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Foxy: My Life In Three Acts
Foxy: My Life In Three Acts Pam Grier 9780446548502 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin’ Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Bro...
Pam Grier
Pam Grier 000000010893536X Pamela Suzette Grier, born in 1949, is known as “cinema's first female action star.” Famous for her roles in 1970s action and blaxploitation films, she has been nominated f...
Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth (Touchstone Books)
Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth (Touchstone Books) David Alan Grier 9781439154922 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-ol...
William H. Grier
William H. Grier 0000000033046751 William H. Grier was an accomplished psychiatrist and author renowned for his significant contributions to African American mental health issues. William H. Grier
William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs
William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs MULTIPLE William H. Grier, ex-chairman of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College & professor at Wayne State University, resides in San Diego. Price M. Cobbs is a Ps...
Pam Dawling
Pam Dawling NONE Pam Dawling is an expert in sustainable vegetable farming with over 40 years of experience in diverse climates. She's the author of the best-seller, Sustainable Market Farming, and s...
Divas On Screen: Black Women In American Film
Divas On Screen: Black Women In American Film Mia Mask 9780252034220 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This insightful study places African American women’s stardom ...
CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work
CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work Pam Grier Excerpt CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work I was snuggled in my mother’s arms in the backseat of the old Buick. My dad’s Air Force buddy was at the wheel, driving us...
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips
Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips Jim Lawrence 9781950912063 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE The Friday Foster comic strip is the story of a former nightclub “camera bunny” turned photographer’s assistant ...
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
The Rocky Road Affair
The Rocky Road Affair G. Percy Smalley 9781589393875 Fiction Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Virtualbookworm.com Publishing After searching the city for some rocky road ice cream, Gary Shuley, an indep...
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010!
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010! Troy Johnson Article There are only 2 days left to cast your vote for the finalists of the Best Book trailer of 2010. Cast you vote now: https://bit.ly/best...
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...
Bestselling eBooks for 2010
Bestselling eBooks for 2010 Troy Johnson Article Check Out AALBC.com's bestselling eBooks for all of 2010. http://bit.ly/top10ebooks This our first eBook bestsellers list was derived from Kindle eB...
Black Rage
Black Rage William H. Grier 9781579103491 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, th...
Black Rage: Second Updated Edition
Black Rage: Second Updated Edition William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs 9780465007011 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point ...
Touch Yourself: 30 Ways to Boldy Live, Love and Let Go!
Touch Yourself: 30 Ways to Boldy Live, Love and Let Go! Deya Smith 9781481235068 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Touch Yourself is a provocative, spiritual, insightful and uniquely per...
Best African American Fiction 2010
Best African American Fiction 2010 Dorothy Sterling and Chris Abani 9780553385359 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology ...
Acts of Faith: 25th Anniversary Edition
Acts of Faith: 25th Anniversary Edition Iyanla Vanzant 9781982106843 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. “The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey ...
Quentin Tarantino The “Django Unchained” Interview
Quentin Tarantino The “Django Unchained” Interview Kam Williams Interview Quentin Tarantino The “Django Unchained” Interview With a vibrant imagination and dedication to rich, layered storyt...
Going Buck Wild
Going Buck Wild Nina Foxx 9780060564490 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Let’s go crazy!Successful Claudia Barrett seems to be doing it all right.She’s a vice president at her firm, wit...
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great: American Firsts/American Icons, Vol. 4
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great: American Firsts/American Icons, Vol. 4 Gabrielle David 9781737446507 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press The fourth volume in the Trailblazers s...
Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems (National Poetry)
Maybe the Saddest Thing: Poems (National Poetry) Marcus Wicker 9780062191014 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins “These are wide-ranging Whitmanesque poems self-aware meditations that rap and jazz t...
Iconic: Decoding Images Of The Revolutionary Black Woman
Iconic: Decoding Images Of The Revolutionary Black Woman Lakesia Johnson 9781602586444 Nonfiction Baylor University Press Baylor University Angela Davis, Pam Grier, Alice Walker, Michelle Obama. Revol...
Echo Brown
Echo Brown NONE Echo Brown is a renowned storyteller, author, and performer known for her one-woman show, 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters'. She's also the author of 'Black Girl Unlimited'. Echo f...
Kerry Washington - The "For Colored Girls and Night Catches Us" Interview [2010]
Kerry Washington - The "For Colored Girls and Night Catches Us" Interview [2010] Kam Williams Interview Kerry on Everything from Film, Family & President Obama Winner of the 2005 NAACP Im...
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson Pam Munoz Ryan 9780439269674 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A harmonious introduction to one of our country’s most important singers—...
