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A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback
A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback Willie Jolley 9780312267735 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback! The wisdom in these words can help...
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part I)
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part I) Troy Johnson Article If it is not already obvious from my previous post, I'm a big fan of WordPress. A few months ago, using software f...
How to Setup a Domain Name and Website Quickly and Inexpensively
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Is Amazon the Reader's Friend?
Is Amazon the Reader's Friend? Troy Johnson Article Is Amazon, who accounts for 75% of all new books sold online and 67% of all e-book sales, doing right by readers and the future of books? If you...
The Setup: A Short Story
The Setup: A Short Story Pamela Samuels Young B00611Q4Z2 Fiction Goldman House Publishing Goldman House Publishing When a star running back is gunned down by a cop with a questionable history, the cit...
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96 Minutes
96 Minutes Kam Williams img21.jpg Film Review Gangstas Carjack College Coeds in Character-Driven Crime Caper 96 Minutes [2012] Order via Amazon.com In Theaters: Apr 27, 2012 Limited On DVD: May 2...
Mosaic Literary Magazine #24 Spring 2009
Mosaic Literary Magazine #24 Spring 2009 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine #24 Spring 2009 Related Links Mosaic Magazine http://mosaicmagazine.org
Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010
Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine #26 Spring 2010 Related Links Mosaic Magazine
Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009
Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009 Related Links Mosaic Magazine http://mosaicmagazine.org
Dolemite Is My Name
Dolemite Is My Name C. Liegh McInnis https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Dolemite_is_My_Name.jpg Film Review Rating: R (for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language) Genre: Drama Directed By: C...
The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders
The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders Myles Munroe 9781629119496 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House How to Protect Your Leadership Influ...
The Purpose and Power of Authority: Discovering the Power of Your Personal Domain
The Purpose and Power of Authority: Discovering the Power of Your Personal Domain Myles Munroe 9781603742627 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House In Understanding the Purpose and Power of Authorit...
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
The Quest of the Silver Fleece W.E.B. Du Bois 979dummy15265 Fiction Public Domain Public Domain The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911 by W. E. B. Du Bois, is a significant work in both lit...
The #1 Site for African American
The #1 Site for African American Troy Johnson Article Social Media Marketing Related Videos Social Bookmarking in Plain English AALBC.com and Mosicbooks.com founders talk about social me...
President Jimmy Carter interview, March 2012
President Jimmy Carter interview, March 2012 Kam Williams Interview President Jimmy Carter Interview March 2012 (coming soon) Related Links ...
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Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620974650 Fiction The New Press The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls one of the grea...
Fast Pitch
Fast Pitch Nic Stone 9781984893017 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age sto...
The Crossing (Bosch)
The Crossing (Bosch) Michael Connelly 9780316225885 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Harry Bosch crosses the line to team up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller ...
My Name Is Prince
My Name Is Prince Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas 9780062939234 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Physical Info: 13.2 inches high, 11.4 inches wide, and 1.5 inches thick (7.4 lbs) A...
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Alma and How She Got Her Name Juana Martinez-Neal 9780763693558 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press ★ 2019 Caldecott Honor ★ 2019 Ezra Jack Keats Award Writer Honor ★ 2019 NC...
Your Name Is a Song
Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 9781943147724 Fiction The Innovation Press The Innovation Press Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a l...
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Results from Form 1 of Page supersti.htm Kam Williams Interview Name: Anna McCaskill Date: 6/29/98 Comments Please print this on a poster and place it by convenience stores throughout la...
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship Irene Latham and Charles Waters 9781512404425 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Two poets, one white and one black, ex...
Perfect Timing
Perfect Timing Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Brenda Jackson’s second full-length fiction work Perfect Timing, is a novel about losing, finding, and maintaining friendship and love. Mrs. Jackson ...
Jaylin: A Naughty Aftermath: Naughty Series
Jaylin: A Naughty Aftermath: Naughty Series Brenda M. Hampton 9781622862191 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Naughty is as naughty always does, and Jaylin Jerome Rogers never disappoints. T...
Jaylin: A Naughty Aftermath: Naughty Series
Jaylin: A Naughty Aftermath: Naughty Series Brenda M. Hampton 9781945855887 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Naughty is as naughty always does, and Jaylin Jerome Rogers never disappoints. T...
The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer to Self Publisher
The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer to Self Publisher Heather Covington 9781414022185 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Disilgold Way: Countdown 101 From Writer To Self Publisher is...
Ghost of Ace Honeycutt (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 3)
Ghost of Ace Honeycutt (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 3) Marc Lacy 9780990795308 Fiction AVO Publishing AVO Publishing, LLC First there was Curse of the Whiskey House, then there was Viral Xgressions, a...
Simone Breaks All the Rules
Simone Breaks All the Rules Debbie Rigaud 9781338681727 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Perfect for fans of You Should See Me in a Crown and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, this hilarious ...
