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Poet Alrick Elliott Read Happy Birthday Poem to his Wife
Poet Alrick Elliott Read Happy Birthday Poem to his Wife Poetry & Spoken Word
Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwanda" Interview - 2011
Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwanda" Interview - 2011 Kam Williams Interview Alrick Brown The "Kinyarwanda" Interview With an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Alrick Brown is a filmmaker ...
K. Elliott
K. Elliott NONE K. Elliott, raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, overcame a difficult early life involving poverty, the drug trade, and jail. Encouraged by a professor, he pursued writing, excelling ...
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda Kam Williams images/kinyarwanda_movie_poster.jpg Film Review Rwandan Tragedy Revisited in "Crash"-Like Ensemble Drama Read an interview with the film maker Alrick Brown Kinyarwanda ...
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones Biyi Bandele 9780413771810 Fiction Berg 3Pl Berg Publishers Two plays by one of Britain’s most prolific young...
Zetta Elliott
Zetta Elliott 000000003627950X Zetta Elliott, a Canadian-born Black feminist writer, is known for her poetry, plays, essays, and children's novels. She earned a PhD in American Studies from NYU, taug...
Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann MULTIPLE Zetta Elliott, a black feminist writer known for poetry, plays, essays, novels, and kids' stories, is renowned for her award-winning picture book, Bird....
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart Zetta Elliott 9780374307417 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Today Show Best Book for the Holidays NCTE ...
John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick
John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick MULTIPLE John Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. Their ...
Andrea Elliott
Andrea Elliott NONE Andrea Elliott is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, formerly with The Miami Herald. She's received multiple journalism awards and served as a...
Cooking with the Birthday Bird
Cooking with the Birthday Bird Glenda Armand 9780593569146 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The Birthday Bird—star of the beloved Dr. Seuss classic Happy Birthday to Y...
The Witch’s Apprentice (Dragons in a Bag #3)
The Witch’s Apprentice (Dragons in a Bag #3) Zetta Elliott 9780593427705 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zetta Elliott wants Black children today to see themselves in...
Migrated Interviews
Migrated Interviews Kam Williams Interview Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwand...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Amanda Gorman 9780593465271 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A special edition of the poem The Hill We Climb, read at the...
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott 9780812986945 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “Destined to become one of the classics of the genre” (Newsweek)...
American Phoenix: poems
American Phoenix: poems Zetta Elliott 9798656203630 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published American Phoenix, the second collection of poetry by award-winning author Zetta Elliott, exte...
378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events
378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events Troy Johnson Article Top 100+ Recommended Children’s Books Children book authors, industry professionals, and avid readers contributed their favorite chi...
A Song for Juneteenth
A Song for Juneteenth Zetta Elliott 9780316575133 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This emotional and lyrical picture book by acclaimed poet Zetta Elliott celebrates t...
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 Ian K. Smith 9780063253766 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature o...
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4 Ian K. Smith 9780063253759 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature o...
Carl Patterson
Carl Patterson NONE Carl Patterson started writing at 45, inspired by his late wife's positive outlook on life. Initially a poet, he transitioned into novel-writing upon her suggestion. His works, in...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Ready? Set. Birthday!
Ready? Set. Birthday! Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780593563717 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This Step 2 early reader captures all the excitement and anticipation that ...
Great Birthday Surprise!
Great Birthday Surprise! Tanya Wright 9781464243875 Fiction Sourcebooks Young Readers Sourcebooks Hip, hip, hooray! It’s Hairiette’s Birthday! With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked ...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328262 Fiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? So does Amiri’s family, and...
Amiri’s Birthday Wish
Amiri’s Birthday Wish Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328279 Nonfiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Do you like playing the Guessing Game? Well, so does Amiri’s fa...
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents)
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593095727 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. He’s the “old guy in the club” who everyone judges and scorns, but there’s so much more t...
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780063217263 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The first title in a delightful new Level 2 I Can Read! series from acclaimed a...
What Makes You Happy?
What Makes You Happy? Nedra Glover Tawwab 9780593620250 Fiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House By the influential relationship therapist and bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, th...
Moonwalking
Moonwalking Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann 9780374314378 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems Wanda Coleman Excerpt “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead“ from Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems “American Sonnet“ from Wicked Ench...
The Birthday Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series
The Birthday Bid: Distinguished Gentlemen Series Suzette D. Harrison 9781733721714 Fiction SDH Books SDH Books It’s blackmail, blindfolds, and her fortieth birthday. How else would beauty influencer, ...
Say Her Name
Say Her Name Zetta Elliott 9781368045247 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victi...
A Wish After Midnight
A Wish After Midnight Zetta Elliott 9780982555057 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing “Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace t...
Looking for Happy
Looking for Happy Judy Allen Dodson Book Review “Some days, Happy is Hard to Find” as we set out on a quest in this heartfelt and hopeful picture book, Looking For Happy, which follows a ...
