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Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters

by Carol Taylor

Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters Carol Taylor Book Review Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters is an epistolary love story of a 1930s courtship between Mary Brooks and Luther ...

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Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar

by Robert Fleming

Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar Robert Fleming Book Review One of the most captivating personalities on the Motown roster during its glory days, singer Mary Wells was a f...

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Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

by Robert Fleming

Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Robert Fleming Book Review There is so much commercial tripe out there on our bookshelves, but this book is very worthy: Miss Chloe: A Memoir Of A...

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The Origin of Others

by Tony Lindsay

The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review The title of Toni Morrison’s new book, The Source of Self-Regard, propels one to ponder, and the extended thought is due to the dual functions of t...

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Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature

by Robert Fleming

Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Robert Fleming Book Review When literary icon Toni Morrison died in August, 2019, world literature lost a r...

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Home

by Connie Bradley

Home Connie Bradley Book Review I just recently completed Toni Morrison’s latest book Home, a novel I have been looking forward to reading because its advance notices promoted it as being set i...

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God Ain’t Blind

by Idrissa Uqdah

God Ain’t Blind Idrissa Uqdah Book Review God Is Getting Tired And So Am I I think you have to really love the books and the characters in the God Don't Like Ugly series to still be reading th...

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The Origin of Others

by Tony Lindsay

The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review Toni Morrison’s, The Origin of Others causes the reader to think about identity: what group does one belong to, who are those like self, and who ar...

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Raisins in Milk

by Brenda M. Greene

Raisins in Milk Brenda M. Greene Book Review Raisins in Milk by David Covin is a coming of age story focused on a young girl, Ruth-Ann Weathering, who is subjected to the staunch racism and stark rea...

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I Do Love You Still

by Tony Lindsay

I Do Love You Still Tony Lindsay Book Review Mary B. Morrison’s novel, I do Love You Still, is filled with drama and unexpected twists that will gap a reader’s mouth. The story uses roman...

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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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Palmares

by Robert Fleming

Palmares Robert Fleming Book Review No less than the esteemed late novelist Toni Morrison, the chief editorial gatekeeper of Random House, was stunned by the narrative power of Gayl Jones’ firs...

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Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments

by Robert Fleming

Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments Robert Fleming Book Review Recently, I received a letter from lit legend Gayl Jones, saying that she wasn’t writing anymore. Discovered by iconic editor...

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Walk Through Darkness

by Thumper

Walk Through Darkness Thumper Book Review Walk Through Darkness is magnificent! The writing prowess of David Anthony Durham is a promise fulfilled. Now, if, dear reader, your time is of the essence ...

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Destini the Chocolate Princess

by Robert Fleming

Destini the Chocolate Princess Robert Fleming Book Review Joan Wright Lewis’ novel, Destini the Chocolate Princess, reveals a terrible affliction in our community; the degree of self-loathing b...

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Deliver Me From Evil

by Idrissa Uqdah

Deliver Me From Evil Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The new drama-filled novel by author Mary Monroe starts off a bit slow but by the time you get to know the main character, Christine Thurman, you ...

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God Don’t Like Ugly

by Thumper

God Don’t Like Ugly Thumper Book Review "I was hoping when I started God don't Like Ugly that it wasn't the typical girl-coming-of-age story. Alongside you-go-girl books, girl-coming-of...

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Belle

by Kam Williams

Belle Kam Williams belle.jpg Film Review Belle In Theaters: May 2, 2014 Limited Rated PG for smoking, mature themes and ethnic insensitivity. Running time: 104 minutes Drama Directed By: Amma As...

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Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me

by Jesse Washington

Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me Jesse Washington Book Review Let’s get this out of the way up front: R. Kelly’s autobiography does not discuss what really happened with the sex tape th...

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The Rich and the Rest of Us

by Kam Williams

The Rich and the Rest of Us Kam Williams Book Review “This book serves as a counterpoint to [those] who luxuriate in denying the reality of America’s poor… Poverty of all colors ...

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Looking for Sweet Love

by Emanuel Carpenter

Looking for Sweet Love Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Can a sista get some love? That’s the question addressed in R.L. Byrd’s new book "Looking for Sweet Love." The story takes place in...

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Cougar Tales

by Idrissa Uqdah

Cougar Tales Idrissa Uqdah Book Review  Is Age Just A Number? Three best-selling romance authors have joined together to bring readers an anthology based on the theme of older women/younger m...

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Decoding the Dragon’s Mindset

by Kam Williams

Decoding the Dragon’s Mindset Kam Williams Book Review ’This book provides some fascinating and intriguing insights of the Chinese mindset that to most readers in the West ar...

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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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A Death In Texas

by Thumper

A Death In Texas Thumper Book Review Upon hearing of the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in his hometown of Jasper, Texas, it occurred to me that "A new way of performing the act of lynching h...

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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

by Thumper

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent Thumper Book Review There is a great chance that my review of Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race by George M. Fredrickso...

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The Water Dancer

by Tony Lindsay

The Water Dancer Tony Lindsay Book Review To mix magical realism with historical fiction is a bold task. To discuss the topic of family pride from the perspective of the offspring of a slave and a ma...

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The Ecstatic

by Thumper

The Ecstatic Thumper Book Review In a landmark volume on cultural stereotypes, Yuval Taylor (Faking It) and Jake Austen, the editor of Roctober Magazine, detail the history of the significance of...

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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

by Robert Fleming

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop Robert Fleming Book Review In a landmark volume on cultural stereotypes, Yuval Taylor (Faking It) and Jake Austen, the editor of Roctober M...

