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The Day Madear Voted
The Day Madear Voted Wade Hudson 9780593615744 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Inspired by the author’s mother voting for the first time as a Black American in 1969. A moving look at...
Wade Hudson discusses his children’s book The Day Madear Voted
Wade Hudson discusses his children’s book The Day Madear Voted Book Spotlights Wade Hudson discusses his children’s book, The Day Madear Voted Illustrated by Don Tate (Nancy Paulsen Booka, Summer 2024...
Ma Dear’s Old Green House
Ma Dear’s Old Green House Denise Lewis Patrick 9780940975552 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. All of us have special places in our childhood memories. They are happy places, fun places. They ...
Kayla Perrin
Kayla Perrin NONE Kayla Perrin, a USA TODAY and Essence bestselling author, is known for her mainstream and romance novels. Her first novel, Again, My Love, made it on Ingram's Top 50 Most Requested ...
Robert Lee Brewer
Robert Lee Brewer NONE Robert Lee Brewer is a Senior Content Editor at Writer's Digest, author, and was voted Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere in 2011. He is known for his expertise in editing, onlin...
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt NONE Tyler Merritt is a multi-talented actor, musician, comedian, and activist known for The Tyler Merritt Project. With a career spanning 20 years, he has worked in TV shows like ABC's...
No Way, Wash Day
No Way, Wash Day Adrienne Thurman 9780063290051 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins An exuberant debut picture book about a little girl trying to outmaneuver her mama to avoid wash day for her hair—an...
Cloudy Day Sunny Day (1-Simul)
Cloudy Day Sunny Day (1-Simul) Donald Crews 9780152048501 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The day is gray and cloudy. It’s a good day to snuggle up with a book, a fine day ...
Zuri Day
Zuri Day NONE Zuri Day is a successful author and hopeful romantic, known for her contributions to the romance genre. Inspired by her love for Harlequin romances, she's now a full-time author, dividi...
Finding God Every Day: A 90-Day Devotional by a Kid, for Kids
Finding God Every Day: A 90-Day Devotional by a Kid, for Kids Luke Tillman 9780310175445 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing God is everywhere. Show your child how to find God in ...
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair Tomesha Faxio 9780593579718 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlight...
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers)
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 9781338815382 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Bill Withers’s celebrated hit song Lovely Day comes to life in this beauti...
Wash Day Diaries
Wash Day Diaries Jamila Rowser 9781797205458 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and en...
A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day Leah Henderson 9781419736308 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A moving tribute to the little-known history beh...
Papa’s Free Day Party
Papa’s Free Day Party Marilyn Nelson 9780940975729 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Johnnie wants to celebrate her Papa’s birthday, but Papa doesn’t know exactly when that special day is....
The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 9780140501827 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House New York Public Library's #1 book on the list of “Top Check Outs of All Time” Originally published in 1962, The...
Beautiful Blackbird
Beautiful Blackbird Ashley Bryan 9780689847318 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Black is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in t...
Abel Garcia
Abel Garcia NONE Dallas-based artist Abel Garcia, inspired by The Bible, hip-hop, graffiti, and the high renaissance, creates unique art using screen printing, acrylic and oil painting. Recognized as...
Chris Webber
Chris Webber 0000000031515227 Chris Webber was a five-time All-Star and a five-time All-NBA selection. In a career that spanned fifteen seasons, Webber is one of five NBA players to average at least ...
President Obama: More Than Meets the Eyes
President Obama: More Than Meets the Eyes Vanessa Davis Griggs Article At the end of the day, can you look yourself in the mirror and be okay with the person who looks back at you? Can yo...
Fantasia Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
Fantasia Life Is Not a Fairy Tale Kam Williams Book Review "Faith is a legacy for many women in my family, as are the legacies of teen pregnancy, being single mothers, emotional and physical ...
Wash Day with Mama
Wash Day with Mama Monica Mikai 9780593810644 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This stunning picture book takes a joyful look into the loving and long process of a hair wash ...
