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Susan McHenry & Anegla Dodson and BEA 2005
Susan McHenry & Anegla Dodson and BEA 2005 Author Interviews
Henry and Bea
Henry and Bea Jessixa Bagley 9780823442843 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House Henry and Bea are inseparable, but one day Henry suddenly stops talking to his best friend. Bea knows there’s somethi...
Zora, the Story Keeper
Zora, the Story Keeper Ebony Joy Wilkins 9781984816917 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family’s legacy through storytelling....
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed MULTIPLE Prominent authors Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., an...
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, and Sylviane A. Diouf
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, and Sylviane A. Diouf MULTIPLE Howard Dodson and Sylviane A. Diouf are renowned authors associated with the Schomburg Center for Resea...
Judy Allen Dodson
Judy Allen Dodson NONE Judy Allen Dodson is an award-winning librarian, archivist, and children's author dedicated to teaching Black History through stories of unsung heroes. She serves as a regional...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists)
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists) Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329800 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books...
And Then There Was Me: A Novel
And Then There Was Me: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson 9781250802866 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old s...
Dave Dodson
Dave Dodson NONE Dave Dodson is a California-based freelance artist. Dave Dodson is a freelance artist based in California.
Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson
Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson MULTIPLE Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson
Howard Dodson
Howard Dodson 0000000116160701 Howard Dodson is a renowned American scholar specializing in African-American history and culture. His notable roles include director of the Schomburg Center (1984-2011...
Angela P. Dodson
Angela P. Dodson NONE Angela P. Dodson is a contributing editor for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, former senior editor at The New York Times, and ex-executive editor of Black Issues Book Revie...
Bea Jackson
Bea Jackson 0000000500111306 Bea Jackson is an accomplished author known for her captivating storytelling. With a writing career spanning over decades, she has penned numerous bestsellers, captivatin...
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Angela P. Dodson 9781455570935 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group While Hillary Rodham Clinton’s defeat in her...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329954 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Over the past d...
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship Elizabeth McHenry 9781478014515 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books “From the title...
Susan L. Taylor
Susan L. Taylor 000000006763368X Susan L. Taylor, the driving force behind Essence Magazine for 4 decades, is leaving to focus on the National Cares Mentoring Movement. With numerous awards and honor...
Susan D. Peters
Susan D. Peters NONE Susan D. Peters, a Chicago native and DePaul University graduate, lived in Liberia for 11 years. Her experiences during the Liberian Civil War inspired her award-winning memoir, ...
Susan Robeson
Susan Robeson 0000000084570270 Susan Robeson is a longtime documentary film and television producer. Her award-winning work has appeared on PBS, NBC and ABC affiliates, and Channel 4 in the UK, and h...
Getting Some of Her Own
Getting Some of Her Own Gwynne Forster 9780758213105 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Pure satisfaction.” –RT Book Reviews“You’ll eagerly keep reading to learn how the characters’ liv...
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson 9798889837374 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media America has always been sustai...
We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men
We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men Angela P. Dodson 9781506491110 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The women have something to say. Are you listening? In this powe...
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw MULTIPLE Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim, a theology professor at Earlham School of Religion and author, is an ordained Presbyterian minister and hosts the Madang podcast...
Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot
Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot Susan D. Peters 9780982712504 Fiction Sunrise Consulting Sunrise Consulting Many have wondered what it would be like to pack up our things and move to a new co...
In The Spirit
In The Spirit Susan L. Taylor 9781567430325 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Twenty-two lifelines to personal growth and fulfillment from the editor in chief of Essence magazine. When Susan L. Taylor ro...
Lessons In Living
Lessons In Living Susan L. Taylor 9780385483797 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House At long last, here is the paperback edition of beloved columnist and author Susan L. Taylor’s bestselling collection...
Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen
Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen MULTIPLE Caroline Elkins and Susan Pedersen are esteemed history professors at Harvard University and Columbia University, respectively. Caroline Elkins is Assistan...
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis MUL...
Susan Moore
Susan Moore 0000000081813898 Rev. Dr. Susan Moore is a seasoned pastor, teacher, and author with a 36-year career focused on urban America's challenges. Ordained in 1983, she has served as a communit...
Susan K. Williams Smith
Susan K. Williams Smith 0000000046710826 Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith is an ordained minister, writer, activist, and founder of Crazy Faith Ministries. Based in Columbus, Ohio, she has contributed to ...
Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman 0000000108989755 Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum, is a renowned author of philosophical books translated into multiple languages. She also contributes to cultural and politi...
Susan Keeter
Susan Keeter NONE Susan Keeter has illustrated over a dozen titles, including picture books on Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman and 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley. Susan Keeter has ...
Susan VanHecke
Susan VanHecke NONE Susan VanHecke, renowned author of the ALA Notable Children's Book 'Raggin’, Jazzin’, Rockin’: A History of American Musical Instrument Makers' and 'An Apple Pie for Dinner.' She ...
Susan Montanari
Susan Montanari NONE Susan Montanari, a seasoned author of children's books and middle-grade novels, was a finalist for the 2010 Tassy Walden Award. She relishes gardening, scuba diving, and cryptozo...
Susan Hood
Susan Hood 0000000116439796 Award-winning author Susan Hood has penned numerous books for young readers and has received notable accolades such as the E. B. White Read Aloud Picture Book Honor, the C...
Brittany Jackson
Brittany Jackson NONE Brittany “Bea” Jackson, an award-winning illustrator and alumni of the College for Creative Studies, is renowned for her work in children's book illustration, specifically “Hair...
A Surprise for Willow
A Surprise for Willow Bea Jackson 9781665941099 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Lily the fairy tries to help her human friend, Willow, overcome her stage fright in this first chapte...
A Wish for Lily
A Wish for Lily Bea Jackson 9781665984010 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Willow takes her fairy friends to see the ocean in this second chapter book in the Fairies Welcome series f...
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil Susan Neiman 9781250750112 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan N...
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass Suzanne Slade 9781580895699 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Their friendship changed a nation. No one thought Susan B. An...
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...
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor 9780385483780 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped O...
Brook Susan Parker
Brook Susan Parker NONE Dr. Brook Bello (formerly brook susan parker), CEO/Executive Director, and Founder of More Too Life, Inc. and Living Above the Noise Center in Florida. She is a #Champion fro...
Goodnight Grandpa: the 7th Candorville Collection
Goodnight Grandpa: the 7th Candorville Collection Darrin Bell 9781973811251 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The 7th collection of the syndicated comic strip "Candorville" by Dar...
LeVar Burton and Susan Schaefer Bernardo
LeVar Burton and Susan Schaefer Bernardo MULTIPLE LeVar Burton with Susan Schaefer Bernardo
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford 9780883782965 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Representing conversations from the Eighth National...
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, and Sylviane A. Diouf 9780792273851 Fiction National Geographic National Geographi...
The Mermaid Princesses
The Mermaid Princesses Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Meet these three charming princess sisters, Anaya, Shante, and Kianna. They invite us into their underwater world with their bright and bold perso...
Escape From … Hurricane Katrina
Escape From … Hurricane Katrina Judy Allen Dodson 9781499811681 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms in American history. In this fi...
Becoming American: The African-American Journey
Becoming American: The African-American Journey Howard Dodson 9781402754074 Nonfiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Michael I. Days
Michael I. Days NONE AALBC Mourns the passing of Michael I. Days, October 18, 2025 Michael I. Days is an esteemed editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, recognized for leading the team to numerous awa...
Dear Star Baby
Dear Star Baby Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome is a heartwarming, sensitive, and beautifully written picture book that addresses the delicate subject of grief and loss...
Flipflopi
Flipflopi Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Have you ever wondered where all the trash in the ocean goes? Or, how plastics in the ocean are cleaned up and recycled? Well, this is the book for you. Fli...
Looking for Happy
Looking for Happy Judy Allen Dodson Book Review “Some days, Happy is Hard to Find” as we set out on a quest in this heartfelt and hopeful picture book, Looking For Happy, which follows a ...
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library!
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library! Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Let’s take trip to the library with Mrs. Baker and her third-grade class. As we all know the library is a space filled with boo...
We Refuse to Be Silent
We Refuse to Be Silent Robert Fleming Book Review Back in 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, journalist and writer Angela P. Dodson got the idea then for her recently publi...
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America Eryka Parker Book Review We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America by Michael I...
The Ashe Brothers: How Arthur and Johnnie Changed Tennis Forever
The Ashe Brothers: How Arthur and Johnnie Changed Tennis Forever Judy Allen Dodson 9781684465361 Nonfiction Capstone Editions Capstone Press In 1968, Arthur Ashe climbed his way to the top of the tenn...
