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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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Bounce

by Idrissa Uqdah

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...

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21 Nights by Prince

by Thumper

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...

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The Icarus Girl

by Paige Turner

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...

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Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story

by Robert Fleming

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 ...

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Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality

by Thumper

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...

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Hitch

by Michael Dequina

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...

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

by Kam Williams

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Kam Williams Book Review ’Many white-led social justice non-profits proclaim, in everything from their mission statements to their funding proposals, that...

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Because of Race

by Kam Williams

Because of Race Kam Williams Book Review ’Today, racial inequality of opportunity and outcome in education is still the result of past generations of explicit policy decree...

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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

by Thumper

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...

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Love Don’t Live Here Anymore

by Paige Turner

Love Don’t Live Here Anymore Paige Turner Book Review Randy, the main character in Denene Millner and Nick Chiles "Love Don’t Live Here Anymore" reflects on his marriage: "What ...

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The Hiptionary

by Kam Williams

The Hiptionary Kam Williams Book Review ’Throughout the cultural evolution of the United States, Black people have consistently contributed a huge stock of colorful words, phr...

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Race

by Kam Williams

Race Kam Williams Book Review “There is a lot to learn from this book. If you are feeling cynical and discouraged that you can’t fight the powerful, read it! If you want to learn the ...

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The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream

by Kam Williams

The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream Kam Williams Book Review “Our criminal justice system is in need of reform. [It] costs the taxpayers too much, ...

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The Lion’s Brood

by Thumper

The Lion’s Brood Thumper Book Review I am weak when it comes to reading books on subjects off the normally beaten path of bestselling African-American novels. My ears perked up when I received a re...

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This Side of Glory

by Thumper

This Side of Glory Thumper Book Review This Side Of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party by David Hilliard and Lewis Cole On my continuing quest in read...

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Oooooh… Say It Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex

by Kam Williams

Oooooh… Say It Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex Kam Williams Book Review “How can you get a woman sexually aroused simply by using certain words, your vo...

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Why Do Black People Love Fried Chicken?

by Kam Williams

Why Do Black People Love Fried Chicken? Kam Williams Book Review "The primary purpose of this book is to provide information about black folks… Please read with the understanding that neit...

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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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American Indians

by Kam Williams

American Indians Kam Williams Book Review ’Accurate books about Indians have been written, yet misinformation abounds and inundates our children at an early age. Racist tel...

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Life as a Single Mom

by Kam Williams

Life as a Single Mom Kam Williams Book Review ’’Being a single mom isn't easy,’ is something I hear constantly over and over throughout my travels, and I mostly hear it fro...

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Medical Apartheid

by Kam Williams

Medical Apartheid Kam Williams Book Review ’The experimental exploitation of African-Americans is not an issue of the last decade or even the past few decades. Dangerous, involuntary, a...

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The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You

by Kam Williams

The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You Kam Williams Book Review “Life is not what you’ve been taught; it’s what you believe. It’s not ...

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Boys into Men

by Paige Turner

Boys into Men Paige Turner Book Review BOYS INTO MEN: RAISING OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENAGE SONS By Paige Turner An old Parliament Funkadelic album was entitled America Eats Its Young. While this se...

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Dark Midnight When I Rise

by Paige Turner

Dark Midnight When I Rise Paige Turner Book Review The history of blacks in America remains a vast uncharted territory. While the contributions of mainstream cultures have been duly recorded, the e...

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Oh God!

by Paige Turner

Oh God! Paige Turner Book Review Sexuality is an extremely powerful force and a very real and large component of everyone’s existence. Yet black churches, like most religions through the ages, ...

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Digging

by Robert Fleming

Digging Robert Fleming Book Review The literary legacy of award-winning writer and poet Amiri Baraka continues to thrive as he releases another new book, Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of ...

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It’s All Love

by Robert Fleming

It’s All Love Robert Fleming Book Review If there is a commodity that is seriously misunderstood in our community, it is the emotion of love which binds us to each other. Marita Golden, a p...

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Adam by Adam

by Thumper

Adam by Adam Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. to a young Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. If I were...

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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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Low Road

by Thumper

Low Road Thumper Book Review Donald Goines has become, decades after his death, one of the most influential African American authors in the African-American literary canon. The realism, the violenc...

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Memoir: Delaware County Prison

by Thumper

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...

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Never Been a Time

by Thumper

Never Been a Time Thumper Book Review I am continuing my own personal goal of reading more history and biography books.  If my memory serves me correctly, I think it had something to d...

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Sympathy For The Devil

by Thumper

Sympathy For The Devil Thumper Book Review I wasn’t expecting such an excellent, non-stop reading novel when I embarked on Christopher Chamber’s debut novel, Sympathy For The Devil. I wa...

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Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

by Thumper

Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, ...

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The Power of Presence

by Tony Lindsay

The Power of Presence Tony Lindsay Book Review The Power of Presence is a training manual for those looking to improve life, but not merely the life of an individual but those that depend on an indiv...

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Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir

by Kam Williams

Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir Kam Williams Book Review "I’m such a badass. I am literally the baddest bitch on the planet. If there was a bitch contest between me and every other he...

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The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

by Thumper

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates Thumper Book Review In an effort to expand my reading to non-fiction titles, as well as the fact that the book is small in size, I read The Beauti...

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Logic

by Thumper

Logic Thumper Book Review I was caught unaware. I was not forewarned or prepared for Olympia Vernon’s beyond marvelous second novel Logic. I knew Vernon was a capable writer after reading her...

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Orgasm, Inc

by Kam Williams

Orgasm, Inc Kam Williams images/orgasm_poster.jpg Film Review Scathing Expose’ Uncovers Pharmaceutical Industry Plot to Exploit Female Pleasure   Orgasm, Inc Unrated Running t...

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

by Kam Williams

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Kam Williams black-pathers-movie-poster.jpg Film Review The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution In Theaters: Sep 2, 2015 Limited Runtime: 1 hr....

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Bestselling DVD's for 2012

by Kam Williams

Bestselling DVD's for 2012 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/aalbcdvd5.jpg Film Review Top Ten Selling DVDs for 2012 See Bestselling DVDs #6 - #10 #1 • What Black Men Think Click to...

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