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Award-winning Author and Journalist asha bandele
Award-winning Author and Journalist asha bandele Robert Fleming Interview An award-winning author and journalist, asha bandele first attained recognition when she penned her ...
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele MULTIPLE Authors Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele are renowned for their impactful writings. Photo credits go to Curtis Moore for Khan-Cullors and Michael...
asha bandele
asha bandele 0000000385071694 Asha Bandele is an award-winning author and former features editor for Essence Magazine. She's known for her 1999 debut, The Prisoner's Wife, a memoir about her relation...
Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story
Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story asha bandele 9780061710391 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins When asha bandele fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and bec...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...
The Prisoner’s Wife
The Prisoner’s Wife asha bandele 9780671021481 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book. While bandele’s narrat...
Subtle Art of Breathing
Subtle Art of Breathing asha bandele 9780965830881 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Poetry. African American Studies. THE SUBTLE ART OF BREATHING is a work about women, survival, and abuse t...
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele 9781250171085 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers The emotional and powerful story of ...
Daughter: A Novel
Daughter: A Novel asha bandele 9780743211840 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work — an...
Love Frustration: A Novel
Love Frustration: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9780743448734 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Have you ever been frustrated because you are in love with someone you can’t have? Jayson Abrahms ...
Daughter
Daughter Jayne Cubbage Book Review The novel, Daughter is a wonderfully crafted book and a smashing follow up to Asha Bandele’s first book, The Prisoner’s Wife. In this suspenseful a...
Asha Lemmie
Asha Lemmie NONE Asha Lemmie is the New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Words For Rain and The Wildest Sun. She holds a BA in English Literature from Boston College and is currently a graduat...
2020: The Year That Changed America
2020: The Year That Changed America Kevin Powell 9781735199740 Nonfiction Bowker Bowker 2020 is a year we shall never forget-not America, not the world. The tragic death of Kobe Bryant and his dau...
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems asha bandele 9780863160134 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Patrisse Khan-Cullors 0000000486461392 Patrisse Khan-Cullors, an LA-based artist and freedom fighter, is known for co-founding Black Lives Matter and Dignity and Power Now. A Fulbright scholar and NA...
Something Like Beautiful
Something Like Beautiful Robert Fleming Book Review In many ways, the award-winning poet and journalist asha bandele’s second memoir, Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother&rsquo...
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones Biyi Bandele 9780413771810 Fiction Berg 3Pl Berg Publishers Two plays by one of Britain’s most prolific young...
Brown Sugar 4
Brown Sugar 4 Carol Taylor 9780743466875 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Continuing in the bestselling Brown Sugar tradition, this fourth installment brings together the finest ...
The Wildest Sun: A Novel
The Wildest Sun: A Novel Asha Lemmie 9780593185735 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweepin...
Fifty Words for Rain
Fifty Words for Rain Asha Lemmie 9781524746384 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovel...
An Ordinary Woman: A Novel
An Ordinary Woman: A Novel Donna Hill 9780312307295 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From bestselling author, Donna Hill comes an evocative, unforgettable novel about love, friendship...
Blacktrospective 2009 - Kam’s Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema
Blacktrospective 2009 - Kam’s Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/precious_movieposter.jpg Film Review Kam's Annual Assessment of the Best ...
Yoruba Boy Running
Yoruba Boy Running Biyi Bandele 9780063417083 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling ...
The King’s Rifle
The King’s Rifle Biyi Bandele 9780061582660 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins It’s winter 1944 and the Second World War is entering its most crucial state. A few months ago fourteen-year-old Ali...
The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond
The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond Biyi Bandele 9780435905873 Fiction Heinemann Educational Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Capturing the yearning for something of value as well as the decayi...
Fall of Saints
Fall of Saints Wanjiku Wa Ngugi 9781476760339 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this “taut, smart international thriller” (Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner), a Kenyan expat finds...
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, And Other Realities Of Truly Modern Love
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, And Other Realities Of Truly Modern Love Rebecca Walker 9781594488627 Nonfictio...
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780393325805 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Not since Breaking Ice has an a...
