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Casanegra

by Linda Watkins

Casanegra Linda Watkins Book Review From the moment Casanegra crossed my palms, I was curious. Not only for the content of the story within, but for the story of the trio of authors that penn...

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The Black Rose

by Paige Turner

The Black Rose Paige Turner Book Review Journalist and novelist Tananarive Due is fast establishing herself as a professional writer who can master any genre she deigns to approach. With her previ...

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Devil‘s Wake

by Emanuel Carpenter

Devil‘s Wake Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Something is turning the world into zombies. Perhaps it’s a virus or maybe even the latest flu vaccine. Whatever the cause, prevention is simple. Do...

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Dark Dreams

by Thumper

Dark Dreams Thumper Book Review Author Brandon Massey (Thunderland, Dark Corner) has compiled a magnificent anthology designed to scare and terrify. Although African-American literature ha...

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The Good House

by Thumper

The Good House Thumper Book Review Tananarive Due has returned with The Good House, her best book to date. The Good House is a magnificent, irresistible family drama of one family fighting an evil ...

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The Ancestors

by Thumper

The Ancestors Thumper Book Review The Ancestors is an anthology featuring stories by authors L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey. I am always happy to come across science fiction ...

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Snapshot

by Tony Lindsay

Snapshot Tony Lindsay Book Review In Snapshot, Camryn King demonstrates the power of a page turning thriller. Through King’s beautifully descriptive screens, narrative pace, believable dialog, ...

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Driven from Within

by Kam Williams

Driven from Within Kam Williams Book Review ’That day I met Phil Knight for the first time. Neither of us could imagine what the next 20 years together would produce’ Nike was the perfec...

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The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding

by Kam Williams

The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding Kam Williams Book Review “In 1990, Anton McCray, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, Jr. [were] convicted and...

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It’s A Thin Line

by Thumper

It’s A Thin Line Thumper Book Review It’s A Thin Line may be the title to Kimberla Lawson Roby’s latest novel, but it also describes the condition of my last nerve that this book jumped ...

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The Hiptionary

by Kam Williams

The Hiptionary Kam Williams Book Review ’Throughout the cultural evolution of the United States, Black people have consistently contributed a huge stock of colorful words, phr...

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Sassy

by Thumper

Sassy Thumper Book Review Gloria Mallette is one of my favorite authors. I became a major fan after I read one her earlier novel, Shades of Jade. Over the years she remained o...

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Obama Guilty of Being President While Black

by Kam Williams

Obama Guilty of Being President While Black Kam Williams Book Review "This book is an inspiration that came to me after witnessing the disrespect and venom expressed towards President Obama&h...

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White Coat Fever

by Thumper

White Coat Fever Thumper Book Review Roland S. Jefferson, author of the classic The School on 103rd Street, is back on the scene with his latest novel, White Coat Fever. The title of the novel is...

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Sweet Tea and Cornbread: Inspiring

by Kam Williams

Sweet Tea and Cornbread: Inspiring Kam Williams Book Review “Let’s face it, ladies, as black women we have issues when it comes to food and exercise… If you’re like me, you...

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Ashamed to Die: Silence

by Kam Williams

Ashamed to Die: Silence Kam Williams Book Review "HIV/AIDS remains a significant public health and social justice crisis in the United States, and the South in particular is heavily burdenedï...

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Secrets and Lies

by Idrissa Uqdah

Secrets and Lies Idrissa Uqdah Book Review For Better or For Worse Rhonda McKnight's debut novel, Secrets and Lies is about a married couple who despite their comfortable financial situation a...

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Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips

by Kam Williams

Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips Kam Williams Book Review "Black Business Secrets is dedicated to transforming the devastating statistics that African-Americans are much more likely to fail in bu...

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Never As Good As the First Time

by Emanuel Carpenter

Never As Good As the First Time Emanuel Carpenter Book Review What happens when a good, Christian housewife finds herself divorced and having to fend for herself and her children? Perhaps s...

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Children of the Waters

by Idrissa Uqdah

Children of the Waters Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Blood Ties, Family Lies Carleen Brice has returned to the literary scene with her second novel, Children of the Waters and she’s ...

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Cougar Tales

by Idrissa Uqdah

Cougar Tales Idrissa Uqdah Book Review  Is Age Just A Number? Three best-selling romance authors have joined together to bring readers an anthology based on the theme of older women/younger m...

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Gotta Keep On Tryin'

by Idrissa Uqdah

Gotta Keep On Tryin' Idrissa Uqdah Book Review In the sequel to the novel, Tryin’ To Sleep In The Bed You Made, life-long friends Gayle Saunders and Patricia (Pat) Reid are together ...

