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The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges Andrew P. Jackson, Jefferson C. Julius, Jr., and Akilah S. Nosakhere 9780810882454 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield Th...
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges Author Interviews
Uncle Yah Yah Part I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom - Book Reviewed by Carol Taylor
Uncle Yah Yah Part I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom - Book Reviewed by Carol Taylor Kam Williams Interview Uncle Yah Yah 21st Century Man of Wisdom - Part II Click to order via Amazo...
Uncle Yah Yah Parts I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom
Uncle Yah Yah Parts I & II 21st Century Man of Wisdom Alvin Romer Book Review Author Al Dickens gives us his unique brand of wisdom told as by Uncle Yah Yah, a storyteller and wise sage spewing amus...
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference Joanne Oppenheim 9780439569927 Nonfiction Scholastic Nonfiction Scholasti...
The Loud Librarian
The Loud Librarian Jenna Beatrice 9781665910545 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A little librarian with a larger-than-life voice finds her place in this sweet and uproa...
21st Century Slavery - My Reaction
21st Century Slavery - My Reaction Troy Johnson Article Generally when I get spam, whether it come from friends, family or a stranger, I usually just delete it. I get a lot of email. Most of it is ...
Cicely Lewis
Cicely Lewis NONE Cicely Lewis, a Georgia-based school librarian, is passionate about fostering reading habits. She initiated the Read Woke challenge in 2017, addressing social issues and literature ...
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture
REAL EYEZ: Race, Reality and Politics In 21st Century Popular Culture Anthony Asadullah Samad 9780972388047 Nonfiction Kabili Press Kabili Press In his latest work, bestselling Author/Columnist/Race S...
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101537 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick The remarkable story of J. P. Mor...
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement Sharon Ewell Foster 9780996870702 Nonfiction C. M. Williams & Associates Press C. M. Williams & Associates Press America is losing ground in the gl...
The Global Obama: Crossroads Of Leadership In The 21St Century (Leadership: Research And Practice)
The Global Obama: Crossroads Of Leadership In The 21St Century (Leadership: Research And Practice) Dinesh Sharma and Uwe P. Gielen 9781848726260 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge The Global Obama examine...
Real Eyez: Race
Real Eyez: Race Kam Williams Book Review “America’s oldest dilemmas are rooted in race realities that it, as a nation and as a society, refuses to confront. Is race the dilemma of t...
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for a the 21st Century
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for a the 21st Century Stedman Graham 9780743234375 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Stedman Graham, bestselling author of You Can Make It Happen, teaches tha...
Do I Have To Be A Starving Artist In The 21St Century
Do I Have To Be A Starving Artist In The 21St Century Hisani P. Dubose 9781451557381 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Technology, technology What have you done? Given me the chance to show...
Changing Times for Black Professionals
Changing Times for Black Professionals Adia Harvey Wingfield 9781138164888 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional worker...
The Black Librarian in America Revisited
The Black Librarian in America Revisited E.J. Josey 9780810828308 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield This sequel to The Black Librarian in America (Scarecrow, 1970) contains an array of c...
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions Matt Meyer and déqui kioni-sadiki 9781629633893 Nonfiction PM Press PM Press Amid music festivals and moon landings, the t...
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation for the 21st Century
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation for the 21st Century Connie Bradley Book Review The Lazarus Parable by John C. Bonner is an apocalyptic tale which chronicles what the future holds for the planet ...
The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century
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...
Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology: Revised Edition for the 21st Century
Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology: Revised Edition for the 21st Century Joseph Pilates and Judd Robbins 9798890967060 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books First published in 1945, Pilates’ ...
Rediscovering the Kingdom: Ancient Hope for Our 21st Century World
Rediscovering the Kingdom: Ancient Hope for Our 21st Century World Myles Munroe 9780768422573 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image From the very beginning God’s plan for His creation was centered on...
Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century
Body Bee Calling from the 21st Century Miguel Algarin 9780934770170 Poetry Arte Público Press Arte Público Press Algarín’s book is a psychic-poetic oddyssey into the bionic 21st century.
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues Venise Berry 9781433126475 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a hol...