Former Editor-in-Chief of Essence Magazine Opens Akwaaba D.C. Inn for Black Writers
Former Editor-in-Chief of Essence Magazine Opens Akwaaba D.C. Inn for Black Writers Jamie Walker Article Washington, D.C.: Hundreds of book lovers (in addition to a host of best-selling authors...
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore 0000000043767122 jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winn...
Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell NONE Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a cha...
Jayne Cubbage
Jayne Cubbage Kam Williams Interview A well-experienced journalist, Jayne Cubbage has a broad ranging career in electronic and print media. She has covered sports, business, entertainment an...
African Voices Magazine
African Voices Magazine Troy Johnson Article African Voices Communications, Inc. http://www.africanvoices.com 270 West 96th Street New York, NY, 10025 Office: 212-285-2982 Fax: 212-316-3335 ...
Chinelo Okparanta Reading 16 Nov 2013
Chinelo Okparanta Reading 16 Nov 2013 Poetry & Spoken Word
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013 Author Interviews
Decoded by Jay-Z (Spiegel & Grau, Nov. 16, 2010)
Decoded by Jay-Z (Spiegel & Grau, Nov. 16, 2010) Author Interviews
Barack Obama in Harlem, Nov. 29th 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
Barack Obama in Harlem, Nov. 29th 2007 (Part 2 of 2) Author Interviews
Barack Obama in Harlem, NY. Nov. 29th (part 1 of 2)
Barack Obama in Harlem, NY. Nov. 29th (part 1 of 2) Author Interviews
Bob Zemeckis (Nov 2012) Flight Interview
Bob Zemeckis (Nov 2012) Flight Interview Kam Williams Interview Oscar-Winning Director, Bob Zemeckis on Latest Film Flight Related Links
Wanda Coleman
Wanda Coleman 0000000116780476 “I have yet to kill anyone—I have exhibited great restraint.” Wanda Coleman (1946-2013) was a renowned poet, former medical secretary, magazine editor,...
Donald Franklin Joyce
Donald Franklin Joyce NONE Donald Franklin Joyce, born Nov 4, 1938, is an esteemed academic library administrator, historian, and consultant. Holding a master's degree and a PhD, he is a member of va...
Ursula M. Burns
Ursula M. Burns 0000000445332455 Ursula M. Burns is a pioneering American businesswoman, the first black woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO at Xerox, where she served from 2009-2016. She was also Chai...
Lola Jaye
Lola Jaye NONE Lola Jaye, a London-born author, published her first U.S. novel in 2009. Her journey from foster child to author was shared in her 2009 essay, part of the U.K.'s Quick Reads program. L...
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo 0000000393964134 NoViolet Bulawayo, a Zimbabwean-born author, is known for her award-winning story “Hitting Budapest.” Her works have been featured in various publications and short...
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems Kwame Dawes 9781556594236 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Kwame Dawes: Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 and moved with his family to Jamaica...
2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting - Denver, CO
2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting - Denver, CO Troy Johnson Article As part of my role as a board member of the Literary Freedom Project, and a full page ad in Mosaic Magazine, I offered to help Ron work th...
2009 Guide To Literary Agents
2009 Guide To Literary Agents Chuck Sambuchino 9781582975481 Nonfiction Writer’s Digest Books Writer’s Digest Books Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking numbe...
Marissa Monteilh
Marissa Monteilh NONE Marissa Monteilh (Mon-tay), writing as Pynk, is the best-selling author of seven mainstream novels, May December Souls, The Chocolate Ship, Hot ...
Nichole L. Shields
Nichole L. Shields NONE Nichole L. Shields (1969-2009) was a celebrated poet and essayist, renowned for her impactful story-telling as a black woman. She was a two-time Gwendolyn Brooks poetry winner...
Shadra Strickland
Shadra Strickland NONE Shadra Strickland, an award-winning illustrator and teacher, studied at Syracuse University and the School of Visual Arts. She won the Ezra Jack Keats and Coretta Scott King/Jo...
Osonye Tess Onwueme
Osonye Tess Onwueme 0000000114408785 Dr. Osonye Tess Onwueme, a University Professor of Global Letters at the University of Wisconsin, is a renowned author with several prestigious awards including t...