Loretta Collins Klobah
Loretta Collins Klobah NONE Loretta Collins Klobah is a Caribbean Literature and creative writing professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She's lived in various Caribbean-related locations and ho...
Dare To Struggle! Dare To Win! (1981-2010): A Personal Memoir: Khalid Raheem: Memoirs of Struggle and Resistance
Dare To Struggle! Dare To Win! (1981-2010): A Personal Memoir: Khalid Raheem: Memoirs of Struggle and Resistance Khalid Raheem 9781070147413 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published ...
Party: A Mystery
Party: A Mystery Jamaica Kincaid 9781617757167 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2019 Children’s Sneak PreviewsThree girls—Pam, Beth, and Sue—attend a party to c...
Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres
Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres Pam Dawling 9780865717169 Nonfiction New Society Publishers New Society Publishers Growing for 100 - the complete year-round g...
Thieves’ Paradise: A Novel
Thieves’ Paradise: A Novel Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525946632 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Twenty-five-year-old Dante Brown is down and out in L.A. After doing a stretch of hard time in juv...
T.R. Simon
T.R. Simon NONE T.R. Simon is an acclaimed author renowned for “Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground” and co-author of award-winning “Zora and Me” with Victoria Bond. Also co-authored “Oskar and the Eight ...
Memoir: Delaware County Prison
Memoir: Delaware County Prison Thumper Book Review Memoir: Delaware County Prison by Reginald L. Hall is a non-fiction account of the eight months Hall, an openly gay man, spent in prison for credit...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing Fred Beauford 21551758v1 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2010 “The Wo...
Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema
Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Just-Wright.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessmen...
Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant 0000000110419866 Iyanla Vanzant, a Yoruba priestess and spiritual life coach, overcame adversity to become a New York Times best-selling author and host of OWN's Iyanla: Fix My Life. H...
Affirmative Acts
Affirmative Acts June Jordan 9780385492256 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Piercingly intuitive, eloquent, and caustic, Affirmative Acts is an address to the social, economic, racial, and politica...
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...
The Criss Cross (Life, Love & Loneliness)
The Criss Cross (Life, Love & Loneliness) Crystal Lacey Winslow 9781934157428 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Nikki Ling is the independent, foxy daughter of the merciless streets of...
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 9780451205636 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and i...
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color Iyanla Vanzant 9780671864163 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Acts of Faith is a thoughtful and inspirational book that explores the un...
She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven Adrienne Kennedy 9780573703959 Fiction Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, off...
A Golden Legacy: Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir
A Golden Legacy: Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir Samuel P. Golden with Angie Ransome-Jones 9798999778406 Nonfiction AALBC Legacy Press African American Literature Book Club Also Availabl...
A Golden Legacy (paperback): Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir
A Golden Legacy (paperback): Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir Samuel P. Golden with Angie Ransome-Jones 9798999778413 Nonfiction AALBC Legacy Press African American Literature Book Club A...
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa Malcolm X 9780873489621 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press This expanded edition includes four talks and a...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...
Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe 0000000376418772 Quincy Troupe, born in 1939, is an award-winning author, recognized for his poetry, children's books, and non-fiction works. His notable titles include a memoir of Earl...
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life George Nesbitt 9780226783123 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press An immersive multigeneration...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the-butler.jpg Film Review Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
White Wedding (2010)
White Wedding (2010) Kam Williams images/69214_gal.jpg Film Review Groom and Best Man Get Waylaid En Route to Wedding in South African Romantic Comedy White Wedding Click to buy onli...
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792699 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. "How can you say I never worked a day? ART is WORK. It...
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label Stacy Gueraseva 9780345468048 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random Hous...
Prophets of the Hood-PB
Prophets of the Hood-PB Imani Perry 9780822334460 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Perry examines the art, politics, and culture of hip hop, offering readings of the ...
Morris Chestnut - November 2013 Interview with AALBC.com
Morris Chestnut - November 2013 Interview with AALBC.com Kam Williams Interview Morris Chestnut was born on New Year’s Day 1969 in Cerritos, California where he was a student-athlete in high sc...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams Interview Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2012 Getty Images Lee Daniels is best k...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 0000000084378609 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an award-winning children's author and librarian. She penned “Bad News for Outlaws,” which won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award, and...
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781477327814 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press 2024 Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/Dominican Repub...
Ninth Ward
Ninth Ward Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043083 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. She ...
Crave Radiance: New And Selected Poems 1990-2010
Crave Radiance: New And Selected Poems 1990-2010 Elizabeth Alexander 9781555975685 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The first career retrospective by the award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, in...
