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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...
The Accordion Years: A Memoir
The Accordion Years: A Memoir Quincy Troupe 9781644215876 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The poet and journalist Quincy Troupe has told the stories of many people before, often to ...
Choruses: Poems
Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...
ErranaçIties
ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018 Quincy Troupe 9780810139046 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe’s Seduction, the "I" becomes the "...
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566891356 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Qu...
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe are renowned figures in their respective fields, pictured here alongside Margaret Porter-Troupe. Photo by Home Slice. Earl Monro...
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...
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer Quincy Troupe 9780810138995 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what woul...
The Architecture of Language
The Architecture of Language Quincy Troupe 9781566891905 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “Troupe’s poems resemble Romare Bearden’s collages: muscular and colorful.”—North American Review ...
Little Stevie Wonder
Little Stevie Wonder Quincy Troupe 9780618340606 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Eleven-year-old Stevland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Mot...
Snake Back Solos
Snake Back Solos Quincy Troupe 9780918408112 Poetry Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Selected poems written 1969 - 1977 by African-American poet Quincy Troupe.
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me Book Spotlights For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/quincy_troupe.htm Quincy Troupe Discusses his collabor...
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Chris Gardner is a renowned author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, best known for his autobiography “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Quincy Troupe is a ce...
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Miles Davis, renowned jazz musician, and Quincy Troupe, acclaimed author, captured on photo by Jon Stevens. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe (Photo by Jon Steve...
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson Quincy Troupe 9780786805105 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9780863161087 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
Avalanche
Avalanche Quincy Troupe 9781566890441 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.
James Baldwin: The Legacy
James Baldwin: The Legacy Quincy Troupe 9780671676513 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baldwin, mentor to a generation of black artists and writers, is eulogized through essays and intervi...
Embryo
Embryo Quincy Troupe 9780879290207 Poetry Barlenmir House Barlenmir House Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state o...
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings Quincy Troupe 9780394714431 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading Poetry & Spoken Word Quincy Troupe, “Head in the sand climate change denial exists.” More on Troupe: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Quincy+Trou...
Earl The Pearl: My Story
Earl The Pearl: My Story Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe 9781609615611 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics,...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Black Renaissance Noire African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" AALBC.com Home � Back&...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...
Duende
Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v6 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2015 “The Next Wave” ...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Quincy Rules
Quincy Rules DuEwa M. Frazier 9781533279835 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Imagine receiving mysterious letters and cards with no return address, only colorful stamps from all around the...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak 9780820328706 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most ...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Nonfiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synth...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
Shane W. Evans
Shane W. Evans 0000000038504360 Shane Evans is a renowned illustrator, artist and designer whose work has been recognized by The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and The Orbis Pictus Award. His illustrat...
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon 0000000363821597 Steve Cannon (1935-2019) was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and a prominent Black writer from New Orleans. He moved to NYC in 1962, where he engaged in literary...
Only for the Holidays
Only for the Holidays Abiola Bello 9781641297547 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy’s lives colliding a...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe Guy Sims 9780989281935 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment It’s Amazing! It’s Stupendous! It’s Deadly! Pennypincher’s Travelling ...
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, ...
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson Leda Schubert 9781499805925 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wil...
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Kam Williams Interview Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Wesley T. Snipes is a globally celebrated actor, film producer, mas...
Tempted to Touch
Tempted to Touch Nigeria Lockley 9780996468701 Fiction Inheritance Books Inheritance Books Kira Seagram is frustrated by her husband Mason’s zeal for the Lord, so she pours all of her attention into...
Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson 0000000034051405 Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) was a free person of color and former indentured servant from New Hampshire. She authored the novel “Our Nig,” published anonymously i...
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Thumper Book Review Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris is an anthology aptly described by its title. The authors, Te...
Fibbed
Fibbed Elizabeth Agyemang 9780593204887 Fiction Razorbill Penguin Random House “Elizabeth Agyemang smartly weaves culture, adventure, and a little magic into a dynamic story about stories. Agyemang’s ...
Harlem Mosaics
Harlem Mosaics Whit Frazier 9781737214915 Fiction Multicanon Media Company Multicanon Media Company The year is 1927, and Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes are feverish with youth, gin, and artis...
Romance in Marseille
Romance in Marseille Claude McKay 9780143134220 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital ...
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite 9781597114431 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books “From Beyoncé to Barack Obama, it’s hard to thi...
Oreo
Oreo Fran Ross 9780811223225 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in ...
Under a Painted Sky
Under a Painted Sky Stacey Lee 9780399168031 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be aprofessional musi...
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories William Henry Lewis 9780060536664 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins In twelve graceful, sensual stories, William Henry Lewis traces the line between the real ...
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America Andrew Ward 9780374187712 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers ...
Blessings
Blessings Thumper Book Review Blessing is the third novel written by the author of Lil Mama Rules and Caught Up In The Rapture, Sheneska Jackson. Blessings is the story of four women who work in a ...
Blue Tights
Blue Tights Rita Williams-Garcia 9780140380453 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Joyce Collins desperately wants to be accepted into the popular circle, and when she is cut from the ballet re...
Jamie Walker
Jamie Walker NONE Jamie Walker, Ph.D. is a freelance journalist, and poet. She is also president and CEO of J.D. Publishing Group. Originally from Oakland, California, Walker graduated magna cum lau...
Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein
Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein MULTIPLE Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein are accomplished authors and screenwriters. Bandy, a founding member of Comedy Shorts, has worked in animation and co-authored...
Guy Sims
Guy Sims NONE Guy A. Sims is an acclaimed author known for his early publications on Kwanzaa, his collection of American Tall Tales, and his novel, Living Just A Little. He's also the head writer for...
Jazmyn Simon
Jazmyn Simon NONE Jazmyn Simon, an actor, activist, author, and mother, is known for her roles in HBO's 'Ballers' and Netflix's 'Raising Dion.' She co-authored 'Repeat After Me' with husband Dulé Hi...
Seed
Seed Thumper Book Review ’"The measure of a man", my father once said, "is in his scars. Without a scar he isn’t even a man. He is, merely, male."’ ―from...
Preacher’s Kid
Preacher’s Kid Kam Williams images/img2F.jpg Film Review Prodigal Daughter Learns Valuable Life Lessons in Moralizing Melodrama Preacher's Kid Rated PG-13 for mature themes, sexuality, vio...
Cloves Campbell, Jr. The “NNPA Chairman” Interview
Cloves Campbell, Jr. The “NNPA Chairman” Interview Kam Williams Interview Cloves C. Campbell, Jr., is the Publisher of the Arizona Informant, a family owned and operated newspaper that ...
Keith David - The "Delta Farce" Interview
Keith David - The "Delta Farce" Interview Kam Williams Interview Keith David Williams was born in Harlem on June 4, 1956. His thirst for the stage was whetted at an early age when he played t...
Lisa Kudrow - The "Kabluey" Interview
Lisa Kudrow - The "Kabluey" Interview Kam Williams Interview Making ’Friends' with Lisa Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow was born in Encino, California on July 30, 1963 to Nedra, a travel a...
Tim Meadows - Interview
Tim Meadows - Interview Kam Williams Interview SNL Alum Back on TV on TBS Series Tim Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan on February 5, 1961, the son of Mardell, a nu...
Laws of Annihilation
Laws of Annihilation Eriq La Salle 9781728261065 Fiction Poisoned Pen Press Poisoned Pen Press “Eriq La Salle has emerged as a terrific writer with unique gifts.” —Don Winslow, #1 international bestse...
Laws of Wrath
Laws of Wrath Eriq La Salle 9781728261034 Fiction Poisoned Pen Press Poisoned Pen Press “All thriller; no filler—a white-knuckled treat” —James Patterson There are those who fight the devil within ...
Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better
Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better Glenda Armand 9780593563229 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Discover the inspiring story of Augustus Jackson...
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Ramon Hervey II 9780063048034 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II ...
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road Tavis Smiley 9781401948399 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of ...
Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels
Ardency: A Chronicle Of The Amistad Rebels Kevin Young 9780375711619 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, l...
Still Wifey Material
Still Wifey Material Kiki Swinson 9780758238931 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness Protection Program she g...
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780307382405 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Unlike most white Americans who, if they ...
Still Wifey Material (Wifey, Part 4)
Still Wifey Material (Wifey, Part 4) Kiki Swinson 9781934157107 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness P...
Gather Together in My Name
Gather Together in My Name Tracy Price-Thompson 9781416533047 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson co...
Bliss: A Novel
Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 9780451209146 Fiction NAL NAL Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it al...
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP Janet Cheatham Bell 9780743428255 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the...
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom Veronica Chambers 9780152018030 Nonfiction Harcourt Children’s Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Joseph Cinqué is afraid he’ll never see his family again. Kidna...
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad William A. Owens 9781574780048 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Set in 1839, this is the true story of a revolt on the Spanish slave ...
Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay
Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay Alexs D. Pate 9780451195166 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House Based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, here is th...
D-Knowledge
D-Knowledge NONE Writer/Performer Dr. Derrick Gilbert, PhD, a/k/a poet D-Knowledge, lost his battle with liver disease on Sunday morning, November 1, 2015. He was 45. Straddling the worlds of enter...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 0000000081090255 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor in 1947, is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. A 7-foot-2 Hall of Famer, he dominat...
Rob Kenner
Rob Kenner NONE Rob Kenner is a key figure in hip hop publishing, known for his work with Vibe and his writings on cultural icons like Tupac Shakur and Barack Obama. His work has appeared in a number...
Amistad
Amistad Michael Dequina images/amista36.jpg Film Review Amistad Rated R for some scenes of strong brutal violence and some related nudity. Starring: Morgan Freeman …...
Brotherly Love
Brotherly Love Kam Williams brotherly-love.jpg Film Review Brotherly Love In Theaters: Apr 24, 2015 Limited Rated: R for violence, profanity and ethnic slurs Genre: Drama Written & Directed By...
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party Kam Williams block_2.jpg Film Review Conscious-Raising Concert Flick Combines Comedy and Hip-Hop Dave Chappelle’s Block Party Excellent (4 stars) Unrated ...
Al B. Sure - “The Ultimate Merger” Interview
Al B. Sure - “The Ultimate Merger” Interview Kam Williams Interview Al. B. Sure Enough Loves Himself Some Omarosa Albert Joseph Brown, III was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 4, 1968 b...
Rashida Jones - The "I Love You, Man" Interview
Rashida Jones - The "I Love You, Man" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in L.A. on February 25, 1976, Rashida Leah Jones is the younger daughter of jazz icon/composer/a...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best magazines of 1996 Vol. 3 No. 1 Fall 2000 Manthia Diawara Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lewis Managing Editor B...