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Read My World
Read My World Tolhuistuin Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands Since 2012, Read My World is the international literature festival of Amsterdam. Going beyond the commonplace, Read My World explores the boun...
Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien NONE Vladimir Lucien is an award-winning St. Lucian writer, known for his published works in notable journals and anthologies. His accolades include the Small Axe Prize 2013 and the O...
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Rebellious Read Alouds: Inviting Conversations about Diversity with Children′s Books [Grades K-5]
Rebellious Read Alouds: Inviting Conversations about Diversity with Children′s Books [Grades K-5] Vera Ahiyya 9781071844144 Nonfiction Corwin Corwin Spark meaningful conversations about race, identity...
Host a Listening Party for SHUT UP AND READ!
Host a Listening Party for SHUT UP AND READ! Jeannine A. Cook Article .image:hover { transform: translateY(-5px); box-shadow: 0 12px 24px rgba(255, 126, 3, 0.4); } Host a Listening Pa...
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781524768287 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover th...
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The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Red Light Special
Red Light Special Thumper Book Review Yeah, yeah, surprised that I am reviewing, no less read, Red Light Special by Risqu’. Well, I am too. don't let the surprise be about the sub...
Never Been a Time
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...
Who Does She Think She Is
Who Does She Think She Is Thumper Book Review Demons and condemned souls must be having snowball fights in Hell because I not only read another Benilde Little book; I actually liked it. I know, I kn...
Learning to Read Our Way
Learning to Read Our Way Learning to Read Our Way Learning to Read Our Way
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Read & Co. History
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Learning to Read Our Way
Learning to Read Our Way Learning to Read Our Way Learning to Read Our Way
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Poet's Read for Amadou Diallo
Poet's Read for Amadou Diallo Poet's Read for Amadou Diallo THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. A REPORT OF THIS EVENT IS ALSO INCLUDED HERE ...
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library Glory Edim 9781631497698 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Libr...
Mass Incarceration, Black Men, and the Fight for Justice
Mass Incarceration, Black Men, and the Fight for Justice Cicely Lewis 9781728431376 Nonfiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely ...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Glory Edim 9780525619772 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, cur...
The 20 Most Well-Read Cities for African-Americans
The 20 Most Well-Read Cities for African-Americans Troy Johnson Article Where in the U.S. can you find the most well-read African Americans? Look no further. We reviewed our website's traffic and...
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition Troy Johnson Article Over the years we've published hundreds of interviews with celebrities. Each one is usually asked, what is now know as the...
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home Troy Johnson Article Today, at 5PM EST, I'll be participating in a live interview with Paul Billings host of the "The Beat" on WUVS-LP 103.7F...
Cicely Lewis
Cicely Lewis NONE Cicely Lewis, a Georgia-based school librarian, is passionate about fostering reading habits. She initiated the Read Woke challenge in 2017, addressing social issues and literature ...
The Middle Sister
The Middle Sister Thumper Book Review I’m still finding my footing. Being away from reading books for three years, obtaining another degree, has dulled my reading senses. Now that the...
The Secrets of Newberry
The Secrets of Newberry Thumper Book Review J. D. Mason is a gift that keeps on giving, in a good way. Mason is one of my favorite authors, so much so that I will read anything that has her name ...
After Hours
After Hours Thumper Book Review Honestly (as if there’s any other way I can come), I wasn’t going to read After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by Black Men, the latest anthology ...
Every Woman’s Man
Every Woman’s Man Thumper Book Review Yeah, it’s unusual for me to read a book with a title like, Every Woman’s Man, a novel by Rique Johnson. I don't normally go for the sister girl...
Sleep Don’t Come Easy
Sleep Don’t Come Easy Thumper Book Review I came across Sleep don't Come Easy by J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin some time ago. I threw it in my ’to read’ pile when I spotte...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed Denolyn Carroll Article ADD TO CART Publication Date: Feb 18, 2021List Price: $17.95 Format: Paperback, 2...
Africa World Press
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Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press
Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Africa Research and Publications Africa World Press Nia Communications The Red Sea Press Kassahun Checole, PublisherAfr...
By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words
By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins 9781637633007 Nonfiction Forefront Books Forefront Books The...
Fifth Born
Fifth Born Thumper Book Review My copy of Fifth Born, the debut novel by Zelda Lockhart, came by way of this year’s Book Expo America convention (BEA). I met Ms. Lockhart and her son at The B...
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop Jeannine A. Cook 9780063428232 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she le...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
The Red Sea Press
The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Kassahun Checole, PublisherAfrica World Press & Red Sea Press Africa World Press and The Red Sea...
Nia Communications
Nia Communications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Kassahun Checole, PublisherAfrica World Press & Red Sea Press Africa World Press and The Red Se...
Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick
Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick Oyinkan Braithwaite 9780385551496 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick • A young woman must shake off a family curs...
