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Culture, Race & Economy
This board's purpose is to facilitate the exchange of opinions, ideas, facts, and information as it relates to Black people.
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Black Literature
Readers tell us about your favorite and not-so-favorite books. Authors and Publishers share information about your books. This forum is open to everyone interested in discussing anything related to books by, or about, Black people.
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The Black Excellence Showcase
Purpose: to recognize, share, and celebrate Black Excellence. This is a 100% negativity-free forum.
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The Poetree
You are encouraged to express your opinions, post poems, or any information related to poetry. The Poetree, forum was named by the forum's first moderator, Poetess Sister Shiree Sarana.
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Post Your Press Release Here
Post your publishing industry related press releases here. We are happy to read new book notifications, author tour, and event announcements. We use information shared here in our monthly eNewsletter and elsewhere on the AALBC.com.
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Bloggers Helping Bloggers
Bloggers working together to help each other increase readership, traffic, revenue, or any measure by which we define success. See Huria Search: https://aalbc.com/huria/
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AALBC Newsletters
Here are AALBC’s Newsletters which were emailed to subscribers from June 2019 to the present. Newsletters, from May of 2019 to February of 2001 may be found here.
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Admin Stuff, AALBC.com Questions & Messages from Troy (AALBC.com's founder & webmaster)
The "Legacy" Discussion Boards
Information Regarding the "legacy" Discussion Forums (2002 to 2010)
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Website Feedback
Please share any feedback, comments, or critiques you have about any aspect of AALBC.com’s website. We’ll read all the comments and do what I can to make AALB.com the best site it can be—thanks to your help.
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Discussion Board Legal Disclaimer
Before you start using our Discussion Boards, please read this Legal Disclaimer and our Privacy Policy.
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Service Announcements
Information related to discussion board enhancements and known problems
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Club Forums
Strategies
Things we can do to better support and patronize indie authors and booksellers
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Amazon ☹
Amazon poses a threat to independent booksellers and they are not going away anytime soon. As Amazon continue to gain near monopolistic power we must devise ways to continue to thrive. Here we share articles to help understand what Amazon is doing and how we can adapt.
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Black-Owned Bookstores
Patronizing these booksellers help support the authors you enjoy, or have yet to discover, and the publishers who produce their work.
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Ways to Share
Images and other ways you can help promote the #readingblack movement. You are encourage to create and share ideas of your own.
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Monthly Discussions
This is where we announce the books on our reading list and provide related information about the books and our club.
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About Our Club
Participation is easy. Discussions are held on the book’s description page, where it says “Join the discussion…” (see image below). Feel free to join us anytime; discussions are not limited to the month the book was selected and anyone may join the conversation. Our online book club was started in 1998.
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Word Lovers Reading List for 2019
1) Survival Math by Mitchell Jackson
2) The Deep by Rivers Solomon
3) Random Thoughts by D. Henderson
4) The Polished Hoe by Austin Clark
5) The Undergraduates by Steven Snell
6) After the Benediction by Sherabim Joy
7) The Deal Breaker by Olivia Gaines
😎 I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World... by Austin Channing Brown
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BGE Forum
This area is for specific questions/answers or topics involving the projects. All members of the group can see the content here.
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Iron Sharpens Iron
Please share what you are doing to enhance your creative writing skills!
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