Black Literature

Harlequin Kimani, located in NYC, is searching for an Assistant/Associate Editor Harlequin is seeking an Assistant/Associate Editor to join Harlequin Kimani’s editorial team. The position provides an excellent opportunity for a candidate to contribute to a growing and exciting program. S/he will be responsible for acquiring and developing manuscripts, and management and development of a diverse author base. The primary purpose is to ensure the ongoing and timely supply of high quality, saleable titles for the various publishing programs. The ideal Assistant/Associate Editor candidate must have a sensibility for romance, acquired and edited women’s fiction, an…

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Years ago, when this first came out, I read this. Rarely one to read biographies (they're so self-serving), this was during the height of the Chapelle sketches and he was Eddie Murphy's brother, so I gave it a shot. And I'm glad I did. I instantly became a Charlie Murphy fan for his down to earth-ness and awareness of how blessed he was to achieve his dream. Dude was real. An excerpt: After bombing in St. Louis and Cleveland, we rolled up to our next show at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. By that time, all sorts of crazy, negative thoughts were swirling inside my mind. This was the very same venue where Eddie had performed his breakout stand-up t…

Boy Anxious About Presents He Wants,Christmas Tree,Grandmother's Christmas Cake. He Begin Thinking About Children Who Want Get Presents And Who Are Homeless..He Gives Away Presents To Children. Book By Tony Medina.

Mother, A. Cradle. To. Hold. Me, By. The. Great. Maya. -Angelou.. Tells. About. The. First. Woman, We. Ever. Know..Tribute. To. Her. Mother. Praises. The. Knowledge,Compassion. Patience Of. Mother's.......

Lisa Washington, Author When You Least Expect It, ISBN13: 978-0999887103 publication date: February 20, 2018 Cannot attach Image Karyn is a journalist, preparing to start her own magazine. Her life seems uninteresting until her twin sister gets caught up in a bunch of mess and her best friend shows up, unannounced. Karyn is trying to keep it all together when two unlikely men begin to show interest in her. This is all more than she can handle. Evolution has known since he was a teenager that his path would cross with the girl of his dreams again, he just didn’t know it would so soon. He knows his heart’s desire, but trying to get Karyn t…

Exciting new book that traces the Blacks in America from 1619 through President Obama's 2nd inauguration; the history educator /author participated in the inauguration: https://books.google.com/books/about/Why_Did_These_Great_People_Bend.html?id=Y44mBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onuMdF-iJIE Steven Colbert is really very silly, but at least he has a platform to highlight Toni Morrison, and bring here to a wide audience something Black people don't have, really. The last time I saw Morrison was at the 2013 National Book Awards where she honored Maya Angelou. Maya would transition less than 6 months later. We got a chance to take a selfie :-)

This is cute and humorous video performed by La Shea Delaney (@lashea_delaney) & Annabelle Quezada (@annabelleqv) I discovered it trolling for bloggers for Huria Search. This video was shot in NYC, and makes the city looks like a really nice place. The Strand bookstore pictured in the video's preview image is a great independent bookstore. One of the last videos I shot was in the Strand Bookstore. This easily the largest indie store I've ever seen, perhaps the largest book store I've ever been in. They claim to have 18 miles of books!

In an earlier post I mention there are no Black owned bookstores in Harlem. Technically that is true. But there are a couple of Black owned bookstores in Manhattan. Both can be found in my database of Black-owned Bookstores One of these stores is Sister's Uptown Bookstore which is run by Janifer P. Wilson. Her store is in Washington Height which, is the community just north of Harlem. Some people consider it part of Harlem. I believe they would be in the minority. Janifer, shown in the video below, recounts what drives booksellers who focus on celebrating our culture through books (including myself). There is another store, which appears to be Black owned, run b…

