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The Butler: A Witness to History
The Butler: A Witness to History Wil Haygood 9781476752990 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Read a review of Lee Daniel’s film made from this book. “The book is brief, but the two...
Wil Haygood, author of "The Butler: A Witness to History"
Wil Haygood, author of "The Butler: A Witness to History" Author Interviews Wil Haygood (https://aalbc.it/wilhaygood), talks about his biography "The Butler: A Witness to History" which tells the stor...
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler 0000000121272003 “There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Butler was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur Foundations Fellowship...
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler Lynell George 9781626400634 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press Check out Lynell’s New York Times article on Octavia Butler “...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) Kam Williams the-butler.jpg Film Review Forest Whitaker Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance in Emotionally-Searing Civil Rights Saga Lee Daniels’ The Butler...
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame Lynell George 9781626400535 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a bluepr...
Conversations With Octavia Butler
Conversations With Octavia Butler Conseula Francis 9781604732757 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific c...
Caron Butler
Caron Butler NONE Caron Butler is a former two-time NBA all-star who played for fourteen seasons. He is currently [2024] an assistant coach for the Miami Heat. He has written a memoir and children's ...
Witness Love and Unity: Beginners Series Twin Flame Love Oneness Forever
Witness Love and Unity: Beginners Series Twin Flame Love Oneness Forever Johanna Sparrow B072KLFTBH Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In life we see successful relationships all around us a...
Octavia E. Butler: Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Loa #393): Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago
Octavia E. Butler: Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Loa #393): Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago Octavia E. Butler 9781598538182 Fiction Library of America Library of America For the first time...
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Susana M. Morris 9780063212077 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest...
Positive Obsession (paperback): The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession (paperback): The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Susana M. Morris 9780063211834 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of ...
Unpublished Stories From Octavia Butler Available for the First Time
Unpublished Stories From Octavia Butler Available for the First Time Troy Johnson Article Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a bestselling and award-winning author, considered one of the best scie...
Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl
Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl MULTIPLE Octavia Butler, Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl are renowned authors. Butler's work explores sci-fi themes, Canavan is known for his academic d...
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay Octavia E. Butler 9781797229058 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books The wise words of science fiction icon Octavia E. Butler live on in this beau...
Survivor (Patternist #4 deluxe edition)
Survivor (Patternist #4 deluxe edition) Octavia E. Butler 9781538766170 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Returning to print for the first time in nearly fifty years, Survivor compl...
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler Ibi Zoboi 9780399187384 Nonfiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author and...
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338) Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl 9781598536751 Fiction Library of America Library of America The definitive edition ...
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler Alex Pierce and Mimi Mondal 9781922101440 Nonfiction Twelfth Planet Press Twelfth Planet Press Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a...
Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds
Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds MULTIPLE Caron Butler, former NBA All-Star, collaborates with acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds to create engaging stories. Former NBA All-Star Caron Butler and ...
Tajuana “TJ” Butler
Tajuana “TJ” Butler NONE Tajuana “TJ” Butler-Jackson, founder of Lavelle Publishing, is honing her skills as an actor and director. She's completed her first short film and lives in Indianapolis with...
Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon
Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon MULTIPLE "Explore the works of authors Randy Ross, Wanda Coleman, Stanley Crouch, Gary Phillips, Octavia Butl...
Christine Taylor Butler
Christine Taylor Butler NONE Christine Taylor Butler is an accomplished children's author from Ohio. Overcoming initial fears, she pursued her passion for writing, inspired by her daughters' love for...
Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi
Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi NONE Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Early Childhood and Teacher Education at Prince George's Community College, whe...
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Octavia E. Butler 9781419709470 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic nove...
Madea’s Witness Protection
Madea’s Witness Protection Kam Williams madeas-witness-protection.jpg Film Review Tyler Perry and Eugene Levy Make for Strange Bedfellows in Fish-Out-of-Water Comedy Madea’s Witness Protec...
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Chokehold: Policing Black Men Paul Butler 9781595589057 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexand...
Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA
Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA Caron Butler 9781493026654 Nonfiction Lyons Press Lyons Press Two-time All-Star and thirteen-year NBA veteran Caron Butler has an impressive basketba...
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer Author Interviews In theaters nationwide August 16th! Read an Interview with Direct Lee Daniels: https://aalbc.it/leedaniels From The Weinstein Company Offi...
Sana Butler
Sana Butler NONE Sana Butler, renowned author of 'Children of the Crop', is the daughter of Peter Vertrees, born 1845 in Kentucky. She has been pictured with Lillie Odom in Lebanon, TN. Sana Butler i...
Jaye Whaley, Shah Butler, and Melica Niccole
Jaye Whaley, Shah Butler, and Melica Niccole MULTIPLE Jaye Whaley, Shah Butler, and Melica Niccole are accomplished authors known for their distinct writing styles and captivating narratives. Their ...