Millicent Graham
Millicent Graham NONE Millicent A. A. Graham, born in 1974, is a Jamaican poet known for her collections 'The Damp In Things' (2009) and 'The Way Home' (2014). She was a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writ...
Joseph S. Spence
Joseph S. Spence NONE Dr. Joseph S. Spence Sr. is a globally recognized author, poet, educator, and military veteran. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, ten poetry books, and co-founded...
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 #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
Terrance Dean
Terrance Dean 000000003396662X Terrance Dean, a former MTV producer, became a philanthropist and “Cardio-Spiritualist” after leaving his jet-set job. He founded Men's Empowerment and co-created “The ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Kam Williams Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun.jpg Film Review Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga Half of a Yellow Sun In Theaters: May 16, 2014 Limited Rated...
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021789 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here—ones steepe...
CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora
CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora Kahran and Regis Bethencourt 9781250281388 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLO...
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 9781538732199 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion of Bulter’s Parable of the Ta...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Thumper Book Review The Ancestors is an anthology featuring stories by authors L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey. I am always happy to come across science fiction ...
The Man Who Cried I Am (2023)
The Man Who Cried I Am (2023) John A. Williams 9781598537611 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postw...
Drone Child (paperback): A Novel of War, Family, and Survival
Drone Child (paperback): A Novel of War, Family, and Survival David H. Rothman 9781736783191 Fiction David H. Rothman David H. Rothman “Verdict: Share this action-packed, sensitively rendered audio wi...
Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival
Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival David H. Rothman 9798985181807 Fiction David H. Rothman David H. Rothman “Verdict: Share this action-packed, sensitively rendered audio with fans of I...
Our Future is Cyberspace
Our Future is Cyberspace Troy Johnson Article “Outsiders” have often dictated the trends of African American Culture, sometimes doing the job themselves, sometimes using what authors John A. Williams...
eNewsletter Highlights – January 31st 2013 – Issue #198
eNewsletter Highlights – January 31st 2013 – Issue #198 Troy Johnson Article Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com's Bestselling Books Lists We've just published three new bestselling books l...
Obama Rises, Old Guard Civil Rights Leaders Scowl
Obama Rises, Old Guard Civil Rights Leaders Scowl William Jelani Cobb Article President Elect, Barack Obama, D-Ill. Speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memori...
Let’s Do It Again (Arabesque)
Let’s Do It Again (Arabesque) Niobia Bryant 9781583146477 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Let’s Do It Again by Niobia Bryant released on Nov 22, 2005 is available now ...
Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier
Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier Alice Hinkle 9780967977102 Nonfiction Pleasant Mountain Press Pleasant Mountain Press The National Council on the Social Studies will present “Prince Estabrook” wit...
Revolution Books
Revolution Books New York, NY Grand Opening Benefit Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 Scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary, Revolution Books is at the center of building a movement for revolution.
Tonya Bolden
Tonya Bolden 0000000116508683 Tonya Bolden, a Princeton and Columbia University graduate, is an award-winning author/editor of over 40 books, including children's nonfiction and historical novels. He...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant MULTIPLE Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are best friends turned successful authors, known for their enduring collaboration in African American fiction. Both started...
Michelle Cliff
Michelle Cliff 0000000110018763 Michelle Carla Cliff (1946-2016) was a renowned Jamaican-American author known for her explorations of colonialism and racism through novels, short stories, and poetry...
13
13 Kam Williams images/13_movieposter.jpg Film Review Remake of French Thriller Revolves around Grisly Game of Russian Roulette 13 Click to Buy via Amazon.com Rated: R Ru...
The Artist
The Artist Kam Williams theartist_movieposter.jpg Film Review Fading Star Falls for Emerging Ingenue in B&W Homage to Silent Era The Artist Rated PG-13 for a crude gesture and a disturb...
The Best Man Holiday
The Best Man Holiday Kam Williams the-best-man-holiday.jpg Film Review Seasonal Sequel Finds Reunited BFFs Romancing and Reminiscing The Best Man Holiday In Theaters: Nov 15, 2013 Wide Rated ...
