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Persona Non Grata
Persona Non Grata Christopher Michael 9780983350866 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street Persona Non Grata is the first full length collection of poetry and spoken word performance pieces from nat...
Sustained
Sustained Aileen Muhammad 9781481746335 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions "If you have the privilege, you already have the right to peruse Aileen Muhammad’s collection of work from 2009 to present. ...
Robyn Williams
Robyn Williams 0000000495543330 Robyn Williams is a bestselling author known for her romantic suspense novels. Her works, celebrated by actresses Angela Bassett and Vanessa Williams, have been featur...
My Hair, My Crown 300 Piece Puzzle
My Hair, My Crown 300 Piece Puzzle Mudpuppy 9780735374621 Nonfiction Mudpuppy Mudpuppy 300-PIECE PUZZLE: The My Hair, My Crown 300 Piece Puzzle is the perfect activity for families with children ages ...
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014 Troy Johnson Article Strong Sales Shown Among Hardcover Non-Fiction Titles in Fall Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-...
Devon Vaughn Archer
Devon Vaughn Archer NONE Devon Vaughn Archer, pseudonym for R. Barri Flowers, is a celebrated mystery novelist, non-fiction author, and criminologist. Renowned for his multicultural romance novels, h...
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...
Veronica Chambers
Veronica Chambers 0000000063184848 Veronica Chambers is a celebrated author known for her memoir, Mam's Girl. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, her Afro-Latina heritage often influences her work...
Sophie Adriansen
Sophie Adriansen 000000012303368X Sophie Adriansen, born in 1982, is a French author and member of renowned literary societies. With over 56 diverse works including novels, graphic novels, non-fictio...
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026 Marilyn Nelson 9780807187265 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a...
On Morrison
On Morrison Namwali Serpell 9780593732915 Nonfiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House An Illuminating, Electrifying Exploration of the Work of Toni Morrison by an Award-Winning Novelist and Harvard ...
There’s Always Next Year
There’s Always Next Year Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson 9780374391690 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers From New York Times-bestselling author George...
Bitter Honey
Bitter Honey Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström 9780063317024 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divide...
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet Tochi Onyebuchi 9780802166258 Nonfiction Roxane Gay Books Grove Atlantic, Inc. From the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an origina...
Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life
Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life Makaziwe Mandela 9780789344403 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications A Tribute to Her Father, Makaziwe Mandela Sha...
The Other Side of Imani
The Other Side of Imani Lisa Springer 9780063288782 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A story about finding your voice alongside your real self, The Other Side of Imani is a heartfelt, fresh, an...
By God’s Grace
By God’s Grace Chris Webber 9781645432777 Nonfiction Webber Publishing Group Webber Publishing Group From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God’s Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the pola...
Load in Nine Times: Poems
Load in Nine Times: Poems Frank X. Walker 9781324094937 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company A stirring and historically substantive tribute to literal freedom fighters that ...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir Sly Stone and Ben Greenman 9780374606978 Nonfiction AUWA Books Macmillan Publishers One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a ...
Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original Howard Bryant 9780063268661 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehen...
The Book of Jose: A Memoir
The Book of Jose: A Memoir Fat Joe and Shaheem Reid 9780593230640 Nonfiction Roc Lit 101 Penguin Random House Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum–selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe ...
More Myself: A Journey
More Myself: A Journey Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford 9781250153319 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full e...
Alive at the End of the World
Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones 9781566896511 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author...
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend Jackie Kay 9780593314272 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith....
The Theory of Flight
The Theory of Flight Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395412 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Book 1 in the City of Kings trilogy A...
Two Women in One
Two Women in One Nawal El Saadawi 9780863566912 Fiction Saqi Books Saqi Books Bahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the m...
Imperfectly Happy
Imperfectly Happy Sharina Harris 9781496725639 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had ve...
College Life 402: Undergrad Completion
College Life 402: Undergrad Completion J.B. Vample 9781732317840 Fiction Jessyca Vample Publishing Jessyca Vample Publishing Graduation seemed like an eternity when Sidra Howard, Chasity Parker, Malaj...