The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century
The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century Farai Chideya 9780688175801 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Two years ago, Newsweek named Farai Chideya to its "Century Club" of a hundred p...
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller Breanna J. McDaniel 9780593324202 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning author and illustrator...
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century Kehinde Andrews 9781786992772 Nonfiction Zed Books Zed Books The Black Lives Matter movement reinvigorated Black political movements arou...
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer Janelle Monáe 9780063070875 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins New York Times bestseller! In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of D...
Tales Of A Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging The Juvenile Justice System One Book At A Time
Tales Of A Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging The Juvenile Justice System One Book At A Time Marybeth Zeman 9780615953878 Nonfiction Vinegar Hill Press Vinegar Hill Press In a large suburban county jail...
Lecia Michelle
Lecia Michelle NONE Lecia Michelle is a writer, librarian, and educator with over 15 years of experience. She's also an activist and founder of a racial justice organization. She holds a B.A. in Jour...
Rose Brock
Rose Brock 0000000107888362 Rose Brock, a professor at Sam Houston State University, is renowned for inspiring youth to love books. In addition to her career as a librarian and educator, she co-found...
Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time
Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time Carol Taylor Book Review After almost thirty years as a high school teacher Marybeth Zeman quits her teach...
The Memory Librarian
The Memory Librarian Robert Fleming Book Review When I think of singer-actor-fashion icon Janelle Monae, the word eclectic comes to mind. She is everywhere in the media, on every platform. Along with...
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century Amos N. Wilson 9781879164062 Nonfiction Afrikan World Books Afrikan World Books Afrikan life into th...
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto Tavis Smiley and Cornel West 9781401940638 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses ...
Post Racial?: The Paradox of Color in 21st Century America
Post Racial?: The Paradox of Color in 21st Century America Stephanie Robinson 9780974814261 Nonfiction Brand Nu Words NU Words Press The presidential campaign of Barack Obama electrified American vote...
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Patrisse Khan-Cullors 0000000486461392 Patrisse Khan-Cullors, an LA-based artist and freedom fighter, is known for co-founding Black Lives Matter and Dignity and Power Now. A Fulbright scholar and NA...
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century Jasmine Brown 9780807025086 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Black women physician...
Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman
Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman Arthur R. Flowers 9780971581609 Fiction Wanganegresse Press Wanganegresse Press To create art that impacts the heart and mind of the community req...
Sandra L. Manigault
Sandra L. Manigault NONE Sandra L. Manigault, formerly a high school math teacher and college professor, she fell in love with books by African American women and other 20th and 21st century writers,...
Stephanie Robinson author, Post Racial? The Paradox of Color in 21st Century America
Stephanie Robinson author, Post Racial? The Paradox of Color in 21st Century America Author Interviews
Favorite 50 African American Authors and Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century
Favorite 50 African American Authors and Favorite 100 Titles of the 20th Century Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com’s Favorite 50 African American Authorsand Favorite 100 Titles...
Funny You’ve Asked: The Only Relationship and Life Issues Book You’ll Ever Need
Funny You’ve Asked: The Only Relationship and Life Issues Book You’ll Ever Need Johanna Sparrow B01DOIPXCE Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Funny You’ve Asked, dives right into the midd...
Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema
Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema Kam Williams Book Review “Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black mal...
Dialectics Of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement
Dialectics Of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement Abdul Alkalimat 9781569027783 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The Dialectics of Black Liberation:...
Dialectics Of Liberation (paperback): The African Liberation Support Movement
Dialectics Of Liberation (paperback): The African Liberation Support Movement Abdul Alkalimat 9781569027790 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The Dialectics of Black...
Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer 0000000458445176 Anne Bannister Spencer was a lauded American poet, civil rights activist, and librarian during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1882, she was the first African-American w...
The Black Librarian in America
The Black Librarian in America E.J. Josey 9780810803626 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield
Black Liberation in Conservative America
Black Liberation in Conservative America Manning Marable 9780896085596 Nonfiction South End Press South End Press A bold new collection of essays by one of America’s most prominent scholar/activists, ...
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century E. Ethelbert Miller 9781574780178 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This anthology begins with the memory of landscapes...
