Black Literature

I'm building content around the issue of colorism and am looking for more books on the subject. Please reply with any books you might know about. Are there any books that discuss this issue from a Black man's perspective? Surely there must be some.

The Wine Cellar is LIVE! "Guest Who?!" is a 5 episode limited Christian audio series that streams every Friday (01-29 Aug ‘20) exclusively on owshowe.com. Host O.W. invites listeners to guess the special Biblical guest during modern reenactments and lively interview segments. LISTEN LIVE: “Guest Who?!” Episode 04 - The Wine Cellar (21 Aug '20) HINT: “But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and … held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.” (Genesis 8, verse 9) Independent Audio Series: Guest Who?! Series Release Date: 01 August 2020 …

The. Radical. King. King. As. Radical. As. Malcolm. X. ? Book. By,Dr. Martin. Luther. King. 58. Years. Ago. The. March. On. Washington ,,Dr. King. Gave. His. I. Have. A. Dream. Speech. ..

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The 29th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter. topics The sixty-first of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. In the series I place my cento and a link to the other authors poem. Dates IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR : Frog and Toad from India Rose Crawford ; Carbon armor ; Design to Repair ; Tom Bombadil and telling a story in different ways ; Sensitivity ; Gundam ; George RR Martin made winds of winter unfinishable URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/07/21/2024-rmnewsletter.html

Where do you go to read book reviews? Are they needed? What do you think about the reviews Amazon posts with thier books? Do you miss Black Issues Book Review magazine or more extensive book coverage from Essence Mag? I was just thinking about book reviews recently and shared some of my thoughts in a recent blog post: http://aalbc.it/blackbookreviews

BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD REMEMBER,RESPECT AND REFLECT ON BLACK SOLDIERS FROM ALL THE WARS....LOT OF BOOKS ON BLACK SOLDIERS IN WARS/BOOKS ON FORGOTTEN BLACK SOLDIERS FROM THE CIVIL WAR//WE MUST RESPECT ARE OWN/////.

Authors and publishers, Exhibit at the National Conference of African American Librarians this is an opportunity to get your books into libraries across the country. Libraries are much more open to working with indie authors and publishers, than they have been in the past. In addition, to exhibiting opportunities (AALBC.com friends get 25% off the regular rates). There are opportunities for authors to participate for free and submit proposals for presentations. This conference will not take place for another two years. Take advantage of it.

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My name is Shaun Randol. I am the founding publisher at The Mantle and I can be reached at shaun@themantle.net. I'd like to request a review for the novel: Forbidden Fruit by Stanley Gazemba ISBN 978-0-9986423-0-7 publishing June 15, 2017 book URL: http://www.mantlethought.org/content/forbidden-fruit I can provide electronic or paperback versions for review. Here's more about the novel: FORBIDDEN FRUIT Desperate to make ends meet, Ombima commits a “harmless” crime. When he tries to conceal his misdeed, the simple farm laborer becomes a reluctant participant in a sinister affair. If discovered, the consequences could be disastrous …

Have we forgotten the fallen? Many people have asked me since I've been promoting my novel why I wrote the book, and what I hoped to achieve. I realized that we are so awash with these stories in the news of police killing our young men, women, and children for so long that it has become the norm for many. Even when speeches are given or books are written, they only serve to tell us what we already know - the lives of the fallen or details of their killing. I wanted to examine these tragedies from a different angle. What if they killed someone and their surviving relative was ready to go to war? What if there was an organization who made the police as afraid …

Well, no more 'white'-washing the truth of the United States of America - coming to a bookstore in the UK and US, a book about the wrongfully imprisoned. HarperCollins Children's Books will publish Punching the Air, a YA novel about a black Muslim teen who is wrongfully sentenced to prison. (see link at the bottom) If this scenario seems familiar the book is co-authored by one of Exonerated Five, Dr Yusef Salaam, fomerly the Central Park five. The Young Adult book arrives on the shelves in September 2020 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/harpercollins-childrens-books-publish-ya-book-one-exonerated-five-1203387#

Ours is the longest running and most visible bestsellers list focused on Black Books. As a result you will learn about book selling well, in the Black community, that will never show up in the venerated NY Times Bestsellers list. Sure there is some overlap with the NY Times list books like Caste, are popular in the white community too I would love to see all of the independent booksellers, who focus on Black books, come up with a bestsellers list, but that is a surprisingly difficult thing to do, for a variety of reasons. Here are the best selling books on AALBC for September and October of 2020. Read more here.

