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Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay 000000035624500X Ava DuVernay is an award-winning writer, producer, and director in independent film. She founded DVA Media + Marketing and the African-American Film Festival Releasing M...
Alexandra Morton
Alexandra Morton 0000000078676423 Alexandra Morton, host of The Book Look and 2011 Miss Black America-Baltimore, offers a unique online book review show on NewsOne.com. Featuring the latest book news...
D. Amari Jackson
D. Amari Jackson 0000000530897506 D. Amari Jackson is an accomplished creator, award-winning journalist, and author known for his middle grade novel, Jelani's Key. His portfolio includes TV/web/film ...
Hoops
Hoops Walter Dean Myers 9780307976116 Fiction Ember Ember An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsNew Bonus Content:-Q&A with Walter Dean Myers-Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard-Teaser chapter from On...
Blacktrospective 2012 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Film
Blacktrospective 2012 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Film Troy Johnson Article Each year we publish our annual list of the best in Black cinema. This list is unique in that it assesses...
Vashti Harrison
Vashti Harrison 0000000476987403 Vashti Harrison, born in 1988, is a Virginia-based author, illustrator, and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She has degrees in Media Studies, Studio Art, F...
Mona Ombogo
Mona Ombogo 0000000062004139 Kenyan author and scriptwriter, Mona Ombogo, is known for her award-winning films and novels. With a global education and exposure to diverse cultures, her work addresses...
Power Moves Study Guide: What the Bible Says about How You Can Reclaim and Redefine Your God-Given Power
Power Moves Study Guide: What the Bible Says about How You Can Reclaim and Redefine Your God-Given Power Sarah Jakes Roberts 9780310151050 Nonfiction Harperchristian Resources HarperCollins In the Pow...
From Poverty To Power Moves
From Poverty To Power Moves Dashawn Taylor 9781598721768 Fiction Real-HipHop Books Real-HipHop Books “A powerful tool for the underestimated generation.” That is the quote from Lidia Mitchell from Vib...
Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make: Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition
Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make: Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition Cassandra Mack 9780595472444 Fiction Authors Choice Press Authors Choice Press Smart Moves That Successful Youth Worker...
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less!
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less! William S. Parrish Jr. 9780983906803 Nonfiction MBM Publishing, LLC MBM Publishing, LLC Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimi...
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film James Baldwin and Raoul Peck 9780525434696 Nonfiction Vintage International Series Penguin Random House Learn about the Oscar-Nominated...
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com’s movie critic, Kam Williams, is my friend. He is one of the most easy going guys I know. He has reviewed thousa...
Lolita Files
Lolita Files 0000000067722180 Lolita Files, an accomplished African-American author, screenwriter, and producer, is known for her bestselling novels like 'Scenes from a Sistah' and 'Child of God'. Wi...
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina NONE Michael Dequina is a prolific film critic, contributing to numerous platforms including Rottentomatoes.com, Film Threat, and his own site, TheMovieReport.com. He's been reviewing...
Matthew A. Cherry
Matthew A. Cherry 0000000500418922 Former NFL wide receiver, Matthew A. Cherry, transitioned into filmmaking after his retirement in 2007. He's known for directing over 20 music videos, his feature f...
Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks NONE Nick Brooks, an award-winning filmmaker and author from Washington, DC, is known for his short film 'Hoop Dreamin''. A 2020 USC graduate, he won the George Lucas Scholar Award and wa...
Ava DuVernay The “Selma” Interview
Ava DuVernay The “Selma” Interview Kam Williams Interview Ava DuVernay is a writer, producer, director and distributor of independent film. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundanc...
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Kirby Howell-Baptiste NONE Kirby Howell-Baptiste is a London-born actress, known for roles in Killing Eve, The Good Place, Barry, Why Women Kill, Veronica Mars and the 2021 films Cruella and Queenpin...
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
How to Make Money Selling Drugs Kam Williams how-to-make-money-selling-drugs.jpg Film Review Documentary Offers Tips on Dope Dealing How to Make Money Selling Drugs In Theaters: Jun 26, ...
Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema George Alexander 9780767911818 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A sparkling collection of interviews with African Amer...
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
Manjhi Moves a Mountain Nancy Churnin 9781939547347 Nonfiction Creston Books Creston Books Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and twenty years to carve a path through the m...
Smart Money Moves for African-Americans
Smart Money Moves for African-Americans Kelvin Boston 9780399522628 Nonfiction TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House The host of PBS’s The Color of Money presents his bestselling guide to personal wealt...
