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The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance and Nourisher of Souls
The Black Madonna: Icon of Resistance and Nourisher of Souls Christena Cleveland 9798318601866 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House The Black Madonna is an uncommon, dark-skinned version of the V...
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
Albert B. Cleage, Jr. MULTIPLE Albert B. Cleage Jr., also known as Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman, was a Black nationalist Christian minister, author, and political organizer. He founded the Shrine of the Bl...
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta) Atlanta GA The Shrine Cultural Center & Bookstore is a separate component of the church located next door to our sanctuary building. The Shrine of the Black Madon...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson 9780374604981 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers One of Literary Hub’s most anticipat...
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Detroit)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Detroit) Detroit MI As of September 2021, the Bookstore is temporarily closed, but will reopen.
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Drusilla Dunjee Houston NONE Drusilla Dunjee Houston (January 20, 1876 – February 8, 1941) was born in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. Her parents were Rev. John William Dunjee and Lyd...
The Houston Negro Hospital: The Untold Legacy of Riverside General
The Houston Negro Hospital: The Untold Legacy of Riverside General Carlton Houston 9781467171625 Nonfiction The History Press The History Press “This Great Hospital Fight” – Dr. Drake At the height...
Incidents At The Shrine
Incidents At The Shrine Ben Okri 9780099983002 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Fam...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Tony Lindsay Book Review An effective novelist can change reality with their fiction. Many writers see and experience things that are unjust, and they react. They writ...
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Rawn James Jr. 9781596916067 Fiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing The riveting story of the...
Carlton Houston
Carlton Houston NONE Carlton Houston is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and storyteller whose work is distinguished by its clarity, restraint, and cinematic precision. A former television reporter ...
The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel
The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Zakes Mda 9780312423827 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers "A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice…[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us throu...
Akie F. Davis
Akie F. Davis NONE Akie F. Davis is a Houston-based writer and producer with a passion for film and a background in psychology and business. He co-owns Creole Creations and works for the Houston Acce...
Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Peggy Brooks-Bertram NONE Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram is a scholar and author based in Buffalo, New York. Known for her research on Drusilla Dunjee Houston, she received recognition for publishing Houst...
Drusilla Dunjee Houston and Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Drusilla Dunjee Houston and Peggy Brooks-Bertram MULTIPLE Drusilla Dunjee Houston and Peggy Brooks-Bertram are influential figures in the field of African American history, literature, and women's st...
The 1st National Black Book Festival Houston Texas
The 1st National Black Book Festival Houston Texas Literary Events The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored jointly by Cushcity.com, the world's largest African-American r...
Skyler Houston
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Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped Cissy Houston 9780062238399 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life,...
Skyler Houston
Skyler Houston NONE Skyler “Skye” Houston is a Mississippi-born, Georgia-raised author with a Master's in Organizational Leadership. Her love for children and writing inspired her to pen “I Want to b...
Didi Anofienem
Didi Anofienem NONE Didi Anofienem, a Houston-born novelist and educator based in Los Angeles, holds degrees from Columbia University, University of San Francisco, UT-Austin, and University of Housto...
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies Kam Williams Book Review “In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a best-selling author with an...
The Largest Black-Owned Bookstore Chain in the Country
The Largest Black-Owned Bookstore Chain in the Country Book Spotlights Naillah Nelson, the National Director of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore. Describes the bookstore st...
Velma Maia Thomas
Velma Maia Thomas NONE Velma Maia Thomas is an award-winning author known for her nonfiction books on African American history. She is also the creator of the Black Holocaust Exhibit. With degrees fr...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9781617755750 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise Song for the Butterflies addresses “Trokosi,” the practice of sending girls to shrines as s...
Jabari Osaze, Author, Historian, and Lecturer
Jabari Osaze, Author, Historian, and Lecturer MULTIPLE Jabari Osaze is an expert in Ancient African history, with over 25 years of focus on Ancient Kemetic spirituality. He conducts annual study tour...
Jabari Osaze
Jabari Osaze NONE Jabari Osaze, an expert in Ancient African history and spirituality, particularly Ancient Egypt, has led study tours to Egypt since 2002 and monthly tours to renowned museums. He se...
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1 Drusilla Dunjee Houston 9780933121010 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press “Originally published in 1926, Houston’s masterwork ...
Joye M. Carter
Joye M. Carter NONE Dr. Joye Carter, M.D., first female and African American Chief Medical Examiner in the U.S, served in Washington, DC and Houston, Texas. Now a forensic pathology consultant and au...
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire Kam Williams Book Review ’Arguably, Drusilla Dunjee Houston was one of the most important African-American women writers of the 20th Centu...
They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park
They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park Tonya Duncan Ellis 9780063286054 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A moving picture book about the history of Em...
Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston Gerrick Kennedy 9781419749698 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR… SO FAR by The New Yorker Named a B...
I Want to be Like
I Want to be Like Skyler Houston 9780578555744 Fiction Skyler Houston Skyler Houston I Want to be Like is a story of a sweet girl, Jordan, who is excited about a big day at school. Jordan’s teacher, M...
