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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. 'The Lamentations of Willie McElroy

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 0 replies
    • 833 views
    Guest
    Guest

  2. One Lost Boy: A Memoir of a Missing Childhood

    Guest Deborah Elum,
    • 0 replies
    • 899 views
    Guest
    Guest

  3. American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt

    Kareem,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Maurice

  4. Interested in Book Review! Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington's Boyhood Home

    Guest Larry L. Rowe,
    • 0 replies
    • 854 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Artist Talk with Quincy Troupe

    Guest Tara@MSPC,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Maurice

  6. The Shepherd Into Hell

    Guest Joseph Norris III,
    • 0 replies
    • 802 views
    Guest
    Guest

  7. Interested in book review

    Guest Ross,
    • 0 replies
    • 695 views
    Guest
    Guest

  8. 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back by David Krugler

    Kareem,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Kareem

  9. Jemele Hill article in The Atlantic about black athletes leaving white schools plagiarized?

    Kareem,
    • 0 replies
    • 803 views
    Kareem

  10. James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket documentary

    Maurice,
    • 11 replies
    • 3.6k views
    Maurice

  11. The Shearing of Willie McElroy

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 0 replies
    • 815 views
    Guest
    Guest

  12. Why Young,Men.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 861 views
    harry brown

  13. Baby Girl

    Guest Alvin Dunston,
    • 0 replies
    • 857 views
    Guest
    Guest

  14. The Shearing of Willie McElroy

    Guest Roy McElroy,
    • 0 replies
    • 793 views
    Guest
    Guest

  15. Upcoming Novel Release: Land of the Black Squirrels

    Guest Mwalim *7),
    • 0 replies
    • 750 views
    Guest
    Guest

  16. Ali

    Tony Lindsay,
    • 0 replies
    • 805 views
    Tony Lindsay

  17. Destini: The Lost Princess

    Guest Raynisha Bragg-McDonald,
    • 0 replies
    • 631 views
    Guest
    Guest

  18. Menopause vs Puberty

    Guest Tommalisa Lumpkin,
    • 0 replies
    • 655 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. MVmedia Fall Fest Sale

    Milton,
    • 0 replies
    • 781 views
    Milton

  20. The Unspoken For Win Language

    Guest Brittany Carter,
    • 0 replies
    • 679 views
    Guest
    Guest

  21. Me, You, & A Married Man

    Guest Pledge,
    • 0 replies
    • 653 views
    Guest
    Guest

  22. Queens of Nap

    Guest Tamp Jones,
    • 0 replies
    • 641 views
    Guest
    Guest

  23. Urban Fiction Experience in Richmond, VA

    Guest Author Tiffany Forbes,
    • 1 reply
    • 7.3k views
    Troy

  24. Body and Soul; a New Novel

    David doc Robertson,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    David doc Robertson

  25. I'm Creating More Top 10 Book Lists -- Which list would you like to see?

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 3.2k views
    Troy

  26. F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival 2020

    Guest Donna M. Gray-Banks,
    • 0 replies
    • 646 views
    Guest
    Guest

  27. 15 Paying Creative Nonfiction Publications Seeking Submissions

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 734 views
    Troy

  28. AALBC Mourns the passing of “Literary Lion” Paule Marshall

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 822 views
    Troy

  29. 2014: the Best Year for Black Literature in Decades

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 804 views
    Troy

  30. Book Euphoria's 2020 Carnivale Weekend

    Book Euphoria 15,
    • 0 replies
    • 966 views
    Book Euphoria 15

  31. Book Euphoria's 2020 Carnivale

    Guest Book Euphoria,
    • 0 replies
    • 766 views
    Guest
    Guest

  32. Priestess of nKu: A Ki Khanga Adventure

    Milton,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Milton

  33. Toni Morrison Passes

    Troy,
    • 8 replies
    • 3.2k views
    Delano

  34. My Black is Beautiful

    Guest Shondra M. Quarles,
    • 0 replies
    • 814 views
    Guest
    Guest

  35. Origin. Of. Others . Toni. Morrison!

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 743 views
    harry brown

  36. #1 College Planning Book for Black Families

    Guest Dr. Sonya Shuler Okoli,
    • 0 replies
    • 805 views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. Fearless Public Speaking - I Invite You To Review!

    Guest Joy Jones,
    • 0 replies
    • 589 views
    Guest
    Guest

  38. Review of When I Fly With Papa - a new Christian book featuring a black girl character

    Guest Claudia May,
    • 0 replies
    • 715 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. Love's Journal

    Guest Kathy Forbes,
    • 0 replies
    • 770 views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. "Frankie Finds the Blues" (Foreword by Taj Mahal)

    Guest Joel Harper,
    • 1 reply
    • 853 views
    Troy

  41. Buy 4 Classic Books by John A. Williams Directly From AALBC!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 804 views
    Troy

  42. Amazon is a Radically New Kind of Monopoly

    Troy,
    • 19 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  43. Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral

    Guest Whit Frazier,
    • 10 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Troy

  44. Entrepreneurs Wanted to Review New Book

    Guest thatwritingchic,
    • 2 replies
    • 870 views
    thatwritingchic

  45. James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 6.2k views
    Maurice

  46. Black. Anglo-Saxon.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 888 views
    harry brown

  47. 'I Bet She Called Me Sugar Plum'-children's book

    Guest Jessea Gabbin,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  48. "W-A-T-ER" children's picture book

    Guest Ronald Fontenot,
    • 0 replies
    • 838 views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. Anybody Else Think the Movie Was Better?

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 756 views
    Troy

  50. Request for review

    Guest David Steinman,
    • 0 replies
    • 641 views
    Guest
    Guest

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