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
Three Plays
Three Plays Zetta Elliott 9781441486219 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press CONNOR’S BOY: Connor, a successful artist and transracial adoptee, commits suicide after being accused of abusing his belov...
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life Ian K. Smith 9780312606350 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Happiness isn’t the too-brief rush that comes from getting something you’v...
Rambunctious Kwame And the Case of The Missing Birthday Banku
Rambunctious Kwame And the Case of The Missing Birthday Banku Bernard Mensah 9781838135300 Fiction Haberman + Nerds Press Haberman + Nerds Press Kwame is a boisterous 5-year-old with a huge appetite f...
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) Nancy Johnson James 9781951836535 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A poetic picture book biography a...
Saul Williams
Saul Williams 0000000055187280 Saul Williams, hailed as the “Bob Marley of American poets” is a celebrated poet, actor, and spoken-word artist. Known for his vibrant and fearless writing, Williams ha...
Big Sister Coco 1: The Birthday Surprise
Big Sister Coco 1: The Birthday Surprise Jesse Byrd 9781223187075 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Big Sister Coco is sassy and smart, and she absolutely adores her litt...
Sydney Sunshine and the Big Birthday Bash (Volume 3)
Sydney Sunshine and the Big Birthday Bash (Volume 3) Sydney McGee 9780984688968 Fiction Visible Works Publishing Visible Works Publishing Sydney Sunshine is turning ten years old. She has been dreamin...
Princess Arabella’s Birthday
Princess Arabella’s Birthday Mylo Freeman 9781911115373 Fiction Cassava Republic Press Cassava Republic Press "These lovely new picture books are vibrant with color and character, and Arabella’s adven...
Nikki and Deja Birthday Blues
Nikki and Deja Birthday Blues Karen English 9780547248936 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The second book about Nikki and Deja, two African American third-grade girls who...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
I Love Snow!
I Love Snow! Zetta Elliott 9781514348475 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press I love snow! spinning, swirling, swooshing snow crunch beneath my boots snow tickling my tongue snow I love snow! This sho...
At the Touch of Love
At the Touch of Love Sierra Kay 9780984847792 Fiction The Vega Group The Vega Group Best friends Echo and Telia are really experiencing some "interesting" times. Echo received a call on h...
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden 0000000114660665 Hayden was Named U.S. Poet Laureate for (1976–1978) Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was a renowned African-American poet, essayist, and educator. He was the first Africa...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou 9780593518618 Poetry Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all fait...
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
Inheritance: A Visual Poem Elizabeth Acevedo 9780062931948 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do...
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson Troy Johnson Article 2013, what a year! With so many great new books and films last year, there was a lot to celebrate. We also extended our reach through...
101 Ways To Love My Wife
101 Ways To Love My Wife Hasani Pettiford 9781494933074 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Happily married couples live longer and healthier lives by building intimacy and reinforcing the...
Poet On Watch
Poet On Watch NONE Poet On Watch is a renowned performance poet and multimedia artist, who collaborates globally as an independent art director. She's authored two poetry collections and has contribu...
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs Kevin Powell 9798218824440 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing “Kevin Powell is one of this country’s most poignant literary voices. Pow...
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy Robin Coste Lewis 9781524732608 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image...
David Roberts
David Roberts 0000000081109577 David Roberts is a London-based illustrator known for his work on children's books such as the Questioneers series, The Cook and the King, and Happy Birthday, Madame Ch...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings Alice Walker 9781400061631 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker ...
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson 0000000038623095 Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) was an African American poet, essayist, and editor who significantly contributed to the Harlem Renaissance. His work, including his well-kno...
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party Anne Wynter 9781499814460 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Patrick wants for his birthday is a flawless FOOD party. So why does Karter arrive dr...
Juan Boria
Juan Boria NONE Jaime Torres Torres, known as Juan Boria, was a celebrated Puerto Rican poet and actor born in 1906. Despite humble beginnings, he earned a university degree and taught for 37 years. ...
Dork Diaries 13: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday
Dork Diaries 13: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday Rachel Renée Russell 9781534426382 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Nikki Maxwell’s adventures continue in the thirteenth installment in the b...
I’m Growing Great
I’m Growing Great Mechal Renee Roe 9780593428900 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Confident, empowered girls are celebrated in this follow-up to Happy Hair, a flower-fill...
Vince Bailey
Vince Bailey NONE Vince Bailey is an award-winning author and construction estimator from Central Arizona. His childhood experiences heavily influence his nostalgic fiction writing, particularly his ...
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters Morgan Harper Nichols 9781979990523 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “For over a decade, many of the stories and poems I have written eventually turned into so...
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9780252086038 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Includes 25 Black & Wh...
What Is Hip-Hop?
What Is Hip-Hop? Eric Morse 9781617755842 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 featureMorse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highligh...
