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White Gold

by Carol Taylor

White Gold Carol Taylor Book Review This sweeping historical novel follows aspiring railroad engineer, William Roberson, from his Jamaican homeland in 1897 at 16, to Panama, to help build the Pan...

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Jamerican Connection

by Akilah Monifa

Jamerican Connection Akilah Monifa Book Review First time novelist Sandra A. Ottey was born in Jamaica but lives in the United States as she has for most of her life. According to Ottey a "Jamer...

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My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories

by Carol Taylor

My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories Carol Taylor Book Review My Lovely Golden Rose is a poetry and poetic prose collection of Carrolyn Pichet’s pers...

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Sweet Sorrel Stand

by Pamela Shivdyal

Sweet Sorrel Stand Pamela Shivdyal Book Review Teaching kids about money from an early age can help them learn healthy financial habits that will last a lifetime. Yolanda T. Marshall, shares her Cari...

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The Black Rose

by Paige Turner

The Black Rose Paige Turner Book Review Journalist and novelist Tananarive Due is fast establishing herself as a professional writer who can master any genre she deigns to approach. With her previ...

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Fool Me Thrice

by Carol Taylor

Fool Me Thrice Carol Taylor Book Review “No doubt, I was born a sucker—a sucker for a hot girl with a smile, that is. I have to admit I was abused by every gold-digger I came across. For ...

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Raising the Bar

by Kam Williams

Raising the Bar Kam Williams Book Review “Gabrielle Douglas is the first African-American and first woman of color from any nation to win an Olympic gold medal in the individual gymnastics ...

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Sojourner’s Dream

by Idrissa Uqdah

Sojourner’s Dream Idrissa Uqdah Book Review An Inside Look At The Atrocities of War In Rwanda I approached the novel, Sojourner’s Dream by first time author Angeline Bandon-Bibum expecting a ...

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Married But Still Looking

by Kim Rose

Married But Still Looking Kim Rose Book Review This pensive musing from a rap legend neatly summarize the challenge faced by Genesis Styles, an almost 30-year-old, ex-NBA 12th man aspirant and semi-d...

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The Other Sister

by Shafika Burke

The Other Sister Shafika Burke Book Review Imagine living your life into adulthood and then learning that you aren’t who you think you are. You find out that your parents are really your grandp...

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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Kam Williams

Half of a Yellow Sun Kam Williams Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun.jpg Film Review Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga Half of a Yellow Sun In Theaters: May 16, 2014 Limited Rated...

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Joyful Noise

by Kam Williams

Joyful Noise Kam Williams joyfullnoisemoiveposter.jpg Film Review   Joyful Noise [2012] In Theaters: Jan 13, 2012 Wide Warner Bros. Pictures PG-13, 1 hr. 58 min. Comedy Directed By...

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Sassy

by Thumper

Sassy Thumper Book Review Gloria Mallette is one of my favorite authors. I became a major fan after I read one her earlier novel, Shades of Jade. Over the years she remained o...

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Wounded

by Carol Taylor

Wounded Carol Taylor Book Review As the headliner at a strip club, Samantha Miller is using her beautiful face and sexy body to get ahead, and hopefully make enough money to leave stripping behind ...

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The Olympian: An American Triumph

by Emanuel Carpenter

The Olympian: An American Triumph Emanuel Carpenter Book Review What must it have been like to be the first African-American Olympic gold medalist? Would the feat have instilled pride in a nation w...

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The Wig

by Linda Watkins

The Wig Linda Watkins Book Review There were many ways to evaluate, The Wig, by author Charles Wright, so many in fact, I had a difficult time deciding on how I could should begin this review. Perh...

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Babylon Sisters

by Jayne Cubbage

Babylon Sisters Jayne Cubbage Book Review This novel has many endearing qualities. From the graphic depiction of the characters to the social upliftment themes, which permeate throughout the text. ...

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Elizabeth’s Song

by Linda Watkins

Elizabeth’s Song Linda Watkins Book Review I am aware that surprises come in many forms, and in many ways. And I was glad when I discovered Elizabeth’s Song, by author, Michael Wenberg, and il...

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A Call To Conscience

by Thumper

A Call To Conscience Thumper Book Review A Call To Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is an excellent book that should serve as a wonderful introduction to the writing...

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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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The Root of All Evil

by Lawrence Brown

The Root of All Evil Lawrence Brown Book Review Just as many African-American readers have started to complain about the lack of depth in of Black Literature, complaining about the all-too-familiar p...

