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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. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 749 views
    Troy

  2. Voiceover Auditions - Interested?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 752 views
    Slaise

  3. Let Old Projects Gooooo 🎶

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 752 views
    Slaise

  4. The Black Pack Party Will Celebrate its 20 Anniversary Next Year

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 714 views
    Troy

  5. Prolific Book To Challenge Africans and Friends Of Africa

    Guest Osei Badu-Nkansah,
    • 0 replies
    • 818 views
    Guest
    Guest

  6. What are YOU working on right now?!? 🤔

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 693 views
    Slaise

  7. Hyperlinks to Amazon are Forbidden on AALBC

    Troy,
    • 14 replies
    • 3.2k views
    Mel Hopkins

  8. Readers & REEL Folk - Episode 3; Amerie

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 883 views
    Amari

  9. Mirrors of Life: What is your life in the mirror?

    Neal Owens,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Neal Owens

  10. Satire in cotemporary fiction

    Guest Fatima Shaik,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views
    Fatima Shaik

  11. Marcus Books fundraiser

    Guest Erika,
    • 0 replies
    • 745 views
    Guest
    Guest

  12. Malcolm X. Diary

    harry brown,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Maurice

  13. Wrongfully Accused - YA book featuring the IN-Justice System

    Mel Hopkins,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  14. O.W.'s iPad mini Sweepstakes (NO PURCHASE REQ)

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 746 views
    Slaise

  15. The Harlem Book Fair 2000 and Events from 20 Years Ago

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Slaise

  16. Ouch! A One Star Review

    Slaise,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  17. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 2 Run with Maud

    Amari,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Amari

  18. Fresh Ereba: A Collection of Caribbean Bedtime Stories for Children

    Guest Kiran Dellimore,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Kiran H. J. Dellimore

  19. Bringing Your Audience Outside of the Book

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 845 views
    Slaise

  20. Sisters. Of. The. Yam

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    harry brown

  21. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winnering Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 854 views
    Troy

  22. What exactly is an immersive novel?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 878 views
    Slaise

  23. Sista. Vegan

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 908 views
    harry brown

  24. What's Your Advice For Aspiring Writers

    Guest O.W. Showe,
    • 0 replies
    • 821 views
    Guest
    Guest

  25. A Debut Picture Book About Dance

    Guest Valerie Bolling,
    • 1 reply
    • 878 views
    Slaise

  26. Young, Black, Talented, and Alone

    Guest Nathan Alexander,
    • 1 reply
    • 865 views
    Troy

  27. The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing, is Back in Stock!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  28. Readers & REEL Folk - EPISODE 1 IT'S TIME 4 SOME R&R!

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 757 views
    Amari

  29. 200 Letters, book recommendation

    Guest Amy Watkins,
    • 0 replies
    • 848 views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 719 views
    harry brown

  31. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 684 views
    harry brown

  32. Life. Upon These. Shores.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 831 views
    Troy

  33. Book recommendation for 2020 Reading List

    Guest Veronica A. Davis, Author,
    • 0 replies
    • 718 views
    Guest
    Guest

  34. Join the Black Writers Facebook Group

    Michelle D. Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 691 views
    Michelle D. Jackson

  35. An Improbably Journey from Compton to Oxford

    Guest Shea Nolan,
    • 0 replies
    • 735 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Interest In Book Review

    Guest Star Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 758 views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. The New York Public Library Kicks off Immigrant Heritage Week 2020

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  38. F@ck Amazon and Their "Amazon Original Stories"

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Maurice

  39. The Clan of the Cave Bear

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Chevdove

  40. Kasi Lemmons to Write and Direct Film Adaptation of Maaza Mengiste’s the Shadow King

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 921 views
    Troy

  41. Between. The. World. And. Me.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 786 views
    harry brown

  42. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Guest Marea D. Cole,
    • 0 replies
    • 880 views
    Guest
    Guest

  43. Discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi on the Black Syllabus

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 955 views
    Troy

  44. Requesting That My Children's Book Be Reviewed

    Guest Jennifer Miller-Joseph,
    • 1 reply
    • 783 views
    Guest
    Guest

  45. INTERESTED IN HAVING MY BOOK REVIEWED

    Guest VANESSA "FLUFFY" MURRAY,
    • 0 replies
    • 713 views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. Excerpt entitled "Black America"

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.3k views
    wc.edwards

  47. New black author

    Guest Dajon Powell,
    • 0 replies
    • 912 views
    Guest
    Guest

  48. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President's Black Family

    Guest Bettye Kearse (Author),
    • 0 replies
    • 910 views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. Book review

    Guest Rolanda,
    • 0 replies
    • 791 views
    Guest
    Guest

  50. Catherine Latimer

    Maurice,
    • 0 replies
    • 840 views
    Maurice

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