Wash Day
Wash Day Tiffany Golden 9798887700991 Fiction Mayo Clinic Press Kids Mayo Clinic Press Meet Jelaya (jeh-LAY-uh.) She hates wash day. The tugs! The scrubs! The pinching and pulling! Jelaya can’t thi...
This Beautiful Day
This Beautiful Day Richard Jackson 9781481441391 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, acclaimed author Richard Jackson and award...
Deborah Day
Deborah Day 0000000066839686 Deborah Day, Founder and CEO of Ashay by the Bay, a publishing company specializing in African American and Multi-Cultural children's and adult books. Established in 1997...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are (paperback): A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are (paperback): A Memoir Ursula M. Burns 9780062879301 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir Ursula M. Burns 9780062879295 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at X...
Knife Edge
Knife Edge Malorie Blackman 9780141378657 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House ‘The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling ...
Checkmate
Checkmate Malorie Blackman 9780141378664 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House ‘Another emotional hard-hitter’ — Sunday Times My name is Callie Rose. My mum is a Cross – one of the so-called r...
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...
Lynching Barack Obama: How Whites Tried to String Up the President
Lynching Barack Obama: How Whites Tried to String Up the President Molefi Kete Asante 9780982532713 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Molefi Kete Asante argues that ...
A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties
A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties Ben Carson 9781591848042 Nonfiction Sentinel Penguin Random House Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why ...
Unbound Hearts (Able to Love, Volume 2)
Unbound Hearts (Able to Love, Volume 2) Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781505443431 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Would you hire the person responsible for your losing both your legs? Before he l...
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed
Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed Ahdaf Soueif 9780345803511 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House When throngs of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, Ahd...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393350364 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The New York Times bestselling author c...
The Warmth of Other Suns (Paperback): The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns (Paperback): The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 9780679763888 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six mil...
Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past
Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past Bruce Bartlett 9780230600621 Nonfiction Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillan Publishers In Wrong on Race, Bruce Bartlett sets the record straight on a hidde...
Good Hair: A Novel
Good Hair: A Novel Benilde Little 9780684835570 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A #1 Blackboard Bestseller Voted as one of the top ten books of the year by the Los Angeles Times Alice ...
ReShonda Tate
ReShonda Tate 0000000116441757 ReShonda Tate is a former reporter and national bestselling author of 21 titles including both adult and teen novels. She's also an executive producer for film adaptati...
Beyoncé
Beyoncé 0000000114914936 Beyoncé Knowles, born September 4, 1981, is a Grammy-winning singer and actress from Houston, Texas. Known as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, she has also had a successfu...
Carol Mackey
Carol Mackey NONE Carol M. Mackey, former editor-in-chief of award-winning Black Expressions Book Club, is recognized as one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in publishing. With a career inc...
Nina Oteria
Nina Oteria NONE Nina Oteria is a New York-based poet, known for her work on sight, perception, and nature. An alumna of Wake Forest University and NC State University's writing workshops, she's now ...
Richard Wright
Richard Wright 0000000079803105 Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-1960), born in poverty and racial discrimination in Mississippi, was a prolific writer aiming to unite Black and White worlds. Known ini...
John Steptoe
John Steptoe 0000000083178664 John Lewis Steptoe (1950-1989) was a renowned children's book author and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. Known for his rich illustrations depicting the African American e...
Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley 0000000083304069 Ex-pro basketball player, Charles Barkley, now an NBA analyst for TNT’s Inside the NBA, boasts 11 All-Star Game appearances, All-Star MVP, 1993's league MVP, and is n...
Clyde W. Ford
Clyde W. Ford 0000000109297208 Clyde W. Ford, NYC-born author of 13 fiction and non-fiction works, is also a psychotherapist, mythologist, and public speaker. He's received numerous accolades includi...
Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird 000000011726115X Sarah Bird, acclaimed author of ten novels, is recognized for her literary contributions through awards like Texas Writer of the Year and the Texas Institute of Letters Li...
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson 000000011742385X Cicely Tyson was a respected actress, lecturer, and activist with over sixty years in American theater and film. She was the first African-American woman to win an Emmy ...
Torrey Maldonado
Torrey Maldonado NONE Torrey Maldonado, once a disinterested reader, became a passionate middle school teacher and author after discovering engaging, culturally responsive books. For 20 years, he's i...
Fabu Phillis Carter
Fabu Phillis Carter NONE Poet Fabu was appointed Madison's Poet Laureate in 2008 and served in that position until 2012. Fabu Phillis Carter, professionally known as Poet Fabu, was appointed Madison’...
N. H. Senzai
N. H. Senzai NONE Naheed Hasnat Senzai grew up speaking two languages while navigating two cultures—and enjoying the best of both cuisines, from tandoori chicken to hot dogs on the Fourth of July. B...
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Kam Williams Book Review "A fundamental teaching my parents always emphasized [was] that life happens to...
Beyoncé: The Pink Panther Interview
Beyoncé: The Pink Panther Interview Kam Williams Interview Publicity Still from The Pink Panther Beyonce Knowles (as Xania) & Steve Martin as (Inspector Jacques Clouseau) Beyonce’ Gise...
Jennifer Lopez on Playing Puchi and Producing Her First Picture
Jennifer Lopez on Playing Puchi and Producing Her First Picture Kam Williams Article Born in the South Bronx on July 24, 1969, Jennifer Lynn Lopez “J-Lo” has come a long way f...
Craig Robinson The "A Game of Character" Interview
Craig Robinson The "A Game of Character" Interview Kam Williams Interview Fraternizing with the First Brother-in-Law Craig Robinson was born in Chicago on April 21, 1962, to Fraser and Mar...
Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Interview
Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in the Bronx on January 2, 1968, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is the son of singers Shirley and Cuba, Sr. She was a backup singer for Th...
Cuba Gooding Jr. - The "Red Tails" Interview [2012]
Cuba Gooding Jr. - The "Red Tails" Interview [2012] Kam Williams Interview Oscar-Winner Opines on Playing Tuskegee Airman Cuba Gooding, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York on January 2, 19...
Kam Williams - AALBC.com Reviewer and Interviewer
Kam Williams - AALBC.com Reviewer and Interviewer Kam Williams Interview Voted Best Male Entertainment Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2006, Kam Williams...
Michael Steele - Interview - Oct 2011
Michael Steele - Interview - Oct 2011 Kam Williams Interview Michael Steele The Interview Michael Stephen Steele was born on Andrews Air Force Base in Prince Georges County, Maryland on Oct...
Rashida Jones - The "I Love You, Man" Interview
Rashida Jones - The "I Love You, Man" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in L.A. on February 25, 1976, Rashida Leah Jones is the younger daughter of jazz icon/composer/a...
Usher - The "In the Mix" Interview
Usher - The "In the Mix" Interview Kam Williams Interview Usher Raymond IV was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 14, 1978 to Jonnetta Patton, a single-mom who encouraged him to join t...
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action Michelle Sumrall 9798988671220 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
The Day of Dreams
The Day of Dreams Jevon Bolden 9780593661468 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Licenses Penguin Random House Enter the world of Super Sema in this fun, holiday-themed, STEAM-filled 8x8 with stickers! D...
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day!
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day! Kelly Starling Lyons 9780062951144 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A Geisel Honor-winning series! Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate! Join ...
Papa’s Free Day Party: A Children's Book Set in All-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma
Papa’s Free Day Party: A Children's Book Set in All-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma Literary Events AALBC’s Founder, Troy Johnson, hosts a conversation about the children’s book Papa’s Free Day Party wi...
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue Karen English 9781328500069 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins It’s the hottest, stickiest day of the summer. A fat-sun-in-the-sky day. An eating-ice-pops-on-the-porch day. A...
Martin’s Dream Day
Martin’s Dream Day Kitty Kelley 9781481467667 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bestselling author and journalist Kitty Kelley combines her elegant storytelling with S...
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780425287682 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A celebration of the ex...
Sick Day
Sick Day Morgan Parker 9780991764846 Fiction QuoteStork Media QuoteStork Media Hope and Cameron made a five-year promise before college. Years pass and they never see each other again. But then one mo...
Love in Play
Love in Play Zuri Day 9780758260000 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Zuri Day spins a captivating and sexy tale of taking charge, letting loose, and playing for keeps. . .With her curvaceo...
Donna Hill, Zuri Day, and Cheris Hodges
Donna Hill, Zuri Day, and Cheris Hodges MULTIPLE Rochelle Alers, Cheris Hodges, and Zuri Day are renowned authors, each contributing significantly to the literary world with their captivating writi...
Donna Hill, Niobia Bryant, and Zuri Day
Donna Hill, Niobia Bryant, and Zuri Day MULTIPLE Donna Hill, Niobia Bryant, and Zuri Day are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Their work spans various genres, captivating rea...
Desiree Day
Desiree Day NONE Desiree Day is an accomplished author with a diverse professional background in banking, telecommunications, and IT. Member of Georgia Romance Writers, she has published five novels,...
One Day I Saw a Black King
One Day I Saw a Black King Thumper Book Review Earlier this year, J. D. Mason had me singing her praises for her wonderful novel, And on the Eighth Day She Rested. Now I am at the mike again, ready ...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Vanessa Vanzie Book Review A combination of fun, friends and awesome adventures make for a summer vacation that you never want to end. The Legendary Alston boys are no exc...
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First Day Around the World
First Day Around the World Ibi Zoboi 9780063078888 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londoño, this ...
This Day Is Dark
This Day Is Dark r.h. Sin 9781524882211 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing r.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and...
The Gray Day: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #1)
The Gray Day: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #1) Valerie Bolling 9781338805949 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. In this sparkly, full-color early reader series, Zoya and her puppy, Coco, love...
Prayer with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional
Prayer with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional Myles Munroe 9781641239493 Nonfiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press Heaven Depends on You, and the Earth Needs You ...
I’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett
I’m Going to Have a Good Day!: Daily Affirmations with Scarlett Tiania Haneline and Scarlett Gray Smith 9780310771296 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing I am beautiful. I am kind. I...
Kindergarten: Where Kindness Matters Every Day
Kindergarten: Where Kindness Matters Every Day Vera Ahiyya 9780593484623 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House Written by kindergarten teacher and Instagram influencer affectionately known ...
One Hot Summer Day
One Hot Summer Day Nina Crews 9780063204027 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins It’s summer, and it’s hot! Acclaimed author-artist Nina Crews’s debut picture book was hailed as “a wonderful concep...
Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom
Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom Sharon Dennis Wyeth 9780593434789 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Some call it Freedom Day; some call it Emancipation Day; some call it...
The 14-Day New Keto Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 2 Weeks with Delicious Meals and Low-Sugar Smoothies
The 14-Day New Keto Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 2 Weeks with Delicious Meals and Low-Sugar Smoothies J.J. Smith 9781668004463 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the bestselling ...
Vision with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional
Vision with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional Myles Munroe 9781641238212 Nonfiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press Discover your vision and find your true life. Bes...
One Big Day
One Big Day Anne Wynter 9780062934932 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins One Big Day is a board book celebration of that very special day—a baby’s first birthday. The perfect gift for babi...
La Magie de Maman
La Magie de Maman Edwidge Danticat 9781443187602 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Préparez-vous à découvrir 300 merveilles loufoques, faits divers et statistiques sur les sc...
My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day
My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day Jabari Asim 9780062884640 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins The perfect Valentine’s gift for your baby or toddler! In My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day, celebrate all t...
7-Day Apple Cider Vinegar Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 7 Days and Turn Your Body Into a Fat-Burning Machine
7-Day Apple Cider Vinegar Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 7 Days and Turn Your Body Into a Fat-Burning Machine J.J. Smith 9781982118075 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. JJ Smith, au...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Lamar Giles 9781328460837 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their...
A Woman of Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional
A Woman of Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional Myles Munroe 9781641232333 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House Best-selling author Dr. Myles Munroe offers daily practical and biblical advice fo...