The 22 Best Books of the 21st Century by Black Writers
The 22 Best Books of the 21st Century by Black Writers Book Spotlights
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century Jasmine Brown 9780807013373 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City Carla L. Peterson 9780300181746 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Part detective tale, part...
Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell
Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell Kevin Powell 9781593762148 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press After eight years of George Bush’s America, we are at a critical juncture in our...
Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays)
Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays) Sophfronia Scott 9780814254639 Fiction Mad Creek Books Ohio University Press Sophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collecti...
Surviving Marriage In the 21st Century: 13 Easy Tips That Can Help You Get To 20 Years and Beyond
Surviving Marriage In the 21st Century: 13 Easy Tips That Can Help You Get To 20 Years and Beyond Rufus and Jenny Triplett 9780615769387 Nonfiction Dawah Publishing Dawah Publishing Surviving Marriage...
Surviving Parenting in the 21st Century: Have You Seen My Innocence
Surviving Parenting in the 21st Century: Have You Seen My Innocence Rufus and Jenny Triplett 9780692339114 Nonfiction Dawah Publishing Dawah Publishing The second release by Rufus and Jenny Triplett, ...
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation For The 21St Century
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation For The 21St Century John Bonner 9780595693115 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions For those who live there, Earth is both paradise and prison, a place for people t...
Do I Have to Be a Starving Artist in the 21st Century?
Do I Have to Be a Starving Artist in the 21st Century? Kam Williams Book Review "The majority of my adult life I have been an artist… Through trial and error, a lot of tears, reading, and ve...
Uncle Yah Yah: 21St Century Man Of Wisdom, Part 2
Uncle Yah Yah: 21St Century Man Of Wisdom, Part 2 Al Dickens 9781936649013 Nonfiction Yah Yah Publications W. Clark Publishing
Black Girls and Adolescents: Facing the Challenges
Black Girls and Adolescents: Facing the Challenges Marian Wright Edelman 9781440830532 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking ...
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...
Erika Lynne Jones
Erika Lynne Jones NONE Erika Lynne Jones, a children's book author and illustrator, uses her work to celebrate culture and affirm children's worth. Known for “The Loud Librarian” and based in Dallas,...
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement Juan Williams 9781668012352 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes...
Terah Shelton Harris
Terah Shelton Harris NONE Terah Shelton Harris is an Alabama-based librarian and freelance writer whose work features in various publications. From Illinois originally, the world traveler who has exp...
From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence
From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence Kevin L. Matthews II 9781736666708 Nonfiction Buildingbread Buildingbread From Burning to Blueprint tells the story o...
America, My Love, America, My Heart
America, My Love, America, My Heart Daria Peoples 9780062993298 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answe...
Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann MULTIPLE Zetta Elliott, a black feminist writer known for poetry, plays, essays, novels, and kids' stories, is renowned for her award-winning picture book, Bird....
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Charlotte Watson Sherman 0000000067613072 Charlotte Watson Sherman, a Seattle-born author, is known for her novels, children's books, and short fiction collection. Formerly a librarian, her works inc...
Augusta Baker
Augusta Baker 0000000081160874 Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998) was a renowned author, librarian, and storyteller, celebrated for her impactful contributions to children's literature, particularly i...
AlTonya Washington
AlTonya Washington NONE AlTonya Washington is an award-winning romance novelist with 12 years of experience. She's won two Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer’s Choice Awards and the Romance Slam Jam EM...
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke NONE Tarana Burke, founder of the “me too” movement, is dedicated to combating sexual violence and systemic issues affecting marginalized communities. She started her activism in the 198...
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America Kim McLarin 9781632461582 Nonfiction Ig Publishing Ig Publishing “What does periracial mean? It's a word I mad...
Megan Frazer Blakemore
Megan Frazer Blakemore NONE Megan Frazer Blakemore is a notable children's and young adults' author, known for her middle grade novels like “The Firefly Code” and “The Water Castle,” the latter being...
Rudolph Lewis: The Prophetic Voice of the Poet
Rudolph Lewis: The Prophetic Voice of the Poet Miriam Decosta-Willis Book Review Rudolph Lewis In his lyrical Mockingbirds at Jerusalem: A Poetic Memoir, poet, editor, and former professor and l...