Peggy Dodson, CEO Urban Broadcasting Company
Peggy Dodson, CEO Urban Broadcasting Company Author Interviews
Blacktrospective 2005
Blacktrospective 2005 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/movies69.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2005 A Look Back at the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema by Kam Williams 2004 m...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
African-American Pavilion at Book Expo America 2007
African-American Pavilion at Book Expo America 2007 Troy Johnson Article BookExpo America's Conference/Educational Programs run from May 31 - June 3, 2007 at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New...
Book Expo America
Book Expo America Javitz Center New York New York BookExpo America (BEA) is the leading book and author event for the North American publishing industry. It’s the best place to discover new titl...
Randall Horton
Randall Horton 0000000048702491 Award-winning author Randall Horton, known for his poetry collections and memoir, is a recipient of the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, GLCA New Writers Award, and a Nation...
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...
Scenes from the 2009 AA Pavilion at BEA & Black Pack Party
Scenes from the 2009 AA Pavilion at BEA & Black Pack Party Literary Events
6th Annual African American Pavilion at BEA
6th Annual African American Pavilion at BEA Author Interviews
Joylynn M. Jossel talk to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
Joylynn M. Jossel talk to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews
Tananarive Due talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
Tananarive Due talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America
With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America Susan K. Williams Smith 9780817018139 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press Why have our foundational documents...
Oh God!: A Black Woman’s Guide to Sex and Spirituality
Oh God!: A Black Woman’s Guide to Sex and Spirituality Susan Moore 9780345450777 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Far too many African American women struggle with a deep division ...
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw 9781506495781 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Who is God when we see God through ...
Rest for the Justice-Seeking Soul
Rest for the Justice-Seeking Soul Susan K. Williams Smith 9781641233088 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House Susan K. Williams Smith is a minister and activist who has been on the front lines of s...
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story Susan Robeson 9781609808822 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press “It takes a man of peace to stop a war.” The true story of Paul Robeson’s visit ...
Shaking Things Up
Shaking Things Up Susan Hood 9780062699459 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “Each poem and illustration shines with a personality all its own.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)“This book has de...
Left Is Not Woke
Left Is Not Woke Susan Neiman 9781509558308 Nonfiction Polity Press Polity Press If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be th...
Hip-Hop Lollipop
Hip-Hop Lollipop Susan Montanari 9781101934821 Fiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books In this lyrical read-aloud filled with rhythm and rhyme and illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner B...
Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age Susan Neiman 9780374536145 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Our culture is obsessed with youth—and why not? What’s the a...
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Susan Courtney 9780691113043 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Hollywood Fantasies...
To Soar without Leaving the Ground: Poems & Narratives
To Soar without Leaving the Ground: Poems & Narratives Brook Susan Parker 9780965441506 Poetry To Soar Publications To Soar Publications Actress, Author, and Poet brook susan parker is a young christi...
How My Family Lives in America
How My Family Lives in America Susan Kuklin 9780027512397 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. In How My Family Lives in America, author-photographer Susan Kuklin ze...
In the Country of Women: A Memoir
In the Country of Women: A Memoir Susan Straight 9781948226226 Nonfiction Catapult Catapult "To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before."...
In the Garden with Dr. Carver
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Susan Grigsby 9780807536308 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Sally is a young girl living in rural Alabama in the early 1900s, a time when people...
From Calvary to Victory: Lenten Reflections for Individuals and Groups
From Calvary to Victory: Lenten Reflections for Individuals and Groups Susan K. Williams Smith 9780829813593 Nonfiction United Church Press The Pilgrim Press From Calvary to Victory focuses on the per...
Susan Straight
Susan Straight 0000000118784526 Acclaimed author of eight novels, including 'Highwire Moon' and 'A Million Nightingales'. Recognized with the Robert Kirsch Award, O. Henry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fel...
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir Susie King Taylor Article An Excerpt from Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir:Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Vol...
Canada or Bust!: The 9th Candorville Collection
Canada or Bust!: The 9th Candorville Collection Darrin Bell 9781978024083 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Now in full color the 9th collection of the syndicated comic strip "Candorvi...
Essence: In The Spirit Gift Kit (Activity Kit) (Petites Plus With Magazine Gift Subscriptions)
Essence: In The Spirit Gift Kit (Activity Kit) (Petites Plus With Magazine Gift Subscriptions) Susan L. Taylor 9781593599232 Nonfiction Peter Pauper Press Peter Pauper Press There’s no better way to g...