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Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards W. Paul Coates Article Watch a Video of Walter Mosleys’s Introduction and Paul Coates Acceptance Speech. ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates 0000000036544350 “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died…clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates.” —To...
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults)
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781984894021 Nonfiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling auth...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay MULTIPLE Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay are acclaimed authors known for their insightful works on contemporary social issues, with Coates focusing on racial issues an...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey MULTIPLE Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey are celebrated authors, known for their influential works in literature and comics. Coates is renowned for his expertise in ...
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda
Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302961763 Fiction Marvel Universe Marvel Comics Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his widely acclaimed Black...
W. Paul Coates
W. Paul Coates 0000000029319323 Coates Wins the 2024 Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation W. Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press, specializes in republishing significant work...
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590566 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the Nati...
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway 9781642591545 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books ...
Between The World And Me
Between The World And Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780812993547 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House Debuted #1 New York Times Best Seller • Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bol...
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me Kam Williams Book Review “In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about american history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for h...
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates Thumper Book Review In an effort to expand my reading to non-fiction titles, as well as the fact that the book is small in size, I read The Beauti...
The Message
The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780593230381 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict t...
Huit ans au pouvoir
Huit ans au pouvoir Ta-Nehisi Coates 9782321013617 Nonfiction Présence Africaine Présence Africaine Editions Le livre rassemble une sélection des articles les plus influents du jo...
Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway
Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway MULTIPLE "Susie Day, W. Paul Coates, and Eddie Conway are notable figures in literature. Conway's life inspired Coates to establish Black Classic Press, a ...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590597 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World...
Black Panther Book 9: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 4
Black Panther Book 9: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 4 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302921101 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics The final volume of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ landmark run is the end of an era for...
Reading Tony Martin Matters
Reading Tony Martin Matters Rhone Fraser Article In my interview with Paul Coates about his 2024 Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, he made the point that the works of Tony Martin sh...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780385527460 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House An exceptional father-son story about the real...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780385520362 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House An exceptional father-son story about the real...
Just Pursuit
Just Pursuit Laura Coates 9781982173760 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastatin...
Rodney D. Coates
Rodney D. Coates NONE Rodney D. Coates, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Gerontology and Director of Black World Studies at Miami University with extensive publications in critical race and eth...
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates Todd Steven Burroughs 9781937306649 Nonfiction Diasporic Africa Press Diasporic Africa Press Created by Marvel Comics ...
Black Panther Book 4: Avengers of the New World Book 1
Black Panther Book 4: Avengers of the New World Book 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302906498 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Where next for the Black Panther? Find out as a sensational new arc begins! Eons ago ...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302900533 Fiction Marvel Comics Marvel Comics A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winnin...
Black Panther Book 2: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 2
Black Panther Book 2: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 2 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302900540 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Dark times for the Black Panther, as Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles the fi nal days of th...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302901912 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics The full truth of the People’s revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been rev...
Black Panther Vol. 4: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Two
Black Panther Vol. 4: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Two Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302925420 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics The shocking end of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther saga! Has T’Challa le...
Captain America Vol. 5: All Die Young Part Two
Captain America Vol. 5: All Die Young Part Two Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302920418 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics How Cap got his mojo back! Featuring…the Red Hulk?! Captain America has been through a ...
Captain America Vol. 4: All Die Young
Captain America Vol. 4: All Die Young Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302920401 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his blockbuster examination of the Living Legend with the ominous next chap...
Captain America Vol. 3: The Legend of Steve
Captain America Vol. 3: The Legend of Steve Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302914417 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics On the run from the law and pursued by a dogged Nick Fury, Steve Rogers must find a way to prove...
Captain America Vol. 2: Captain of Nothing
Captain America Vol. 2: Captain of Nothing Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302911959 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Superstar artist Adam Kubert joins Ta-Nehisi Coates for the next dramatic development in the life...
Captain America
Captain America Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302911942 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics It’s winter in America! For over 70 years, Captain America has stood in stalwart defense of our country and its people. But ...
