Black Literature

20TH LEGACY AWARDS CEREMONY ANNOUNCES WINNERS, FINALISTS, MERIT HONOREES The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announced the winners and finalists of the 2021 Legacy Awards and paid tribute to three pioneers in the Black literary community: Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, best known for her novels Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun; Ibram X. Kendi, an author, historian, and anti-racist scholar; and the Calabash International Literary Festival, a literary festival with roots in Jamaica. Author Tiphanie Yanique presented the North Star Award – the foundation’s highest honor for career accomplishment and inspiration to the writing communi…

Virtual Blog Tour new ebook INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS with bestselling authors Pynk and Carol Taylor We’re organizing a virtual blog tour for the new ebook INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS a collaboration of bestselling authors Pynk and Carol Taylor. This dynamic storytelling duo are joining forces to combine their vibrant voices and fervent fan bases in a series of erotic novellas. Tour dates are July 8th - 12th. If you would like to be part of this tour, please email us atmarketing@insatiablepress.com by June 14th 2013 and make note of the following guidelines: Pynk and Carol Taylor are willing to do Q&As and guest blogs posts. Guest blog requests are on a first-co…

Discover the best black books coming out February 2017, and more in our January eNewsletter.

Hi, Starting Monday, February 6th, installments of my novella "The Only One" will be appearing here on AALBC. To set the scene, and introduce the main characters, the first 2 chapters will start things off. Thereafter, depending on how long they are, either one or two chapters will run once a week. I invite you all to tag along on this trip through the lives and loves of people all in pursuit of that elusive dream that delivers their "Only One". You'll smile, you'll sigh, you'll identify. But, most of all, I hope you'll enjoy. See Ya. Cynique

As part of the on going AALBC.com upgrade effort. I've added a photo gallery to the website. Now a photo gallery is not a big deal to add to a site, but I've been hosting most of my photos on Facebook. Which at the time seemed like a good idea as I could tag people and they could like the photos. Today however I now this was a mistake because now (Jul 9, 2017) Facebook beats AALBC.com on a query I should own, "https://www.google.com/search?q=aalbc+photos." Given the photos I've added to Facebooks, and the lack of organized images on AALBC.com, Facebook should win. I added a Photo Gallery and have added almost 1,000 photos--today alone. I have …

Liquid Memories – You Can Live Forever For A Price – Free Limited Time Billionaire technology tycoon, Daniel Grayson, is dying from terminal cancer, but he has invented a way to live beyond the death of his physical body. Daniel invented liquid memory and can live forever as long as he finds a new body and brain to host his mind. What would you do to live forever? http://amzn.to/1g1QdPB

I read the quote below on Facebook today. I know Paul and heard this story before. But today when I read this story, I thought, a post I made recently made suggesting that Walter Mosley does not support AALBC.com. Upon reflection I was really wrong about that. “Walter Mosley who was probably traveling in Woodson’s spirit when he hooked me up to publish his Gone Fishin’ in 1996. Walter was a best selling author even then. he wanted to make sure that some Black publisher would benefit from his wealth and fame. he made sure that I was in full control and learned the ropes of negotiating 6 and 7 figure deals. with that experience he made it possible for me to serve…

By Floyd Collins Part 1 The context of this book is truthful and is based on my memory of my past life and the people and events who has help shaped me in to whom I am today. You may also find some of the contents shocking and disturbing including some offensive language and violence. Names of some individuals have been changed to protect their anonymity. Do not read this book if you are easily offended. However, if you choose to read it I do hope you will enjoy reading it. Legacy, what is it? Well, it’s an inheritance, heritage, endowment, gift, patrimony, settlement, birthright. Every one of us has a legacy, some are proud of their legacy, others are not…

<<<<<< The theory goes that the road to our self-hatred had been paved long before this, and that black on black crime that was an offshoot of this mentality had actually been seeded with the actions of a tiny elite: the integrationists , and the athletes. With hindsight, we all realize that integration was not the sacred cow black leaders had hoped it would be. For some reason, integrationists, acted on the principle that our problems would be solved by living next door to Mr. Charlie and Miss Ann. Never had our leaders been so wrong. 1964. In 1964, American politics were a constitutional hodge-podge, and it is highl…

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Explains why racism is bad even for the white racist. This book came to mind after one of @Pioneer1’s comments on the futility every trying to get along.

