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Chasing the 400
Chasing the 400 Sheilah Vance 9781413491746 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Dear Reader: Please enjoy this brief summary of Chasing the 400 and a sneak peek look at the first chapter. Brief Summary...
Chasing The 400
Chasing The 400 Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The African American Caste System When you think about the caste system you think of the poor in countries like India where there is a division of society ...
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance MULTIPLE "Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Smith's expertise lies in psychological thrillers while...
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips MULTIPLE "Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds...
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard MULTIPLE Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are renowned actors with numerous accolades. Both have had significant roles in TV and film, contr...
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance 9781538725139 Nonfiction Balance Hachette Book Group A moving combination of memoir...
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance 0000000078404428 Courtney B. Vance is a Harvard-educated, Yale School of Drama trained actor. Known for his powerful performances, he's a Tony and Emmy-award winner and starred in T...
The Long Game
The Long Game J. L. Campbell 9781975601256 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC He’s all she’s ever wanted … she’s all he’ll ever need Aside from a brief stint of madness during their teen yea...
Friends: A Love Story
Friends: A Love Story Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard 9780373830589 Nonfiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Courtney B. Vance met Angela Bassett…. They ran for years as friends in...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
400 Years of Witnessing
400 Years of Witnessing Molefi Kete Asante 9780982532782 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration and dismay ...
Chasing Dragonflies
Chasing Dragonflies Blessing Musariri 9780008671822 Fiction Kumusha Books HarperCollins Children’s Books Chasing Dragonflies is a hugely imaginative picture book about a baby girl taking her first ste...
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts Nikki Grimes 9780439793384 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books Nikki Grimes offers a glimpse int...
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid Nikki Giovanni 9780688156978 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins With Chasing Utopia, Nikki Giovanni, one of America’s most celebrated artists, demands that the prosaic—flower...
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory Dante D. King 9781794862500 Nonfiction lulu.com lulu.com The 4...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
One Last Deadly Play
One Last Deadly Play Flo Anthony 9781936649051 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Almost two years had passed since the discovery of retired baseball player Royale Jones’ r...
Deadly Stuff Players
Deadly Stuff Players Flo Anthony 9781593095079 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Hollywood’s hottest nightclubs to the boardrooms behind the scenes, the trendiest restaurants to the be...
Joyful Noise
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...
Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington 0000000032231461 Award-winning poet and children's author Janice N. Harrington's notable works include NSTA Best STEM Book 'Buzzing with Questions' and Kirkus Reviews Best Book '...
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly 9781635576597 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing Patsy Rembert at Tuskegee Patsy G...
Chasing a Second Chance: A Spicy Second Chances Romance
Chasing a Second Chance: A Spicy Second Chances Romance Brenda Jackson 9781335180445 Fiction Harlequin Special Edition Harlequin Enterprises Limited A daredevil lawyer meets a gorgeous single mom with...
Chasing Destiny
Chasing Destiny Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525949503 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Eight-time New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s new novel is filled with intrigue, speed, ...
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances Leland Melvin 9780062496720 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NF...
Chasing Flames
Chasing Flames Siera London B01MFXKLMK Fiction Kindle Worlds On-Demand Publishing LLC Waitress, Symphony Porter’s obsession with fire has made her a target for distrust and rejection. She’s broke and ...
Chasing Ava: A Bachelor of Shell Cove Novel
Chasing Ava: A Bachelor of Shell Cove Novel Siera London 9780986424311 Fiction Katrina Pringle Katrina Pringle Enter the world of Shell Cove Medical Center A world of sacrifice, seduction, and sabotag...
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County Janice N. Harrington 9780374312510 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her gran...
Chasing Me to My Grave
Chasing Me to My Grave Robert Fleming Book Review This enthralling memoir is one of the most heralded books about the life, imagination, and cultural influences of an African American man who goes to...
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing Michele E. Lee 9780692857878 Nonfiction Wadastick Wadastick African American traditional medicine is an American classic that ...
Reginald F. Lewis
Reginald F. Lewis 0000000082053675 Reginald F. Lewis (1942-1993) was an influential American businessman, known as the richest African-American in the 1980s with an estimated net worth of $400 millio...
John S. Mbiti
John S. Mbiti 0000000110268607 “The Father of Contemporary African Theology... Canon John Samuel Mbiti, a Kenyan-born Anglican priest, is a renowned theologian, educator, and author. Formerly a...
Iceberg Slim
Iceberg Slim 0000000107778710 Iceberg Slim, originally Robert Maupin, was a notorious pimp turned acclaimed author. Known for his icy demeanor and ruthless tactics, he controlled over 400 women durin...