You're invited to dive into the world of kids’ literature focused on African Americans and people of other ethnicities. Enjoy author readings, illustration workshops, performances, and craft activities. Purchase hard-to-find titles in the Book Village. Free admission. Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 E. Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21202. For more information, visit http://lewismuseum.org/event/2015/4th-annual-african-american-childrens-book-fair Author and Illustrator Participants include: Jerry Craft Kelly Starling Lyons Carol Boston Weatherford James Ransome Lena Cline Ransome Zetta Elliot Shadra Strickland Floyd Cooper Renee …

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Hello AALBC Members, My debut novel After the Reign: A Baltimore Love Story is available for purchase. I would love for it to be considered for an AALBC review. Below you will find the pertinent information and thanks in advance for considering me. After the Reign: A Baltimore Love Story by Courtney C-Love Wheeler Published October 6, 2016 · Paperback (295 pages): · ISBN-10: 0998233900 · ISBN-13: 978-0998233901 e-book: · ASIN: B01LZEJNGN Synopsis: ONE REIGNS ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINSA KINGScion a/k/a Science is a young man with a plan t…

@Pioneer1, you're gonna love this one While I'm filling out this form on the AWP website, I'm considering pitching them a panel since AWP will be in my neck of the woods next year, I got to the question of "gender." Usually, this is a binary choice Male or Female but no, AWP presented me with this veritable cornucopia of choices. Gender: Female Male Agender Androgynous Bigender Cisgender Gender Fluid Genderqueer Intersex Transsexual Transgender Two-Spirit A gender not identified here …

I read about this book in the Tampa Bay Times on Friday. I had not previously heard about the book, How to Make Lemonade. I know, I know, I I'm out the loop because I don't consumer social media. Still I was surprised I had not heard about this before reading about it in the newspaper. You'd think Black book sellers would be the first to know about these books, but sadly I learn about they along with everyone else... The book retails for $300. That is, objectively, a lot of money. I wish I knew how many were produced and how many will sell. The economics of this just bewilder me. Know I've seem some BAB in my day. I remember how happy I was to get a copy…

Everyone talks about the absent father but not too many in our culture discuss our toxic moms. There have been quite a few articles lately that discuss the generational trauma and disconnect between black mothers and daughters. As a survivor of child abuse, when I speak to other survivors, every woman in the room discusses how toxic their mother was. It took some time, but I finally gained perspective about my mom and the stories I've been told. Hopefully, this book will help others begin to heal. The genre will be inspirational fiction and span from slavery to the current generation; I may include a future generation as well. I've been outlining i…

As a bookseller I get pitches for new books several times a day — which is great, because it tells me sometime positive about the author: If they have the resources to invest in promoting their book, they've probably also invested the resources into producing a decent book. Of course this is not always the case, but I've found this to be true more often than not. One thing that has always irked me is when authors/publicists/publishers tell readers to buy book their from Amazon. In the old days they would say sometime along the lines of, "Available Wherever Books are Sold." Those promoting books were sensitive to the fact that explicitly promotin…

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(Please consider for book review) Anyia, It Begins Author: Jacquitta A. McManus Illustrator: Mariam Trejo ISBN: 978-1954015081 Publication Date: January 9, 2021 For over 14 years, Nagoan Village had been safe from Empress Zarina and her Thor Warriors. The magic treaty, although frail, had been maintained. To help maintain that treaty, Anyia’s father, the Chief, kept magic out of the village to protect them. Anyia grew up not knowing she had magic, but an earlier meeting with Amoonda changed that. With her magic awoken, she was now able to charge her battle stick, a­nd her Kail training was more intense than ever. But it all might have been for nothi…

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/oct/31/joyful-launch-party-following-her-fathers-footstep/ @Troydo you have the book "“Following in Her Father’s Footsteps,”

Hello and Thank you to each and every one of you who takes their time to view this blog post. [A double Hello and Thank You to those who actually visit the channel] I wish to introduce to all of you a channel that turns the lens of modern media and works of art to a fresh perspective from an African viewpoint. I am the host and creator of the channel, Uncle Omari, and I would love to invite you all to this audio-visual experience where we celebrate, discuss and critique film, music, comics, animation, and all other art forms with special priority on Africa and Black creations. I would love for any persons interacting with the content on t…

I will be a vendor and panelist at the National Black Arts Festival's Blacklisted! Banned Book Fair and Conference February 24 - 25, 2024 from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at the Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. Admission is free, however registration is required. See you then! NBAF Blacklisted! Book Fair and Conference

Hey ev'rybody!! I'm a screenwriter-turned-author with several new novellas available on am*zon and Ingram Spark websites. Please take a look at the hits "Abolition" and "The Last Jitney". Hoping to have these bad boys made into movies. Here's the link: am*zon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3DQ6wXg

Is there anyone here wanting to nominate his or her own work for this year's Hugo Award? If there were several members of this forum who wanted to create a critical mass so that our works progressed to official nomination, one or a few of us could at the very least get exposure. I have read through the rules, regulations, and FAQs, and I did not read anything suggesting that an approach such as this one was inappropriate. More info here: https://www.thehugoawards.org/ Also, if anyone is interested in being on a panel for the World Science Fiction Convention, let's connect. This year, the event is in LA, but I am planning to propose a virtu…

I am competing to host a new show on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). My concept is a contest to find the next great American writer and boost excitement for reading overall. Each contestant made a video and the general public gets to vote on each video. The number of votes each person gets counts in the contest. Please vote and share the link.The link to my video is here: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=8162&promo_id=1 Thanks for your support. D T Pollard

Hello everyone, I came across this website in search of finding like minded people. I love to get into some good conversation about improving our Black communities and circumstances on a worldwide scale. I have a brand new website that I want to share and invite you all check out and be a part of www.loveourblack.com. I created this website for Black and African people to learn from one another in regards to our heritage and lineage as well as talk about current things going on that are affecting us all. Thanks for reading, B

The Carter G Woodson Awards has recognized the most diverse set of books for young readers than anyone.

Author: Ashton Lee Title: Mixtape: The book ISBN-13: 978-1542350969 Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Genre: Poetry Synopsis: "Mixtape: The Book" is a raw and humorous dive into the creative spirit of Ashton Lee. This collection of poetry and illustrations comes together by the concept of hip-hop's favorite promotional staple, the mixtape. Though the concept may attract hip-hop enthusiasts, various themes such as music, abuse, black nerds and "nice guys," are presented in a way that is accessible to any and everyone. What's not to love?

If you are into reading urban fiction / street literature, I hope you will give my books a try.

As a novice professional writer and publisher, I am learning many new things. I first learned of Advanced Review Copies (ARCs). The second thing I learned about was Galleys. Which method do you use to promote your book and get book reviews? Which one do you feel is more effective and why? If you have had some success but don’t do either, why don’t you?

"...hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom poets, visionaries the realists of a larger reality. Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. --applause-- Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.--ap…

It’s about to begin in just a few more days. July 31, 2021 marks the official start of accepting application for the Annual Global Coloring Contest sponsored by Danielle the Girl From New York. Contestants will be coloring pages from 6 Magic Cans of Happiness. The second book in the series and first coloring book. Already highly acclaimed, this contest is an extension of the books efforts to help people mitigate the impact of the wealth gap, by encouraging people to learn how practices wealth creating principles. We are looking for people to share this information with School Districts and community services. Most importantly we welcome participation…

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From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters—and her community—through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood. From the red soil of her garden in Southgate 1, a crowded suburb of Harare, Nyeredzi watches the world. She knows not to venture beyond the grasses that fence them off from the bush, where the city’s violent criminals and young lovers claim the night. But on this red soil, she is sovereign. It is here where she learns how to kill snakes, how to fight off a man, and how to take what she is due. It is here where Nyeredzi and her three older siste…

Book. Malcolm. X. Talks. To. Young. People. .He. Talked. To Young. People. In. The. U. S. ,Africa. And. Europe. ..About. Them. Changing. The. World ...

“People come to me with leukemia. They say, ‘Dr. Sebi, the doctor said that my child will die with leukemia. What can you offer that the physician did not offer?’ I tell them that all I have to offer is a nutritional approach to disease. We begin by cleansing away the toxins that are invading the whole biology.” —Dr. Sebi, November 2005 20th Anniversary Edition November 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of my visit to Honduras, Central America, to interview Dr. Sebi, a man I feel is one of the greatest alternative medicine specialists we’ve ever known. Seven Days in Usha Village: A Conversation With Dr. Sebi 20 Years Later marks that journey. The …

From a Huffington Post Article by Leonce Gaiter Controversies in Black Literature Prove Book Sales Aren't Color-Blind "...As a practicing marketing professional, I take the world as it is, not as I believe it should be. I acknowledge buyers' prejudices and preconceptions (especially those they don't acknowledge themselves) and work to subvert them. When the now-defunct publishing house Carroll & Graf published my novel several years ago, they placed an image of a bare-assed flirtatious black tart on the cover. This despite the fact that the book had one major black character among a pervasively white cast--and that character was male. I noted my objections to th…

Hello all, I have been going to the Barnes & Noble super bookstores in Indianapolis, here lately. I love those big ol' bookstores. Anyway, it was there that I saw the displays that To Kill a Mockingbird is 50 years old! I'm going to have to get it. I am crazy about that book. I was thinking about buying my neice Belle a copy. I don't know if its still being read in school or not.

Eight women partner in the Secret Society of Women Writers (ssOww) to write a controversial, comical and enlightening book abou weight and body image. Add hit-man for hire, child abuse, race relationships, gender (LGBT), questionable parenting, rejection based on being skinny and acceptance based on fat is just a taste of what is in store for the readers of the intricate look at the lives of women who share everything, owning their truth. We invite you to read a sample chapter of the the book at http://www.fatracistbook.com and we would love for you to help us with a question we have. We are trying to pick the best title and be authentic about the context verses just u…

SAW ON A BLACK WEBSITE , SOMEONE SAID MAYBE DR. BEN CARSON WOULD BE A BETTER PRESIDENT FOR BLACK PEOPLE THAN PRESIDENT OBAMA/THE NEO NAZI REPUBLICANS WILL NOT ELECT DR. CARSON FOR THAT HIGH POSITION//.REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST AND DR. CARSON KNOWS IT, /HE IS A INTELLIGENT DOCTOR,AUTHOR////WHAT WOULD HE DO,AS PRESIDENT////WRITE MORE BOOKS,WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE BLACK INDEPENDENT POLITICIANS////

My wife took her class to Gettysburg, PA (know know the site of the bloodiest scenes in American history). I would have loved to have taken this trip and will probably swing through there real soon. At any rate, she brought me this book and I started reading it the other day. It is turning out to be pretty good so I did a little research about the book and discovered to my surprise that it was published 40 years ago and won a Pulitzer Prize! The book says "Winner of Pulitzer Prize" right on the cover, but I did not notice that. I chose to read this book because my wife said every who saw her with it raved about it. That was good enough for be to dig in. Pl…

Hello Everyone, Right now I am in the process of sending out queries for two of my manuscripts--The Peanut Butter Trap and Cracked Glass ... Out of all the hundreds of literary agents in the directory I have only come across two that are African-American owned. If anyone out there has access to a Literary directory with our people accepting manuscripts, please let me know. I truly believe that my work is exceptional, but thus far, I cannot find any agency to represent my work in the white majority. Thanks for your time in this matter.

Photo Credit: Regina Brooks African-American women hit the books because it’s a way to spark a conversation, and to learn, validate, and share, says Lloyd-Sgambati: “You have to remember that not so long ago, it was punishable by death for an African-American to read, mainly because white society feared the spread of knowledge. Now many readers think, ‘I am doing this for my ancestors.’ My mother had eight children, but she ended every day by reading a book. It’s a large part of the African-American tapestry of their lives. It’s a myth perpetuated that they don’t read.” It’s not just African-American women who are reading, says Johnson. The men are also hungry f…