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing Christine List 9780883783351 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a p...
Whitney: Tribute to an Icon
Whitney: Tribute to an Icon Pat Houston 9781476711249 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law and close friend, was also her longtime manager. She lives in A...
Houston Book Warehouse
Houston Book Warehouse Houston TX Houston’s hub for used books.
Chinedu Achebe
Chinedu Achebe NONE Chinedu W. Achebe, a Nigerian American author, published his first book in 2012 and its sequel in 2017. He's contributed to the Huffington Post, Medium, and Bella Naija. A Univers...
Karen Walrond
Karen Walrond NONE Karen Walrond is a lawyer, leadership coach, activist, and senior director for Brené Brown Education and Research Group. She's a Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator, photographe...
Kionna Walker LeMalle
Kionna Walker LeMalle NONE Kionna Walker LeMalle is a novelist, poet, speaker, and sought-after writing teacher who has taught writers at every level, from elementary school through graduate studies...
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Houston Baker Jr. 9780231139656 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Houston A. Baker Jr. ...
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas Michael Hurd 9781477310342 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press At a time when "Friday night lights" s...
Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series)
Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series) Attica Locke 9780062259400 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Po...
Evangeline M. Mitchell
Evangeline M. Mitchell 0000000052415145 Evangeline M. Mitchell, a New Orleans native and Houston-raised lawyer, studied at prestigious institutions like Harvard and the University of Iowa. She priori...
Brene Brown
Brene Brown 0000000034192910 Brene Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston and visiting professor at UT Austin, studies courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She's authored six...
Carl Weber’s Kingpins Houston
Carl Weber’s Kingpins Houston Treasure Hernandez 9781945855610 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Life is perfect for Donna and Kim Boon when they move in with their Aunt, until her murde...
Tonya Duncan Ellis
Tonya Duncan Ellis NONE Tonya Duncan Ellis, acclaimed author of the Sophie Washington children's book series, combines her love for writing and travel in her books. Her award-winning series, aimed at...
Rheeda Walker
Rheeda Walker NONE Rheeda Walker, PhD, is a tenured psychology professor at the University of Houston and a renowned behavioral science researcher. She's a published author with 50+ papers on African...
Liara Tamani
Liara Tamani NONE Liara Tamani attended Harvard Law School and worked as a marketing coordinator for the Houston Rockets. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from D...
Black Food
Black Food Robert Fleming Book Review Black food, aka Soul food, is celebrated all over the world for its delicious ingredients, tangy flavors, homegrown recipes, and traditional richness. This book,...
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love
Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate: The Color of Love Edwina Louise Dorch 9781663234056 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions This fast-paced contemporary, novel, set in Los Angeles, can be read on a b...
Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity
Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity Diedre Badejo 9780865433557 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press What does our sophisticated, technical...
DuEwa M. Frazier
DuEwa M. Frazier NONE DuEwa Frazier is an accomplished writer, educator, and poet, renowned for her literary contributions and educational initiatives. Born in Brooklyn and raised in St. Louis, she f...
Marc W. Polite
Marc W. Polite NONE Marc W. Polite, an award-winning writer from NYC, founded the blog, Polite On Society, and was recognized for “Best Blog Commentary” in 2014. His political commentaries have been ...
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World
The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World Armond White 9780879515867 Nonfiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Dust jacket notes: "This provocative first collection of essay...
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances Vershawn Ashanti Young 9780814334683 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black M...
Gwen Richardson
Gwen Richardson NONE Gwen Richardson, co-founder of Cushcity.com, the largest African-American internet retailer, is a successful entrepreneur and writer with a marketing degree from Georgetown Unive...
My Name is Butterfly
My Name is Butterfly Bernice L. McFadden X007SGEM3A Fiction Naki Publishing Naki Publishing Republished, under a new title (Praise Song for the Butterflies) from Akashic Books The #12 Bestselling ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Queen Afua
Queen Afua 0000000513485286 Queen Afua is a renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and spiritual healer, specializing in women's health. She is a Khamitic priestess, yoga teacher, and founder of ...
Finding La Negrita
Finding La Negrita Natasha Gordon-Chipembere 9781938841897 Fiction Jaded Ibis Press Jaded Ibis Press Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, a story deeply intert...
The Truth about the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Vol. X No. 1
The Truth about the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Vol. X No. 1 Michael Datcher 9781945171819 Nonfiction Loyola Marymount University & the Department of English Loyola Marymount U...
Christena Cleveland
Christena Cleveland NONE Christena Cleveland Ph.D., a social psychologist, public theologian, and activist, is the founder of the Center for Justice + Renewal. A former Duke University professor, she...
I See Color
I See Color Valerie Bolling and Kailei Pew 9780063234260 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins For fans of The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison, I See Color is a pi...
The Villain’s Dance
The Villain’s Dance Fiston Mwanza Mujila 9781646051274 Fiction Deep Vellum Publishing Deep Vellum Publishing Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston M...
