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The Kindergarten Shuffle - Trailer (AALBC.com Screening 9/23/10)
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Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010!
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010! Troy Johnson Article There are only 2 days left to cast your vote for the finalists of the Best Book trailer of 2010. Cast you vote now: https://bit.ly/best...
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010 Troy Johnson Article Here are the winners of the Best Book Trailer's of 2010. Please join me in congratulation off of the winners. 1st Prize ...
Look How Much I’ve Grown in Kindergarten
Look How Much I’ve Grown in Kindergarten Vera Ahiyya 9780593643969 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House Written by the kindergarten teacher and Instagram influencer affectionately known as...
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 ...
The Queen Of Kindergarten
The Queen Of Kindergarten Derrick Barnes 9780593111420 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A confident little Black girl has a fantastic first day of school in this companion to the New Y...
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story
The Gilded Six-Bits, A Short Story Zora Neale Hurston Article A screening of the film The Gilded Six-Bits was held July 29, 2010 as part of the AALBC.com Brownstones Series in Harlem, New York. B...
King of Kindergarten (paperback)
King of Kindergarten (paperback) Derrick Barnes 9780593856970 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A New York Times bestseller! A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of ki...
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Getting Ready for Kindergarten Vera Ahiyya 9780593809983 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Get Ready for Kindergarten in this exciting new series for kids embarking on ...
The King of Kindergarten
The King of Kindergarten Derrick Barnes 9781524740740 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A confident little boy takes pride in his first day of kindergarten, by the Newbery Honor-winning...
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? Audrey Vernick 9780061762758 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Your buffalo is growing up. He plays with friends. He shares his toys. He’s smart! But is he re...
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex Justina Ireland 9780063512979 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have ever found the mysterious cabin hidden deep in the wood...
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition Troy Johnson Article To submit your video for consideration visit: https://bit.ly/bestbooktrailer2010
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming!
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming! Troy Johnson Article I just learned about this up coming film from my online buddy, CD Burns, an hour ago. After watching the trailer, I figured I’d shar...
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty 0000000084014450 Paul Beatty, born 1962, the first American to win the Man Booker Prize in 2016 for his novel “The Sellout.” An LA native and graduate of Brooklyn College and Boston Unive...
Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned In Kindergarten
Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned In Kindergarten Kevin Wayne Williams 9780990853305 Fiction Mott Haven Books Mott Haven Books 2014 IndieFab Award Winner in Multicultural Adult Fiction.Even b...
Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 9780525567271 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The...
The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel Paul Beatty 9780312280192 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Paul Beatty’s hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who...
J. Tremble
J. Tremble NONE J. Tremble, a graduate of Missouri Valley College and Howard University, works as a sixth-grade math teacher in Prince George's County Public School System. He's a dedicated family ma...
The Savion Sequence
The Savion Sequence Connie Bradley Book Review This review is of the 2011 version of The Savion Sequence My interest was recently piqued by a trailer which appeared on the AALBC.com discussion b...
Secrets Of A Housewife
Secrets Of A Housewife J. Tremble 9781934230510 Fiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books No one ever tells the real truth about their secret bedroom play. Many fight to keep their sexual escapa...
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph Trailer
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph Trailer Author Interviews
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman Author Interviews
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell Book Spotlights
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer Author Interviews
Let Us Create Your Book Trailer
Let Us Create Your Book Trailer Book Spotlights
500 YEARS LATER -Trailer
500 YEARS LATER -Trailer Author Interviews
Brenda Jackon's SolidSOUL Video Book Trailer
Brenda Jackon's SolidSOUL Video Book Trailer Book Spotlights
Derrick Barnes
Derrick Barnes 0000000036217464 Derrick D. Barnes, a Kansas City native and Jackson State University graduate, is a celebrated author known for children's books like “Stop Drop and Chill” and “The Lo...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Kam Williams the-sweet-blood-of-jesus.jpg Film Review Da Sweet Blood of Jesus [2015] In Theaters: Feb 13, 2015 LimitedRating: UnratedGenre: Drama Runtime: 2 hr. 3 min.Stu...
Rebecca, Not Becky
Rebecca, Not Becky Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene 9780063213593 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-c...
Setclae, Kindergarten: Self-Esteem Through Culture Leads to Academic Excellence
Setclae, Kindergarten: Self-Esteem Through Culture Leads to Academic Excellence Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543856 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images This series of workbooks is spe...
Vera Ahiyya
Vera Ahiyya NONE Vera Ahiyya, a kindergarten and first-grade teacher with 15 years of experience, uses her online presence to share her passion for diverse children's books and social justice with ot...
Temptation
Temptation Kam Williams temptation-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Adulteress Wife Shamelessly Violates Vows in Latest Tyler Perry Morality Play Temptation (2013) In Theaters: Mar 29, 2013 Wide Rated ...
Comic-Con International
Comic-Con International San Diego Convention Center San Diego California Comic arts conference, anime, and fim screening .
Life Out of Context
Life Out of Context Walter Mosley 9781560258469 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Life Out of Context begins as a powerful, brooding and humorously honest examination of Mosley’s own se...
Clay Cane
Clay Cane NONE Clay Cane is an award-winning journalist, author, and radio host known for his challenging discussions on SiriusXM and insightful books. Creator of the acclaimed documentary, Holler If...
One True Loves
One True Loves Elise Bryant 9780062982865 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From the author of Happily Ever Afters comes another irresistible YA romantic comedy full of self-discovery and...
The Daddy-Daughter Dance
The Daddy-Daughter Dance Malcolm Newsome 9781250874382 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Full of color, attitude, and heart, this picture book is a perfect read aloud for all the dance...
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel Blair Underwood and Joe McClean 9780063316782 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Harlem Shuffle meets The Godfather in this fierce and dazzling crime family saga ...
Crook Manifesto (paperback)
Crook Manifesto (paperback) Colson Whitehead 9780525567288 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle ...
You Need It, I Got It!: Conversations with Global Entrepreneurs on Growing Your Audience, Visibility and Influence
You Need It, I Got It!: Conversations with Global Entrepreneurs on Growing Your Audience, Visibility and Influence Tieshena Davis 9781949134452 Nonfiction Purposely Created Publishing Group Purposely ...
One More Dino On the Floor
One More Dino On the Floor Kelly Starling Lyons 9780807515983 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved science and dance. My new picture book, publi...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214806 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to ...
Tuff: A Novel
Tuff: A Novel Paul Beatty 9780385721110 Fiction Anchor Press Penguin Random House As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beat...
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint)
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint) Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780689821929 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. A young girl must face her fears and conquer her nerves to earn her yellow belt i...
Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle
Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle Nora Deloach Excerpt Carrie Smalls shrugged. "I reckon you think ’cause your job throw you to be with her that you know her better than anybody else. My questi...
Nina
Nina Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/images/nina-2016-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Saldana Successfully Channels Simone in Controversial Biopic Nina In Theaters: April Mar 22, 2016 Limite...
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com)
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com) Troy Johnson Article Video Distribution Service videobookpromo.com You've done the hard part; spending time and money creating your book tra...
Bestselling DVDs for 2013
Bestselling DVDs for 2013 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/zanes-sex-chronicles.jpg Film Review Best-selling DVDs for 2013 #1 • Zane's Sex Chronicles Season 1 Click to Buy Via Amaz...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers Troy Johnson Article Migrated Writers 17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing A Report From The Field More Bios. The Sight of the 360 Event 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair AA C...
Good Hair
Good Hair Kam Williams images/img1C.jpg Film Review Chris Rock’s Lighthearted Look at Sisters’ ‘Dos Arrives on DVD Good Hair Click to order from Amazon Rated PG-1...
Hairspray
Hairspray Kam Williams hairsp27.jpg Film Review Hairspray Click to order via Amazon Rated PG for teen smoking, mild epithets andsuggestive content. Running time: 107 minutes Studio: New Li...
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep Kam Williams killer27.jpg Film Review Killer of Sheep Click to order via Amazon Unrated Black & White Running time: 81 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video/Miles...
Supremacy
Supremacy Kam Williams supremacy.jpg Film Review Supremacy In Theaters: Jan 30, 2015 LimitedOn DVD: Apr 21, 2015Rating: UnratedGenre: DramaDirected By: Deon TaylorRuntime: 1 hr. 46 min. Distributor:...
Tracy Morgan - The “Cop Out” Interview
Tracy Morgan - The “Cop Out” Interview Kam Williams Interview Tracy Morgan as the New Black Brooklyn-born Tracy Morgan started out in showbiz in his teens, doing standup until he was in...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell Kam Williams images/pray_t16.jpg Film Review PBS Series Documentary from Liberia Features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Pray the Devil Back to Hell premieres ...
The Weight of the Stars
The Weight of the Stars K. Ancrum 9781250101655 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances Ryann Bird dreams of ...
Solemn
Solemn Kalisha Buckhanon 9781250091598 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of ...
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 ...
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore 9781478758983 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. There is definitely an immediate emotional attachment...
Black Movie
Black Movie Danez Smith 9781943735006 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ’a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children ...
Allison Mick
Allison Mick NONE Allison Mick is a Los Angeles–based comedy and animation writer from the Great Lakes. Mick’s writing appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Co...
Silk White
Silk White NONE Silk White, a best-selling urban fiction author from Harlem, New York, is also a co-owner of Good2Go Publishing and Films. He has credit for films like No Way Out & Black Barbie, and ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Archangels of Funk
Archangels of Funk Andrea Hairston Excerpt CINNAMON HAIR ON FIRE “Who’s afraid of the future?” Cinnamon Jones sucked a deep breath and raced downhill in the dark on fast hy...
A Special Note for Authors, Publishers, and Book Promoters
A Special Note for Authors, Publishers, and Book Promoters Troy Johnson Article “There are some online services that specialize in books for blacks…The most successful is the African American Literat...
How do I get my book featured on AALBC.com (for free)?
How do I get my book featured on AALBC.com (for free)? Troy Johnson Article “How do I get my book featured on AALBC.com?” is a question often posed to me by authors, publishers and publicists. Of...
AALBC.com to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive Discounts
AALBC.com to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive Discounts Troy Johnson Article The African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com) to Offer Self Published...
Generations In Black And White: Photographs From The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Generations In Black And White: Photographs From The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection Carl Van Vechten 9780820315584 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press What mak...
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...
We Are Not Like Them
We Are Not Like Them Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 9781982181031 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond ...
I’m African and Proud
I’m African and Proud Kam Williams Book Review ’I’ve taught in New Jersey schools for 32 years, 21 as a kindergarten teacher. I’ve seen so many children of African descent who ha...
Bebop Books
Bebop Books Troy Johnson Article Bebop Books is currently accepting manuscripts for emergent readers with multicultural themes. Emergent readers are used by kindergarten and first-grade teachers ...
African American Literature Book Club
African American Literature Book Club AALBC.com, LLC AALBC Aspire AALBC Books for Young Readers AALBC Legacy Press AALBC.com The AALBC Legacy Press is deeply rooted in the concept of Black heritage, ...
★ AALBC Now Sells Audiobooks and Accomplishes a First
★ AALBC Now Sells Audiobooks and Accomplishes a First Troy Johnson Article 12 Audiobooks You’ll ♥ Libro.fm Helps AALBC Sell Digital Audiobooks Membership Supports AALBC$14.99 m...
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018 Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com is Hosting an Independent Publishing Workshop How to Publish Your Book Independently...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle AALBC.com's 25 Best Se...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our...
The Pan-Africanists
The Pan-Africanists Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson 9780865438101 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made o...
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis MUL...
Breakout
Breakout Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon 9780063217508 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Trapped at a luxurious resort off the coa...
Backtalker: An American Memoir
Backtalker: An American Memoir Kimberlé Crenshaw 9781982181000 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times Bestseller One of the most influential public intellectuals in the w...
Love by the Book
Love by the Book Jessica George 9781250282545 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A New York Times Most Anticipated Book of Spring • "A beautiful and all-...
E Is for Easter Egg Hunt
E Is for Easter Egg Hunt Brittany J. Thurman 9780374394547 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Based on the award-winning Pinna original podcast, this seco...
Gloriana, Presente: A First Day of School Story
Gloriana, Presente: A First Day of School Story Alyssa Reynoso-Morris 9780316366618 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group Enter the classroom in this joyful story of growth that will hel...
Maya and the Robot
Maya and the Robot Eve L. Ewing 9781984814630 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House From award-winning author Eve L. Ewing comes an illustrated middle grade novel about a forgotten homemade robot who co...
Becoming Vanessa
Becoming Vanessa Vanessa Brantley-Newton 9780525582120 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Get ready to go back to school with this inclusive, empathetic story that wi...
Ari J.’s Kinky, Curly Crown
Ari J.’s Kinky, Curly Crown Ain Heath Drew 9781645382188 Fiction Orange Hat Publishing Orange Hat Publishing Ari J. is in the first grade now, and she knew this school year would be perfect. She had p...
Stay This Way Forever
Stay This Way Forever Linsey Davis 9780310770084 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Celebrate the joy, wonder, and innocence of being a child with this love letter to the loved ones...
Sophie Washington My BFF
Sophie Washington My BFF Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776387 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL BOOK AWARD WINNERAn Amazon Bestselling Book!!Fans of Junie ...
Not So Pure and Simple
Not So Pure and Simple Lamar Giles 9780062349194 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins In his first contemporary teen novel, critically acclaimed author and two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotli...
Where Is Mommy?
Where Is Mommy? Pat Cummings 9780823439355 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A girl follows clues that lead to Mommy! This Level D book is perfect for new readers. A girl, her mother, and their cat ...
There’s No Pace Like My Own Home
There’s No Pace Like My Own Home Florenza Denise Lee 9781941328187 Fiction Words to Ponder Publishing Company Words to Ponder Publishing Company Life isn’t fair. We learn this as early as kindergarten...
Take Your Octopus to School Day
Take Your Octopus to School Day Audrey Vernick 9780399557101 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A hilarious classroom story about an octopus and his boy, from the author of Is ...
The World Is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings
The World Is Awake: A Celebration of Everyday Blessings Linsey Davis and Joseph Bottum 9780310762034 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Inspire children to be thankful for all of Go...
I Won a What?
I Won a What? Audrey Vernick 9780553509939 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The hilarious and heartwarming story of a boy who tries to win a goldfish and winds up with FAR mo...
Educating Black Girls
Educating Black Girls Jawanza Kunjufu 9781934155707 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images Making use of the latest trends and statistics, Educating Black Girls is a guidebook that...