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The 22 Best Books of the 21st Century by Black Writers
The 22 Best Books of the 21st Century by Black Writers Book Spotlights
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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’ ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges Author Interviews
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...
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 Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Phillis Wheatley 9780195060850 Poetry Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The past...
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...
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...
Hell of a Book: A Novel
Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott 9780593330982 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chau...
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...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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
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...
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
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...
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...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 9780679444329 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • National Book Critics Circ...
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...
Ice–T and Douglas Century
Ice–T and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T and Douglas Century are prolific figures in the entertainment industry. Ice-T, a Grammy-winning rapper and actor, is best known for his role on “Law & Order: ...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work Claudia Tate 9781642598407 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wi...
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...
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...
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 ...
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Sharyn Skeeter 9781950584864 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Transition and change are 21st-century lived experiences. We want to know “wha...
Douglas Century
Douglas Century 0000000120268336 Douglas Century is a bestselling author and investigative journalist known for works such as Under and Alone, Hunting El Chapo, and Takedown. He was a 2003 Edgar Awar...
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought Briona Simone Jones 9781620975763 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought b...
ZZ Packer
ZZ Packer 0000000079830912 ZZ Packer is a celebrated writer recognized by Book magazine. A Yale, Johns Hopkins, and University of Iowa alumna, she's acclaimed for her short fiction in her debut colle...
Articles for Writers
Articles for Writers Troy Johnson Article In this section you will find articles for and about writers and the art of writing. If you would like to contribute an article to ...
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...
Herb Boyd
Herb Boyd 0000000110710186 Herb Boyd Receives Social Justice Award Herb Boyd, born in 1938, is an award-winning author and journalist. He's written over 20 books and numerous articles, with notable wo...
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana 9780915924288 Poetry Teachers and Writers Collaborative Teache...
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle)
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781468314496 Fiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Rereleased in time for its first Broadway run, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson’s 10-play cycle ...
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
Black Writers Dominate the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes Troy Johnson Article Back in January of this year, I took the time to try to figure out how many Black writers have won Pulitzer Prizes in the six ...
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford 9780883782965 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Representing conversations from the Eighth National...
Legacy: Treasures of Black History
Legacy: Treasures of Black History Thomas C. Battle and Donna Marcia Wells 9781426200069 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Books From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished...
Damaris B. Hill
Damaris B. Hill 0000000454814480 DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. Inspired by theories of “rememory” and inclusive history, Hill has ...
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION Khristi Lauren Adams Excerpt INTRODUCTION The turn of the millennium has seen an upsurge in new and young African writers and this has been particularly noticeable in terms of the num...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s Mary Helen Washington 9780231152716 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Mary Helen Washingt...
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T, Spike, and Douglas Century are renowned individuals known for their contributions in music, film, and literature respectively, each leaving a signifi...
Official Writers League
Official Writers League Official Writers League Official Writers League The Official Writers League was founded in 2012 by New York Times Bestselling Authors Ashley & JaQuavis. The company specialize...
Official Writers League
Official Writers League Official Writers League Official Writers League The Official Writers League was founded in 2012 by New York Times Bestselling Authors Ashley & JaQuavis. The company specialize...
5 Things Writers Must Do To Survive Online
5 Things Writers Must Do To Survive Online Troy Johnson Article Today, despite all the technology and social media at our disposal, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the average writer to ear...
Alice Wootson
Alice Wootson NONE Alice Greenhowe Wootson is a retired teacher and acclaimed author of thirteen novels, including romance and romantic suspense. A prize-winning poet, member of various writers' asso...
Blockson Literary Collective
Blockson Literary Collective Troy Johnson Article Charles L. Blockson The Charles L. Blockson Literary Collective is dedicated to sponsoring programs and initiates designed to promote ...
The Complete Muhammad Ali
The Complete Muhammad Ali Ishmael Reed 9781771860406 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Ree...
What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future
What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future Rebecca Walker 9781594480683 Nonfiction Riverhead Trade Penguin Random House A timely and profound anthology from the national bestselling author of Bla...
Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—And the Fight to Retake Control
Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited—And the Fight to Retake Control Lisa E. Davis 9781982175993 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. An exploratio...
Can I Get An Amen?
Can I Get An Amen? Ruth C. Taylor Article This article was originally published on now defunct, but historically significant, The Black World Today website and is shared here for archival purposes....
The #1 Site for African American
The #1 Site for African American Troy Johnson Article Social Media 101 Social Media Marketing Tips by AALBC.com Founder Troy Johnson I've been actively selling books on-line since...
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia Clerge Orly 9780520296763 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press The expansion of the Black American mi...
Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews 0000000459713136 Kehinde Nkosi Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, founder and director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, and co-founder o...
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) John Henrik Clarke 9780374523541 Fiction Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers The success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, fir...
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...
Beverly Jenkins
Beverly Jenkins 000000011691928X Beverly Jenkins, a USA TODAY bestselling author, is renowned for her African-American historical romance fiction, mainly set in the 19th century. With over thirty nov...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v8 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2016 “Embracing D...
Mystery Writers Of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, And The Chase
Mystery Writers Of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, And The Chase Mystery Writers Of America 9780316012515 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...
On Percival Everett
On Percival Everett African American Literature Book Club Article I think Erasure by Percival Everett is the first great manifesto for literature by African Americans in the 21st century. I beli...
Nelda LaTeef
Nelda LaTeef 000000008348432X Nelda LaTeef is an award-winning author and illustrator, known for acclaimed children's books like Animal Village and The Talking Baobab Tree. Her work has received nume...
The Business of Being a Writer
The Business of Being a Writer Jane Friedman 9780226393162 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a ...
Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier 0000000118109950 Dr. Amina Gautier, an award-winning author of three short story collections, is a scholar and professor specializing in African American literature. She teaches in the ...
Gigi Best
Gigi Best NONE Gigi Best, a prolific author, historian, and genealogist, is also the owner of Best Books & Rich Treasures. She possesses rich academic credentials and is a member of various historica...
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Jericho Brown 9780063278189 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, D...
midnight & indigo Issue 3: Celebrating Black women writers
midnight & indigo Issue 3: Celebrating Black women writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891746 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to shor...
Quvenzhané Wallis
Quvenzhané Wallis 0000000401748045 Quvenzhané “Nazie” Wallis, born in 2003, is known for her role in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild', making her the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress. She also s...
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback)
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback) James McBride 9780593422953 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House The Runaway New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book • A New Yo...
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...
Sarah E. Farro
Sarah E. Farro NONE Sarah E. Farro, a black author born in 1859, wrote 'True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life' in 1891, making her the second known African-American woman novelist of the 19th c...