C. Taylor Butler
C. Taylor Butler NONE C. Taylor Butler is an acclaimed children's book author, known for weaving science, diversity, and character education into her award-winning stories. She is an active member of...
C. Taylor-Butler
C. Taylor-Butler NONE C. Taylor-Butler, a civil engineer and educational council chairperson, is renowned for her essays and short stories in The Horn Book and Scholastic’s Read and Rise. The Kansas ...
Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Dorothy Butler Gilliam 0000000032505856 Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first black woman reporter for the Washington Post, dedicated over six decades to journalism. Throughout her career, she worked to ...
Bethonie Butler
Bethonie Butler NONE Bethonie Butler is a pop culture writer and former features reporter for The Washington Post. She has covered television and pop culture for nearly a decade and has released a c...
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Robert Fleming Book Review { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Review", "headline": "Review of Positive Obsession: The...
Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams
Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/20-feet-from-stardom.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2013 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema Each year we pub...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the-butler.jpg Film Review Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2...
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Robert Fleming Book Review { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Review", "headline": "Review of Positive Obsession: The...
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around: How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War Justin Giboney 9781514008423 Poetry IVP InterVarsity Press Choose witness over war It’s possible...
Witness: Stories
Witness: Stories Jamel Brinkley 9780374607036 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an...
Be My Witness: The Great Commission for Preachers
Be My Witness: The Great Commission for Preachers Marvin Andrew McMickle 9780817017729 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press Best-selling author, veteran pastor and professor, and now president of Colg...
The Love Ethic: The Reason Why You Can’t Find and Keep Beautiful Black Love
The Love Ethic: The Reason Why You Can’t Find and Keep Beautiful Black Love Akilah Butler and Kamau Butler 9780615275192 Nonfiction Twinlineal Institute Twinlineal Institute Much has been said regardi...
Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves
Sugar Of The Crop: My Journey To Find The Children Of Slaves Sana Butler 9781599213750 Nonfiction Lyons Press Lyons Press Sugar of the Crop is the story of an unprecedented quest to find the last surv...
Parable of the Sower A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Parable of the Sower A Graphic Novel Adaptation Octavia E. Butler 9781419731334 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dy...
Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories Octavia E. Butler B00K04NWG0 Fiction Open Road Media Open Road Integrated Media The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully belie...
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower Tony Lindsay Book Review Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s sci-fi novel gives the reader an intimate look into the mind of a young philosopher. Lauren Oya Olamina is a...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams Interview Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2012 Getty Images Lee Daniels is best k...
On Witness and Respair: Essays
On Witness and Respair: Essays Jesmyn Ward 9781668064269 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, inclu...
The Wounds Are the Witness
The Wounds Are the Witness Denolyn Carroll Book Review The Wounds Are the Witness speaks to the often disregarded or denied cycles of pain and trauma among marginalized and disenfranchised people, wh...
From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History
From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692370711 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History conveys t...
The Real History of the Gold Rush
The Real History of the Gold Rush Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi 9781728479118 Nonfiction Lerner Publishing Group Lerner Publishing Group The Gold Rush was one of the largest mass migration events in US histo...
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...
Conversations With Octavia Butler
Conversations With Octavia Butler Robert Fleming Book Review As the sole major black female author of science fiction throughout her career, Octavia Butler reshaped the fictional world of fantasy ...
Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2 deluxe edition)
Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2 deluxe edition) Octavia E. Butler 9781538784242 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group This gorgeous new edition of Mind of My Mind, the second novel in Oc...
Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel
Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds 9780063069640 Fiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins Former NBA All-Star Caron Butler and acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds d...
Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and Beyond
Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and Beyond Bethonie Butler 9780762481514 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group With iconic imagery and e...
Shot Clock
Shot Clock Caron Butler and justin a. reynolds 9780063069602 Fiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins Former NBA All-Star Caron Butler and acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds tip off the first book...
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set Octavia E. Butler 9781609809553 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion o...
Sana Butler talks about her book Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves
Sana Butler talks about her book Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Book Spotlights For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/sana_butler.htm Author, Sana Butler ...
Robert Jackson & wife T.J. Butler discuss "No More Excuses"
Robert Jackson & wife T.J. Butler discuss "No More Excuses" Author Interviews Robert Jackson & Wife T.J. Butler discuss Jackson's book "No More Excuses: Black Men Stand Up!" with AALBC.com at Book Exp...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia E. Butler 9781583226988 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times N...
Fledgling: A Novel
Fledgling: A Novel Octavia E. Butler 9781583226902 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alar...
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon 9780966267518 Nonfiction Larod Publishing Company Larod Publ...