Lisa Armstrong's Moving Article in Essence Magazine [Jan. 2011]
Lisa Armstrong's Moving Article in Essence Magazine [Jan. 2011] Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_248" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Photograph by Andre Lamberston - Essence Mag...
The Blackbird Papers: A Novel
The Blackbird Papers: A Novel Ian K. Smith 9780767920445 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House A rainy night … A stranded motorist … A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor … The setu...
The Blackbird Papers: A Novel
The Blackbird Papers: A Novel Ian Smith 9780385511360 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House A rainy night … A stranded motorist … A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor … The set...
The Way It Was Coming to America the Real Story.
The Way It Was Coming to America the Real Story. Tino Adognravi 9780976202509 Nonfiction eibbooks eibbooks From a small village in Africa to the foundation of a potentially multi-billion dollar corpo...
Almost by Design: A Novel
Almost by Design: A Novel Jenny Erlingsson Excerpt Chapter 1 These shoes would be the death of her. Or at least cause the demise of a few toes. Kenya Stewart sighed, admiring the way the heels refle...
Byron Pitts
Byron Pitts 0000000039302138 Byron Pitts is a renowned American journalist and author with ABC News. A multiple Emmy award winner, Pitts has over 20 years of experience, covering significant events l...
For Just Five Minutes: Heaven:Yes, Hell:No
For Just Five Minutes: Heaven:Yes, Hell:No Deborah Johnson 9781682707586 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC This a story of perseverance and victory over multiple trials and he...
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame Darrell Miller 9781939447753 Nonfiction Dunham Books Dunham Group Inc In the future, everyone will be worl...
Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott Jill Scott 9780312329624 Poetry St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Jill Scott’s first-ever poetry collection delivers the same earthy, ...
Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Eleven Minutes: A Novel Paulo Coelho 9780060589288 Fiction HarperOne HarperCollins Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love l...
10 Minutes Past Too Late
10 Minutes Past Too Late Anika Malone 9780759612525 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Lisa Munroe is a successful, single young black attorney, branded from childhood with the nickname, ’Bad Girl.’...
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...
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds James Baldwin and Toni Morrison 9781883011529 Non...
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...
Calling My Name
Calling My Name Liara Tamani 9780062656865 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins “Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear Martin Calling My Name is a ...
Gather Together in My Name
Gather Together in My Name Thumper Book Review You know, there are times when I simply LOOOVE being Thumper and reviewing books. Reviewing Tracey Price-Thompson’s latest novel, Gather...
Naming Ceremony
Naming Ceremony Seina Wedlick 9781419756269 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A sweet sibling story all about making family traditions your own—perfect for fans of Alma and How She Got Her...
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...
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...
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
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Urban Lit Review Magazine
Urban Lit Review Magazine Troy Johnson Article Urban Lit Review Magazine Related Links
Killens Review of Arts & Letters
Killens Review of Arts & Letters Clarence V. Reynolds Excerpt Fiction Excerpt: “Lynched” by Kim-Marie Walker When mother named me Madame Augusta Nero in 1920, she intended whites aroun...
Roslyn Carrington
Roslyn Carrington NONE Roslyn Carringtongton is a Trinidadian PR professional and writer known for her literary novel, “A Thirst for Rain.” She also writes multicultural romances as Simona Taylor. A ...
Home Is Not a Country
Home Is Not a Country Safia Elhillo 9780593177051 Fiction Make Me a World Penguin Random House “Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From th...
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937269562 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications ...
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta 9780544003446 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees s a deeply searchin...
Track Your Clicks or (Shorten Your URL's)
Track Your Clicks or (Shorten Your URL's) Troy Johnson Article Track Your Clicks and Shorten Your URLs How can you figure out which web sites like Twitter, Facebook, discussion boards...
Up & Coming Magazine
Up & Coming Magazine Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note (13 Jan 2013): We bleieve this magazine may be out of print. Their old domain has be claimed by a diiferent magazine with the same name....
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Vincent Brown 9780674260290 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the James A. Rawley ...
Blood Done Sign My Name
Blood Done Sign My Name Kam Williams images/img1D.jpg Film Review Riveting Historical Drama Revisits Infamous Civil Rights Case Blood Done Sign My Name Rated PG-13 for profanity, mature th...
Code Name: The Cleaner
Code Name: The Cleaner Kam Williams code_n62.jpg Film Review DVD Features Cedric the Entertainer in Comic Crime Caper Code Name: The Cleaner Click to order via Amazon ...
I.O.U.S.A. (One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.)
I.O.U.S.A. (One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.) Kam Williams iousa.8.jpg Film Review DVD Explains Financial Crisis in Layman’s Terms I.O.U.S.A. (One Nation. Under...
The Perfect Mistress
The Perfect Mistress ReShonda Tate Billingsley Excerpt Lauren Robinson struggled to contain her excitement. Her daddy was going to be so surprised when he realized what she’d done. As the ...
Sydney McGee
Sydney McGee NONE “McGee is the youngest bestselling author in AALBC.com History!” Sydney McGee, also known as “Sydney Sunshine”, is a young author from Houston, Texas, known for her uniqu...
