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Black Pack Party
Black Pack Party The Frying Pan, Pier 66 at Hudson River Park, 207 12th Ave New York New York Rain or Shine! The venue is outdoors, on the water, but can be completely enclosed if necessary. The ...
The Book Readers Venue
The Book Readers Venue Humble TX “Our niche is romance and romantic suspense with focus on independently published booksBlack love. For our non-romance book lovers, we a have small inventory of ...
Humble Obedience Leverages Your Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: A Compliment To Your Daily Bible Study
Humble Obedience Leverages Your Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: A Compliment To Your Daily Bible Study Wesley J. Malcolm 9781449040499 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions This book is int...
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306505 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House Congressman and civil rights advocate Elijah C...
Juan Boria
Juan Boria NONE Jaime Torres Torres, known as Juan Boria, was a celebrated Puerto Rican poet and actor born in 1906. Despite humble beginnings, he earned a university degree and taught for 37 years. ...
Travis Peagler
Travis Peagler NONE Travis Peagler, youngest of seven, rose from humble beginnings in Dayton, OH, using his vivid imagination as an outlet. Known for his quick-thinking and storytelling, he aims to s...
Troy Johnson
Troy Johnson 0000000530602616 “I lead the world's oldest and largest online platform dedicated to books by and about people of African descent.” Troy Demetrius Johnson, founder and President of AALBC....
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...
Queen City Book Fair
Queen City Book Fair Venue 8470 Charlotte North Carolina Queen City Book Fair (est. 2016 co-founders Quisha Dynae and Shmel Carter), warmly invite you to their fair! All local avid readers and anyone ...
Mister and Lady Day Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her
Mister and Lady Day Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her Kam Williams Book Review “The great jazz singer Billie Holiday, known as Lady Day, had fame, style, a distinctive singing voice&md...
Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay
Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay Kelly McWilliams 9780316449939 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A sharp-witted, timely novel that explores cancel culture, anger, and ...
The 2016 Black Pack Party & BookExpo America
The 2016 Black Pack Party & BookExpo America Troy Johnson Article 10th Anniversary Black Pack Party We are hosting the 10th Anniversary Black Pack Party on the evening of Wednesday, May 11th. It is ...
Angle S. Bush
Angle S. Bush NONE Angle S. Bush, an author, poet, and motivational speaker from Michigan, is known for her books “When I Cease to Exist” and “Soul of a Woman” aimed at fostering self-embrace and inn...
Linda A. Duggins
Linda A. Duggins NONE Linda A. Duggins is the Director of Multicultural Publicity at Hachette Book Group and Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair. She's a board member of several literacy organizations...
The 2017 Black Pack Party @ Clyde Frazier’s May 31, 2017
The 2017 Black Pack Party @ Clyde Frazier’s May 31, 2017 Troy Johnson Article 11th Annual Black Pack Party We are hosting the 11th Annual Black Pack Party on the evening of Wednesday, May 31st. It w...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
2012 Black Pack Party Photographs
2012 Black Pack Party Photographs Troy Johnson Article (HARLEM - June 12, 2012) - Londel's Restaurant served as the venue for the 6th Black Pack Party held June 6th, 2012. The Black Pack Party, held...
Blue Nile Press
Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press http://bluenilepress.com Headquartered in Sacramento, California, BNP is an imprint of Path Press, of Chicago. BNP targets Black writers and the Black r...
Blue Nile Press
Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press http://bluenilepress.com Headquartered in Sacramento, California, BNP is an imprint of Path Press, of Chicago. BNP targets Black writers and the Black r...
Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair Ludwig Erhard Anlage 1 Frankfurt Germany Exhibition venue for printed and digital content, people from technology and creative industries come to exchange ideas.
Fall for the Book
Fall for the Book George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus Fairfax Virginia What began as a two-day literary event in 1999, organized by George Mason University and the City of Fairfax, has expa...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and b...
Bridgett M. Davis
Bridgett M. Davis NONE Bridgett M. Davis is a Detroit-born author, professor, and filmmaker. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University, she now teaches English at Baruch College. Her film...
Harmony Holiday
Harmony Holiday NONE Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, filmmaker, and the author of five collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and Maafa. She curates a standing archive spa...
