smith, is centered on the close relationship between two sisters. This was a vexing book…emo...

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Men We Cherish

by Thumper

Men We Cherish Thumper Book Review African-American Women Praise The Men In Their Lives, Edited by Brooke Stephens is an anthology. A book filled with laughter, heartache, inspiration, comfort, heart...

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Far From The Tree

by Paige Turner

Far From The Tree Paige Turner Book Review A prominent novelist once declared, "You can’t go home again", but co authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant have reevaluated this truism...

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Not Even If You Begged

by Idrissa Uqdah

Not Even If You Begged Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Love The Second Time Around Francis Ray has written more than twenty novels in the romance genre and has been one of the top romance author...

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The Brothers

by Paige Turner

The Brothers Paige Turner Book Review Musical Gumbo Features Some of Life’s Ups and Lotsa Life’s Downs The Neville Brothers new autobiography, The Brothers, co written with celebrity bio...

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Mama Made the Difference

by Kam Williams

Mama Made the Difference Kam Williams Book Review  ’My mother was a most remarkable person. She embodies the reasons that I esteem mothers so highly. In fact, when people ask me why muc...

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Child

by Kam Williams

Child Kam Williams Book Review “In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring, as...

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A Man Most Worthy

by Thumper

A Man Most Worthy Thumper Book Review Imagine the man who has every material possession his heart ever desires. One day, after all of his battles have been fought, and the dragons have been slain, ...

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Sweet Georgia Brown

by Idrissa Uqdah

Sweet Georgia Brown Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Can A Woman Reinvent Herself? Cheryl Robinson is known for writing novels with a twist, portraying women who face the odds and succeed. Her books...

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The Hatwearer’s Lesson

by Thumper

The Hatwearer’s Lesson Thumper Book Review I am perplexed. Maybe someone — anyone, can help me. I’m trying to figure out what happened between BeBe’s By Golly Wow, the last Yolanda...

Film Review

October Baby

by Kam Williams

October Baby Kam Williams october_baby_2012_movie_poster.jpg Film Review Abortion Survivor Searches for Birth Mom in Modern Morality Play October Baby [2012] In Theaters: Mar 23, 2012 Limited ...

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Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans

by Troy Johnson

Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans Troy Johnson bound.jpg Film Review A description of Bound, not a film review follows: Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans (2015)Buy via Amazon or ...

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Confessions of a Call Girl

by Kam Williams

Confessions of a Call Girl Kam Williams confes55.jpg Film Review Tamala Jones Plays Conflicted Title Character in Kinky Blaxploitation Flick   Confessions of a Call Girl Click to ...

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