When God Made Light
When God Made Light Matthew Paul Turner 9781601429209 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House From the author and illustrator of the best-selling When God Made You comes a new illuminating messa...
Chaser: A Novel
Chaser: A Novel Miasha 9781416589860 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the bestselling author of Never Enough, a novel about two young lovers who will stop at nothing to succeed. Chaser i...
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm DeMar DeRozan and Dave Zarum 9780593581261 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbre...
Chasing Hearts
Chasing Hearts Yahrah St. John 9781648392467 Fiction Oliver-Heber Books Oliver-Heber Books Renowned petroleum geologist Bree Hart’s blood, sweat, and tears have put her sexist father Duke Hart’s Dalla...
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin James L. Swanson 9780545723336 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. "Jame...
Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition
Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition Leland Melvin 9780062665928 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Meet Leland Melvin—football star, NASA astronaut, and professional dream chaser.In this inspiring memo...
Criminal Minded
Criminal Minded Tracy Brown 9780312336462 Fiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers Lamin Michaels learned at his mother’s knee the importance of chasing paper, so it’s no surprise he gets i...
Chasing Ava
Chasing Ava Siera London Excerpt Ava had been distracted for days, Logan noticed. When he’d questioned her, she denied that there was a problem. But she seemed more fragile and solitary. Even w...
The Conjuring of America (paperback): Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Conjuring of America (paperback): Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart 9781538769515 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Kirkus Reviews Best Book o...
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart 9781538769508 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group BookRiot’s Best New Nonfiction ...
Afro-Atlantic Histories
Afro-Atlantic Histories Adriano Pedrosa and Tomas Toledo 9781636810027 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic t...
SECRETS World Premieres, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. on BET
SECRETS World Premieres, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. on BET Troy Johnson Article One Man’s Lustful Affair, A Brother's Jealousy and A Wife’s Suspicions Collide and Unravel a Once Perfect Home in Debu...
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village John Strausbaugh 9780062078193 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Cultural commentator John Strausba...
Opal's Jim Crow Blues - Research & Share Your Family History (Part 2)
Opal's Jim Crow Blues - Research & Share Your Family History (Part 2) Troy Johnson Article Today's blog post is by guest Cheryl Wills. Cheryl, a television news anchor and reporter, has extensively ...
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Boston Weatherford 9780399237263 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine o...
Sydney McLaughlin
Sydney McLaughlin NONE Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (born August 7, 1999) is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and world record–holding American sprinter and hurdler. In 2016, she made history at ...
Hilary Beard
Hilary Beard NONE Hilary Beard has been a book collaboration specialist helping leaders, visionaries, creatives, and gamechangers amplify their voice to empower humanity for more than 20 years. The ...
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Bakari Sellers 9780062917461 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins New York Times BestsellerWhat J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of ...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781461186373 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LL...
Will Smith - "The Pursuit of Happyness" Interview
Will Smith - "The Pursuit of Happyness" Interview Kam Williams Interview Fresh Prince Opines on His #1 Film Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness Interview with Kam Williams Wil...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160903 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160897 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Chancellor Williams
Chancellor Williams NONE Dr. Chancellor James Williams (1898-1992) was a pivotal scholar in the study of Nile Valley Civilization. Born to former slaves, he became an acclaimed author, university pro...
Always One More Time
Always One More Time Nicola Yoon 9781524719005 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House What if one wrong number dialed you into the right person’s heart? From the bestselling author of Everything...
The Narrows
The Narrows Ann Petry 9780063259997 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1953. From author of the bestselling novel The Street, a “masterpiece of social...
One-Shot Harry
One-Shot Harry Gary Phillips 9781641292917 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime CrimeReads 10 Novels to Read this Month CrimeReads Most Anticipated Books of 2022 She Reads Most Anticipated Mystery Nove...
Adrienne Thompson
Adrienne Thompson NONE Adrienne Thompson, a mother and divorcee by 24, overcame adversity to complete her college degree and earn her nursing license. Now a successful author, she draws from her life...
Tina Wells
Tina Wells 0000000121968959 Tina Wells, founder of RLVNT Media, is a celebrated entrepreneur and author. Recognized in Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People, Essence's 40 Under 40, she has authored...
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History Schele Williams 9781419748752 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams “A lovingly written, beautifully illustrated and stunningly timely...
Hannibal B. Johnson
Hannibal B. Johnson NONE Harvard Law graduate Hannibal B. Johnson is an esteemed author, attorney, and consultant specializing in diversity and human relations. He's taught at prestigious universitie...
Dante D. King
Dante D. King NONE Dante King is a San Francisco native, historian, and award-winning author of Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis, and Trauma in ...
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work Kalamu ya Salaam Article These Are The Lyrics, Our People Are The Music WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE SPIRIT OF BLACKNESS, the spirit of doing for self...
Who Was Frank Yerby?
Who Was Frank Yerby? Eugene Stovall Article Frank Garvin Yerby (September 5, 1916 — November 29, 1991) Frank Yerby was an African American writer who gave the world a body of ...
Publishers Indemnity Insurance: What is it, and how do you get it?
Publishers Indemnity Insurance: What is it, and how do you get it? Troy Johnson Article "One of the key components necessary for self-published authors to get their book into Bla...
My Train Leaves at Three
My Train Leaves at Three Natalie Guerrero 9780593977354 Fiction One World Penguin Random House By a striking new voice in fiction, this electric coming-of-age novel follows an ambitious young Afro-Lat...
Runner
Runner Ashton Lattimore 9780593975459 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Buckle up, readers! Ashton Lattimore’s gripping Prohibition-era novel follows two women rumrunners who risk everythi...
To Catch a Sinner
To Catch a Sinner Dylan Allen 9798903270255 Fiction Blue Box Press Blue Box Press From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dylan Allen writing as Lucy Wilson-Tagoe comes the first story in her new ...
Like a Summer Love Song
Like a Summer Love Song Naima Simone 9781335448033 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited Passion, heat and deep emotion—Naima Simone is a gem!” —Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling aut...
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...
Hattie Mae Begins Again
Hattie Mae Begins Again Sharon G. Flake 9780593650349 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I’m In co...
Come Catch a Dream
Come Catch a Dream Brittany J. Thurman 9780063140806 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Nothing is impossible—not even being brave enough to ice skate again after a fall! With a poetic text and d...
Resonant Solace
Resonant Solace Tiye 9781967565061 Fiction Honey Blossom Press Honey Blossom Press From the author of Rifts and Refrains comes a soulful and deeply romantic story about love after loss and finding you...
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love Jessica Lewis 9781335012388 Fiction HarperCollins US HarperCollins From the author of Dream On, Ramona Riley comes a heartwarming sapphic rom-com about friends...
And Don’t Look Back
And Don’t Look Back Rebecca Barrow 9781665932271 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. After her mother’s death, a teen pieces together the truth of her family’s past and what her...
Harlem After Midnight
Harlem After Midnight Louise Hare 9780593439289 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Must Read by Ebony • Boston Herald • Book Riot • Bookish • Minneapolis Star-Tribu...
The Elemental Detectives
The Elemental Detectives Patrice Lawrence 9780702315626 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. A stunningly imagined, action-packed fantasy adventure for fans of Nevermoor, Neverwhere, and Mortal Engi...
Me (Moth)
Me (Moth) Amber McBride 9781250780362 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family,...
I Wanna Be Where You Are
I Wanna Be Where You Are Kristina Forest 9781250250902 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers A debut young adult rom-com about an African American ballerina who finds love on the road to an auditio...
Careful What You Click for
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I Don’t Want to Die Poor
I Don’t Want to Die Poor Michael Arceneaux 9781982129309 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called "a piece of ...
This Beautiful Day
This Beautiful Day Richard Jackson 9781481441391 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, acclaimed author Richard Jackson and award...
White Lines II: Sunny
White Lines II: Sunny Tracy Brown 9780312555238 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In her most stunning, riveting, unstoppable novel yet, bestselling and critically acclaimed author Tra...
Sleeping with Strangers
Sleeping with Strangers Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525949992 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House From Thieves’ Paradise to Drive Me Crazy to Chasing Destiny (which reached #6 on the New York Times ...
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375757785 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature of the hea...
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel (Strivers Row)
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel (Strivers Row) Tracy Price-Thompson 9780375506505 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient na...
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780345447197 Poetry One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House From fabulous new author Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a sexy page-turner that follows t...
Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination
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Michele Wood
Michele Wood 0000000384420661 Michele Wood is a minister and award-winning author known for her vivid illustrations and use of Christian symbolism. Her accolades include the American Book Award, the ...
Nigeria Lockley
Nigeria Lockley NONE Nigeria Lockley is a New York-based author and teacher. Her debut novel, Born at Dawn, reflects her Christian faith and everyday issues. She holds two Master's degrees from the C...
m. mick powell
m. mick powell NONE m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poe...
Life Is a Game
Life Is a Game Kam Williams Book Review ’The choices we make determine our destiny and whether success or disaster is achieved. We either elevate to greatness or descend to obs...
Panorama: The Missing Chapter: From the Memoir Views from the Cockpit
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The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher Robert Fleming Book Review What the iconic African-American writer James Baldwin once told the young writers about the traditional stature of the prominent writers who put pen to pape...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2026 Edition: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education
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