Last First Kiss
Last First Kiss Julian Winters 9781250326263 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers “The stuff romance dreams are made of.” — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author Sparks fly ...
Murder from A to Z
Murder from A to Z V. M. Burns 9781496750822 Fiction Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Fowl Play at Shady Acres When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and h...
Blogger Week 2016 UnConference
Blogger Week 2016 UnConference Venue TBD Washington, DC District of Columbia Multicultural nationwide festival of bloggers, journalists & social media mavens.
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas Pynk and Carol Taylor B00IT2MS38 Fiction Insatiable Press Insatiable Press Two novellas in one hot volume. EROTIC CITY: LAS VEGAS from Pynk continues the story ...
Best African American Essays: 2009
Best African American Essays: 2009 Gerald L. Early 9780553385366 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans...
All Things Censored
All Things Censored Mumia Abu-Jamal 9781583220764 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press More than 75 essays—many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen, the only...
Delta Mouth Literary Festival
Delta Mouth Literary Festival Venue TBD Baton Rouge Louisiana In partnership with Louisiana State University, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, EGSA, and New Delta R...
Ave Maria Cross
Ave Maria Cross NONE As poet, playwright and teaching artist, Ave Maria Cross has practiced her passion and exercised her God-given talents for over 20 years, through researching and writing i...
Miguel Algarin
Miguel Algarin 0000000108989771 Miguel Algarin, a key figure of the Nuyorican movement and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, has significantly contributed to Puerto Rican literature and American a...
Mark Green
Mark Green NONE Mark Green serves as Associate Director/General Manager of Lehman Performing Arts Center, Chairman of Artist Relations for The Hip-Hop Museum (THHM), and maintains ownership of Celebr...
Dialogue
Dialogue Troy Johnson Article Please note Dialogue is currently on hiatus (as of this notice, March 2002) Visit Dialogue's web site http://www.ace-dialogue.org D I A L O G U E A Discussion ...
Proud (Young Readers): Living My American Dream
Proud (Young Readers): Living My American Dream Ibtihaj Muhammad 9780316477000 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American sto...
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1)
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1) Daka Hermon 9781426378249 Nonfiction National Geographic Kids National Geographic Books Marvel’s X-Men Favorite Storm and He...
Book of Letters
Book of Letters Robert Fleming Book Review Mary J. Taylor’s Book Of Letters is just that, a book of letters from the Old School of storytelling. The series of sepia cultural flashbacks moves th...
The Herd Boy
The Herd Boy Niki Daly 9780802855503 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Malusi is a herd boy, which means that he must look after his grandfather’s sheep and g...
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Sister Souljah 9781451612561 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A fierce fighter with heart and a powerful mind, Midnight is willing to do anything...
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’)
Me and White Supremacy (Young Readers’) Layla Saad 9781728259086 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Explore Sourcebooks How do we give young people the tools they need to actively dismantle racism and create a be...
Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire
Why Should Guys Have All the Fun?: An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire Loida Lewis and Blair S. Walker 9781119989837 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley The ...
The Tortoise & the Hare
The Tortoise & the Hare Jerry Pinkney 9780316183567 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse is Jerry Pinkne...
Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It
Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Will The Truth Set Them Free? In my humble opinion, J.D. Mason is a master storyteller, as they say. From the very first novel, ...
Damaged But Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph
Damaged But Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph Michael Todd 9780593444894 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • ECPA Bestseller • The author of Relationship G...
The Genius of Egypt
The Genius of Egypt Marlon McKenney 9781732205154 Fiction Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing The Genius of Egypt is the incredible story of the world’s first multi-faceted geniu...
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas Tonya Bolden 9780385752763 Nonfiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Discover the incredible true story of how one of ...
When You Dance With The Devil
When You Dance With The Devil Gwynne Forster 9780758213082 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. "A great story with wonderful life lessons . . ."—Books 2 Mention MagazineAfter the death of...
Shaka the Great
Shaka the Great G. K. Osei 9781580730303 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Osei leads readers from the humble birth and difficult youth of the great South African warrior and chief Sk...
I Never Knew: I Am All That Book One
I Never Knew: I Am All That Book One Brother Donald Muhammad 9781665532907 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions I have received a teaching that tells me that "where there are no decent women, the...
Building Online Relationships: One Reader At A Time
Building Online Relationships: One Reader At A Time LaShaunda C. Hoffman 9780996124508 Fiction Hoffman Content, LLC Hoffman Content, LLC Readers buy from writers they know and trust. This means, dear ...
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin Jen Bryant 9780593568866 Nonfiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award An ...
Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction
Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction Kam Williams Book Review “This is a book about recovery—my recovery—from addiction to drugs, specifically cocaine. But… my addic...
The Roots of Rap
The Roots of Rap Neoma Nwasike Book Review Hip-Hop is a culture that has spanned generations and has become worldwide. It found its humble beginnings in some of the roughest trenches, deep in the Bro...
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman Deesha Philyaw 9780063383074 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● November 22, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT A Most ...
Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to My Father
Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to My Father Maurice W. Dorsey 9781664130197 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Of Time and Spirit: A Tribute to James Roswell Dorsey Sr. "Of Time and Spirit" is ...
The Adventure of Sheldon, the Mushroom (Book without CD)
The Adventure of Sheldon, the Mushroom (Book without CD) Pamela M. Tuck 9781452875965 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Sheldon is a tall, lonely mushroom surrounded by beautiful flowers. H...
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 9780743234665 Fiction Free Press Free Press From the darkest days on slave ships to the def...
Leonard Jenkins II
Leonard Jenkins II NONE Leonard Jenkins II, an author from Birmingham, AL, is a passionate sports fan and writer. He self-published “Relationships (volume 1): Lessons Before Dying” using his skills i...
I am Barack Obama
I am Barack Obama Kam Williams Book Review "This book tells a story of how a child can change the world. It creates a space where children can experience the extraordinary life of P...
A Hand to Guide Me
A Hand to Guide Me Kam Williams Book Review "Every individual you are about to meet in these pages has remained humble, and that’s been my mantra for as long as I can remember’ a...
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250887283 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers ★ "Fashion king Talley is broug...
Afro Sheen: How I Revolutionized an Industry with the Golden Rule, from Soul Train to Wall Street
Afro Sheen: How I Revolutionized an Industry with the Golden Rule, from Soul Train to Wall Street George E. Johnson with Hillary Beard 9780316577342 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book ...
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah 9781635619126 Nonfiction Echo Point Books & Media Echo Point Books & Media “No race, no people, no nation can exist freely and be respected at h...
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America Dorothy Butler Gilliam 9781546083443 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50...
Granddaddy
Granddaddy Carol Taylor Book Review Granddaddy is a poignant literary novel, told mostly in a stream of conscious narrative, that traces a family’s emotional journey through their memories of t...
Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own
Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781510720695 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Prominent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traced Oprah’...
Yes, Chef
Yes, Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers 9780385342605 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his gra...
I Didn’t Ask To Be Born: (But I’m Glad I Was)
I Didn’t Ask To Be Born: (But I’m Glad I Was) Bill Cosby 9780892969203 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group In this hilarious collection of observations, Cosby brings us more of his wonderful ...
Waiting for Sweet Betty
Waiting for Sweet Betty Clarence Major 9781556591792 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press "I find myself writing poems about things I can’t paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, h...
Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy Dorothy Dandridge and Earl Conrad 9780060956752 Nonfiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins The autobiography of Dorothy Dandridge, Hollywood’s fir...
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 9780140390513 Nonfiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known b...
Seduced
Seduced Nelson George 9780345412669 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel … It’s the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man ...
Jimmie Allen
Jimmie Allen 0000000465260495 Jimmie Allen is a multi-platinum American recording artist and the first Black artist to achieve two consecutive #1 hits on country radio and win the ACM New Male Artist...
Nonku Kunene Adumetey
Nonku Kunene Adumetey NONE Nonkululeko “Nonku” Kunene Adumetey is a devoted wife, mother, and children's author. Born in eSwatini, educated in Canada and the US, she's passionate about inspiring chil...
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Kam Williams Book Review “Described by the New York Times as ‘the accidental matriarch of the civil rights movement,’ the Rosa Parks who surf...
