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Setting a Up a Website for Less Than $28 a Year
Setting a Up a Website for Less Than $28 a Year Publishing & Craft
Lisa Irby
Lisa Irby NONE Lisa Irby, an Internet Info-preneur from St. Louis, teaches website creation and online marketing through her website, blog, and YouTube channel. She also manages Napturally Curly, a w...
7 Free Tools Guaranteed to Make Your Website Better!
7 Free Tools Guaranteed to Make Your Website Better! Troy Johnson Article Managing a large website can be a difficult, requiring a wide variety of skills. As the sole developer of AALBC.c...
2015 Year End Thank You!
2015 Year End Thank You! Troy Johnson Article Coming in the New Year The biggest news for the new year is our website upgrade. We are redesigning AALBC.com from scratch, and we have the benefit of 1...
The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less
The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less Christine Platt 9781982168056 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authe...
The Turn Your Passion Into Profit Websites That Sell Manual: A Design Guide & Checklist for Creating an Effortless Income Website
The Turn Your Passion Into Profit Websites That Sell Manual: A Design Guide & Checklist for Creating an Effortless Income Website Walt Goodridge 9781451545739 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishi...
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone Ralph Richard Banks 9780525952015 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House During the past half century, A...
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part I)
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part I) Troy Johnson Article If it is not already obvious from my previous post, I'm a big fan of WordPress. A few months ago, using software f...
Google‘s Adverse Impact on the World Wide Web
Google‘s Adverse Impact on the World Wide Web Troy Johnson Article (Note: On Sunday May 20, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment on the power of Google, validating much of what I’ve written below) Goo...
Bradley Fowler
Bradley Fowler NONE Bradley Fowler, owner of Construction Emarketing, specializes in online marketing services such as email marketing, website development, and cybersecurity. He also founded THEGREN...
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less!
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less! William S. Parrish Jr. 9780983906803 Nonfiction MBM Publishing, LLC MBM Publishing, LLC Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimi...
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937269562 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications ...
Bing Site Search is a Great Alternative, to Google Site Search, for a Website’s Search Engine
Bing Site Search is a Great Alternative, to Google Site Search, for a Website’s Search Engine Troy Johnson Article If you are reading this article, which has nothing to do with the primary focus of ...
Video: Update on The Premier Website for Black Books
Video: Update on The Premier Website for Black Books Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com is a massive, feature rich, website. Many visitors don't appreciate the site's size and scope, so I created this v...
Two Years Ago - Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion
Two Years Ago - Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion Troy Johnson Article Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passionby Tanangachi Mfuni, Amsterdam News Sta...
The PassionProfit Websites That Sell Manual: 197 proven ideas, strategies and design tips for creating an income-generating website for your passion-centered business (Volume 3)
The PassionProfit Websites That Sell Manual: 197 proven ideas, strategies and design tips for creating an income-generating website for your passion-centered business (Volume 3) Walt Goodridge 9781501...
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters Troy Johnson Article Here Ron Kavanaugh, founder of Mosaicbooks.com and I, founder of AALBC.com, speak with Darryl J. Jenkins (my cousin) ...
The Pacman Plan
The Pacman Plan Sam A Kempt 9780974445908 Nonfiction DeViv Publishing DeViv Publishing The Pacman Plan is the story of a struggle for reparations for African Americans. This is the first fiction work ...
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters Pamela Newkirk 9780385503792 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A Delightful paean to African American love, this treasury of fifty le...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Ashley Bryan 9781481456906 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Using original slave auction and plantati...
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know!
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know! K Kelly McElroy 9781681210223 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures Don’t get ripped off paying a, s...
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth Margaret Musgrove 9781627200608 Fiction Apprentice House Apprentice House The story in this book is widely known among the weavers in Ghana and dates back to...
Wrong on Race
Wrong on Race Kam Williams Book Review ’It must be acknowledged that in the progress of nations Negroes have shown less capacity for government than any other race of people. No independen...
Mid-Air
Mid-Air Alicia D. Williams 9781481465830 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up t...
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less Tiffany Dufu 9781250071736 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women’s lea...
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! Tara Betts Article More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it&rsq...