Four Eids and a Funeral
Four Eids and a Funeral Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 9781250890122 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Ex-best friends must work together in this romantic story of rekindling and rebuilding, from award-...
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252081309 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branc...
Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill
Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill MULTIPLE Laureen P. Cantwell, a former librarian at the University of Memphis, loved the city's dark side and Elvis. Leonard Gill, a Memphis native, writes for the M...
Alice Faye Duncan
Alice Faye Duncan 0000000067711692 Alice Faye Duncan is a librarian and author, crafting books for young readers and adults. She aspires to write lyrical prose that compels children to read repetitiv...
Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe 0000000120233360 Janelle Monáe is a multifaceted American artist, known for her work as a singer/songwriter, actress, and producer. With eight Grammy nominations and successful roles i...
Dharathula H. Millender
Dharathula H. Millender NONE Dharathula H. Millender, also known as “Dolly,” was a librarian, educator, author, and historian from Terre Haute, Indiana, best known for preserving the history of Gary,...
I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy
I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy Mychal Threets 9798217026029 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Dubbed “the Internet’s librarian”—and now host of ...
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252038501 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branch o...
Monica Clark-Robinson
Monica Clark-Robinson NONE “I write picture books, contemporary middle grade fiction, and YA fiction.” Monica Clark-Robinson is a multi-talented individual who excels as an author, actor, ...
Cynthia Grady
Cynthia Grady NONE Cynthia Grady, a former middle school librarian and teacher, is a New Mexico-based author who enjoys playing music for her two rabbits, Finoa and Banjo. Cynthia Grady is an author ...
Alechia Dow
Alechia Dow NONE Alechia Dow is a former pastry chef, librarian, and author of YA sci-fi fantasies, The Sound of Stars and The Kindred. She enjoys dance parties with her daughter, baking, reading, an...
Lauren Gibaldi
Lauren Gibaldi NONE Lauren Gibaldi, a public librarian based in Orlando, Florida, is a renowned author known for works like 'The Night We Said Yes', 'Autofocus', 'This Tiny Perfect World', and coedit...
Arna Bontemps
Arna Bontemps 0000000108744969 Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) was a significant Harlem Renaissance figure and author of 25 diverse books. He served as the head librarian at Fisk University and curator of ...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 0000000084378609 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an award-winning children's author and librarian. She penned “Bad News for Outlaws,” which won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award, and...
Glenda Armand
Glenda Armand NONE Glenda Armand, winner of the 2006 Lee & Low's New Voices Award, is a former teacher and librarian passionate about sharing stories of enslaved African Americans and lesser-known hi...
Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall 0000000114554651 Dudley Randall (1914-2000), a prominent Detroit poet and publisher, began his career at 13 with his first publication. He founded Broadside Press in 1965, promoting Af...
Dhonielle Clayton
Dhonielle Clayton 0000000449631049 Dhonielle Clayton, co-author of the Tiny Pretty Things series and co-founder of CAKE Literary, is a former teacher and librarian. Passionate about diverse literatur...
Jenna Beatrice
Jenna Beatrice NONE Jenna Beatrice, a children's author and former lawyer, advocates for kids through her writing and trustee role at a children's center. A Barnard College and Fordham Law graduate, ...
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101544 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House
Afro-Atlantic Histories
Afro-Atlantic Histories Adriano Pedrosa and Tomas Toledo 9781636810027 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic t...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
Julianne Malveaux
Julianne Malveaux 0000000021068830 Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a renowned economist, author, and commentator, lauded for her contributions to public discourse on race, culture, and gender. Currently the...
Joy-Ann Reid
Joy-Ann Reid 0000000038365962 Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid, born in 1968, is a renowned TV host and political commentator on MSNBC. Hosting “The ReidOut” since 2011, she covers political issues, current ev...
Julianne Malveaux: The “Surviving and Thriving” Interview
Julianne Malveaux: The “Surviving and Thriving” Interview Kam Williams Interview Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th President of Bennett College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and...
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 9781932841770 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerf...