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Amber and the Enchanted Sword, the exciting sequel to Amber and the Hidden City, is available now from MVmedia, LLC and anywhere books are sold! Clifton Academy is everything Amber thought it would be... and worse. In addition to trying to fit in at a new school, she struggles to master her newfound talents. One day she is contacted by Grandma Alake and is told she must once again defend Marai from the sorcerer Bagule and his companion, Nieleni. The nefarious duo is in search of Sonni Ali's sword, a talisman so powerful possessing could mean the end of the ancient and secret city. Can Amber and her friends find the sword before Bagule and save Marai once more?…

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HEre is the screenwriting course from tananarive due side steven barnes of lifewriting VIDEO SLIDESHOW MY THOUGHTS AS I LISTENED, it started at 5:00pm eastern standard time 5:18 i say 10 is in what the medals represent, they are proven rebel leaders 5:26 haha, yes i bought the rod sterling/richard matheson/charles beaumont scripts for twilight zone to learn 5:27 many people don't have people in their personal lives who allow them to fail 5:29 write for you. if you like what you write you aren't failing, and keep writing till you like what you write 5:31 what does it mean to be human? y…

Toni Morrison spoke at Portland State on May 30, 1975. i took it to heart. if GET OUT & A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET made a book baby to the Nina Simone song [redacted]? THE BLACK PETREL would be that baby. first 10 episodes are free to read on am*zon's Kindle Vella episodic storytelling platform (log in with your am*zon acct). readers: ride with me. authors: check out Kindle Vella. might be worth your time. cheers.

Hello AALBC, I would like to re-introduce my updated book "Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt: My Whistleblower Story Based on Actual Events" I'm reaching out to request a review and to share more details with you: Title: Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt: My Whistleblower Story Based on Actual Events Age: Adult Author: Danielle Spencer ISBN-13: 979-8990244122 Re-Publication Date: November 2024 Synopsis: This book documents events experienced after becoming a Whistleblower against the most powerful debt collection organization …

I'm not ordinarily impressed with urban lit, but a novel of this genre was my book club's selection for this month, so I dutifully undertook the task that would allow me to participate in the group discussion that would take place at an upcoming meeting. The book was written by Carl Weber, who I am vaguely familiar with, and it is entitled "Up To No Good". In the version I had, the text was in large print and I'm sure this contributed to my finding it an easy read. My old eyes need all the help they can get. As I got into this tale of contemporary black life, the next thing I found encouraging was that the book had obviously been proof-read and edited. So I …

ACGI'S AFRICAN AMERICAN PAVILION AT BOOKEXPO AMERICA IS PROUD TO HOST THE "WELCOME TO BOOKEXPO AMERICA" RECEPTION AND BOOKSIGNING EVENT FOR AUTHOR AND RADIO / TELEVISION TALK SHOW PERSONALITY MICHAEL BAISDEN! JUNE 6, 2012, JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, NEW YORK CITY - 1 - 5 PM Michael Baisden, author, radio and television talk show personality. National - Amber Communications Group Inc's African American Pavilion at BookExpo America will be hosting a special "Welcome to BookExpo America Michael Baisden" Reception and Booksigning for the internationally renowned author, radio and television talk show personality, at the Jacob Javits Convention C…

This film delves into the radical history of Britain's first black bookshop which was founded by John La Rose and Sarah White in 1966. As well as creating a much needed space for black communities to access and publish their own literature, it helped support important campaigns such as the Caribbean Artists Movement, the Black Parents Movement as well as playing a pivotal role in the historic Black Peoples Day of Action. Decades on, 'New Beacon Books' is still a functioning bookshop but in a world of Amazon and Kindles can it really survive forever?

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In a time when an increasing number of authors are resorting to Facebook, or Amazon, as their primary web platform, it is refreshing to see an author establish their own web presence. @Cerece Rennie Murphy is one prime example. Cerece recently took advantage of our Fall Book Special. I'm not just the type to place an ad and forget about it. I actually check out the author's work and even provide unsolicited suggestions from time to time. From my perspective it is a long term relationship not merely an anonymous financial transaction... but I digress. After checking out Cerece's website, watching a couple of videos in her "For Authors" section, I came across he…

Hello, I'm writing from the University of Michigan Press with a book that should be of interest to your readers. Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes (which I believe you also reviewed), run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that “we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels…

My name is G. Barton-Sinkia and I am the author of By The Next Pause (ISBN9781775210221). The novel is scheduled for worldwide publication on June 20, 2018. I wanted to touch base with you to see if AALBC would be interested in reading and reviewing my book. Based on the books your site has selected and the reaction of my current ARC reviewers, I am confident that you and your subscribers will find By The Next Pause a page-turner. I would love to send you a copy for you to review. Please advise on how I can make that possible. In the meantime, below is a short blurb about my novel. Thank you for your time and I look forward to speaking with you soon! …

Woman. Tired. Of. Fights. With. Her. Boyfriend. Gets. Involved. With. A. New. Man. Burning. Desire. ,By. Simone lwu...

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I admit, inspired by the replies offline or online from Black people of multiple gender/age/language/religion/ or other non phenotypical racial category in the usa. I realized a nice little game. I will list some tribes in the Black Village in the USA and anyone interested in playing need to take the list and place the fictional book they have read that reflects the goals or ideas of their philosophy. You can leave a tribe space blank, if you can't think of a book of fiction that fits. Militants < Kill whitey>: Rematriots < Back to Africa or garveyites>: Integrationists <integrate peacefully into white communit…

There is a non-fiction book made into a movie called The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War by Victoria E Bynum. It documents the true story of how Captain Newt Knight and Jones County Mississippi broke away from the Confederacy during the Civil War. Knight felt that it was a war that was fought on behalf of the Southern planter aristocracy(slaveholders) and disadvantaged many of the poorer soldiers who were actually on the battlefield fighting the war. As a result of deserting the war, he was considered a fugitive hiding with runaway slaves. The biography of Newt Knight has a very personal application to m…

Book. Nigger. Strange. Career. Of. A. Troublesome. Word. By. Author ,Randall. Kennedy. ...He. Says. It. Used. To. Have. Power. Over. People........Saw. Him. On. C- Span The. Interview. Was. First. Shown On. 2015 ...

Here is a list of more than 200 book festivals and fairs from around the world. Thes are not just the Black events, virtually all of them feature Black writers. I included all the ones I could find 🙂 Of the 18 depicted in the graphic below I've attended 8 of them. I always wanted to go to Calabash, which is held in Jamaica. I'm going to the Go On Girl! Book Club event in two weeks. I need go through the entire list an see how many events I've attended

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African Cultural Calendar is giving away five (5) copies of History of Creation: The Announcement by jkm Mbdw. This hypnotic tale with themes of mythological exploration, philosophical questioning, and spiritual discovery will keep you engaged as you uncover the foundation of the story and see your historical and cultural heritage at its center. Don’t miss the opportunity to join the conversation. Giveaway closed soon: March 30, 2026 (Meroe 30, 510 otd). Enter Here: https://www.africalendar.com/bookcontest

From The Sunday Times July 12, 2009 The 10 best book websites http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6684717.ece On the internet, you can download page after page of free material, post your work online and even catch a publisher's eye by Mike Peake Literature is thriving on the web. It’s not just for sale on mega-sites such as Amazon either, but being swapped, analysed and recommended by fellow bookworms. You can download page after page of free material, post your work online and — dare we say it — even catch the eye of a publisher. 1 DailyLit.com Fancy a daily dose of literature? Just sign up, select a book (the emphasis is…

The first in the “Things You Can’t Tell Mama” series – The Pastor’s Wife - is the story of how a young man becomes entangled with the wife of the pastor of his mother’s church, Latavia Harper, during his time home from college during summer break. It turns out there is hidden tension in the home of Pastor Harper and Latavia uncovers a secret about her husband that blows the lid off their marriage, church and her relationship with Quinton. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGET9VI/ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_RRrWrb1KP4DKP

I am quite sure that many of us have heard this before. The challenges facing minority authors, black authors in particularly seem overwhelming. Like many black people, I grew up watching many of those early science fiction movies and television programs. The Day The Earth Stood Still, They Came From Outer Space, Lost In Space and my all time favorite…Star Trek (The Original Series) were my favorites. I never bothered with diversity questions until I entered high school during the early 1970s. Like many teens during those integration years, I became deeply affected by the lack of diversity in subsequent science fiction movies and television programs. I loved the origin…

Recently I came across two really attractive book covers. Of course perceived attractiveness is purely subjective, but I think most folks will find images on these covers attractive. Of course we can argue about the relative merits of each cover regarding how well they relate to, or convey, the book's contents. In an online world we could also have to consider how well each cover looks when it is scaled down to thumbnail size. But right now I'm just talking about the visual appeal of the books in isolation, independent of the book's contents. Do they pique your interest? Do you want to know what each book is about? The book on the left is collection…

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I read this poem or story in junior high school in an anthology. It has always been influential on me, but I can't find it. The poem or story describes two men, one black, one white, who approach each other on a road. The white man displays ignorance, the black man remains composed, rational, and immune to the ignorant insults. Like a Black Vulcan: "Well you a n----- ain't you?" "My ancestors were called by that word." "And you can't marry my sister!" "Having never met your sister, I don't feel deprived by that." The story taught me at age 12 that an ignorant person can't define me, they can only define themselves. That idea has always immunized me …

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Hello All, Sade's new album, Soldier of Love will be out TOMORROW!! Oh, yeah, I'm going to hurry up and download that sucka before I go to work tomorrow!

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Kam just reviewed this film. He gave it 4 stars. I'm sure it is a OK documentary, on some level, for most folks. But the trailer simply made me nauseous. In the trailer a young white woman, one of the subjects of the film, just got on my nerves. I'm sure I will not watch the film.

If you can get to New York City on Wednesday of next week (or happen to be in town for Book Expo America), please stop by an annual party I co-host. The 9th Annual Black Pack Party, will be held Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Londel’s Supper Club, 2620 Frederick Douglas Blvd @140 St, in Harlem, NY

30th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth: Ernest J. Gaines author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying.

Called To The Fire A True Story About About A Black Preacher, In The 1960's In Mississippi. Followed His Call To Pastor In Mississippi, And Get Involved In The Civil Rights Movement..Black Preachers Now, Care About Women, Money And New Cars..

My name is Anita Wills and I am a Writer and Author of 6 books. My first book was published in 2004 and is titled Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color. Several Years later I revised Notes and Documents and updated the information. My books deal mainly with the communities that my ancestors lived in during the Colonial Period and through the Civil War. Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color documents the history of Mulattos Coloreds Negroes and Blacks in Virginia. They were a Quasi-free population who were subjected to the racism and oppression of European Whites. One of the females in Notes and Documents was the granddaughter of William Monroe Senior (The g…

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Black-Chase-Green/dp/0692912924 I would like aalbc to consider reviewing my debut novel The Perfect Black. The Perfect Black is a murder mystery about a serial killer that calls himself Osiris, Lord of the Perfect Black that is targeting women from a prestigious black sorority. Nadine Munroe is the federal agent assigned to stop the vicious psychopath Osiris. I released this novel July 25, 2017 ISBN: 9780692912928

#MASHONDA is getting a lot of love for taking her life back and sharing her story but there will always be another side. Until all 4 #BabyMamas come together, it's gonna be a bumpy ride but she and her son are good. But what about the other two mothers and their children? How does it work for them. BlackPressRadio did a two hour, exclusive interview with Jahna Sebastian (who some call Baby Mama #3) shares her and her child's journey. It's the other side of the story and an entire hour has NEVER been published. We're about to publish soon. Follow @BlackPressRadio on Twitter or BlackPressRadio.net to get more information. WANNA MEET Mashonda?? Alicia?? and Swiz…

I read this review and immediately thought of @Pioneer1 "Professor Banks concentrates his book on interviews with middle class black women, who he says are the most likely to be unwed of any group in the country..." "Feminist leader Gloria Steinem knew just how to piss off and intimidate white men in power when she showed up in Newsweek, at the start of the Women’s Liberation Movement, with her “boyfriend,” the very dark, handsome, well-sculpted, black Olympic star Rafer Johnson."

I really wish I had the funding to determine the percentage of books, written by Black writers, that are sold, often exclusively, by Amazon. My conservative estimate would be at least 75%, but I would not be surprised if it were 90%. We know; By the fall of 2016, the share of online shoppers bypassing search engines and heading straight to Amazon had grown to 55 percent. Captures nearly $1 of every $2 that Americans spend online. Hosts a substantial portion of the largest websites Ships and sells products at a loss until competition is eliminated (the capital markets facilitate this, which also prevents the emergence new potentia…

Hi! I'm Bryan D. Covington, author of Between Magic and Dreams. I am submitting my novel for a book review. It's a fantasy piece about a college student fighting to preserve our reality during the rebirth of forgotten times through a phenomenon known as the New Light. This is book one of a trilogy. Book two is already underway. A quick synopsis: Kwen Phifer planned to spend the last few weeks of college chumming it up with the career counselor and winding down once finals were over but, unfortunately for him, those plans fail to come to fruition. He's been approached by someone that explains how he had been chosen to halt an oncoming cataclysm. He lacks skill, expe…

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I just added this book to our store. The In a promotional video the author tells us who marries more outside the race. She also says that she sees nothing wrong with Black people marrying outside your race unless it comes from a place of self loathing -- then it is bad. Self loathing is bad in and of itself, but I'm not sure how one tells the difference in the context of a marriage. I have not read the book, nor am I academic who has studied the subject for more than a decade. I wonder if the author is married.

The 29th Annual African American Children's Book Fair will be held virtually on Saturday, February 6, 2021, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. Hosted by the African American Children’s Book Project (AACBP), the book fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. Register Here. Here is a preview of some of the books to be sold this year and a video from last year.

justsomeguy suggest the trend in gaming, to "defeminize" female characters is a problem. The problem is media concerns have one goal. To make money, but large media concerns have a problem. Humanity has money in all sectors of humanity but these sectors biases, negative or positive, means nothing can serve all communities. So, the big money concerns choose the communities they will favor, but that leads to automatic admonishment from those not catered to, who also have money.

Kam Williams: Hi, Zane, I don’t know whether you remember me, but we met last year in Manhattan at the boat party thrown by Troy Johnson on the Hudson River during the Book Expo America Convention. Zane: Yes, Absolutely! Read the rest of the Zane Interview

ON C-SPAN I LISTEN TO JOHN CARLOS TALKING..HE AND TOMMIE SMITH WAS AT THE 1968 OLYMPICS WITH THEIR BLACK GLOVED FIST RAISED IN THE AIR, HIGH...TOMMIE SMITH, JOHN CARLOS,MUHAMMED ALI,JIM BROWN AND ARTHUR ASHE DO NOT EXIST IN SPORTS..MOST BLACK MALES IN SPORTS ,COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL ARE WORST THAN BLACK REPUBLICAN HERMAN CAIN.......THE HEISMAN TROPHY,BAYLOR'S IDIOT ROBERT GRIFFITH THE THIRD IS HERMAN CAIN..ROBERT GRIFFITH THE THIRD IS PROBALY WAVING THE CONFEDERATE FLAG PROUDLY AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY AT A REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN KLAN RALLY....BLACK MEN WHO GO TO WHITE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS ARE BLACK, CONFEDERATES....