I Like Hoops
I Like Hoops Juwanda G. Ford 9780823459582 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House The game is tied. Can we win? This book is perfect for kindergarteners and first graders to read on their own. A close...
Baltimore Read Aloud Mobile and Pop-Up Bookstore
Baltimore Read Aloud Mobile and Pop-Up Bookstore Book Spotlights Nicole A. Johnson founded Baltimore Read Aloud Mobile and Pop-Up Bookstore: Learn More at: https://aalbc.com/bookstore/Baltimore+Read+A...
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063083660 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins Ty makes his I Can Read Comic debut! Featuring a bold comic styling by New York Times bestselling illustrato...
Focus on Civil Rights Sit-Ins
Focus on Civil Rights Sit-Ins Cicely Lewis 9781728462851 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group The civil rights movement started in the mid-1950s. Fueled heavily by young adults, the movemen...
Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic
Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic Kelly Starling Lyons 9780062951175 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A joyful Geisel Honor-winning series! Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic, a...
Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion
Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion Cicely Lewis 9781728448190 Nonfiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group In addition to slave uprisings and escapes on the Underground Rai...
The Prophets
The Prophets Robert Jones, Jr. 9780593085684 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House #1 Indie Next Pick The New York Times Book Review’s Books to Watch for in January The Washington Post...
Sophie Washington Mismatch
Sophie Washington Mismatch Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776370 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK!!What’s up with Mackenzie?Sophie Washington is trying out f...
Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter Nadia L. Hohn 9780062432858 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Learn about the inspiring life of Harriet Tubman in this early reader biography. This I Can Read book...
Read This to Discover Great Authors, Books, Events & More
Read This to Discover Great Authors, Books, Events & More Troy Johnson Article ★ Read Our eNewsletter Archives ★ Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle Sponsor...
Enrich Your Life; Read a Good Book – August 2014 eNewsletter
Enrich Your Life; Read a Good Book – August 2014 eNewsletter Troy Johnson Article You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook ...
3 Must Read Books for Social Media Advocates, Addicts & Sharecroppers
3 Must Read Books for Social Media Advocates, Addicts & Sharecroppers Troy Johnson Article These are three books I recommend we should all read. The strength of the Internet and promise it held ...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle AALBC.com's 25 Best Se...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our...
Black People Don’t Read: The Definitive Guide To Dismantling Stereotypes And Negative Statistical Claims About Black Americans
Black People Don’t Read: The Definitive Guide To Dismantling Stereotypes And Negative Statistical Claims About Black Americans Janks Morton and Ivory A. Toldson 9781478188995 Nonfiction CreateSpace On...
Scratching For Daylight
Scratching For Daylight Wilbert Gibson 9781449099763 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions This is a compilation of short stories from the pen of an old man. He writes about Western Africa, during the ...
By the Time You Read This
By the Time You Read This Lola Jaye 9780061733833 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Already a national bestseller in the U.K., Lola Jaye’s By the Time You Read This is a profoundly beauti...
Turn the Page and You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth
Turn the Page and You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth Kam Williams Book Review “Why read? Reading isn’t just for sissies, or nerds or geeks. Research...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past Thumper Book Review The Future Has A Past is the latest short story collection by author J. California Cooper. In case you don’t know, I adore J. California Cooper! I&rs...
Johnathan Isom
Johnathan Isom NONE Johnathan Isom, a Memphis-based anesthesiologist, turned novelist, was driven to write a book he'd enjoy. Tired of deceit-focused contemporary fiction, he sought to create a diffe...
Race
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 ...
Come Joy!
Come Joy! Idrissa Uqdah Book Review From reading only the first four poems in this collection; I knew I was on to something wonderful. Come Joy, Songs From The Soft of Night by Bridgette Alyce Grea...
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...
Lookin’ For Luv
Lookin’ For Luv Thumper Book Review I gotta be honest with y’all, I wasn’t expecting too much from this book when I picked it up. I wanted to read it because the author Carl Weber somet...
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice 9781538764688 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group A deeply researched intern...
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir Shayla Lawson 9780593472583 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House “Phenomenal… A memoir that opens into the world, with bril...
The World Is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings
The World Is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings Linsey Davis and Joseph Bottum 9780310762034 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Inspire children to be thankful for all of Go...
Solving the World’s Problems
Solving the World’s Problems Robert Lee Brewer 9781935708902 Poetry Press 53 Press 53 The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer’s Solving the World’s Problems is a slippery world … where chaos always hovers ne...
The Known World
The Known World Thumper Book Review As is becoming an unbreakable and pleasurable yearly excursion, I attended the 2003 Book Expo America (BEA) in Los Angeles. I love the BEA. The convention is all...
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney Bill Pinkney 9781513693361 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published A new children’s book written by Captain Bill Pinkne...