Sorority Sisters: A Novel
Sorority Sisters: A Novel Tajuana “TJ” Butler 9780375757587 Fiction Villard Villard Dear Heavenly Father,Thank you for developing me into abeautiful and talented woman.Thank you for being my protector...
Lilith’s Brood
Lilith’s Brood Octavia E. Butler 9780446676106 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH’S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia...
Paul Robeson, All-American
Paul Robeson, All-American Dorothy Butler Gilliam 9780915220151 Nonfiction New Republic Book Company New Republic Book Company Book by Gilliam, Dorothy Butler
Lynell George
Lynell George NONE Lynell George Lynell George is a journalist and essayist. After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame is her first book of essays and photography, exploring the city where she grew ...
Forest Whitaker “The Butler” Interview (August 2013) with Kam Williams
Forest Whitaker “The Butler” Interview (August 2013) with Kam Williams Kam Williams Interview This Forest’s on Fire in Lee Daniel's Film The Butler Forest Whitaker is a distinguished artist and ...
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing Yolanda Pierce 9781506485331 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media From celebrated scholar Dr. Yolanda Pierce comes this...
My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965
My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 Bettye Collier-Thomas 9780805047691 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A powerful and inspiring record of one of...
History of Blacks in America from Pre-History to 1877: A Common Core State Standards History
History of Blacks in America from Pre-History to 1877: A Common Core State Standards History Clyde Winters 9781505827613 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In History of Blacks in America...
Documentary Film on History of Blacks in Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction Books
Documentary Film on History of Blacks in Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction Books Troy Johnson Article https://www.youtube.com/embed/uvDW5z0b9po “The Invisible Universe documentary reveals the his...
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany Hans J. Massaquoi 9780060959616 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Mas...
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality Gloria Wade-Gayles 9780807009352 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press My Soul Is a Witness is a powerful collection of poetry, prose, reflectio...
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 0000000046027939 Wesley Receives the 2023 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Penn State Altoona professor of English, creative writing and Afri...
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series Robert Fleming Book Review In this third installment of Norwood Holland’s acclaimed Drew Smith Series, Material Witness, there are a few wrinkles in both...
That You Are Here Is No Small Thing
That You Are Here Is No Small Thing Vashti Harrison 9780593353028 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House That You Are Here Is No Small Thing is a stunning and unforgettable explor...
After the Clotilda: Africatown’s Hidden History
After the Clotilda: Africatown’s Hidden History Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi 9781669074779 Nonfiction Capstone Press Capstone Press In 2019, the remains of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring c...
The Lost Tribes
The Lost Tribes C. Taylor-Butler 9780997051377 Fiction Move Books Move Books Five friends are in a race against time in this action-adventure story involving ancient tribal artifacts that hold the fat...
Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))
Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover)) Mary Butler 9780823957361 Nonfiction Rosen Publishing Rosen Publishing Biographies for Grades 4-8 ...
Black History Is Your History
Black History Is Your History Taylor Cassidy 9781665957700 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From TikTok star and creator of Fast Black History Taylor Cassidy comes a ...
Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth Jermaine Fowler 9781955905909 Nonfiction Row House Publishing Row House Publishing Now in paperback with bonus m...
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained David Olusoga 9780744042146 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House Learn about the most important milestones in Black his...
Get a Jump Start on Black History Month with 100+ Terrific Books
Get a Jump Start on Black History Month with 100+ Terrific Books Troy Johnson Article 86 African-American History Books Every year I’m asked what are you gonna do for African American Hi...
Hidden Heroes in WWII
Hidden Heroes in WWII Anitra E. Butler-Ngugi 9781728464060 Nonfiction Lerner Publishing Group Lerner Publishing Group World War II (1939–1945) was one of the most significant conflicts in Americ...
Genetics
Genetics Christine Taylor Butler 9780531227794 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. Genes are the blueprints for all life. When scientists first began altering genes to chan...
Computers
Computers Christine Taylor Butler 9780531227800 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. From the smart phone in your pocket to the advanced systems controlling everything from ...
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Christine Taylor Butler 9780531212097 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white...
Sacred Mountain: Everest
Sacred Mountain: Everest Christine Taylor Butler 9781620141618 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Mount Everest — a place of mystery, majesty, and unparalleled beauty — rises into the sky high...
The Moon (New True Books: Space (Paperback))
The Moon (New True Books: Space (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253601 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. Human beings first set foot on the Moon on July 20, 19...
Meteorology: The Study of Weather
Meteorology: The Study of Weather Christine Taylor Butler 9780531282724 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Explains what meteorology is, shows the impact of the weather on human history...
Food Safety
Food Safety Christine Taylor Butler 9780531207345 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Introduces the history and importance of food safety, the bacteria that cause food to be unsafe, saf...
The Congress of the United States
The Congress of the United States Christine Taylor Butler 9780531147788 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Describes the legislative branch of the United States government, and discusse...