Rise of the Black Panther
Rise of the Black Panther Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302908843 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Witness the early years of the man who will come to rule one of the most scientifically advanced countries in the ...
Black Panther & the Crew: We Are the Streets
Black Panther & the Crew: We Are the Streets Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey 9781302908324 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to tak...
Black Panther Vol. 1
Black Panther Vol. 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302904159 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics A new era for the Black Panther begins as the kingdom of Wakanda enters its final days! Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi ...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999719 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An urgent examination of free speech in America—addressing “cancel culture,” “accep...
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth Manu Ampim 9781574780574 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Finally, proof that the Willie Lynch Speech is a hoax! Supposedly giv...
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Kam Williams Book Review “A great speech is both timely and timeless. First and foremost, it must touch and move its immediate ...
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact Troy Johnson Article This article was originally published in the April 2025 issue of the IBPA Independent magazine, the magazine for members of the I...
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
40 Best-Selling African-American Books — Summer 2015
40 Best-Selling African-American Books — Summer 2015 Troy Johnson Article In Era of Political and Social Discontent, Titles with Political Slant Gain Traction on Summer 2015 Edition of the Power L...
Between the World and Me (paperback)
Between the World and Me (paperback) Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780812983814 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Also Available in Hardcover #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WIN...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Tony Lindsay Book Review To mix magical realism with historical fiction is a bold task. To discuss the topic of family pride from the perspective of the offspring of a slave and a ma...
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015 Troy Johnson Article Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring 2015 Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books May 22, 2015 ...
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology Troy Johnson Article Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology Paperback: 299 pages Publisher: Girls Write Now (2015) (May 19, 2015) Dim...
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters Toni Morrison 9780375400322 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin...
Black Panther Book 8: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Three
Black Panther Book 8: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Three Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302914462 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Has T’Challa learned what it means to be king just in time to lose his ...
Black Panther Book 6: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 1
Black Panther Book 6: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302912932 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics A bold new direction for the Black Panther! For years, T’Challa has protect...
Black Panther Book 5: Avengers of the New World Part 2
Black Panther Book 5: Avengers of the New World Part 2 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302909888 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Klaw stands supreme! The Black Panther’s greatest foe has returned, ready for war! Ca...
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work Gwen Richardson Article African-American authors rarely receive national recognition for their work...
Présence Africaine
Présence Africaine Présence Africaine Editions Présence Africaine Editions http://www.presenceafricaine.com
Présence Africaine Editions
Présence Africaine Editions Présence Africaine Editions Présence Africaine http://www.presenceafricaine.com
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence William R. Harvey 9780062863287 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insider account on how HBCU graduates find success in the world as p...
The Palestine Festival of Literature
The Palestine Festival of Literature Ramallah Palestine Read An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature Ta-Nehisi Coates, Molly Crabapple, Natalie Diaz, Maaza Mengiste,...
Black Panther Vol. 2: Avengers of the New World
Black Panther Vol. 2: Avengers of the New World Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302908959 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Eons ago - before Black Panthers, before Wakanda, before time itself - there were only the O...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Publishes With Oldest Black Owned Publisher
Ta-Nehisi Coates Publishes With Oldest Black Owned Publisher Author Interviews
Black Panther: World of Wakanda
Black Panther: World of Wakanda Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay 9781302906504 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics The world building of Wakanda continues in a love story where tenderness is matched onl...
Ta-Nehisi Coates "Blows Up" AALBC.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates "Blows Up" AALBC.com Author Interviews
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates Excerpt And I could only have seen her there on the stone bridge, a dancer wreathed in ghostly blue, because that was the way they would have taken her back when I w...
Foreword Justice for Marcus Garvey
Foreword Justice for Marcus Garvey Julius Garvey Excerpt Foreword Excerpt by Ta-Nehisi Coates “I grew up in a household where Malcolm X was Jesus, and I guess that would make Garvey God. Gar...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999726 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Named one of Newsweek’s 25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape th...
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream Gary Younge 9781608463220 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED his powerful I Have a Dream” spe...
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards Literary Events
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards Troy Johnson Article November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mi...
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword David K. Shipler 9780307947611 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his be...
Angela Flournoy
Angela Flournoy 0000000436914613 Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a National Book Award finalist, has been recognized with numerous awards including the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. A Nat...
Everything, Everything
Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 9780553496642 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the hous...
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence Useni Eugene Perkins 9780940975866 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. On a humid March night in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah made history. While thous...
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback Jacob Carruthers 9780907015949 Nonfiction Karnak House Karnak Hous...
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights William P. Jones 9780393082852 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A brilliant history that go...
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference Kam Williams Interview Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books Troy Johnson Article “Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.” —Ethiopian proverb AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books - January to February ...
Top 40 Books Read by African Americans
Top 40 Books Read by African Americans Troy Johnson Article Power List Best-Selling Books • Winter 2015 NAACP Image Award Literary Nominees Well Represented on Winter Edition of the Power List of ...
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips 0000000077578485 Rowan Ricardo Phillips, an acclaimed poet and author, is recognized for books like Heaven and The Ground. Winner of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, his work ha...
Justice for Marcus Garvey
Justice for Marcus Garvey Robert Fleming Book Review Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind is a recently published collection of essays that highlights the achievements and aspirati...
How is African American Literature Really Doing?
How is African American Literature Really Doing? Troy Johnson Article For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?” Some...
Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Justice for Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind Julius Garvey 9781506488721 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media AALBC’s founder, Troy Johnson, is a contributor to this anthology. Marcus G...
Third Annual Festival Albertine
Third Annual Festival Albertine Albertine store on Fifth Avenue at 79th Street New York New York American participants will include the poet Claudia Rankine, the curator Thelma Golden, the novelist Da...
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes Charisse Carney-Nunes Article The Lit Bit Wall Street is in for another invasion… no, not just more protestors armed with ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles 0000000034375194 Nick Chiles is a renowned author and journalist, specializing in African-American culture and celebrity. Co-author of the NAACP Image Awards finalist book 'Justice While ...
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones 0000000365991477 Saeed Jones, award-winning author of 'Prelude to Bruise', is known for his work at BuzzFeed as an LGBT and Culture editor, as well as co-host of AM to DM. Born in Memphis...
National Book Awards
National Book Awards Cipriani Wall Street New York New York Attendance by invitation only. All of the authors of African descent who have won a National Book Award. Watch vidoes the 67th annual Nati...
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman Maegan Parker Brooks 9781538115947 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield “[T]his is a testimonial to a courageous woman and her deep c...
Bestsellers Lists, Authors, New Books & More - June 2015
Bestsellers Lists, Authors, New Books & More - June 2015 Troy Johnson Article Read Our eNewsletter Archives Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle ...
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan Author Interviews
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013 Author Interviews
E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech
E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech Author Interviews
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Harrison Mooney 9781586423469 Nonfiction Truth to Power Steerforth Press An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir awaits in Harrison Mooney’s powerful debut, a s...
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson 0000000084426631 Alaya Dawn Johnson, an award-winning author recognized for her YA novels and short fiction. She won the 2015 Nebula Award for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i.” H...
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation Barry Wittenstein 9780823443314 Nonfiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House "Barry Wittenstein’s poetic text provides the c...
Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, and Experiences (Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Haymarket Books))
Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, and Experiences (Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Haymarket Books)) Rodney D. Coates 9781608462100 Nonfiction Brill Brill Covert racism, subtle in applicat...
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063351042 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech “I’ve Been to the Mounta...
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9780230337558 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "I have a dream." When tho...
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases Mahmoud El-Kati 9780967558172 Nonfiction Papyrus Publishing Inc. Papyrus Publishing Inc. Hiptionary?...