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Judge Not!

by Idrissa Uqdah

Judge Not! Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Waiting For Justice To Prevail Audrey Forrest Carter has penned a great sequel to her well-received debut novel, The Wages of Sin.  In Judge Not! readers f...

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Not Guilty of Love by Pat Simmons

by Idrissa Uqdah

Not Guilty of Love by Pat Simmons Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Doing It God's Way Christian Author Pat Simmons has written a wonderful sequel to her debut novel, Guilty of Love in her third rel...

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The Black Chicago Renaissance

by Kam Williams

The Black Chicago Renaissance Kam Williams Book Review “Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1950s, black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled and, some argued, exce...

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Don’t Blame It on Rio

by Kam Williams

Don’t Blame It on Rio Kam Williams Book Review ’Black women were once at the center of black men’s lives, as wives, mothers, lovers and partners’ However, in this generation, b...

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The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century

by Kam Williams

The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century Kam Williams Book Review “Barack Obama [has] garnered higher approval ratings in most parts of the world than in the United S...

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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

by Kam Williams

Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina Kam Williams Book Review “Blacks in the segregationist United States of America of the 30s and 40s fought back with inherent toug...

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Journey to the Woman I've Come to Love: Affirmations from Women Who Have Fallen in Love with The

by Kam Williams

Journey to the Woman I've Come to Love: Affirmations from Women Who Have Fallen in Love with The Kam Williams Book Review “About 10 years ago, I was hanging out with some old high school c...

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Kanye West in the Studio

by Kam Williams

Kanye West in the Studio Kam Williams Book Review ’Many brilliant artists are dead long before their impact is recognized and crystallized, or even established and explored in any analyti...

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Killing Willis: From Different Strokes to the Mean Streets To the Life I Always Wanted

by Kam Williams

Killing Willis: From Different Strokes to the Mean Streets To the Life I Always Wanted Kam Williams Book Review "AlI I ever wanted as a kid was to be a famous TV star… My dream came true whe...

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Mission Accomplished

by Kam Williams

Mission Accomplished Kam Williams Book Review "Mission Accomplished is about point of view. The cartoons invert the U.S. media reality’ by focusing on disputes and debates in human te...

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Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story

by Kam Williams

Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Kam Williams Book Review "I had finally run out of options… There I was. Locked in a tiny jail cell, staring into space and wondering how my lif...

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Social Crisis and Social Demoralization

by Kam Williams

Social Crisis and Social Demoralization Kam Williams Book Review ’American race relations are closely tied up with social status. Race relations’ reflect the economic and social force...

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Stripped Bare

by Kam Williams

Stripped Bare Kam Williams Book Review  ’Play close attention, ladies: there are many great black men out there. Do not buy into the lies that all the good men are already married...

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A Letter To My Father

by Linda Watkins

A Letter To My Father Linda Watkins Book Review I had high expectations of debut autobiography, A Letter to My Father, by John W. Griffin, mainly because of my love for autobiographies and also due ...

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Freedom’s Daughters

by Paige Turner

Freedom’s Daughters Paige Turner Book Review “Women hold up half the sky” is one of Chinese revolutionary Mao Tse Dung’s most often quoted statements. However readers of Freedom&rsq...

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Allah Is Not Obliged

by Thumper

Allah Is Not Obliged Thumper Book Review ’The full, final and completely complete title of my bullshit story is: Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on...

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Chocolate Sangria

by Thumper

Chocolate Sangria Thumper Book Review Reviewed by Thumper for AALBC.com I read Tracy Price-Thompson’s first book, Black Coffee, last year. I loved it and wrote a glowing review for it. Befor...

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Come by Here

by Thumper

Come by Here Thumper Book Review I found a pearl when I happened upon the remarkable author Clarence Major. I discovered Clarence Major by way of an anthology, titled After Hours edited by Robert ...

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Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality

by Thumper

Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality Thumper Book Review Fourplay…the Dance of Sensuality, the latest novel by Brenda L. Thomas, is the continuing story of Sasha Boranni from Thomas’s firs...

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Going Down South

by Thumper

Going Down South Thumper Book Review When I started reading books many, many years ago, I came to the conclusion that there is no drama like family drama. A few years ago when African-Ameri...

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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens

by Thumper

Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Thumper Book Review On a rainy night, Desiree Sheffield calls Carmen Taylor (on the eve of Carmen’s wedding to Burl,) to come get her after another violent fight with...

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Leaving

by Thumper

Leaving Thumper Book Review Leaving, the debut novel by Richard Dry, is an epic tale that spans three generations of a black family, from the 1950s to circa 2000. Leaving is an epic not only in siz...

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Seventh Child

by Thumper

Seventh Child Thumper Book Review Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X is a memoir told by his nephew, Rodnell P. Collins and his mother, Ella Little Collins. Seventh Child is a nice, factual,...

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Somebody’s Knocking at My Door

by Thumper

Somebody’s Knocking at My Door Thumper Book Review I am the first in line when it comes to being bored by, frustrated with, and thoroughly sick of current popular African-American fiction that highl...

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The Origin of Others

by Tony Lindsay

The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review The title of Toni Morrison’s new book, The Source of Self-Regard, propels one to ponder, and the extended thought is due to the dual functions of t...

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We Cast a Shadow

by Tony Lindsay

We Cast a Shadow Tony Lindsay Book Review In Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s first novel, We Cast a Shadow, the reader meets a complex and unnamed protagonist. The main character of this futuristic nov...

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Syncope

by Brianna-Christine Alicea

Syncope Brianna-Christine Alicea Book Review As a third-grade poet teacher, an author, and as a leader for an English conversation group for immigrants, Wadud is involved with her community. She is a...

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How to be an Antiracist

by Tony Lindsay

How to be an Antiracist Tony Lindsay Book Review How to be an Antiracist is an instructional text written by historian, professor, and bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi. The teaching text begins by i...

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Salmon Croquettes

by Tony Lindsay

Salmon Croquettes Tony Lindsay Book Review Salmon Croquettes is a debut novel rich in prose. The book is loaded with purposeful dialogue and heartwarming descriptive scenes. The novel’s authent...

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In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom

by Robert Fleming

In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Robert Fleming Book Review If you were politically conscious decades ago, you would have read the prison chronicles...

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Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America

by Eryka Parker

Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America Eryka Parker Book Review As a Black woman born and raised in the United States, I have always been aware of how blessed I am to ...

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More Like Wrestling: A Novel

by Thumper

More Like Wrestling: A Novel Thumper Book Review More Like Wrestling, the debut novel by Danyel Smith, is centered on the close relationship between two sisters. This was a vexing book…emo...

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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne

by Kam Williams

Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne Kam Williams Book Review “This groundbreaking biography… illuminates the life and accomplishments of pioneering journalist Ethel Lois Payne, while also...

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A Day Late and a Dollar Short

by Paige Turner

A Day Late and a Dollar Short Paige Turner Book Review The publishing world and the legions of Terry McMillan fans can now officially exhale. McMillan’s long awaited "serious" nov...

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Get Down: Stories

by Idrissa Uqdah

Get Down: Stories Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Asali Solomon’s collection of short stories, Get Down is a short story reader’s delight. The stories are so real and many are set in Solomon&r...

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Leaving Atlanta

by Thumper

Leaving Atlanta Thumper Book Review Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child ...

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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix

by Kam Williams

Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix Kam Williams Book Review "To really know about a person, you have to do things that they did, and see the things that they saw. So I li...

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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

by Thumper

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...

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The Honey Well

by Thumper

The Honey Well Thumper Book Review I had never made a wish like this before. Believe me; I don't harbor any gender bending, transsexual fantasies. But, after reading Gloria Mallette’s lat...

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Kickin’ It Old School

by Kam Williams

Kickin’ It Old School Kam Williams kickin6.jpg Film Review Patient Emerges from 20-Year Coma to Breakdance Again in Bad Taste Comedy   Kickin’ It Old School Rated PG-13 for profanity, ethn...

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Linsanity

by Kam Williams

Linsanity Kam Williams linsanity.jpg Film Review Linsanity In Theaters: Oct 4, 2013 Limited Rated: PG Running time: 1 hr. 28 min. In English and Mandarin with subtitles Distributor: Ketchup ...

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Snakes on a Plane Review

by Kam Williams

Snakes on a Plane Review Kam Williams snakes7.jpg Film Review "Campy Fright Flick Loads of Fun in Spite of Cheesy F/X and Clich’-Ridden Script" Snakes on a Plane Excellent (4 sta...

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The Weird World of Blowfly

by Kam Williams

The Weird World of Blowfly Kam Williams blowfly.jpg Film Review Godfather of Rap Belatedly Gets His Due in Jaw-Dropping Bio-Pic The Weird World of Blowfly [2011] Click to order...

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The Good Shepherd

by Kam Williams

The Good Shepherd Kam Williams the_go7.jpg Film Review De Niro Directs Espionage Thriller about the Dark Side of the CIA   The Good Shepherd Excellent (4 stars) Rated R for sex, expletives, et...

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