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Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Les Payne and Tamara Payne MULTIPLE Les Payne, born in 1941, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Newsday editor, and founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. His daughter, Tamar...
Tara Payne
Tara Payne NONE Tara Payne, a lifelong entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After leaving her career in finance, she became a full-time creative, founding Payne Creative Con...
Tara Betts
Tara Betts NONE Tara Betts, a celebrated author and poet, is known for her educational efforts in arts programs and her work with GirlSpeak. She has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the Blac...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne and Tamara Payne 9781631491665 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company “Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising is a brilliant...
Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press James Mcgrath Morris 9780062198860 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the ...
Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press
Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press James Mcgrath Morris 9780062198853 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the ...
Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart
Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart MULTIPLE "Doris Payne, a renowned jewel thief, & Zelda Lockhart, an acclaimed author, come together to create compelling narratives. Their distinct experiences offer a ...
Eric Payne
Eric Payne NONE Eric Payne, a versatile writer and poet, started his journey in literature at age 7. He graduated from Cornell and Binghamton Universities and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternit...
When Hope Speaks
When Hope Speaks Tara Payne 9798673617724 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published I figured that being a mother would be filled with eagerness, excitement and joy. Never did I imagi...
Chiquita Camille Payne
Chiquita Camille Payne NONE Chiquita Camille Payne is an actress, dancer, and author from Chicago, now living in Brooklyn. Inspired by her son, she wrote her first book, Just Because, after years of ...
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne
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...
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781481462891 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Renowned author Lesa Cline-Ransome an...
Doris Payne
Doris Payne 0000000109107224 Doris Payne, born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, is the youngest of six and daughter of a coal miner. She is renowned for her six-decade career as an international jewel th...
Nikki Payne
Nikki Payne NONE “Church, cemeteries and romance novels are still the most segregated places in America.” Nikki Payne is a tech anthropologist improving digital services and a member of Sm...
Tara Henderson
Tara Henderson NONE Tara Henderson, a seasoned public education professional and principal from Tulsa, OK, pens her first children's book. Inspired by the historical Tulsa Race Massacre, she lives in...
Known to Evil
Known to Evil Thumper Book Review Walter Mosley is back with the second installment of his new, magnificent Lenoid McGill Mystery series, Known to Evil. Believe it or not, I got my hands on Known...
Tara Nicole Whitaker
Tara Nicole Whitaker NONE Tara Nicole Whitaker is a renowned author recognized for her compelling narratives and unique storytelling style. With a diverse range of works, Whitaker's writings offer a ...
Tara Sullivan
Tara Sullivan NONE Tara Sullivan, born in Calcutta and raised across South America and the Caribbean, is a global-minded author with a dual Master's degree in Non-Profit Management and International ...
Tara M. Stringfellow
Tara M. Stringfellow NONE Tara M. Stringfellow, a poet and former attorney, is a Northwestern University MFA graduate and Fulbright Fellowship semifinalist. She's written for numerous publications an...
Tara T. Green
Tara T. Green NONE Tara T. Green is an African American Studies professor with over 20 years of teaching literature and culture. Award-winning author and editor of 6 books on the lives and experience...
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart 9780062918000 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient ...
Diamond Doris
Diamond Doris Doris Payne 9780062917997 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most...
House of Payne, Volume 4
House of Payne, Volume 4 Kam Williams house_26.jpg Film Review House of Payne, Volume 4 Click to order via AmazonUnrated Running time: 440 minutes Studio: Lionsgat...
All Hope Is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation
All Hope Is Found: Rediscovering the Joy of Expectation Sarah Jakes Roberts 9781400339877 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It’s not ...
Ravished by Desire: A Little DareThorn’s Challenge (Arabesque)
Ravished by Desire: A Little DareThorn’s Challenge (Arabesque) Brenda Jackson 9780373831791 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited A Little DareWhen Shelly Brockman walks into his offi...
Tara Pringle Jefferson
Tara Pringle Jefferson NONE Tara Pringle Jefferson is the founder of The Self Care Suite, a digital wellness community for Black women. A certified breathwork facilitator and wellness advocate, her ...
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Nikki Giovanni 9781402210488 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Eric Payne is not ready to publish a book a poetry’but, on the other hand, the 21st century is a new time. If a person believes they are a poet a...
The Bitter Side of Sweet
The Bitter Side of Sweet Tara Sullivan 9780399173073 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House For fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape ...
Pride and Protest
Pride and Protest Nikki Payne 9780593440940 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022! A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threateni...
Joi and Payne
Joi and Payne Sheila L. Jackson 9780692656860 Fiction Virtuous Books Virtuous Books A teenager texting while driving runs a stop sign and shatters Joi Campbell’s perfect life. Her husband and twin b...