Troy Johnson on #WritersonWriting with Dr. Brenda M. Greene (#Center4BlackLit)
Troy Johnson on #WritersonWriting with Dr. Brenda M. Greene (#Center4BlackLit) Brenda M. Greene Interview Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Troy Johnson, the founder of the African American Literature Boo...
Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology Zane 9780743482387 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. As a bestselling author and successful publisher of Strebor Books, Zane’s name is synonymou...
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...
Quintard Taylor
Quintard Taylor 0000000114391610 AALBC Truly Mourns the Lost of Quintard Taylor Quintard Taylor, a Professor of American History, specializes in African American history with over three decades of exp...
Lynda Johnson
Lynda Johnson NONE Lynda Johnson, co-founder of Go On Girl! Book Club, supported authors from the African diaspora and helped fund scholarships. She also founded Kidstylesource.com, a leading website...
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802795502 Nonfiction Walker and Company Bloomsbury Publishing Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but segregation never s...
Substitute Me
Substitute Me Lori Tharps 9781439171103 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class, college educated woman, trained as a chef, looking for ...
Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multi-Million-Dollar Business
Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multi-Million-Dollar Business Randal Pinkett 9781419593710 Nonfiction Kaplan Publishing Kaplan Publishing Every year, hundreds of thousands ...
My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children Denene Millner 9781534476509 Nonfiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From noted parenting expert and New Y...
How to Setup a Domain Name and Website Quickly and Inexpensively
How to Setup a Domain Name and Website Quickly and Inexpensively Publishing & Craft
About AALBC.com The Premier Website for Black Books
About AALBC.com The Premier Website for Black Books Publishing & Craft
Authors Let AALBC.com Be Your Official Website
Authors Let AALBC.com Be Your Official Website Publishing & Craft
The Willie Lynch Letter is a Hoax!
The Willie Lynch Letter is a Hoax! Troy Johnson Article As a book seller, my primary goal is to connect readers with books that they will enjoy and learn from. Having a reader thank me for introduci...
The Results of a Decade on Social Media
The Results of a Decade on Social Media Troy Johnson Article One of the most profound changes I’ve witnessed on the web, in the past decade, is the rise of social media. Here I share my insight and ...
Add Book Festivals & Fairs to Your Website
Add Book Festivals & Fairs to Your Website Literary Events
Installing Wordpress on a Self Hosted Website
Installing Wordpress on a Self Hosted Website Publishing & Craft
Create a Website for Free
Create a Website for Free Publishing & Craft
Join the Fight for Independence on the Web
Join the Fight for Independence on the Web Troy Johnson Article This article is intended for writers and other content providers, who are active on social media and have a goal of generating reve...
The 100 Best Web Sites for African Americans
The 100 Best Web Sites for African Americans Troy Johnson Article On April 4, 2003, EarthLink announced a partnership with MOBE (Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment) to present The ...
Don't Bring Home a White Boy
Don't Bring Home a White Boy Troy Johnson Article A couple of days ago I posted a video (below) of Karen Hunter and Karyn Langhorne Folan, who are the publisher and author, respectively, of the b...
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part II)
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part II) Troy Johnson Article (Continued from Part I) The following Plugins are the ones I've kept so far: WP-FB-AutoConnect (Version 1.5...
Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion
Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion Troy Johnson Article Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passionby TANANGACHI MFUNIAmsterdam News StaffSeptember 28 - O...
Abdul Alkalimat
Abdul Alkalimat 0000000036006392 Abdul Alkalimat, a PhD holder from the University of Chicago, has notable experience serving on the executive committee of ALSC. More about his work can be found on h...
Kaven Brown
Kaven Brown NONE Kaven Brown, a multifaceted entrepreneur known for his work as an author, photographer, and producer, has been influential in the publishing and music video industry. Brown's work ra...
Diana Murray
Diana Murray NONE Diana Murray, award-winning poet and former art director at Theory, transitioned from graphic design to writing. Known for her impressive sock collection, she now resides in a subur...
Shane White
Shane White 0000000453091911 “…my main research interests are in African American history and in the history of New York City.” Shane White, a distinguished Professor of History at ...
Esther Iverem
Esther Iverem NONE Esther Iverem is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, curator, and social justice advocate. She's a radio host, founder of the Black website SeeingBlack.com, and author of four boo...