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Fantasia for the Man in Blue Tommye Blount 9781945588495 Poetry Four Way Books Four Way Books In his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unf...
The Beautiful Ones
The Beautiful Ones Prince Rogers Nelson 9780399589652 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time,...
Basquiat-isms
Basquiat-isms Jean-Michel Basquiat 9780691192833 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press A collection of essential quotations and other writings from artist and icon Jean-Mich...
Tell No-One About This
Tell No-One About This Jacob Ross 9781845233525 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including thos...
Serial Misogyny: One Sister’s Story
Serial Misogyny: One Sister’s Story Lex Ramsay 9781520799261 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Rebecca Dash appears to have the perfect man. Caring, kind, compassionate, Richard ...
In the Language of My Captor
In the Language of My Captor Shane McCrae 9780819577115 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae’s latest collection is a book about freedom told through ...
Secret Relations
Secret Relations Shelia M. Goss 9781619227903 Fiction Samhain Publishing Samhain Publishing Business and pleasure don’t mix…until emotion enters the scene. Women in Hollywood, Book 1 Charlotte Richa...
Cosby: His Life and Times
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&...
Bounce
Bounce Idrissa Uqdah Book Review It’s All About The Trust!Author K.M. Jackson has a real winner in Bounce, a combination contemporary women’s fiction/romance novel that is both ente...
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him David Henry and Joe Henry 9781616200787 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “Addictively readable … Someday, when fewer peop...
Hymn for the Black Terrific
Hymn for the Black Terrific Kiki Petrosino 9781936747597 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books The poems in this, Kiki Petrosino’s second collection, fulfill the promise of her debut effort, Fort Red...
The Festival of Wild Orchid
The Festival of Wild Orchid Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845232016 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Alert to all the contradictions of contemporary Jamaica, these lyric and delicate poems find fresh...
Flippin’ the Hustle
Flippin’ the Hustle Trae Macklin 9781936649440 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Born and raised in the Projects of Richmond VA, Derick Richards life was changed and his d...
Shaq Uncut: My Story
Shaq Uncut: My Story Shaquille O’Neal 9781455504404 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Superman. Diesel. The Big Aristotle. Shaq Fu. The Big Daddy. The Big Shaqtus. Wilt Chamberne...
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Kevin Coval 9781608461516 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books From the poet the Chicago Tribune calls “the new voice of Chicago,” comes L-vis Lives!, a bold new collec...
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry)
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry) Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780299282943 Poetry University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing ...
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...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) Jonah Winter 9781442403031 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc....
Escape to an Autumn Pavement
Escape to an Autumn Pavement Andrew Salkey 9781845230982 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A brave and pioneering treatment of sexual identity in Caribbean literature, this novel, first publ...
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem Mitchell L.H. Douglas 9781597091404 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Dou...
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham 9781400063253 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divid...
21 Nights by Prince
21 Nights by Prince Thumper Book Review My number one is Aretha Franklin. Aretha Franklin is my favorite artist of all times. When I was 13 years old, her album, I Never Loved a Man, save...
A Gangster’s Girl
A Gangster’s Girl Chunichi 9781601620064 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents’ home and entered in...
It’s Been Fun, Kids! C. Kelly Robinson Retires
It’s Been Fun, Kids! C. Kelly Robinson Retires C. Kelly Robinson Article Family, friends, and loyal readers, This week’s passing of acclaimed author and journalist BeBe Moore Campbell mov...
American Sublime: Poems
American Sublime: Poems Elizabeth Alexander 9781555974329 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of ...
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017553 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as ...
Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging
Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging Tony Medina 9780965473828 Poetry Long Shot Productions Long Shot Productions Poetry. Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging i...
The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Shirlee Taylor Haizlip 9780671899332 Fiction Free Press Free Press The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our...
how i got ovah
how i got ovah Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385046701 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House The idea of crossing over to a new way of life provides the substance that Rodgers explicitly longed for in sev...