Sex, Lies and Sensibility
Sex, Lies and Sensibility Nikki Payne 9780593440964 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own....
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader Rudine Sims Bishop 9781933491158 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. He came from modest beginnings. Born in South Carolina in 1811 to free people o...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Eric Payne 9780595172122 Poetry iUniverse Author Solutions I see through eyes is an unashamed piece that doesnt sugarcoat the conflicts present in mens hearts. It explores the pain ...
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green 9781501382307 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing “A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.” - Boo...
Make It Happen: The Young Mommy Guide to Creating the Career You Crave
Make It Happen: The Young Mommy Guide to Creating the Career You Crave Tara Pringle Jefferson 9781461171409 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In this book, Tara shows you how to find you...
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing Tara Pringle Jefferson 9780063377875 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates t...
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging Tara Roberts 9781426223754 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books This searing memoir by a National Geographic...
Magic Enuff: Poems
Magic Enuff: Poems Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593447437 Poetry The Dial Press Penguin Random House Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds betwee...
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Tara T. Green 9780814254714 Fiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press In Reimagining ...
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5 Shelia M. Goss 9781601623980 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Bestselling author Sheila Goss returns with her popular Lip Gloss Chr...
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men Tara T. Green 9780826266545 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri The impact of absent fathers on son...
Tara Roberts
Tara Roberts NONE Sure, please provide me with the author's bio that needs to be summarized.
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! Tara Betts Article More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it&rsq...
Dear Star Baby
Dear Star Baby Malcolm Newsome 9781506484808 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media I knew something was wrong when Mama called me close. She held my hand and told me you would not be coming home with us...
Project Middle School (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #1), 1
Project Middle School (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #1), 1 Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329407 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. From actor and lifelong activist Alyssa Milano comes Hope Robert...
This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day
This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day Hoda Kotb 9780593191088 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! In this all-new collection of bel...
Daddy Speaks Love
Daddy Speaks Love Leah Henderson 9780593354360 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A moving tribute to the joy and grounding that fathers bring to their children’s lives. What does a d...
The Fisher King: A Novel
The Fisher King: A Novel Paule Marshall 9780684869704 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family’...
Memphis
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that...
Femme du Monde
Femme du Monde Tara Betts Book Review Spears Jones’ second collection Femme du Monde does not simply unfold the artful experiences of a woman who has traveled and soaked up the internatio...
Project Go Green (Hope #4)
Project Go Green (Hope #4) Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329438 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Hope Roberts saves the planet!In the fourth book in Alyssa Milano’s funny and relatable ...
Project Animal Rescue (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2), 2
Project Animal Rescue (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2), 2 Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329414 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. The local animal shelter might be closing — and it’s up to Hope ...
Just Because
Just Because Chiquita Camille Payne 9780979613241 Fiction Mama’s Boyz, Incorporated Mama’s Boyz, Incorporated 2015 WINNER of THE PURPLE DRAGONFLY AWARD in the category of FAMILY MATTERS and HONORABLE ...
Anthology For Hope In The Hood
Anthology For Hope In The Hood Jess Marie 9781511573337 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Hope in the Hood,is a collection of poetry to inspire those who look for hope amidst seemingly hopel...
Party Girl: A Novel
Party Girl: A Novel Pat Tucker 9781593094027 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. An unforgettable novel with ripped-from-the-headlines appeal: is being at the wrong place at the wrong time re...
Princess and the P.I.
Princess and the P.I. Nikki Payne 9780593817360 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech ...
Lovin’ Thy Enemy
Lovin’ Thy Enemy Joy Deja King 9781958834336 Fiction King Productions King Productions Charly is the only daughter of notorious gangster Charlie Brinks. Following in her father’s footsteps, Charly car...
Lovin’ Thy Enemy
Lovin’ Thy Enemy Joy Deja King 9781942217237 Fiction King Productions King Productions Charly, is the only daughter of notorious gangster Charlie Brinks. Following in her father’s footsteps, Charly ca...
Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados, from Clement Payne to Owen Arthur
Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados, from Clement Payne to Owen Arthur Hilary Beckles 9780852554944 Nonfiction James Currey Ltd / Heinemann James Currey Ltd / Heinemann
The Descendants
The Descendants Kam Williams images/thedescendants.jpg Film Review Clooney Seeks Redemption as Regretful Patriarch in Dysfunctional Family Drama The Descendants Rated R for profanity and sexua...
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade 9780063054042 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Learn about feelings and emotions with Shady Baby in this board book create...
The Light on Halsey Street
The Light on Halsey Street Vanessa Miller 9780840709936 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Download Book Club KitInspirational Christian fiction, Perfect for fans of Tara M. Stri...
From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature
From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature Tara T. Green 9780881460902 Nonfiction Mercer University Press Mercer University Press According to George Jackson, Black men...