Joi-Marie McKenzie
Joi-Marie McKenzie NONE Joi-Marie McKenzie is an ABC News lifestyle writer, author of “The Engagement Game,” and creator of the award-winning website, The Fab Empire. Also a sought-after panelist, Mc...
Danielle Henderson
Danielle Henderson 0000000380386988 Danielle Henderson is a TV writer known for works like Maniac and Dare Me, and a former editor for Rookie. She co-hosts the film podcast I Saw What You Did, and au...
Nancy Churnin
Nancy Churnin NONE Nancy Churnin is a celebrated children's book author, known for inspiring kids to be heroes through her stories. She's a Eureka Silver Award winner and has been recognized with the...
Lerita Coleman Brown
Lerita Coleman Brown NONE Lerita Coleman Brown, Ph.D., is a retired Psychology Professor from Agnes Scott College, spiritual director, author, and speaker. She studied at UC Santa Cruz and Harvard Un...
Erika Council
Erika Council NONE Erika Council is a renowned baker, food writer, and owner of Bomb Biscuits. She contributes to various cookbooks and runs the Southern Soufflé website. Her work has appeared in nu...
Maegan Parker Brooks
Maegan Parker Brooks NONE Maegan Parker Brooks teaches in the Civic Communication and Media Department and the American Ethnic Studies Program at Willamette University in Salem, OR. Brooks also direc...
Create Great eBook Covers
Create Great eBook Covers Troy Johnson Article Creating Great eBook Covers with MyEbookCover.com Create Packages, 3D Book Covers and Compelling Banners Related Links
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com)
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com) Troy Johnson Article Video Distribution Service videobookpromo.com You've done the hard part; spending time and money creating your book tra...
The Days of Being Gouged by Cable TV Companies Are Over...
The Days of Being Gouged by Cable TV Companies Are Over... Troy Johnson Article ...well almost. Two services, reported by the Wall Street Journal this morning, look very promising FilmOn.com and ...
The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer to Self Publisher
The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer to Self Publisher Heather Covington 9781414022185 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer To Self Publisher is...
Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce
Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce Deesha Philyaw and Michael D. Thomas 9781608824632 Nonfiction New Harbinger New Harbinger Publications A successful co-paren...
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action Michelle Sumrall 9798988671220 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into...
Dreams Like Mine
Dreams Like Mine Latashia M. Perry 9780999857816 Fiction G Publishing G Publishing From the creators of The Kids Like Mine Book Series Dreams Like Mine coloring book is the perfect tool for building u...
The Lemonade Stand Cookbook: Step-By-Step Recipes and Crafts for Kids to Make…and Sell! (None)
The Lemonade Stand Cookbook: Step-By-Step Recipes and Crafts for Kids to Make…and Sell! (None) Kathy Strahs 9780996911214 Nonfiction Burnt Cheese Press Burnt Cheese Press Winner, Gold Medal in the You...
Small Voices Heard- The Parental Guide
Small Voices Heard- The Parental Guide Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper 9781539920670 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A guide to help improve communication and strategic implementat...
Look! A Moko Jumbie (Hardcase)
Look! A Moko Jumbie (Hardcase) Opal Palmer Adisa 9780997890013 Fiction CAS CAS Books Mystery and Magic When Bamidele spots two Moko Jumbies outside of his window one night he is determined to uncov...
Undeniable Breakthrough: Transform Your Life and Defeat Everything That’s Blocking Your Blessings
Undeniable Breakthrough: Transform Your Life and Defeat Everything That’s Blocking Your Blessings Rainie Howard 9781734015560 Nonfiction Howard Global Enterprise Howard Global Enterprise Ever felt stu...
Gone Fishin’
Gone Fishin’ Walter Mosley 9780743451758 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. It’s 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life—Easy has yet to develop his skill fo...
The Dying Ground: A Maceo Redfield Novel (Strivers Row)
The Dying Ground: A Maceo Redfield Novel (Strivers Row) Nichelle D. Tramble 9780375756535 Fiction Villard Villard Billy: dead. Felicia: missing.None of the words made sense together, but the doom I’d ...