Nov. 15, 2021 For immediate release Contact: Lois Smyth, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, lsmyth@braf.org, (225) 387-6126 Mukul Verma, Baton Rouge Area Foundation mverma@braf.org, (225) 362-9260 15th Annual Ernest Gaines Award winner is Nathan Harris for his debut novel, The Sweetness of Water …

Nikki. Giovanni ,She. Was. A. Great. Talent. .Poet,,Writer. Activist. ..From. Her. Writings. She. Gave. Education. ,Enlightment ,,Inspiration. ........She. Was. A. Educator. On. Race. And. Society. .......

Hi, it's Kola Boof. What a wonderful new set up you all have here. In the next few days, I intend to post my new videos at least. TONIGHT, I'm just posting a link to the "audio" of me singing the song "The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born." **AUDIO/LISTEN: http://bit.ly/bmnVad **The VIDEOS are coming in a few days. By this Wednesday, March 3rd (my birthday)...the editor has promised to have them up. "KOLA BOOF SINGING PERFORMANCE" is a video showing quite a lot of footage of me preparing for my "comeback." "NAKED AT THE FEAST" is a "tit" spectacular for the men...but deeper than that, it's my attempt to chronicle the hist…

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The Pastor’s Lover 3 – Pastor’s Baby Mama – Free Limited Time A paternity test proves without a doubt that Pastor Kendrick Johnson is the father of the baby born to an attractive church staff member after he swore to his wife, Tasha, that he never touched Damita Hawkins. Kendrick and Tasha face their biggest marital and career challenges yet as everything is closing in on them with the possibility of embarrassing sex videos of them being leaked after they were stolen from Kendrick’s computer by an unknown hacker. The couple was even recorded in the privacy of their bedroom by some unknown cyber stalker with an unknown agenda. Kendrick ponders stepping down to save t…

48th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬: Historian and Egyptologist Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan (“Dr. Ben”) Passed March 19, 2015

I'm here for my fourth National Book Awards (NBA) Ceremony. The NBA is the Academy Award of the book world. It is always an honor to attend. The most celebrated authors on Earth are honored here. I, as usual, focus on the authors of African descent, and there is no shortage of these authors honored this year. I'm making these posts live, from the event. The entire program may be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/DNpxugLaDgG

The film The Invisible Universe includes interviews with Black writers of SF like, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler , Steven Barnes , Tananarive Due , Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor , Brandon Massey, and N.K. Jemisin. This feature-length documentary has been in the works for serval years not I now discovered it while looking for a more recent video for author Brandon Massey. It looks like it will be a very interesting project.

The Books N Brunch Gala returns to Chicago for it's third annual event! Just west of downtown Chicago, the Gala promotes African-American new millennium writers from across the country to share their work along with a fantastic meal at the prestigious East Bank Club. Past guests include National Best-Selling Authors ReShonda Tate-Billingsley, Victoria Christopher-Murray, the real Rick Ross and the Chicago Black Authors Network (CBAN). For more info go to Booksnbrunchgala.com.

Once in the animal kingdom of Abapa lived strong, big and gluttonous Python. Python seemed to suffocate, swallow anything that had breathe and crossed his path. Once when Python chanced upon a Gazelle in labor, he didn’t consider the precarious position of mother and unborn, he attacked and swallowed the laboring Gazelle to the horror of an expectant father and husband. Python ate the Pangolin, Warthog, Deer, Parrots, even Porcupine with his quills was not exempt. He didn’t care what state the animal was in, as long as he could catch it, it was fair game. Reports started trickling in to Lion, the king. “Python just swallowed all my three babies,” Warthog …

KWL Live Q&A – Romance Roundtable with B. E. Baker, Elana Johnson, Jean Oram, Jan Moran, & Kellie Coates Gilbert https://kobowritinglife.com/2023/02/13/kwl-live-qa-romance-roundtable/

Hello Troy, Thank you for your consideration of this book for review. Respectfully, Terry Wells-Jones Book Synopsis Reflections! Looking in the Mirror by Terry Wells-Jones is a true story of a Black girl born in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era of racism, and prejudice, with an unshakable belief in her ability to surmount adversities. Through her unwavering faith, belief, hope, resilience, and unyielding determination, she triumphed over trauma and numerous barriers to become one of the first Black international models in the late 1960’s, and the first woman hired in a sales position by a Fortune 500 company, bre…

any member in this group is a member of the following https://newplayexchange.org/ please tell me your experience with it? this is my yearly project for stageplays, tell me what you think of any of them https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/90812819/jiausiku-2024

Some years ago, when my novel A Vampyre Blues was published, I donated several copies to my local library. A couple of days ago I was in there and the security guard walked up to me with the book and said, "Say, Boss1 Dis you?" I said, "Yes, that's me." I spent a few minutes with several of the staff fawning over me and lying (well let's say I was doing a little publicity). Man, you can't buy that. Now I gotta be careful not to get caught picking my nose in there or ogling pretty wimmens. Thank you, Kola Boof for insisting I have my picture on the back.