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame Lynell George 9781626400535 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a bluepr...
Imani and the Great Hair Experiment
Imani and the Great Hair Experiment Cicely Lewis 9798765624210 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am a creative girl! It’s Science Fair time! Imani wants to w...
Imani Finds the Right Notes
Imani Finds the Right Notes Cicely Lewis 9798765624227 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am a confident girl! It’s almost time for the big music recital! Ima...
Imani Makes a Difference
Imani Makes a Difference Cicely Lewis 9798765624234 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am a compassionate girl! When Imani gets to know her new classmate, s...
Imani Picks Up the Pieces
Imani Picks Up the Pieces Cicely Lewis 9798765624241 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am a resilient girl! It’s bad enough that Imani had a slow start to ...
Imani the Superhero
Imani the Superhero Cicely Lewis 9798765624258 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am a brave girl! Imani and her friends want to dress as superheroes for thei...
Imani’s Recipe for Teamwork
Imani’s Recipe for Teamwork Cicely Lewis 9798765624265 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am an empowered girl! Imani’s step team wants to enter the Glow Ta...
The Real History of the Gold Rush
The Real History of the Gold Rush Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi 9781728479118 Nonfiction Lerner Publishing Group Lerner Publishing Group The Gold Rush was one of the largest mass migration events in US histo...
Lakewood
Lakewood Megan Giddings 9780062913203 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins NPR Book of the Year 2020 NPR Book of the Year 2020 Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Col...
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy Coretta Scott King 9781250159939 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers The True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First TimeNamed a Washington Post ...
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Toni Morrison Lecture Series "Create dangerously...
Osama Bin Laden: America’s Enemy in His Own Words
Osama Bin Laden: America’s Enemy in His Own Words Randall B. Hamud 9780977093502 Nonfiction Nadeem Pub. Nadeem Pub. Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are the most serious threats to the United States in th...
Kenji Jasper
Kenji Jasper 0000000002779450 “My name is Kenji Nathaniel Jasper and I am author. But I know that in this day and age ‘authors’ come a dime a dozen. It is no longer an event when one of ou...
Bettye Chitman Haysbert
Bettye Chitman Haysbert NONE Dr. Bettye Chitman Haysbert, a veteran in school reform, has championed the cause of improving education for African American students. A former SF Unified School Distric...
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes James Baldwin 9780807026472 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In these troubling times when readers are seeking hope and pu...
Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World
Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul 9781499806656 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Kids around the world get to ...
Celebritize Yourself - 1St The Three Step Method To Increase Your Visibility And Explode Your Business
Celebritize Yourself - 1St The Three Step Method To Increase Your Visibility And Explode Your Business Marsha Friedman 9781463661472 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Acclaim for Marsha Fri...
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker Thumper Book Review The World Has Changed: Conversation with Alice Walker edited by Rudolph Byrd is a type of book that I had not seen befor...
Read Woke Books
Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Lerner Publishing Group “I created Read Woke Books because I want our students to be knowledgeable and compassionate citizens. They will be the leaders o...
E Is for Easter Egg Hunt
E Is for Easter Egg Hunt Brittany J. Thurman 9780374394547 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Based on the award-winning Pinna original podcast, this seco...
Orange Wall: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #3)
Orange Wall: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #3) Valerie Bolling 9781338806007 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Zoya and her puppy Coco are excited for a glittery bedroom makeover in this full...
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...
The Gold Bowl: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #2)
The Gold Bowl: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #2) Valerie Bolling 9781338805970 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Zoya makes Coco a golden birthday present in this full-color book perfect for ...
Hell of a Book: A Novel
Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott 9780593330982 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chau...
I Am Brave!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #5)
I Am Brave!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly #5) Kelly Greenawalt 9781338676891 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Princess Truly is not afraid of anything, in these rhyming stories perfect for earl...
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780393651904 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Farah Jasmine Griffin has...
Read Two Chapters of Keith Kareem Williams Work and You Will be Hooked!
Read Two Chapters of Keith Kareem Williams Work and You Will be Hooked! Author Interviews Read two chapters of Death in the City by Keith Kareem Williams here: https://aalbc.com/books/excerpt.php?isbn...
Poet Alrick Elliott Read Happy Birthday Poem to his Wife
Poet Alrick Elliott Read Happy Birthday Poem to his Wife Poetry & Spoken Word During the Rainbow Bookclub VI meeting, poet Alrick Elliott read a beautiful Happy Birthday poem to his loving wife of 31+...
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The Confessions of Frannie Langton Sara Collins 9780062851895 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “This book was an interesting read. It has it all – romance, mystery, slavery, experimentation, feminism, and...
Sophie Washington Secret Santa
Sophie Washington Secret Santa Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776356 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A FUN READ ALL YEAR ROUNDAn Amazon Bestselling Book!! Santa Claus is Coming to Tow...