BYWORD “A Nation Called out of Their Name”
BYWORD “A Nation Called out of Their Name” Mark Makabi 9780692031919 Nonfiction Proving Press Proving Press BYWORD: A Nation Called out of Their Name is the book that will change America forever! A ra...
A Filmmaker You Should Know: Janks Morton
A Filmmaker You Should Know: Janks Morton Troy Johnson Article Janks Morton has been in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years and is a much sought-after teacher, lecturer, commentator...
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother James McBride Excerpt CHAPTER ONE Dead I’m dead. You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty y...
Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name
Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name Luvvie Ajayi Jones 9780593694251 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House A story about a little troublemaker with a big heart who must defend her name from a...
Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name Kelly Harris-DeBerry 9781883275297 Poetry Xavier Review Press Xavier Review Press Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam “Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant ...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel
Apex Hides the Hurt: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9781400031269 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call ...
Scandalize My Name: Selected Poems
Scandalize My Name: Selected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 9780330490788 Poetry Picador Macmillan Publishers Yusef Komunyakaa is one of the most highly regarded US poets now at work; Scandalize My Name selec...
The Other Wes Moore: One Name
The Other Wes Moore: One Name Kam Williams Book Review "This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experi...
Orgasm, Inc - Scathing Expose’ Uncovers Pharmaceutical Industry Plot to Exploit Female Pleasure
Orgasm, Inc - Scathing Expose’ Uncovers Pharmaceutical Industry Plot to Exploit Female Pleasure Troy Johnson Article In our culture, seemingly anything can and will be distorted in such a way to ...
I Name Me Name
I Name Me Name Opal Palmer Adisa 9781845230449 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Each piece in this dynamic poetic biography uses the voices of iconic figures past and present in a bold explo...
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. James Baldwin 9781101908471 Nonfiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home Troy Johnson Article Today, at 5PM EST, I'll be participating in a live interview with Paul Billings host of the "The Beat" on WUVS-LP 103.7F...
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Editing Services Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com's Manuscript Editing Service http://www.aalbc.com/writers/manuscript_review.html EyeEdit Editorial Services https://bit.ly/eyeedit Jazzy Pen ...
Gwynne Forster
Gwynne Forster NONE Gwynne Forster (1922-2015) was a renowned and award-winning author, known for her romance and general fiction novels. Her work, featured in Black Expressions Magazine, earned her ...
Tiffany L. Warren
Tiffany L. Warren NONE Tiffany L. Warren is a bestselling author, playwright, and songwriter. She's written over 15 novels, including two YA series under the pen name Nikki Carter. Alongside her husb...
Johanna Sparrow
Johanna Sparrow NONE “Sometimes your tragedy is your best feature.” Antoinette M. Watkins, pen name Johanna Sparrow, is an experienced author of over 31 books ranging from children's liter...
Shelia M. Goss
Shelia M. Goss NONE Shelia M. Goss is a national best-selling author of over 20 novels in various genres, including Christian fiction and romance. Known for her easy, flowing prose, she has been reco...
Sharina Harris
Sharina Harris NONE Sharina Harris, also known as Rina Gray, is a celebrated author of women's fiction and contemporary romance. With her background in digital marketing, she's a Romance Slam Jam nom...
Tamisha Anthony
Tamisha Anthony NONE "Tamisha Anthony is a freelance illustrator and educator with clients like Macmillan Publishers. She's a graduate of Rice University and the School of Visual Arts, and sells her ...
AlTonya Washington
AlTonya Washington NONE AlTonya Washington is an award-winning romance novelist with 12 years of experience. She's won two Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer’s Choice Awards and the Romance Slam Jam EM...
Kaia Alderson
Kaia Alderson NONE Kaia Alderson, an author specializing in historical women's fiction, has a passion for uncovering African-American women's history. Known for her debut novel, Sisters In Arms, she ...
Willard Motley
Willard Motley 0000000081324621 Willard Francis Motley was a renowned columnist, freelance writer, and novelist known for his work in the Chicago Defender under the pseudonym Bud Billiken. He founded...
Eryka Parker
Eryka Parker NONE Eryka is the moderator of AALBC’s Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines book club. Eryka Parker is an award-winning book coach and developmental editor who assists diverse writers in storyt...
Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker
Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker NONE Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker is an award-winning, bestselling author known for her works such as “Flipside of the Game” and “Game Over.” She's contributed to anthologies and has e...
Faith Knight
Faith Knight NONE Faith Knight also writes under the pen names FM Knight and Tanzy Kohl. She writes contemporary and historical fiction for adults and teens. Faith Knight is an author, wife, and moth...
IN STATES TO THE SOUTHWEST
IN STATES TO THE SOUTHWEST Carter G. Woodson Excerpt CHAPTER VI IN STATES TO THE SOUTHWEST Elsewhere the natives on or near the West Coast had not developed such political organizations as those wh...