Just kidding, this is for everyone. Enjoy! Art. Culture. Creativity. (owshowe.com)

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…

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AALBC.com is continuing to expand. We are just a few months away from providing book printing services. I'm excited about this because this is one of the final pieces needed to becoming a full service publisher. The other great thing is that I'm working with an established Black owned printer who is producing a quality products at competitive prices. I'm setting up the website now (which is slowing up the AALBC.com upgrade, but it is worth the effort). I also plan on publishing great books that agents can't find publishers for, I'm about a year away from this, but there's some great potential here that I can't wait to begin working on.

http://thebooklook.com/photo/rally-for-marcus-books-save-marcus-books-country-s-longest A couple months ago, the building that the iconic bookstore, Marcus Books, shares was behind in payments. Although they were able to pay 5 days after the due date, a court let speculators buy it before the 5 days. The court extended time to the speculators, but didn't give Marcus Books an appropriate 5 day extension. An associate of Marcus Books is supplying $1.64 million to purchase the building back.

Dear Indie Authors, Word Lovers Book & Literary Club is accepting book review requests. To request a review for your book, click the link below. Also, we publish Knowing, a publication that focuses on literacy and indie authors. To learn more about our Club, visit http://taniscawilson.com/word-lovers/ If you have questions, please email us at wordloversbookclub@gmail.com Want us to review your book? Complete a Book Request Form Check out our indie author publication, Knowing by clicking here

When Monique Bryant falls from grace, she falls hard. Formerly, a good girl with high aspirations to be a star in corporate America, things do not turn out as planned and it is all downhill from there. Seemingly unable to halt her descent into the life of exotic dancing and drugs, Monique decides to enjoy her ride down the highway to hell! But when the church refuses to accept her back and a family crisis threatens to rob her of what little dignity she has left, what she finds out is that it is her against the world. Knocked down, bowled over and trampled by life, Monique is not one to give up. Becoming a true believer in "that which does not kill me makes me stronger", M…

The Book Look covers this historic, ongoing excavation in Luxor, Egypt with Anthony Browder, Atlantis Browder and Dr. Elena Pischikova. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi visited the excavation in 2012. A Book Look Xtra.

NOW ON SALE $3.99 - GRAYE by Deborah Fletcher Mello - KINDLE and NOOK Excerpted from GRAYE - Hers had been a warm kind of loving when he had let it be, her long limbs wrapped around him like a much needed blanket on a crisp January morning. The heat that rose from her skin had spun a vibrant warmth up and over him, and as he’d rested his head along the round of her breasts, he’d wanted only to snuggle deep beneath the essence of her, and melt the chill from his soul. His need for her had become unnatural, his craving stirred by the mere thought of her flesh against his flesh. Just the whisper of her name would waken his manhood and command him to posses…

“maybe because he transitioned in May i am missing Oscar Brown Jr. not sure because i miss him at other times as well. sometimes i think of him and cry. i think of his children and know they still miss him and can't image. he loved his children so. he carried within his very fiber a memory of our people and our journeys, our struggles, defeats and victories. and no one could summon that past and future energy and share it in the present like Oscar. he remains our master of all master story tellers. i had the privilege of his friendship for close to 30 years and knew of and appreciated his work long before that. i miss you brother. but i am so thankful for the gift of your…

I'm in the final throes of redesigning this website. The last major task is changing the look and feel of the website. You may have noticed that about 18 months ago I changed the design of the site, introducing the orange background and optimizing the site for mobile. But feedback from my students and others have given me reason to make additional modifications--including a major overhaul of the homepage and major section main pages, books, authors, reviews, etc. At any rate, I've been playing around with different color schemes and designs. I've changed my Blog to reflect an option I'm considering. Please visit my Blog and let me know what you think of th…

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the hard workers and hard twerkers out there! Tamesha Green is determined to make sure that she and her child are taken care of even if it means dancing at a strip club is one of the multiple jobs she holds down to make ends meet. After her husband betrayed her in the ultimate way Tamesha divorced him and began a life as a single mother. Tamesha sacrificed a lot for Jamal because she interrupted her college education, moved away from her family and followed him to his home town. Tamesha would get pregnant by and later marry Jamal before she found out about secrets from his past and ongoing betrayals that caused her to end their marriage.…

Mamba Mentality ,How. I. Play ,Book. By. Late. Great. Kobe Bryant. His. Personal. Perspective. On His. Life. And. Career. On. The ,,Basketball Court...His. Daughter. Who. Died. With. Him, At ,.Her,Young,Age Had The Mamba Mentality....

