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

    Guest Kiran Dellimore,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.9k views
    Kiran H. J. Dellimore

  2. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 787 views
    Troy

  3. Voiceover Auditions - Interested?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 794 views
    Slaise

  4. Let Old Projects Gooooo 🎶

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 801 views
    Slaise

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 764 views
    Troy

  6. Prolific Book To Challenge Africans and Friends Of Africa

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

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

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 748 views
    Slaise

  8. Readers & REEL Folk - Episode 3; Amerie

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 923 views
    Amari

  9. Satire in cotemporary fiction

    Guest Fatima Shaik,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Fatima Shaik

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

    Neal Owens,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Neal Owens

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

    Mel Hopkins,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  12. Marcus Books fundraiser

    Guest Erika,
    • 0 replies
    • 769 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Excerpt entitled "Black America"

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    wc.edwards

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Slaise

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

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 796 views
    Slaise

  16. Ouch! A One Star Review

    Slaise,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

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

    Amari,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Amari

  18. Bringing Your Audience Outside of the Book

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 878 views
    Slaise

  19. Sisters. Of. The. Yam

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

  20. 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winnering Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 898 views
    Troy

  21. What exactly is an immersive novel?

    Slaise,
    • 0 replies
    • 925 views
    Slaise

  22. Sista. Vegan

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 962 views
    harry brown

  23. A Debut Picture Book About Dance

    Guest Valerie Bolling,
    • 1 reply
    • 912 views
    Slaise

  24. What's Your Advice For Aspiring Writers

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

  25. Young, Black, Talented, and Alone

    Guest Nathan Alexander,
    • 1 reply
    • 911 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Amari,
    • 0 replies
    • 801 views
    Amari

  28. 200 Letters, book recommendation

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

  29. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 759 views
    harry brown

  30. Burning Desire.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 715 views
    harry brown

  31. Life. Upon These. Shores.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 870 views
    Troy

  32. The Importance of the “Literary Chitlin' Circuit”

    Troy,
    • 16 replies
    • 5.3k views
    Yvonne

  33. Book recommendation for 2020 Reading List

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

  34. Join the Black Writers Facebook Group

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

  35. An Improbably Journey from Compton to Oxford

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

  36. Interest In Book Review

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

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
    Maurice

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 985 views
    Troy

  40. Between. The. World. And. Me.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 845 views
    harry brown

  41. Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 989 views
    Troy

  43. Requesting That My Children's Book Be Reviewed

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

  44. INTERESTED IN HAVING MY BOOK REVIEWED

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

  45. New black author

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

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

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

  47. Book review

    Guest Rolanda,
    • 0 replies
    • 810 views
    Guest
    Guest

  48. Catherine Latimer

    Maurice,
    • 0 replies
    • 885 views
    Maurice

  49. More Than. Love.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 816 views
    harry brown

  50. BLACK SUPERNATURAL HORROR/

    harry brown,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Jaws R.

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