Wendy Coakley-Thompson
Wendy Coakley-Thompson 0000000045081204 Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Ph.D. is a masterful writer, journalist, and respected scholar who has established a precedence of addressing hard-hitting, cont...
Robert G. O’Meally
Robert G. O’Meally 0000000108901063 Robert G. O'Meally is a distinguished scholar and the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is also the fou...
Hitch
Hitch Michael Dequina news_f12.jpg Film Review Hitch Buy the DVD Via Amazon Directed by Andy Tennant Writing credits (WGA) Kevin Bisch (written by) Will Smith …. Alex ’Hitch&rsq...
The Icarus Girl
The Icarus Girl Paige Turner Book Review Jessamy Harrison is an eight year-old, Afro-British girl, who writes haiku, reads Shakespeare, and just skipped a grade in school. Jess’ parents...
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story Robert Fleming Book Review When I Left Home, the memoir of legendary blue guitarist Buddy Guy, with support from noted writer David Ritz, traces the musician ...
Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality
Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality Thumper Book Review Fourplay…the Dance of Sensuality, the latest novel by Brenda L. Thomas, is the continuing story of Sasha Boranni from Thomas’s firs...
A leap of Faith
A leap of Faith Anita L. Helm Excerpt PREFACE For some time now, I have wanted to write a story about my life—I’m still living, so this is my capture of my first half. I hope the stories...
Lenny Kravitz - The “Precious” Interview
Lenny Kravitz - The “Precious” Interview Kam Williams Interview Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in New York City on May 26, 1964 to actress Roxie Roker, and Sy Kravitz, a news producer at NB...
Modjaji Books
Modjaji Books Modjaji Books Modjaji Books Modjaji Books is an independent feminist press that publishes southern African women writers. Modjaji Books fills a gap by providing a platform for serious a...
Modjaji Books
Modjaji Books Modjaji Books Modjaji Books Modjaji Books is an independent feminist press that publishes southern African women writers. Modjaji Books fills a gap by providing a platform for serious a...
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes Troy Johnson Article Back in January of this year, I took the time to try to figure out how many Black writers have won Pulitzer Prizes in the six ...
Fool for You
Fool for You Rina Gray 9781440599491 Fiction Crimson Books Crimson Publishers Sports journalist Melanie Foster has achieved most of her goals: Bomb.com job—check. Tomboy-to-smoking-hottie makeover—che...
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica Jean Besson 9789766374082 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Despite outstanding histori...
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia Miranda Paul 9781467716086 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group "In the 1980s in the cities of Gambia, a switch from ...
Non Friction
Non Friction Morgan Parker 9780991764822 Fiction QuoteStork Media QuoteStork Media After 12 years, 4 months and 1 and 1/2 weeks of marriage, his wife packs up and leaves with their daughter. So he wri...
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables Marvin X B00I1PTMDW Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press In “Wisdom of Plato Negro,” Marvin teaches by stories, ancient devices of instruction tha...
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll Preston Lauterbach 9780393076523 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one o...
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 9780896087668 Nonfiction South End Press South End Press A $1.3 trillion industry, t...
Exposing the "Culture of Arrogance" in the Academy: A Blueprint for Increasing Black Faculty Satisfaction in Higher Education
Exposing the "Culture of Arrogance" in the Academy: A Blueprint for Increasing Black Faculty Satisfaction in Higher Education Gail L. Thompson 9781579221133 Nonfiction Stylus Publishing Stylus Publish...
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780767905787 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes ne...
Desirada
Desirada Maryse Conde 9781569472156 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Secrets et mensonges, est-ce le seul héritage que sa grand-mère, Nina, et sa mère, Reynalda, vont léguer à la narratrice...
African Diaspora
African Diaspora Joseph E. Harris 9780890967317 Nonfiction Texas A&M University Press Texas A&M University Press As Africans and descendants of slaves have sought to expand an understanding of their h...
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader Nawal El Saadawi 9781856495141 Nonfiction Zed Books Zed Books Writer, doctor and militant, Nawal el Saadawi has had a major influence on the lives of women and men globally...