No folks, not Jill Scott, Gil Scott Heron. What, you haven't read about this? I bet you've heard of Nigger Jim and Edgar Allen Poe. And, To Kill A Freakin Mocking Bird. Well, I know you've seen, or heard of Sex In The City, but what about Black Thighs? Huh, what do you know about that? Don't tell me you've read The Night Before Christmas and not, Before The White Man Came? Yep, you've seen Message In A Bottle, but what about Message To The Messengers? Who wrote the words to that piece and what was the message? Hint: It was a message to young rappers by the Godfather. Nope, not James Brown. Okay, maybe this is not fair. Maybe all your books got lost in …

I had the pleasure of speaking in a couple of the short video biographies, on American novelists, created by Bio.com, which is part of the A+E Television Networks. I spoke briefly about James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. http://aalbc.it/aebios

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DR. CARTER G. WOODSON BOOK/MIS EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO-HIS OPINION- BLACK PEOPLE OF HIS TIME WERE BEING CULTURALLY INDOCTRINATED INSTEAD OF EDUCATED.QUOTE FROM THE BOOK/WHEN YOU CONTROL A MAN'S MIND,YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIS ACTION..BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION/SCHOOLS WERE SEGREGATED/RACE SEPARATE/PLESSY V FERGURSON/SCHOOLS SEPARATE AS LONG AS LONG AS THERE EGAUAL IT IS OKAY//ALL THESE YEARS LATER,BLACK COMMUNITIES INNER CITIES POOR SCHOOLS/WHITE COMMUNITIES,SUBURBS RICH OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS///SCHOOLS ARE STILL SEPARATE AND NOT EQUAL//////.

Forget Big Brother We Tell DAD Everything – Free Limited Time For decades there has been this fear of an imposed surveillance state imposed by the government. Ironically we find ourselves voluntarily self reporting our activities, not to a character like Big Brother in George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty Four, but to massive social networking websites that the author refers to as DAD. How did individuals that once fiercely guarded their privacy agree to self report their activities for the world to see? As it turns out, we tell DAD everything. http://amzn.to/1kmyV1m

I'm upgrading the website in a big way over the next few months. If I get it done in the next 6 months I'll be happy, indeed the success of this upgrade will almost certainly determine the future of AALBC.com. I don't mean from a technical perspective, I mean from a business perspective. Is there enough demand for a website dedicated to promoting Black literature, to provide a 1/2 way decent living? Over the last few years this has become increasingly difficult. Some of the changes I have in mind, include more interactivity, a customized CMS, fully mobile ready (to make Google happy), as well as a ton of content spanning almost 2 decades. The site will no…

I was reading the Wall Street Journal yesterday saw an interesting article, "Betting Big on Literary Newcomers." Of particular interest to me were the sisters who garnered seven figure book deals. It looks like the focus on African female novelists will continue. The most fascinating thing is that these humongous advances are going to debut authors. Apparently auctions drive up prices, but this is classic bubble territory as far as I'm concerned. From a business perspective a big advance better come with a big marketing budget as well. As a bookseller, I'm expecting some ad buys for these books. Then again handing out million dollar advances is one …

The Truth,The Lie,The Bible.Book About How White Christian Religion,Has Oppressed,People Of,Different Cultures And Skin Color.

Hi all, I'd like to submit a self-published book for review by AALBC. The novel is about a large cast of characters in New York and New Jersey during the 2008 election cycle, and their experiences with one another during this heady time in our history, as well as their relationship to the folk art of African countries and cultures as well as the folk art of African American culture, symbolized by the presence of Robert Johnson, the iconic delta blues musician. The novel is called Robert Johnson's Freewheeling Jazz Funeral, and is self-published as both a paperback and an ebook. I am originally from the Washington, DC and New York areas, and have previously written a …

I just partnered with What’s The 411 TV. They just produced their first series of segments this is one of them. I see there is a lot of room for improvement on my end. I have this bad habit of saying "ahh." I actually have to focus on not saying it. I also move my head too much. We could us a second camera and a tighter shot, but the positives far outweigh the negatives.