Screenwriting Into Film
Screenwriting Into Film Andre Seewood 9781425726447 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions SCREENWRITING INTO FILM is a dynamic new book that gives the reader five necessary steps to follow in preparing ...
Kam Williams
Kam Williams NONE Lloyd “Kam” Williams was a renowned film and book critic, contributing to AALBC.com and numerous other publications. A member of several critics associations, he was known for his a...
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip 0000000045262996 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, a Connecticut-born author and former CBS affiliate manager, has made significant contributions to academia, television, and film preser...
Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons 0000000118746394 Karen “Kasi” Lemmons is a celebrated actress, writer, and director, known for roles in films like “Silence of the Lambs”, and for directing the highest-grossing independ...
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda Kam Williams images/kinyarwanda_movie_poster.jpg Film Review Rwandan Tragedy Revisited in "Crash"-Like Ensemble Drama Read an interview with the film maker Alrick Brown Kinyarwanda ...
1971 (★★★★) Film Review
1971 (★★★★) Film Review Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/1971.jpg Film Review Whistleblower Documentary Recounts Break-In Uncovering Illegal FBI Surveillance Program 1971 In Theaters: Fe...
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love Kam Williams images/eat_pray_lovel.jpg Film Review Divorcee Embarks on Spiritual Sojourn in Pat Adaptation of Best-Selling Memoir Eat, Pray, Love Click to order via Amaz...
5 Great New and Upcoming Books December 17, 2017 #ReadingBlack
5 Great New and Upcoming Books December 17, 2017 #ReadingBlack Poetry & Spoken Word
Ebony Glenn
Ebony Glenn NONE Ebony Glenn is an Atlanta-based illustrator known for whimsical art that brings joy and magic. She illustrated award-winning books like Mommy’s Khimar, Not Quite Snow White, Beacon t...
Chris Washburn
Chris Washburn NONE "Ex-high school basketball star, Chris Washburn, shares his journey from NBA fame to losing everything due to a 14-year crack addiction in his upcoming memoir. His redemptive stor...
Tessa Gratton
Tessa Gratton 0000000121682336 Tessa Gratton, an acclaimed author of adult and YA SFF novels, is known for her dark queer fairy tales and Shakespearean retellings. Her works, translated into 22 langu...
Sunny: Can He Make the Move to Make New Moves?
Sunny: Can He Make the Move to Make New Moves? Jason Reynolds 9781481450218 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third no...
Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force
Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force Sarah Jakes Roberts 9780785291909 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Instant New York Times Bestseller! Unleash the supe...
B.O.S.S. Moves
B.O.S.S. Moves Myron Golden 9781737856207 Nonfiction Skillionaire Enterprises Skillionaire Enterprises This Is My “Business Brain” in a Book. Throughout the book, Myron reveals his top-level secret...
Body Moves
Body Moves Tim Seibles 9780887485596 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press A reissuing of Body Moves, poems by Tim Seibles
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction Toni Morrison 9781604730173 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of ...
Stars and Sparks on Stage, 6
Stars and Sparks on Stage, 6 Sharon M. Draper 9781442454576 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Clubhouse kids compete for a big prize—and make some creative moves—in this repackaged...
Our Differences Make Us Stronger: How We Heal Together
Our Differences Make Us Stronger: How We Heal Together La June Montgomery Tabron 9781633311039 Fiction Disruption Books Disruption Books A story about sharing our identities and making new friends...
Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens
Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens Cassandra Mack 9780595467891 Nonfiction Authors Choice Press Authors Choice Press Motivating a new generation of teens with tips, steps and strateg...
Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors
Film Makers: 15 Groundbreaking Women Directors Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Tanisia Moore 9798890680051 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press In Hollywood, women don’t have to be in front o...
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda: Creators, Writers, and Comics Legends on the Impact of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther Mateus Manhanini 9781984826176 Fiction Random House Worlds Pengui...
Nate Parker: The “The Birth of a Nation” Interview
Nate Parker: The “The Birth of a Nation” Interview Kam Williams Interview The Birth of Nate’s Nation! Actor/humanitarian-turned-writer/director Nate Parker first received critical attent...
Black Hollywood Unchained
Black Hollywood Unchained Ishmael Reed 9780883783535 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intelle...
Spike Lee Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 9781934429518 Fiction AMMO Books AMMO Books Celebrating just more than 20 years since its seminal debut, Do The Right Thing remains one of the most important and...