Get the Soul Brother’s Empowerment Package while supplies last! These books were specifically selected with Black men in mind. Get all six for only $99, includes free two-day shipping and no sales tax (unless you are shipping to Florida). New Fiction The Awkard Black Man by Walter Mosley Blacktop Wasterland by S. A. Cosby Classic Fiction Captain Blackman by John A. Williams Classic Nonfiction The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams The Souls of Black Folk (includes “The Talented Tenth” and “The Souls of White Folk”) This bundle is available exclusively…

There Is A Book Called For White Folks Who .Teach In. The --,Hood .Author Talks About The Perception ,Opinion ,That --,Children Of Color ,Are Un teachable..Assuming Inner -City,Schools. Book .By Terrance Hayes .Have Not Read It. I -.Was,Looking At Books By Black Authors.

You won't go wrong with any of the Coretta Scott King Award winning titles. Check out the most recent winners:

Robin Walker (Historian), Cerece Rennie Murphy (novelist), and Anthony Browder (Historian) a the most recent to our top-100-selling authors list Making the Top 100 is not easy, so these authors are worth checking out! Each are fairly prominent in their respective fields and genres, but do not enjoy wide popular acclaim. It is a dysfunctional quirk in our culture where those with the least to contribute garner our attention and those those with the most remain relatively unknown. Currently, the there are 102 authors who have made the cut off to be in the top 100. The minimum number of times required to make the top 100 is 5. The list I'm curren…

Get paid for selling your own book and track how frequently your link is being clicked! http://runt.it/join_amazon Attention all authors! Here is something you must do: Sign up of as an Amazon Associate. Far too often I see author post links here, and elsewhere, for other to purchase their book from Amazon, and they are not an Amazon Associate – that is simply leaving money on the table. When I post an advertisement for an author or publisher on AALBC.com; if they provide me a link to Amazon without an affiliate code, I use AALBC.com affiliate code – someone needs to get that commission. That is not the only benefit, check out the article.

Kam will be interviewing the first Brother Mark Obama on Monday about his new book, Cultures: My Personal Odyssey of Self-discovery

Everyone has done something at one point in their lives when they think – I can’t tell mama about this. Twenty two year old Darius Johnson is home on leave from the Marines and had a huge “Things I Can’t Tell Mama” experience with her forty-two year old blonde best friend Ashley Franklin. The third in the “Things You Can’t Tell Mama” series – Her Blonde Best Friend - is the story of how a young man becomes entangled with the divorced best friend of his mother, Ashley Franklin, during his time home on leave from the Marines during the summer. Darius is not the only one trying to hide something as his mother Latisha is having a hidden relationship of her own. In the end eve…

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We've launched an editorial services company called Edit 1st (http://edit1st.com). I'm building out the website as we speak. We have already begun engaging client's even thought the hard launch of Edit 1st is a couple of weeks away. In the meantime there is a facility on the website where one can Ask an Editor a question related to editing or publishing in general. I would like to begin seeding that section with questions, so if any of you have questions please post them here: http://bit.ly/askaneditor Thanks, Troy info@edit1st.com

Oh Hello My names Bridget and i'm a new Author and i am so Pleased to meet you. I'm just poppin in to let you guys know about my new novel Avion Knytes. Check it out in Brookline Books and am*zon of course and my others. I was looking for the club sign up button but i couldnt find it because i love your site. Pick up my book Avion Knytes and Thank you ever so. 🙂

The Israeli military said 20 rockets were fired at its positions in the occupied Golan Heights overnight. It responded by launching what a spokesman called "one of the broadest aerial operations in recent years". There was no immediate comment from Iran, whose deployment of troops to Syria to back the government in the country's civil war has alarmed Israel. Iran has repeatedly called for an end to the existence of the Jewish state. Israel's military had been anticipating an attack by Iranian forces after reportedly carrying out a number of strikes on their facilities in Syria in recent months. They included one o…

Episode 1, Season 2 of the hit show The Book Look is here! Celebs, stars and first time authors... they're all here!