Ninth Ward (hardcover)
Ninth Ward (hardcover) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043076 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans’ Nint...
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Eleanor Taylor Bland 000000006389177X Eleanor Taylor Bland (1944-2010) was a renowned crime fiction author, known for creating detective Marti McAllister. Born in Boston, she married young and reloca...
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts 000000007591721X Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet and legal scholar, transformed his life after a nine-year prison sentence for carjacking at 16. His poetry is published in various...
Memoir Maven
Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing is a contemporary self publishing company. Established in 2016, their mission is to release true, impactful storie...
Memoir Maven Publishing
Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing is a contemporary self publishing company. Established in 2016, their mission is to release true, impactful storie...
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Harrison Mooney 9781586423469 Nonfiction Truth to Power Steerforth Press An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir awaits in Harrison Mooney’s powerful debut, a s...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010) Kam Williams images/why%20did%20I%20get%20married%202.jpg Film Review Why Did I Get Married Too (2010) Click to Order via Amazon Rated PG-13 for m...
Barack Like Me
Barack Like Me Kam Williams Book Review "Ray Charles said the secret to life is timing. He was right on, especially when it comes to writing a book. When I handed in this book ...
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010 Troy Johnson Article Here are the winners of the Best Book Trailer's of 2010. Please join me in congratulation off of the winners. 1st Prize ...
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition Troy Johnson Article To submit your video for consideration visit: https://bit.ly/bestbooktrailer2010
E. C. Osondu
E. C. Osondu NONE E.C. Osondu is a renowned Nigerian author and English professor at Providence College. Known for his short stories, he won the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing. His debut collec...
Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010
Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010 Related Links Mosaic Magazine
Allen Bernard West
Allen Bernard West NONE Allen Bernard West is a decorated military veteran, former US Congressman, and notable contributor to media and policy organizations. His military legacy spans four generation...
12 Honeymoons: A Novel
12 Honeymoons: A Novel K. L. Brady 9780983920281 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Publisher’s Weekly hails K.L. Brady’s work "comic and charming…" RT Book Reviews calls Brady’s work "Hilarious!"…an...
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me Condoleezza Rice 9780385738804 Nonfiction Ember Ember In this captivating memoir for young people, looking back with candor and...
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents Mary-Alice Daniel 9780062960047 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and my...
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson 9780312609344 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Even if you don’t...
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9780593853696 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House “A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page a...
What A Sista Should Do
What A Sista Should Do Tiffany L. Warren 9780446693547 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A powerful and spiritually satisfying novel from a compelling new voice about three courageo...
Congressman James Clyburn is interviewd about his 2014 memoir “Blessed Experiences”
Congressman James Clyburn is interviewd about his 2014 memoir “Blessed Experiences” Kam Williams Interview Congressman James Clyburn The “Blessed Experiences” Interview James Enos Clyburn made h...
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir Staceyann Chin 9780743292917 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race ...
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me Whoopi Goldberg 9798200920235 Nonfiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoi...
Clarence Thomas’ Ex Expounds on Steamy Memoir Vindicating Anita Hill
Clarence Thomas’ Ex Expounds on Steamy Memoir Vindicating Anita Hill Kam Williams Interview Retired Justice Lillian McEwen was born, raised and educated in Washington, D.C. Her stellar legal care...
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir Liz Montague 9780593307816 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonis...
The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir
The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir Beverly Johnson 9781476774411 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A revelatory and redemptive memoir from Beverly Johnson, the first black supermodel t...
Acts of Forgiveness
Acts of Forgiveness Maura Cheeks 9780593598290 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Di...
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir Wayétu Moore 9781644450314 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the...
Tenderheaded: A Memoir
Tenderheaded: A Memoir Michaela angela Davis 9781668036310 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The compelling memoir that explores race, cultural representation, Black media’s legacy, p...
Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe NONE Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and Up First's Saturday episodes, is a former White House correspondent who covered three presidential administrations. Prior to...
Stephanie Renee Bell
Stephanie Renee Bell NONE Stephanie Renée Bell, an author of 5 books and a gifted musician, dedicated her life to her faith and art until her passing in 2010. Renowned for her Christian rap songs, p...
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Halifu Osumare 9780813064321 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Also Available as an Audiobook Dancing in Blackness is a professional ...
Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez 0000000080832288 Elizabeth Nunez, a Trinidad-born, award-winning author, wrote ten novels and a memoir, with several recognized by the New York Times and Oprah's book club. Her works,...
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir
Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir George Clinton with Ben Greenman 9781476751085 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this seminal music memoir, F...
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Rain Pryor 9780061195426 Nonfiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of ...