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The Right Mistake

by Thumper

The Right Mistake Thumper Book Review I don't need to ask, what did I do to deserve such good fortune? I stay good. It’s my natural state of being. *LOL* Although I did not ask i...

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Star Trek (2009 #11)

by Kam Williams

Star Trek (2009 #11) Kam Williams star_t5.jpg Film Review   Flagging Sci-Fi Franchise Resuscitated by Eye-Popping Prequel   Star Trek ...

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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

by Kam Williams

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Kam Williams startrek-2013-blueray.jpg Film Review Read the comments now. Read our review after you see the film (there some spoilers). Kirk Matches Wits with Rogue Co...

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Vanishing Rooms

by Thumper

Vanishing Rooms Thumper Book Review Upon my first glance at Vanishing Rooms, the debut novel by the late poet/novelist Melvin Dixon, I thought — in my mind’s voice that sounds like Billie...

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Chocolate Sangria

by Thumper

Chocolate Sangria Thumper Book Review Reviewed by Thumper for AALBC.com I read Tracy Price-Thompson’s first book, Black Coffee, last year. I loved it and wrote a glowing review for it. Befor...

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Bill Clinton and Black America

by Walter Benefield

Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...

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Beloved

by Michael Dequina

Beloved Michael Dequina images/belove43.jpg Film Review BELOVED (1998) Based on Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel MPAA: Rated R for violent images, sexuality and nudity...

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Finding Heaven in the Dark

by Carol Taylor

Finding Heaven in the Dark Carol Taylor Book Review Part memoir, part self-help, part-spiritual realization, Finding Heaven In The Dark is William Ingram’s moving account of his journey to spir...

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Soul Poems for My Sistas

by Felicia Pride

Soul Poems for My Sistas Felicia Pride Book Review Poetry is one literary form that far too many attempt with the misguided notion that it is easy to write. Between the length or the ability...

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Defying the Odds

by Kam Williams

Defying the Odds Kam Williams Book Review   ’Whether the threat is a burning cross in a sleepy Southern town, or a female doctor bucking the whites-only hiring policies of a city h...

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Oil and Water and Other Things That don’t Mix

by Robert Fleming

Oil and Water and Other Things That don’t Mix Robert Fleming Book Review If you take a trip to the once-scenic Gulf Coast, you will see there is more to be done in the restoration and rejuvenation...

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Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison

by Thumper

Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Thumper Book Review It is safe to say, I began this book in complete and total ignorance. I had not read any of Madison Smartt Bell&rs...

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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens

by Thumper

Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Thumper Book Review On a rainy night, Desiree Sheffield calls Carmen Taylor (on the eve of Carmen’s wedding to Burl,) to come get her after another violent fight with...

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Rudolph Lewis: The Prophetic Voice of the Poet

by Miriam Decosta-Willis

Rudolph Lewis: The Prophetic Voice of the Poet Miriam Decosta-Willis Book Review Rudolph Lewis In his lyrical Mockingbirds at Jerusalem: A Poetic Memoir, poet, editor, and former professor and l...

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Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL

by Amanda Robinson

Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL Amanda Robinson Book Review Atlanta is one of the most popular cities in this country. This metropolis is one of the few epicenters dripping Black ...

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ASCLEPIUS

by Robert Fleming

ASCLEPIUS Robert Fleming Book Review Someone is killing all of the doctors opposed to the monopoly of the big drug companies. Those committed to the world of alternative medicine become aware of the ...

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Book of Letters

by Robert Fleming

Book of Letters Robert Fleming Book Review Mary J. Taylor’s Book Of Letters is just that, a book of letters from the Old School of storytelling. The series of sepia cultural flashbacks moves th...

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Black Folk Could Fly

by Robert Fleming

Black Folk Could Fly Robert Fleming Book Review Some of our literary greats fly under the radar. The unexpected death of the late great author Randall Kenan in 2020 at age 57 brought him well-deserve...

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In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People

by Denolyn Carroll

In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People Denolyn Carroll Book Review The book In Trembling Boldness: Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People brings us newly discovered wri...

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Womanish Theology

by Eryka Parker

Womanish Theology Eryka Parker Book Review “How differently would Black girls see the world or themselves had they [been] represented and treated as imago Dei [created in the image and likeness...

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The Gardins of Edin

by Richard Murray

The Gardins of Edin Richard Murray Book Review “What if I’m not too old to have a happy childhood now?” is a poignant line from the character Ruth in The Gardins of Edin by Rosey Le...

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The Upper Room

by Thumper

The Upper Room Thumper Book Review Mary Monroe initially caught my attention and admiration with her second novel God Don’t Like Ugly. I loved God Don’t Like Ugly, as I previously stated...

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The Ancestors

by Thumper

The Ancestors Thumper Book Review The Ancestors is an anthology featuring stories by authors L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey. I am always happy to come across science fiction ...

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Hey, Boo: HarperLee & To Kill a MockingBird

by Kam Williams

Hey, Boo: HarperLee & To Kill a MockingBird Kam Williams images/i_heyboo.jpg Film Review   Intriguing Documentary Revisits "To Kill a Mockingbird" Hey, Boo Unrated Distribu...

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Jamesy Boy

by Kam Williams

Jamesy Boy Kam Williams jamesy-boy.jpg Film Review Jamesy Boy In Theaters: Jan 17, 2014 Limited On DVD: Feb 24, 2014 Click to order via Amazon Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min. Drama, Kids & Family,...

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