Eight Minutes of Heaven
Eight Minutes of Heaven Robert Fleming Book Review Travis English, author of Knights of Paris, returns with his second work of fiction, Eight Minutes of Heaven, a story about Derek Treadwell, w...
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern Kam Williams Book Review “From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina to his prominence on the Washington, D.C. political scene as the third...
Black Man under the Deep Blue Sea
Black Man under the Deep Blue Sea Emanuel Carpenter Book Review What if Jacques Cousteau was a black American? Would he have had the opportunities to explore the waters, write books about his experi...
Sam Langford
Sam Langford Kam Williams Book Review In January of 1944, the New York Herald Tribune published The Forgotten Man a story about Sam Langford, aka “The Boston Tar Baby,” one of b...
The Power of Presence
The Power of Presence Tony Lindsay Book Review The Power of Presence is a training manual for those looking to improve life, but not merely the life of an individual but those that depend on an indiv...
O’s Best Advice Ever!: Make Over Your Life With Oprah & Friends
O’s Best Advice Ever!: Make Over Your Life With Oprah & Friends The Oprah Magazine Editors Of O 9780848734855 Nonfiction Oxmoor House Oxmoor House Drawing from ten years of O, The Oprah Magazine, the ...
Now Then: A Novel
Now Then: A Novel Morgan Radford 9780063457836 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path ...
Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems
Joy Is My Middle Name: Poems Sasha Debevec-McKenney 9781324110675 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In her best imitation of a historian, poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney combs thr...
Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three
Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three Dawn Staley 9781668023365 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. For th...
Running Against the Grain: The Story of Philadelphia Eagle and Movie Star Timmy Brown
Running Against the Grain: The Story of Philadelphia Eagle and Movie Star Timmy Brown Roy Weaver, David Sullivan, and Shawn Sriver 9798986820118 Nonfiction Eagle 22 Eagle 22 Born in a rural Indiana or...
Sheldon, the Mushroom
Sheldon, the Mushroom Pamela M. Tuck 9781736874127 Fiction Bibi Books Bibi Books Sheldon is a tall, lonely mushroom surrounded by beautiful flowers. He is often teased because he is so plain and doesn...
Let Me Love You
Let Me Love You K.L. Gilchrist 9781734170559 Fiction ISG Press ISG Press Is romance on the menu for a lonely CEO and a talented chef? Towanda Mathis is the bold business owner used to calling the s...
The Juju Girl
The Juju Girl Nikki Marsh 9798218019532 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Winner of the 2022 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for best self-published fictio...
Just As I Am
Just As I Am Cicely Tyson 9780062931061 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An Instant AALBC Bestseller! The stunning life-story of Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award winning actress and trailbl...
From Fatherless to Fatherhood
From Fatherless to Fatherhood Omar Epps 9781483485041 Nonfiction Lulu Lulu Author and world renowned actor Omar Epps chronicles his journey from humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, to the bright ...
Before She was Harriet
Before She was Harriet Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823420476 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse and illustrated by an award-winning arti...
Free From Guilt: The Jamieson (Vol 7)
Free From Guilt: The Jamieson (Vol 7) Pat Simmons 9781548335205 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC God’s desire is that everyone should be saved…including Cameron Jamieson. A tenth generatio...
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place Rilla Askew 9780806157177 Nonfiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press 2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist! In her first nonfict...
Love Led By The Spirit (Restore My Soul) (Volume 3)
Love Led By The Spirit (Restore My Soul) (Volume 3) Pat Simmons 9781533332592 Fiction Generations Quest Press OverDrive, Inc. Didn’t the Bible say, Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing? Minister Ro...
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road Tavis Smiley 9781401948399 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of ...
Six Points of Light: Hook’s Origin
Six Points of Light: Hook’s Origin Kalynn Bayron 9781513706450 Fiction Booktrope Editions Booktrope Editions St. Catherine’s is a place for misfits, for the forgotten; it is also the only place fiftee...
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black
Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black James E. Clyburn 9781611173376 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press From his humble beginnings in Sum...
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices) Alain Mabanckou 9780253007919 Fiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans...