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Tom Wood
Tom Wood 0000000071567072 “If you are excellent at almost anything you can succeed.” Tom Wood, a trailblazer in the banking industry, was the first Black member of a major U.S. bank's boar...
Anna’s Boy
Anna’s Boy Tom Wood 9781098320874 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Anna’s Boy is the saga of the grandson of an American slave’s journey from Harlem;To become the first black member of a major U.S. bank b...
Tom Wood, the First Black Person to Take his Company Public
Tom Wood, the First Black Person to Take his Company Public Author Interviews Learn more about Tom Wood, the first Black person to take his company public, and his memoir Anna’s Boy at: https://aalbc....
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative Troy Johnson https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Uncle-tom-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Rating: NR Genre: Documentary Directed By: Just...
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South Toyomi Igus 9780892391370 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books More than half a century after her family moved North to find a better life, ...
Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood
Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood MULTIPLE Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood are celebrated authors specializing in children's literature, with a focus on diversity and incl...
Tom Knight
Tom Knight 0000000356443698 After an enjoyable stint as a graphic designer, Tom Knight is now proud to be using his imagination as a full-time career. Drawing on a long and abiding love of imagery f...
The Hope Family Calendar
The Hope Family Calendar Mike Gayle 9781473608955 Fiction Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan. ...
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded Harriet Beecher Stowe 9780486794822 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications In 1852 Ha...
Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson Josiah Henson 9780807869611 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press This 1876 ver...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 9780486440286 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe’s powerful abolitionist n...
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors known for their significant contributions to literature and culture, particularly within the Afr...
Tom Feelings
Tom Feelings 0000000063291627 Tom Feelings was a Brooklyn-born author, illustrator, and activist who portrayed the African-American experience through his work. He had a distinguished career, winning...
Tom Percival
Tom Percival 0000000058693453 Tom Percival had an unconventional childhood in a remote and beautiful part of South Shropshire and these formative years are almost certainly what first got him intere...
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America W. Caleb McDaniel 9780190846992 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The unforgettable saga of one ensl...
Michele Wood
Michele Wood 0000000384420661 Michele Wood is a minister and award-winning author known for her vivid illustrations and use of Christian symbolism. Her accolades include the American Book Award, the ...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
Simon Wood
Simon Wood 0000000424573065 Based in Melbourne, Simon "Woody" Wood Creator of Sneaker Freaker magazine. He is recognized worldwide for his encyclopedic knowledge, inimitable writing style, and steadf...
The Wood
The Wood Kam Williams images/thewoo35.jpg Film Review THE WOOD Paramount Director - Rick Famuyiwa Starring - Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, Taye Diggs Comedy 112 min Rated R So-called "urban&...
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom Victor Lavalle 9781250817556 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The Ballad of Black Tom—the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley J...
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011490 Fiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultura...
Tom Burrell
Tom Burrell 0000000078076508 Thomas J. Burrell, a pioneer in marketing communications, revolutionized the portrayal of African Americans in TV advertising. He acknowledged their purchasing power, cha...
Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson 0000000082230213 Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister who escaped from slavery and founded a settlement in Upper Canada for fugitive slaves. His autobiogr...
Man of Many Fathers: A Memoir
Man of Many Fathers: A Memoir Roy Wood Jr. 9780593800072 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House From Comedian, Emmy-Nominated Writer and Producer, and Former Daily Show Correspondent R...
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. NONE Roy Wood Jr. is a two-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer. The comedian, actor, and podcaster is primarily known for his stand-up comedy and work as a correspondent on Comedy C...
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback)
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback) Victor Lavalle 9780765387868 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Tho...
Song Of The Shank: A Novel
Song Of The Shank: A Novel Jeffery Renard Allen 9781555976804 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America d...
Muriel Feelings
Muriel Feelings 0000000042175168 Muriel Feelings, born in Pennsylvania, was an educator and author. She taught in East Africa and Brooklyn and collaborated with her illustrator husband, Tom Feelings,...
Tom Cruise - The "Mission: Impossible III" Interview
Tom Cruise - The "Mission: Impossible III" Interview Kam Williams Interview Ten Quick Questions for Tom Tom Cruise (TC): The Mission: Impossible III Interview with Kam Williams (KW) ...
Brown Girls Do Ballet: Celebrating Diverse Girls Taking Center Stage
Brown Girls Do Ballet: Celebrating Diverse Girls Taking Center Stage Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood 9780762487592 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group This stunning chi...
Sneaker Freaker. the Ultimate Sneaker Book. 40th Ed.
Sneaker Freaker. the Ultimate Sneaker Book. 40th Ed. Simon Wood 9783836597982 Nonfiction Taschen Taschen Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later,...
Here Are the Seeds
Here Are the Seeds JaNay Brown-Wood 9781525308307 Fiction Kids Can Press Corus Entertainment Inc This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and p...
Sneaker Freaker. World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors
Sneaker Freaker. World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors Simon Wood 9783836596299 Nonfiction Taschen Taschen Simon “Woody” Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last...
Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History
Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History Janet Sims-Wood 9781540211200 Nonfiction The History Press The History Press When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staf...
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines? Jean Alicia Elster 9780814334027 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-ye...
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Caleb Gayle 9780593329603 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "An important part of American history told wi...
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins Glenda Armand 9780807509418 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Born blind into a life of slavery, T...
Brainwashed
Brainwashed Tom Burrell 9781401925925 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House "Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are ...
Uncle Tom’s Children (P.S.)
Uncle Tom’s Children (P.S.) Richard Wright 9780061450204 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an...
I Saw Your Face
I Saw Your Face Kwame Dawes 9780803718944 Poetry Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Wow! This is still one of the greatest honors of my life—to work with Tom Feelings”Kwame Dawes ...
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) Mary E. Lyons 9780684196756 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. Examines the life and work of master...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall utctttc Fiction E. P. Dutton & Co. Penguin Random House “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti–slavery novel by Ame...
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner MULTIPLE
Tom Dent
Tom Dent 0000000116010017 Sure, I can help with that. However, I didn't receive the author bio from you. Could you please provide it?
Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley 0000000110310916 Tavis Smiley, a prominent African-American voice, is a renowned host and political commentator. Known for his work on BET Tonight and The Tom Joyner Morning Show, he is ...
Deya Smith
Deya Smith NONE Deya “Direct” Smith, lead content producer for the Tom Joyner Morning Show, is the creator of “The Man Whisperer” series. Known for her provocative communication style, she's a freque...
Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale
Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623543686 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge In this clever, contemporary Black twist on “Rapunzel,” Acacia makes a new friend and uses her hair—and wits—...
On Our Way! What a Day!
On Our Way! What a Day! JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593110751 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A journey, a challenge, and a party with Gram make one day super special for a group of siblings...
The Fast and the Furriest (Love Puppies #6)
The Fast and the Furriest (Love Puppies #6) JaNay Brown-Wood 9781339042176 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Adorable dogs + a sprinkle of magic + a celebration of social emotional learnin...
Shhh! the Baby’s Asleep
Shhh! the Baby’s Asleep JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623544867 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Celebrate the silliness that comes with a big family in this playful read aloud about a big brother, a sleepi...
Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623543679 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge A clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty—an...
Jam, Too?
Jam, Too? JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593323762 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Lustrous illustrations and a rhythmic text featuring a cumulative list of sounds bring to life the thrill of a...
Monstrous
Monstrous Jessica Lewis 9780593434819 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller about a teen who unco...
Amara’s Farm
Amara’s Farm JaNay Brown-Wood 9781682635865 Fiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Amara searches for pumpkins on her farm in this vibrant exploration of gardening and healthy eating, from ...
How to Babysit Your Grown-Up: Activities to Do Together
How to Babysit Your Grown-Up: Activities to Do Together JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593479230 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Ready to keep your grownup busy? AND to have lots of fun? Build a ki...
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593566732 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Olympi...
Woodie The Wood Stock Tries Swallow a Fish
Woodie The Wood Stock Tries Swallow a Fish Author Interviews
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593480144 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about...
Grandma’s Tiny House
Grandma’s Tiny House JaNay Brown-Wood 9781580897129 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge This sweet, rhyming counting book introduces young readers to numbers one through fifteen as Grandma’s family and...
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts Nikki Grimes 9780439793384 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books Nikki Grimes offers a glimpse int...
Imani’s Moon
Imani’s Moon JaNay Brown-Wood 9781934133583 Fiction Mackinac Island Press Penguin Random House Canada Imani is a young Maasi girl with a loving mother and a desire to do something great. When she deci...
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other) Vanessa L. Williams 9781592407590 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random H...
God’s Bits of Wood
God’s Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembène 9780435909598 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers...
I See the Rhythm
I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 9780892392124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second boo...
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians Nancy Wood 9780385128841 Poetry Doubleday Penguin Random House Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous chang...
Marguerite W. Davol
Marguerite W. Davol NONE Marguerite W. Davol, a former teacher at Gorse Child Study Center, Mount Holyoke College, is an acclaimed author known for children's books like Heart of the Wood, How Snake ...
Brian H. Williams
Brian H. Williams NONE Dr. Brian H. Williams is a Harvard-educated surgeon, Air Force Academy graduate, and a prominent leader in public policy, structural racism, gun violence, and health equity. Wi...
Contest Winner
Contest Winner Contest Winner The AALBC in conjunction with BlackWords sponsored a contest for the "360? Degree A Revolution of Black Poets" event. The question posed was "What is the importance...
Ruby Finds a Worry
Ruby Finds a Worry Tom Percival 9781547602377 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing A young girl’s sense of adventure and exploration vanishes when she discovers a Worry that grows and g...
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo Tom Feelings 9780525552444 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Alex Haley’s Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slaver...
Citizens Creek: A Novel
Citizens Creek: A Novel Lalita Tademy 9781476753034 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner BCALA Literary Fiction Book Award “Lalita Tademy has done it again—Citizen’s Creek is a de...
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer Troy Johnson Article by Wade Hudson I was stunned when I heard that Walter Dean Myers had made his transition. During the 25 plus years that my w...
Sister Betty Says I Do
Sister Betty Says I Do Pat G’Orge Walker 9780758289858 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An inspiring, devilishly funny tale of hope, secrets—and hard-knock faith that can make the most impos...
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss 9780307382467 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Mo...
To Be Sung Underwater
To Be Sung Underwater Tom McNeal 9780316127387 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you do...
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century) Robin Bernstein 9780814787083 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University ...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Uncle Tom’s Children
Uncle Tom’s Children Richard Wright 9780060587147 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives ...
Mandy Oxendine
Mandy Oxendine Victor Séjour 9780252063473 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for...
Mark Twain
Mark Twain 0000000368641704 Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an influential American author known for his satirical humor and social criticism. He's best remembered for classic novels such as The Adventure...
Nikki Woods
Nikki Woods NONE Nikki Woods is a multi-media personality, personal branding coach, and CEO of Nikki Woods Media. As senior producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, she reaches over 8 million listen...
E. D. Arrington
E. D. Arrington NONE E.D. Arrington, also known as Lois, was raised by her grandparents in Greene County, North Carolina. After a successful career at the National Education Association, she turned t...
Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin 0000000043822953 Roland Martin is a journalist, author, and TV host for TV One's News One Now. Previously a CNN contributor and senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Martin...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe 0000000120176335 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an influential American author and abolitionist. Her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, highlighted the harsh realities of slavery ...
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas Kam Williams cloud-atlas-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Halle & Hanks Co-Star in Adaptation of Sci-Fi Best-Seller Cloud Atlas (2012) In Theaters: Oct 26, 2012 Wide Rated R for viole...
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow Tony Lindsay Book Review In Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s first novel, We Cast a Shadow, the reader meets a complex and unnamed protagonist. The main character of this futuristic nov...
Ving Rhames - The "Mission Impossible III " Interview
Ving Rhames - The "Mission Impossible III " Interview Kam Williams Interview Ving Rhames: The Mission: Impossible III Interview with Kam Williams (KW) Hailing from Harlem, Ving Rhames att...
Contest Winner
Contest Winner Troy Johnson Article The AALBC in conjunction with BlackWords sponsored a contest for the "360� Degree A Revolution of Black Poets" event. The question posed was "What is the imp...
Contest Winner
Contest Winner Loading The AALBC in conjunction with BlackWords sponsored a contest for the "360� Degree A Revolution of Black Poets" event. The question posed was "...
Downtown Doors
Downtown Doors Natasha Tripplett 9780593581001 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Join a Mother and Son on a Journey Through Their City’s Downtown in This Picture Book That Celebrates Stron...
That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor Damon Young 9780593317112 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill Yo...
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted Ben Okri 9781635425284 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ba...
What You Leave Behind
What You Leave Behind Wanda M. Morris 9780063322219 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who a...
Lullaby for the King
Lullaby for the King Nikki Grimes 9781506485621 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media An awe-inspiring Christmas tale from multi-award-winning poet Nikki Grimes. The caravan traveled through wilderness,...