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto Melvin Van Peebles 9781560256335 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles’s independently produced fi...
Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking
Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking Spike Lee 9780671644178 Fiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Spike Lee wrote, directed and starred in She’s Gotta Have It, the independe...
Tariq Nasheed
Tariq Nasheed 0000000035827594 Tariq Nasheed, also known as Tariq Elite, King Flex, and K-Flex, is a renowned author, film producer, and director. He's known for his advice books on dating and the ho...
Raoul Peck
Raoul Peck 0000000081402175 Raoul Peck is a renowned filmmaker known for narrative films and documentaries like Lumumba and I Am Not Your Negro. A jury member at Cannes and Berlinale, he chairs the b...
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...
Armond White
Armond White 0000000031792179 Armond Allen White, born in 1953, is a renowned film and music critic. He served as the arts editor for The City Sun and later wrote for New York Press. He was the edito...
Nkem DenChukwu
Nkem DenChukwu NONE Nkem DenChukwu, a multitalented artist with a background in Computer Networking and Health Services Administration, is passionate about filmmaking, writing, and cooking. She has p...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...
Greg Garrett
Greg Garrett 0000000046223577 Greg Garrett is a recognized voice on religion and culture in America, with work featured across major media outlets. He is the co-founder of the Long Long Way Film Fest...
N’Tyse
N’Tyse NONE N'Tyse, a wife, mother, and Dallas native, is a multitalented novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. With a background in banking and a degree from Arizona State University, she is ce...
Circus
Circus Kam Williams circus10.jpg Film Review Russian Retrospective Features 1936 Film Indicting American Racism Circus (Tsirk) Unrated In Russian and English with subtitles. ...
We Gotta Have It
We Gotta Have It Kam Williams Book Review ’We Gotta Have It represents twenty years of seeing a new generation of Black movies. Before this journey began in 1986, with Spike Lee’s She...
Lackawanna Blues
Lackawanna Blues Brian Egeston lackaw3.jpg Film Review How Matriarchs Have Made Us A Film Review of Lackawanna Blues. Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) Directed by George C. Wolfe Written by Ruben Santi...
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story Zora Neale Hurston Article A screening of the film The Gilded Six-Bits was held July 29, 2010 as part of the AALBC.com Brownstones Series in Harlem, New York. B...
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview Kam Williams Interview Anika Noni Rose The “Half of a Yellow Sun” Interview Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose currently stars alongside Denz...
American Gun (2005) - Film Review
American Gun (2005) - Film Review Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/movies36.jpg Film Review Forest Whitaker Tops Ensemble Cast in ’Crash’-Style Melodrama American Gun Excellent (4 star...
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder 0000000037086910 Aaron McGruder, born in Chicago in 1974, is best known for creating the comic strip The Boondocks. Inspired by hip hop and politics, he debuted his work online in 1996...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 0000000081090255 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor in 1947, is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. A 7-foot-2 Hall of Famer, he dominat...
Malcolm D. Lee
Malcolm D. Lee 0000000041786688 Malcolm D. Lee is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose celebrated work includes The Best Man, Girls Trip, Night School, and Space Jam: A New Legacy. ...
Dark Girls (Preview)
Dark Girls (Preview) Kam Williams dark-girls-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Dark Girls: Real Women, Real Stories Click to order via Amazon This documentary exploresd the deep-seated biases ...
Sharifa Stevens
Sharifa Stevens NONE Sharifa Stevens is a writer, poet, speaker, and singer. She is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, born and raised in New York, and currently resides with her family in Dallas,...
Olujimi Ojikutu
Olujimi Ojikutu NONE Olujimi Ojikutu, a University of Lagos graduate, began his career in finance but followed his passion for art and storytelling. He's known for creating comics in his youth, writi...
Portia Cosby
Portia Cosby NONE Portia A. Cosby is a renowned novelist, screenwriter, and poet from Indianapolis, known for her relatable storytelling. With a background in kinesiology and film, she blends her ski...
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart 0000000081598956 Kevin Hart, born July 6, 1979, is a record-breaking comedian and actor from Philadelphia. Known for his unique style, he tours like a rockstar, performing in over 100 stad...
Black Chess
Black Chess Roberta Roberts 9781735140810 Fiction Uraeus Press Uraeus Press Life is a game of chess. Marginalized people play the game with the black chess pieces, moving second in response to the act...
Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls
Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls Cassandra Mack 9780595475605 Nonfiction Authors Choice Press Authors Choice Press Created just for girls, Cool, Confident and Strong helps young wo...
Dante Brown - The Won't Back Down Interview
Dante Brown - The Won't Back Down Interview Kam Williams Interview Dante Brown The “Won’t Back Down” Interview Born in Chicago on October 6, 1999, Dante Brown’s big break came at the tender ...
By 2034 95% of Americans Will be Obese or Overweight
By 2034 95% of Americans Will be Obese or Overweight Troy Johnson Article I saw the new documentary film Fed Up and was both outraged and saddened. Simply put, food companies are killing us and this...
Life Changing Books
Life Changing Books Life Changing Books Life Changing Books LLC Author Tressa Azarel Smallwood, is the CEO of Life Changing Books, which she founded in 2003 with the publication of her book, A Life T...
Life Changing Books
Life Changing Books Life Changing Books LLC Life Changing Books Author Tressa Azarel Smallwood, is the CEO of Life Changing Books, which she founded in 2003 with the publication of her book, A Life T...
Purple Rising: Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of the Color Purple
Purple Rising: Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of the Color Purple Lise Funderburg 9781668023211 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. One of Oprah’s Favorite Things of ...
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration Spike Lee 9781636810133 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collecti...
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not? Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd 9780883784099 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Black Panther earns three Oscars. Since its inception Marvel Studios’ Bla...
AAFCA Honored MOONLIGHT as Top Film & QUEEN SUGAR as the Top TV Show
AAFCA Honored MOONLIGHT as Top Film & QUEEN SUGAR as the Top TV Show Troy Johnson Article FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (AAFCA) HONORED MOONLIGHT AS THE TOP ...
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights Dick Lehr 9781610398237 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group In 1915, two men-one a journalist agitator, the ...
Dear White People
Dear White People Justin Simien 9781476798097 Fiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Right out of college, Justin Simien wrote a screenplay about the nuanced experiences of four black students ...
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming!
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming! Troy Johnson Article I just learned about this up coming film from my online buddy, CD Burns, an hour ago. After watching the trailer, I figured I’d shar...
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film Christine List 9780415726474 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers wh...
Race, Philosophy, And Film (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy)
Race, Philosophy, And Film (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Philosophy) Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Dan Flory 9780415624459 Fiction Routledge Routledge This collection fills a gap in the current li...
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781590173404 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-...
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha Melvin Van Peebles 9781933354866 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nearly forty years after breaking his way into public consciousness, the indefatigable...
The Matrix Cultural Revolution: How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go?
The Matrix Cultural Revolution: How Deep Does the Rabbit Hole Go? Michel Marriott 9781560255741 Nonfiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press The Matrix, a cyberpunk thriller about computer h...
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman’s Film Julie Dash 9781565840300 Fiction The New Press The New Press In the winter of 1992, nearly one hundred years after motion pictures...
Ousmane Sembène
Ousmane Sembène 0000000120171534 “Father of African Film” Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007) was a renowned Senegalese director, producer, and writer. Often recognized as the “father of African ...
Booker T. Mattison
Booker T. Mattison NONE Booker T. Mattison is an author and filmmaker who wrote the screenplay for and directed the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic story "The Gi...
Lori Nelson Lee
Lori Nelson Lee NONE Lori Nelson Lee, author of children's books like 'Hillary’s Big Business Adventure' and 'Danica Dramatica - Queen Me', introduces entrepreneurship to young readers. Her works are...
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks 0000000122842071 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a self-taught photographer who rose from poverty to become a pioneering African American film director, writer, and composer. Notably, he di...
Melvin Tolson
Melvin Tolson NONE Melvin B. Tolson Sr. (1898-1966) was a Modernist poet, educator, and politician from Missouri, known for his work on the African American experience and the Harlem Renaissance. His...
Peter Kalu
Peter Kalu NONE Peter Kalu is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and playwright from the UK. He began his writing career at Manchester's Moss Side Write black writers workshop and has produced ei...
Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas 0000000486125057 Angie Thomas, a Mississippi-based author, gained fame with her debut novel 'The Hate U Give'. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the novel was a #1 New York Ti...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Marvis Johnson
Marvis Johnson NONE Marvis Johnson is a multi-talented entrepreneur, artist manager, director, and author with formal training in Film and Television Arts. Known for his work in the New York City fil...