The Divine Butterfly: Inspiration For The Journey To Your Purpose by Karen H. St. Hilaire The group of ladies speaking with Karen are members of "The Tea" book club. The Tea select books every month and create a series of videos on the author and their book. New videos are released every Thursday (subscribe to their YouTube channel to support their work). I have been working closely with The Tea and they have been extremely supportive of my efforts with AALBC, including #readingblack. I'll be featured in more videos, and even participated on one of the club's discussions--this is really good stuff and I'm excited to be working with The Te…

This was one the the click-baity headlines you see advertised on websites. Even though my perverse curiosity is often peaked (who can resist the "You'd be alarmed how these 10 beautiful famous people look today") I avoid these links like the plague. How every this title, "WATCH: Two Transgenders Blow Out Girls In State Meet," made me laugh because I immediately thought about @Pioneer1 Rather than clicking the link I did a google search and was surprised to discover Transgender athletes is "a thing" now. Apparently all a guys has to say is that he is a girl and he can race with the girls. The "ex-dudes" are breaking records. From…

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This newsletter was created by Gwyn Ridenhour, Founder of Matchbook. They cited AALBC, and other Black owned platforms as sources for the books they included in this printed Newsletter. You can obtain a pdf version here. I will be shipping copies with some AALBC Book orders. The most notable part of the effort, besides the spirit in which the newsletter was created, was the fact that Gyyn and her team produced this newsletter for free and arranged for to shipped to booksellers for the price of shipping. I received my batch of 250 copies this week. One indie bookstore even stepped up and volunteered to cover the cost of shipping for any store that needed th…

Hello! My name is Kevin M. Kraft and I am seeking a review or reviews of my faith-based action-drama, DOBORO THE BOTTLENECKER. Thanks for your consideration. Here are the pertinent details: TITLE: DOBORO THE BOTTLENECKER AUTHOR: Kevin M. Kraft GENRE: Christian, drama, action PUBLICATION DATE: February 1st, 2020 ISBN: 979-8606050284 SYNOPSIS: The first two books in Kevin M. Kraft's cutting-edge faith based DOBORO THE BOTTLENECKER series (Doboro the Bottlenecker: Doboro Begins and Doboro the Bottlenecker: Louder than Words) together in one electrifying volume! After surviving a devastating assassination …

It is often suggested that I need to get on to TikTok to build my brand and draw more attention to AALBC. This article was shared with me, "How BookTok changed Book of the Month’s influencer marketing strategy" The article featured the following (see Below) BookTok post (what are TickTok posts called anyway, Toks?). Nothing about this appealed to me -- and I don't think it is my age. Sure, I can see that this may attract eyeballs (views on TickTok), but will this translate into readers or buyers of the books? Who is on TikTok anyway?

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Coochie 3 1 A WEEK AGO TODAY Sadness and euphoria always depends on how deeply committed you are to what you choose to do about tomorrow -Stella- As an old-fashioned street-walking ho, Stella found the present conversation distressing, but perhaps this is what she deserved for listening to this bitch about turning the art of slanging pussy into a very lucrative consulting business. Why tamper with a good thing? Traditionally, in the African-American community, “hooking” was like home economics because selling coochie was what kept the cable turned on or what kept the lights from being turned off. Maybe it should stay that way. Plus, selling pus…

50th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬: March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald was Lynched Ravi Howard wrote an award winning book about this horrific event.

***ON SALE NOW*** Partially Broken Never Destroyed I,II,III 〰Stay tuned for Part IV...The most scandalous Volume yet to be published〰 "No, I would never jeopardize my son's life by going to court. I will plead the fifth to everything." Jared laughed, "You really do watch a lot of television. The prosecution would tear you to pieces if you got put on the stand." "You don't understand, I'd die before they put me up there." "As much as I hate to scare you, that's exactly what may happen if you refuse." Part 1: http://goo.gl/loiQ9v Part 2: http://goo.gl/OCJlku Part 3: http://goo.gl/fxOs…

MOMMY'S KHMAR by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, Illustrated by Ebony Glenn "A Top 130 African-American Children’s Book" I thought this book was sweet. While Muslims make up a relatively tiny portion of Black America's religious community. I think it would be useful not just for children in this religious minority for children outside the group to learn about different aspects of our multifaceted American culture.

Experience the saga of the Twins the way it was meant to be. The Meji 10th Anniversary Special Edition consists of both Meji Book One and Meji Book Two. This hard cover volume is graced with amazing cover art by master artist Mshindo Kuumba, and contains interior illustrations from the upcoming Meji based graphic novel series, Uhuru. Meji is a Sword and Soul classic and a must have for Sword and Soul as well as Sword and Sorcery fans. Meji Special edition is available only directly from MVmedia, and each book is signed by the author, Milton J. Davis. Order your piece of Sword and Soul history today! Click here to order! Meji 10th Anniversary Special Editi…