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Grace

by Kam Williams

Grace Kam Williams Book Review “Gymnastics is not my passion anymore. I want to get famous off of running track, or I want to try dancing, or become a singer. I can get a job at Chi...

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The Middle Sister

by Thumper

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...

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The Hate U Give

by Kam Williams

The Hate U Give Kam Williams images/the-hate-you-give-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Amandla Stenberg Stars in Adaptation of Searing, Inner City Saga Excellent ★★★★ (out...

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Bushwick Homecomings

by Kam Williams

Bushwick Homecomings Kam Williams bushwi45.jpg Film Review College Grad Returns to Roots to Reminisce and to Find ’Hood Undergoing Urban Renewal   Bushwick Homecomings Unrated ...

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El Cantante

by Kam Williams

El Cantante Kam Williams jennif9.jpg Film Review J-Lo Back in Bittersweet Bio-Pic about Seventies Salsa Singer   El Cantante Rated R for sexuality, drug use and pervasive profan...

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

by Kam Williams

The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War Kam Williams Book Review “This is the story of Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70), a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist,...

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The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

by Kam Williams

The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Kam Williams Book Review “How is it that a Jewish prophet from the Roman era ran so explosively into the American obsession...

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Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction

by Kam Williams

Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction Kam Williams Book Review “This is a book about recovery—my recovery—from addiction to drugs, specifically cocaine. But… my addic...

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Strongholds

by Idrissa Uqdah

Strongholds Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The second book in the Blessed Trinity trilogy by best selling Christian fiction author, Vanessa Davis Griggs is a story full of the challenges that c...

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A Family Tree

by Thumper

A Family Tree Thumper Book Review A Family Tree, Taking Root by Doc Robertson is an enjoyable, refreshing novel that should have read like a dream. While many of our authors insist on writing the p...

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America The Black Point of View

by Kam Williams

America The Black Point of View Kam Williams Book Review “I come from a place that is so invisible that you can hardly see me. Yet, I am despised, hated and feared more than anyone or anythin...

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Getting Our Breath Back

by Linda Watkins

Getting Our Breath Back Linda Watkins Book Review Getting Our Breath Back, the debut novel, by author Shawne Johnson, is not your ordinary read. Passionate words float with a hypnotic, poetic rhythm ...

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Just Too Good to Be True

by Thumper

Just Too Good to Be True Thumper Book Review I never thought the moon would rise or the sun would set on the day that I would be writing a review on any E. Lynn Harris book. I use to be a fan of ...

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African Rhytms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

by Robert Fleming

African Rhytms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston Robert Fleming Book Review True jazz buffs will welcome this well-detailed, informative memoir, African Rhythms, by one of the most innovative mus...

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Dive

by Thumper

Dive Thumper Book Review Dive serves as a heavy, textured and elaborately engraved calling card to an awesome, beautiful, new voice on the horizon. Dive is the debut novel by Lisa Teasley. Dive, ...

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Speaking of Summer

by Brenda M. Greene

Speaking of Summer Brenda M. Greene Book Review Mental illness in fiction provides a lens and a relatively safe space by which readers can examine its complexity and impact on the lives of the indivi...

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Seven Sisters And A Brother

by Denolyn Carroll

Seven Sisters And A Brother Denolyn Carroll Book Review History has recorded many instances of struggles for varied rights by a people haunted by the legacies of slavery. Yet, too often some such o...

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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation

by Robert Fleming

The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation Robert Fleming Book Review South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn’s The First Eight: A Personal Histo...

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Kam Williams

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Kam Williams Book Review ”Precisely how the system of mass incarceration works to trap African-Americans in a virtual (and ...

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Living Water

by Paige Turner

Living Water Paige Turner Book Review The Woman at the Well is a well-known bible story that almost begs for deeper examination.  Her conversation with Jesus, and His promise of "living wa...

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Camilla&squo;s Roses

by Thumper

Camilla&squo;s Roses Thumper Book Review Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! *smile* No, my sugar level is not low. I am of sound mind. I know that I ...

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The Other Woman

by Thumper

The Other Woman Thumper Book Review If you have been following my reviews and/or discussion board over the years, you probably know I’m a huge fan of Eric Jerome Dickey. I’ve read and lo...

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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist

by Lynne d. Johnson

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist Lynne d. Johnson Book Review Hip-hop has intrinsically woven itself into the fabric of Americana. The culture, music, icons, and p...

Film Review

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)

by Kam Williams

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) Kam Williams the-butler.jpg Film Review Forest Whitaker Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance in Emotionally-Searing Civil Rights Saga Lee Daniels’ The Butler...

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