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power Albert B. Cleage, Jr. 9780865430785 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Reprint. Originally published: Sheed and Ward, 1968. For nearly ...
Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aime Cesaire
Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aime Cesaire Aimé Césaire 9780804712071 Poetry Stanford University Press Stanford University Press Book by Cesaire, Aime
Jonah Winter
Jonah Winter 0000000028122430 Jonah Winter, an award-winning author of 25 non-fiction picture books, is known for his bestsellers like Diego and Here Comes the Garbage Barge!. His works, including ac...
Myles Munroe
Myles Munroe 0000000002887240 Dr. Myles Munroe (1954-2014), founder and senior pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries Fellowship and president of a non-profit, tragically died in an airplane crash along ...
Lauren K. Alleyne
Lauren K. Alleyne 0000000434680630 Lauren K. Alleyne, from Trinidad and Tobago, is a renowned author. Her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works have been published in numerous journals and anthologi...
Nadia L. Hohn
Nadia L. Hohn 0000000451136119 "Nadia L. Hohn is a versatile author specializing in non-fiction, middle-grade, young adult and picture books. Her work often explores themes of Carnivals, music, media...
Vincent Tirado
Vincent Tirado NONE Vincent Tirado, a non-binary Afro-Latinx from Bronx, holds a Bachelor's in Biology and a Master's in Bioethics. They've contributed short stories to Desert Rose Lit Mag and FIYAH!...
Isis Asare
Isis Asare NONE Isis Asare is the CEO/Founder of Sistah Scifi, the first Black-owned US bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy in the US. She also serves as Exec. Director of Aunt Lute Book...
Ben Carson
Ben Carson 0000000110700201 Dr. Benjamin Carson, once a child from a poor, single-parent home, overcame challenges to fulfill his dream of becoming a physician. Now, he's a renowned pediatric neurosu...
Mary B. Morrison
Mary B. Morrison NONE Mary B. Morrison, a New York Times best-selling author, writes empowering novels addressing social and sexual issues. Known also as HoneyB, she self-published her debut novel in...
Amos N. Wilson
Amos N. Wilson 0000000083152296 Dr. Amos N. Wilson was a renowned psychologist, social worker, and academic who held roles in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice and taught at City Unive...
Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine 0000000108694914 Claudia Rankine is a celebrated author and Yale professor, known for her poetry collections, plays, and video collaborations. She won multiple awards for her groundbr...
Faith Knight
Faith Knight NONE Faith Knight also writes under the pen names FM Knight and Tanzy Kohl. She writes contemporary and historical fiction for adults and teens. Faith Knight is an author, wife, and moth...
Frankie Y. Bailey
Frankie Y. Bailey 0000000081504673 Frankie Y. Bailey, an associate professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, has authored several non-fiction books and articles focusing on c...
Kaven Brown
Kaven Brown NONE Kaven Brown, a multifaceted entrepreneur known for his work as an author, photographer, and producer, has been influential in the publishing and music video industry. Brown's work ra...
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes 0000000073665848 Ghana-born Kwame Dawes, a poet significantly influenced by Jamaican rhythms and reggae music, is the author of numerous poetry collections, novels, and non-fiction works....
Linda Addison
Linda Addison 000000003555029X “Addison has enough invention for two writers, and enough heart for three.” —Terry Bisson, Nebula Award winning author Linda D. Addison, first African...
Martha Southgate
Martha Southgate 0000000057596619 Martha Southgate, award-winning author of novels such as “Third Girl from the Left” and “The Fall of Rome,” is a recipient of several fellowships and grants. Known f...
Prince Justice
Prince Justice NONE Prince Justice, born into a Nigerian ruling house and raised in Africa, is a London-born author who studied in Africa and the US. Living in various Black communities across Americ...
R.M. Johnson
R.M. Johnson NONE R.M. Johnson, a Chicago-born author and Army veteran, pursued a science degree and worked in healthcare while honing his writing skills. He's penned nine novels, including bestselle...