Track Three
Track Three John Gibson 9781610092173 Fiction Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press In I Come along for the ride when a popular and top-rated investigative journalist, Elliott Lawder, and Katherine Lambert, a...
Black Nationalism in America
Black Nationalism in America John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick 9780672512414 Nonfiction Bobbs-Merrill Bobbs-Merrill Black Nationalism in America covers a wide range of topics rela...
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall 0000000114554651 Dudley Randall (1914-2000), a prominent Detroit poet and publisher, began his career at 13 with his first publication. He founded Broadside Press in 1965, promoting Af...
Now We Will Be Happy
Now We Will Be Happy Amina Gautier 9780803255395 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Rican...
Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag #1)
Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag #1) Zetta Elliott 9781524770457 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The dragon’s out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy fr...
He Loves Me, He Loves You Not PT 3
He Loves Me, He Loves You Not PT 3 Mychea 9780996060950 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Phylicia hits the ground running in this highly anticipated sequel to He Loves Me, He Loves you No...
Ship Of Souls
Ship Of Souls Zetta Elliott 9781612182681 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, a...
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit)
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit) K. Elliott 9781416531012 Fiction Gallery Books/G-Unit Simon & Schuster, Inc. HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS. HARD DEALS. HARD TIME. Back in New York City, Seven was the ...
Street Fame
Street Fame K. Elliott 9780971769724 Fiction Urban Lifestyle Press Urban Lifestyle Press There’s a lot going on from Charlotte to Miami to San Francisco — almost none of it favorable to Tommy ’Fatboy’...
Wings
Wings Christopher Myers 9780590033770 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “…shows a vulnerable boy defended by a Black girl who admires rather than mocks his difference. The collage illustrations a...
The Happy Marriage
The Happy Marriage Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781612194653 Fiction Melville House Melville House “Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and...
Hearts on the Fly
Hearts on the Fly Toni Shiloh 9780764245206 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group When the game changes, love finds a way to score. Jabari Hall has spent his entire life chasing vi...
Dayshaun’s Gift
Dayshaun’s Gift Zetta Elliott 9781515008354 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Summer vacation has just begun and Dayshaun wants to spend Saturday morning playing his new video game. But Dayshaun’s m...
One-Act Plays
One-Act Plays Zetta Elliott 9781448639083 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press girl/power: While in the custody of Child Protective Services, two underage girls compare their relationships with the me...
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics)
The Heart of Happy Hollow: A Collection of Stories (Harlem Moon Classics) Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780767919814 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House A historic collection of perceptive tales from a l...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks 0000000081816650 Brooks was U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1985-1986 (title was changed to U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986) Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-2000) was an influential African-Am...
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey 0000000084159051 Trethewey was U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 Natasha Trethewey, an American poet and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection “Native Guard,” was inspired...
A Birthday Cake for George Washington
A Birthday Cake for George Washington Ramin Ganeshram 9780545538237 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Everyone is buzzing about the president’s birthday! Especially George Washington’s servants...
The Enchanted Bridge
The Enchanted Bridge Zetta Elliott 9780593427743 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Getting three baby dragons back home was just the beginning. Now Jaxon is on a mission to help all magical cre...
Fox & Crow: A Christmas Tale
Fox & Crow: A Christmas Tale Zetta Elliott 9781502520241 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Fox and Crow are old friends who enjoy trying to outsmart one another. One winter evening, mischievous Crow...
Max Loves Muñecas!
Max Loves Muñecas! Zetta Elliott 9781497332027 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max wants to visit a beautiful boutique that sells dresses and dolls, but worries that other children will tea...
Room In My Heart
Room In My Heart Zetta Elliott 9781500908232 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press t took some time for Nikki to adjust to her parents’ divorce, but now she and her little sister Natalie enjoy their new...
One Eye Open
One Eye Open Zetta Elliott 9781461079897 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press More than anything, Nina Traymore wants stability in her life. After graduating from college, Nina returns to New York City...
Bird
Bird Zetta Elliott 9781600602412 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he stru...
Gone Away
Gone Away Mervyn Taylor 9781881523000 Poetry Junction Press Junction Press The latest [2006] collection from Mervyn Taylor offers up his familiar blend of the ancestral and the immediate, the natural ...
The Dragon Thief (Dragons in a Bag #2)
The Dragon Thief (Dragons in a Bag #2) Zetta Elliott 9781524770495 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Stealing a baby dragon was easy! Hiding it is a little more complic...
The Boy in the Bubble
The Boy in the Bubble Zetta Elliott 9781497444782 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press A mysterious boy from another planet chooses an unusual girl as his guide on Earth. Both children lead solitary li...
Entangled
Entangled K. Elliott 9780971769700 Fiction Urban Lifestyle Press Urban Lifestyle Press Unprotected Sex, Murder, Disloyalty and Payoffs all included in this street-life thriller. Entangled is a Love St...
Tar Beach
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 9780517885444 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile/quilt. She incorporated Africa...