Beyond the Lights
Beyond the Lights Kam Williams beyond-the-lights-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Beyond the Lights In Theaters: Nov 14, 2014 Wide Rated PG-13 for sexuality, profanity, suggestive gestures, partial nu...
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Troy Johnson books-place.jpg Film Review Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Click to rent or buy th...
The Descendants
The Descendants Kam Williams images/thedescendants.jpg Film Review Clooney Seeks Redemption as Regretful Patriarch in Dysfunctional Family Drama The Descendants Rated R for profanity and sexua...
Flight
Flight Kam Williams flight-moive-poster.jpg Film Review Hero Pilot Participates in Cover-Up in Special F/X-Driven Legal Thriller Flight (2012) In Theaters: Nov 2, 2012 Wide Drama Directed By: Robert...
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Kam Williams get_ri2.jpg Film Review 50 Cent Dies for Our Sins in Disappointing Screen Debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Rated R: for full frontal male nudity, topless fe...
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Troy Johnson Book Review This Review Appears in the Fall 2007 Issue of Harlem World Magazine Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, of...
Dark Corner
Dark Corner Thumper Book Review I love vampire tales with a passion. I’m always on the look out for new, well written, vampire adventures. I was anxious to read Brandon Massey’s latest ...
Gonna Lay Down My Burdens
Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Thumper Book Review On a rainy night, Desiree Sheffield calls Carmen Taylor (on the eve of Carmen’s wedding to Burl,) to come get her after another violent fight with...
Life of Pi
Life of Pi Kam Williams life-of-pi-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Pastel Seascape Serves as Exquisite Backdrop for Spiritual Tale of Survival Life of Pi (2012) In Theaters: Nov 21, 2012 Wide Rat...
Lincoln
Lincoln Kam Williams lincoln-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Civil War Docudrama Revisits Great Emancipator’s Team of Rivals Lincoln (2012) In Theaters: Nov 16, 2012 Wide Rated PG-13 for gruesom...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Kam Williams mandela-2013-alternate-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom In Theaters: Nov 29, 2013 Limited PG-13 for sexuality, intense violence...
Shaft
Shaft Kam Williams images/shaft.1.jpg Film Review Shaft Release in: 2000 Director: John Singleton Genre: Action, Crime Toni Collette - Diane Palmieri Dan ...
Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams Kam Williams sweet-dreams.jpg Film Review Sweet Dreams In Theaters: Nov 1, 2013 Limited Unrated In English and Kinyarwanda with subtitles Running time: 84 minutes Documentary Dir...
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Kam Williams images/haroldandkumxmas.jpg Film Review Holiday-Themed Sequel Features "Pot"-pourri of Stoner Hijinks A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Chri...
Rise of the Guardians (2012) - Film Review
Rise of the Guardians (2012) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Mythological Figures Fight for Kids’ Innocence in Enchanting Animated Adventure Rise of the Guardians (2012) In Theaters: Nov 2...
Genesis Press Inc.
Genesis Press Inc. Troy Johnson Article Genesis Press Inc. is the home of Indigo Romance, the nation's leading line of African-American romance novels. Genesis is a pioneer in publishing dive...
Why I Sued the Bible Publishers
Why I Sued the Bible Publishers Bradley Fowler 9781797666716 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published “As a citizen of the State of Michigan, I’m not required to pay tithes, support ...
Farai Chideya 2009 Interview
Farai Chideya 2009 Interview Author Interviews
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant Thandisizwe Chimurenga 9781489596291 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC No Doubt is the chilling and compelling story of the 2009 murder of 22-ye...
Keeping the Night Watch
Keeping the Night Watch Hope Anita Smith 9780312659363 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. as he struggles to understand why his fat...
Mixed Race or Just Mixed Up? Children's Books Provide Answers
Mixed Race or Just Mixed Up? Children's Books Provide Answers Troy Johnson Article I noticed a surge in the number of books I sold, over the last two months (see best-selling books list), that dealt ...
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 Howard Zinn 9781608462599 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collectio...
Poet, E. Ethelbert Miller 2009 at the The Center for Black Literature
Poet, E. Ethelbert Miller 2009 at the The Center for Black Literature Poetry & Spoken Word