I am very excited to announce the first three sessions of Countdown To 2021 - Blastoff 2021 This series of joint Instagram Live session will feature different artists and illustrators showcasing their work and experiences. We are still open to including more people so DM me and we can give you more information. Here are our first three authors on the Instagram.com/Daniellegfny feed: This is the original invitation:

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Spirit. Of A. Man,Vision. Of Transformation,For. Black. Men. And,The. Women. Who. Love. Them..Book. By,,Iyanla Vanzant..

In I noticed there were hundreds of books that I've sold, over the last three years, through Amazon's affiliate program, for a penny! I, as the book seller, don't make any money (commissions on a $0.01 sale is $0.00) and the author does not make any extra money--that is assuming they made royalties off the book in the first place. I have to believe some of these books selling for a penny never made it into the marketplace. The the only entities who profit off of these sales are the shipping companies and Amazon. While the book costs one cent the shipping cost is usually $3.99, which is where the profit is generated. At any rate, I've listed below a f…

In an earlier post I mention there are no Black owned bookstores in Harlem. Technically that is true. But there are a couple of Black owned bookstores in Manhattan. Both can be found in my database of Black-owned Bookstores One of these stores is Sister's Uptown Bookstore which is run by Janifer P. Wilson. Her store is in Washington Height which, is the community just north of Harlem. Some people consider it part of Harlem. I believe they would be in the minority. Janifer, shown in the video below, recounts what drives booksellers who focus on celebrating our culture through books (including myself). There is another store, which appears to be Black owned, run b…

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…

Hello AALBC! I wanted to let everybody know that the 2nd and 3rd books in my Underground Railroad fiction series are now available. You can find "A War Below: Hunt" and "A War Below: Pay" on Amazon, Apple and Barnes and Noble. MORE IMPORTANTLY: I'd like to let you know that 100% of net sales from the first three books in the series are going to three different charities: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Wounded Warrior Project and Help-Portrait. The AALBC was one of the biggest sources of visitors to my website when I released the first book in the series "A War Below: Run". To all of you that purchased the first book before I made the announcement re…

How about some good news! Every since the arrival of African-Americans in this country, the church has long been the bedrock of our survival, the foundation of our hopes, and the source of our inspiration. That much everyone knows to be true, but if you are like most people, you are well on your way to becoming a "spiritual millionaire" as you have (hopefully been racking up bonus points by practicing what you (or your ministers) preach, but after a lifetime of these earnings, you may not have ended up with anything in terms of physical rewards. Basically, since hardly anyone teaches us how to nourish our temples, we practice haphazard, hit-or-miss, trial-and-error m…

I'm experimenting with Instagram again (everyone touts it as the best way to engage with people). I found an easy way to post from my lap top (installing Instagram on my cell phone is a nonstarter).

Former. First. Lady. Michelle. Obama,Book. Called. Becoming. She. Talks. About. Becoming. The. First. Black. ,First. Lady. Only Whitehouse. Resident. Of Enslaved. Ancestors.Angry. At. Trump,Saying. Her Husband Was Not Born In America. The People,Experienced That Helped Shape Her.Discussion On Class,Race And Public Education. She Is Interesting....

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Ghetto Tony And White Trash Tina – Free For Christmas Tony Kelly and Tina Watson were respectively known as Ghetto Tony and White Trash Tina when they attended a high school for academically gifted students years earlier because of their poor economic and social status compared to their classmates. Years later the two ex-classmates from opposite sides of life met at a high school reunion and found that they were both in the illegal drug business. Tony and Tina decided to join forces and try to boost each other’s drug influence by moving Tony’s urban oriented drugs into Tina’s rural area and Tina’s country cooked methamphetamine drugs into Tony’s city customer base.…