Nancey Flowers
Nancey Flowers NONE Nancey Flowers, Brooklyn native and author, used her parents' homeland Jamaica as the setting for “A Fool’s Paradise.” Alumna of Morgan State University with a degree in mass comm...
Claire Hartfield
Claire Hartfield 0000000034014030 Claire Hartfield is a Yale and University of Chicago-educated lawyer specializing in school desegregation. She has contributed to policy and program development in C...
Mustafa Emirbayer
Mustafa Emirbayer 0000000115632279 Mustafa Emirbayer is a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for his research on race, social networks, and democracy. He co-authored “T...
Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman 0000000114886816 Oneta Malorie Blackman OBE, FRSL (born February 8, 1962) is a British writer who held the position of Children’s Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes li...
Payback Girls
Payback Girls Alex Travis 9781464217715 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks Why get over your cheating ex when you can get even? John Tucker Must Die meets One of Us Is Lying in a gripping, page-turn...
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3)
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3) Kianna Alexander 9781479381432 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Nov...
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella Kianna Alexander 9781475034875 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Preacher’s Paramour: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna A...
Kissing The Captain
Kissing The Captain Kianna Alexander 9781466208377 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Kissing the Captain: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna Alexander Historical Romance- Interra...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...
How to Survive America
How to Survive America D.L. Hughley 9780063072763 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Dispels the myth that people of color are somehow predisposed to poor health, blaming systemic injust...
Deadly Deception (Deception Series Book 2)
Deadly Deception (Deception Series Book 2) London St. Charles 9780999328897 Fiction LS Charles Publishing Group LS Charles Publishing Group Four years have passed, and Cadence Goldsmith’s family is in...
Skin Deep: The Story of Black Models in America and Abroad
Skin Deep: The Story of Black Models in America and Abroad Barbara Summers 9781567430318 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Black models are living proof that beauty is more than skin deep.Skin Deep bri...
Will
Will Robert Fleming Book Review There are millions of success stories in America. This is one of them. Film superstar Will Smith’s memoir, Will, is almost a fantasy comprised of Yankee success,...
Farther Than I Meant to Go, Longer Than I Meant to Stay
Farther Than I Meant to Go, Longer Than I Meant to Stay Tiffany L. Warren 9780446618069 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group As President of Grace Savings and Loans, Charmayne Ellis is...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution Peniel E. Joseph 9781541675896 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of ...
The Fastest Way to Fall
The Fastest Way to Fall Denise Williams 9780593101926 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Britta didn’t plan on falling for her personal training, and Wes didn’t plan on Britta. Plans change an...
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World Robert Fleming Book Review Unfortunately, there were efforts to demean the late Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family whe...
Think Black: A Memoir
Think Black: A Memoir Clyde W. Ford 9780062890573 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Finalist for a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winni...
Crystal
Crystal Walter Dean Myers 9780812479768 Fiction Perfection Learning Perfection Learning Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she’s blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamoro...
The Cineaste: Poems
The Cineaste: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393239157 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie. A. V...
Sabotage 2: How to Handle a Commit-A-Phobe (Its All Smoke and Mirrors) (Volume 2)
Sabotage 2: How to Handle a Commit-A-Phobe (Its All Smoke and Mirrors) (Volume 2) Johanna Sparrow 9781523829316 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Commitment phobes are not easy human bei...
Cheap Bitch
Cheap Bitch Crystal Lacey Winslow 9781620780756 Nonfiction Brooklyn Books Brooklyn Books Be Allergic to Broke CHEAP GIRLS CLUB: Tired of Being Broke? Join the Club. Ever wonder why it seems lik...
Stella by Starlight
Stella by Starlight Sharon M. Draper 9781442494978 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. When the Ku Klux Klan’s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella’s segregated southern t...
A Promised Land (Deluxe Signed Edition)
A Promised Land (Deluxe Signed Edition) Barack Obama Excerpt Preface I began writing this book shortly after the end of my presidency—after Michelle and I had boarded Air Force One for the l...
A Promised Land
A Promised Land Barack Obama Excerpt Preface I began writing this book shortly after the end of my presidency—after Michelle and I had boarded Air Force One for the last time and traveled we...
Kensington
Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback books...
Kensington - Teen
Kensington - Teen Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperba...
Erewhon Books
Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback b...