Brer Rabbit Retold
Brer Rabbit Retold Arthur R. Flowers 9789383145461 Nonfiction Tara Books Tara Books The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful renderin...
Arc & Hue
Arc & Hue Tara Betts 9780981920870 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books Poetry. Foreword by Afaa Michael Weaver. ARC & HUE explores the paradoxes of life in America’s past an...
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era Tara T. Green 9781978826021 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desi...
Aamila’s Adventure: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Aamila’s Adventure: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Tara Henderson 9781649130075 Fiction Rosedog Press Rosedog Press Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually, they t...
Golden Boy
Golden Boy Tara Sullivan 9780399161124 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different—light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. ...
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr. Arthur R. Flowers 9789380340043 Nonfiction Tara Books Tara Books "Both evocative and factually rich…Older teens, in addition to adults, will ...
What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories About Sex and Love
What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories About Sex and Love Tara Roberts 9780618646364 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Like big sisters sharing secrets, these every...
Am I the Last Virgin?: Ten African American Reflections on Sex and Love
Am I the Last Virgin?: Ten African American Reflections on Sex and Love Tara Roberts 9780689804496 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Explores the sexual issues...
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements Malcolm X 9780802160706 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. “Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never cha...
Project Class President (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #3), 3
Project Class President (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #3), 3 Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329421 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Hope Roberts for President — or not? In the third book in Alys...
The Dandelion Speaks of Survival
The Dandelion Speaks of Survival Quintin Collins 9780578871974 Poetry Cherry Castle Publishing Cherry Castle Publishing Poems in The Dandelion Speaks of Survival originate from a boundless imagination...
Hope Anita Smith
Hope Anita Smith 0000000032573509 Hope Anita Smith received a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor for Keeping the Night Watch and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Author Award for...
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney 0000000038213846 Douglas Kearney, a renowned poet and professor, is known for his works addressing race and history. His first book, “Fear, Some,” was published in 2006, followed by o...
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins 9780062952202 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her belov...
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family Afaa Michael Weaver 9781889330723 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books These Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the in...
What the World Needs Now: Messages of Love and Hope (But No Advice, ’Cause No One Listens Anyway)
What the World Needs Now: Messages of Love and Hope (But No Advice, ’Cause No One Listens Anyway) Dionne Warwick 9781400247998 Nonfiction Harper Celebrate HarperCollins What we need is a little more l...
Hope Is a Rainbow
Hope Is a Rainbow Hoda Kotb 9780593624128 Fiction Flamingo Books Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and cohost of NBC’s TODAY, Hoda Kotb, comes a new book about finding hop...
Pamela C. Rice
Pamela C. Rice NONE Pamela C. Rice is an acclaimed children's author and illustrator with over 25 books to her credit. Notable for her artistic collaborations and warm illustrations, Rice's works dra...
Where There Is Hope: A Story in African Proverbs
Where There Is Hope: A Story in African Proverbs Shauntay Grant 9780593659953 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House When tragedy strikes, a young girl learns the importance of hope and communi...
So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy
So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy Aracelis Girmay 9781642598766 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and edi...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd 9781476773155 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-win...
The Bedroom: An Everlasting Love Story
The Bedroom: An Everlasting Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review This slight paperback, inspired by the film, The Bedroom, packs several truths of marriage and commitment into its revealing pages....
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Langston Hughes 9780786818679 Fiction Hyperion Books Hachette Book Group Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, t...
A Dead Man Speaks
A Dead Man Speaks Lisa Jones Johnson 9781585712038 Fiction Genesis Press Genesis Press A Dead Man Speaks is a supernatural murder mystery where the main character, Clive January, a successful Afric...
Grasshopper Speaks
Grasshopper Speaks Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Katrina Register’s memoir, “Grasshopper Speaks,” the author takes readers on the whirlwind journey of her life. In this debut, s...
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower
Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt 9781647426323 Nonfiction She Writes Press She Writes Press For readers who love Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Nikk...
midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers
midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers Ianna A. Small 9781737933229 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to shor...
Milk Blood Heat
Milk Blood Heat Dantiel W. Moniz 9780802158154 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s literary landscape, Milk...
Full Figured 12: Carl Weber Presents
Full Figured 12: Carl Weber Presents La Jill Hunt and C. N. Phillips 9781601621092 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Literary divas La Jill Hunt and C. N. Phillips deliver two empowering sto...
Janice Broadnax: A Delayed Story
Janice Broadnax: A Delayed Story Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781718865259 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Janice felt David wrap his arms around her as she stared out the window as Crea place...
Crown Heights
Crown Heights Kam Williams ../reviews/images/crown-heights.jpg Film Review Courtroom Docudrama Recounts Real-Life Miscarriage of Justice Excellent (★★★★) Rated R for lan...