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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.

  1. FOLLOW @ANPUDISIAC ON #TWITTER!

    HICKSON,
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    HICKSON

  2. Newark Mayor Cory Booker Announces "Year of Literacy"

    TheBookLook,
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    • 1.2k views
    TheBookLook

  3. GHETTOHEAT FLASH: 4

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    HICKSON

  4. Book Review Request: I Wish I Could Moonwalk

    Guest Sandra Lee,
    • 0 replies
    • 731 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. The Top 10 Books of Erotica

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.1k views
    Neale Sourna

  6. Manga or Web toon

    daniellegfny,
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    • 696 views
    daniellegfny

  7. The New Breed Reparations Sanctuary

    Guest Garland Gregory,
    • 1 reply
    • 878 views
    daniellegfny

  8. Muscadine Wine. A Collection of South Georgia short stories by Milton Davis

    Milton,
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    • 2k views
    richardmurray

  9. Space Funk release party

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    • 582 views
    richardmurray

  10. RMNewsletter 4th Version April 13th

    richardmurray,
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    • 521 views
    richardmurray

  11. Book Review of Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 205 views
    richardmurray

  12. Buy a book, not a slave

    careycarey,
    • 3 replies
    • 3.1k views
    Troy

  13. Spamming -- I'll resolve this issue today

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

  14. GHETTOHEAT® BLAZES AT THE HARLEM BOOK FAIR 2011

    HICKSON,
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    • 3.3k views
    HICKSON

  15. BLACK SUPERNATURAL HORROR/

    harry brown,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Jaws R.

  16. Jackie Robinson ,Beyond Home Plate.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Troy

  17. Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL

    Milton,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Milton

  18. Review for The Truth About Gretchen

    Guest Alretha Thomas,
    • 0 replies
    • 638 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Life. Upon These. Shores.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 865 views
    Troy

  20. Writer Beware: 2020 in Review

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    daniellegfny

  21. A Great Piece of Harlem Renaissance Literature Comes to Netflix

    anonymous50,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Troy

  22. HICKSON: CEO OF GHETTOHEAT® DOES THE ELECTRIC BOOGIE!

    HICKSON,
    • 5 replies
    • 11.9k views
    HICKSON

  23. Barack Obama, 5 years ago in Harlem

    Troy,
    • 8 replies
    • 2.6k views
    Troy

  24. The Hurston/Wright Foundation Indiegogo Campaign

    Troy,
    • 8 replies
    • 3.3k views
    CDBurns

  25. Learn from the best during Writers Week 2016!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 848 views
    Troy

  26. 32nd Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair

    Guest Eric Mayer,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  27. Book Review Request For New Release - To Find You

    Guest Cerece Rennie Murphy,
    • 0 replies
    • 998 views
    Guest
    Guest

  28. Book Review Request

    Guest Sarah Jane Heidelberg,
    • 0 replies
    • 703 views
    Guest
    Guest

  29. You inspire me

    Dee Miller,
    • 0 replies
    • 891 views
    Dee Miller

  30. Love,Peace,Soul-Soul. Train!!!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 872 views
    harry brown

  31. We Don't Need Amazon - Over 1,500 Audiobooks Added to AALBC

    Troy,
    • 19 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  32. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST: "The Green Green Book: The Traveler's Guide to Black-Owned Homesteads, Farms, Orchards, Vineyards, Foraging Forests, Apiaries, Ranches, and Markets"

    Rain,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    richardmurray

  33. ***Book Review Request for Protecting Yourself: How Data Theft can Impact You

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 0 replies
    • 440 views
    DanielleSpencer

  34. Now Available – Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon's Journey by Craig Yorke

    PRbytheBook,
    • 1 reply
    • 442 views
    Troy

  35. D T Pollard on stage at the Read-In 2010

    hen81,
    • 4 replies
    • 3k views
    Troy

  36. I LOVED HER! Then I saw her husband.

    careycarey,
    • 12 replies
    • 3.2k views
    careycarey

  37. Busboys and Poets Bookstore

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
    Troy

  38. The Hurston/Wright Foundation is accepting submissions for the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 943 views
    Troy

  39. Pick Troy Johnson as "Literary Activist of the Year." 

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  40. No Greater Love Book Review Request

    IshaJohnson,
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    IshaJohnson

  41. Bringing back the Black Fantastci

    Milton,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  42. FREE BOOK: SNAPSHOTS

    Gibran,
    • 0 replies
    • 874 views
    Gibran

  43. Despite the decline of the mega-bookstore chains, indie bookstores are enjoying a renaissance!

    elonawashington,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  44. Discuss literature, literacy, marketing and strategies with Troy Johnson

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 589 views
    Troy

  45. The Little Girl With the Big Voice

    Guest Adam Reingold,
    • 0 replies
    • 869 views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. The 39th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 665 views
    richardmurray

  47. What. Color. Is. My. World. Kareem. Abdul. Jabbar

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 547 views
    harry brown

  48. New Release VICTORS Novel

    Aquarius Press/Willow Book,
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    • 1.2k views
    Aquarius Press/Willow Book

  49. ****Book Review Request for DIGITAL ASSASSINS II: Taking the fight to the Judicial Branch of Government

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 0 replies
    • 555 views
    DanielleSpencer

  50. Shameless begging. I got money, I need an editor!

    careycarey,
    • 22 replies
    • 7.5k views
    FerociousKitty

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