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir Timbaland and Veronica Chambers 9780061936968 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy B...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat 9783775725934 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first African-American a...
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Volume 83)
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Volume 83) bell hooks 9780415389587 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary...
Three Days As The Crow Flies: A Novel
Three Days As The Crow Flies: A Novel Danny Simmons 9780743466417 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Back in the day, sex, drugs, and Run-DMC ruled. New York City during the 1980s ...
The Stork Market
The Stork Market Kam Williams Book Review ’Adoption pits woman against woman, rich against poor, making it painfully difficult to look at and admit. Adoption is racist and classist and of...
Djimon Hounsou - The "Never Back Down" Interview
Djimon Hounsou - The "Never Back Down" Interview Kam Williams Interview Djimon Announces Plans to Pop the Question Born in Cotonou, Benin on April 24, 1964, Djimon Gaston Hounsou emigrat...
Three Largest Africa-American Book Sites Join Force to Promote Black Literature
Three Largest Africa-American Book Sites Join Force to Promote Black Literature Troy Johnson Article January 7, 2008For Immediate Release MEDIA INQUIRIESTroy Johnson, AALBC.com, (866) 603-8394Gwen Ri...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California Reginald Martin Interview REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed a...
Dave Landry Co-Founder of CLASS Bookstore, Houston, TX
Dave Landry Co-Founder of CLASS Bookstore, Houston, TX Book Spotlights Recorded during the American Booksellers Assoication’s Children’s Insititute June 13, 2025, Portland, Oregon. Learn more about th...
Wings of Ebony
Wings of Ebony J. Elle 9781534470675 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Instant New York Times bestseller! “A remarkable, breathtaking, earthshaking, poetic thrillride.” —Daniel Jos&...
ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Author, Movie Producer
ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Author, Movie Producer Author Interviews More info: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=ReShonda+Tate+Billingsley Author ReShonda Tate Billingsley announces her...
After: A Novel
After: A Novel Marita Golden 9780385512220 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showin...
ReShonda Tate
ReShonda Tate 0000000116441757 ReShonda Tate is a former reporter and national bestselling author of 21 titles including both adult and teen novels. She's also an executive producer for film adaptati...
Yani
Yani 0000000118166410 Yani, an Amazon Best Selling Author from Philadelphia, is renowned for her six novels and unique storytelling style. She's celebrated in genres like African American Fiction-Ur...
P. Djèlí Clark
P. Djèlí Clark 0000000509439754 Phenderson Djèlà Clark, born in New York and raised in Houston and Trinidad and Tobago, is an award-winning author known for his novellas The Black God’s Drums and T...
Phases: A Memoir
Phases: A Memoir Brandy 9781335013279 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press INSTANT #1 BLK Bestseller and #1 New York Times Bestseller! The iconic, multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winni...
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey Ruth J. Simmons 9780593446003 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A Best Book Of The Year: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg, BET I was ...
Lot: Stories
Lot: Stories Bryan Washington 9780525533672 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "Lot is a phenomenal debut, the kind of stories I am always longing to read." —Justin Torres, author of We the ...
M.W. Moore author of An About Face
M.W. Moore author of An About Face Author Interviews For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/mw_moore.htm Here novelist M.W. Moore tells us about his book An About Face. Recorded by Tro...
Kindred Stories
Kindred Stories Houston TX Kindred Stories is in a culturally thriving historic African American neighborhood in Houston, TX. Their mission is to create a community-centered space committed to celebra...
Pat Tucker
Pat Tucker NONE Pat Tucker Wilson is a radio news director, award-winning journalist, and prolific writer with over 15 years of media experience. Known for her engaging storytelling, Wilson has worke...
William July II
William July II NONE Dr. William July, II is an award winning author and lecturer popular for his candid approach to relationship and self-transformation issues of today. He has ...
Arte Público Press
Arte Público Press University of Houston Arte Público Press
Haki R. Madhubuti, Founder Third World Press
Haki R. Madhubuti, Founder Third World Press Author Interviews Haki R. Madhubuti discusses the authors he published who are celebrated in The Clarke Enhanced History Project at the Thurgood Marshall C...
Palaver
Palaver Bryan Washington 9780374609078 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washingt...
This Side of Beautiful
This Side of Beautiful Tiye 9798990781788 Fiction Honey Blossom Press Honey Blossom Press She walked away from everything. Now she’s walking back. Janae Camille Warner was MILA to the world. A plat...
What She Missed
What She Missed Liara Tamani 9780063093287 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s house in the count...
Prada Plan Protege
Prada Plan Protege C. N. Phillips 9780989926799 Fiction Official Writers League Official Writers League Sometimes leaving the past in the past is exactly what comes back to haunt you. By fleeing New Y...
If I Can’t Have You
If I Can’t Have You Mary B. Morrison 9780758273000 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison delivers a seductive, mesmerizing tale of "love&qu...
The Genesis Files
The Genesis Files Gwen Richardson 9780980025088 Fiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications Lloyd Palmer is a reporter for the Houston Ledger, a job which should have fulfilled his lifelon...
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...