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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. 1st Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair June 2014

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  2. Hurston/Wright Foundation Announces the Winners of the 2014 Legacy Award

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  3. RELATIONSHIPS,WHY MEN CHEAT/

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  4. “How to Talk to Your Kids About Charlottesville”

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  5. A wonderful interview with a terrific writer, Elizabeth Nunez

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  6. Video: T.R. Simon talks about her new young adult novel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

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  7. Robby

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  8. Austin African-American Book Festival celebrates activism, empowerment

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  9. Requesting Your Support of the Twelfth National Black Writers Conference

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  10. Bereavement Announcement: On the Passing of Sir Derek A. Walcott

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

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  12. Nigger Career. Of. A. Troublesome. Word..

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  13. Nuclear powered arsenals as protection in fiction 

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  14. RMNewsletter 5th format 07192026

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  15. Writers Help Writers: Advice Needed

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    Kola Boof

  16. A Review of David Covin's Novel, PRODIGAL

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  17. Anne Rice The Beauty's Kingdom Interview

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  18. GHETTOHEAT® CELEBRATES 13 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

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  19. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

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  20. Where. Do. We. Go. From. Here. ???

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  21.  The 3rd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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  22. The 23rd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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  23. VIDEO: Carl Weber talks about how he came up with the characters

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  24. Nikky Finney explains why Black literature is so important

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  25. GHETTOHEAT® CELEBRATES BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2013!

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  26. HOT NEW RELEASE: COOCHIE 2

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  27. Their Eyes Were Watching God

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  28. Review requested for novel - Just My Luck

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  29. Multiple movies based on one black book

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  30. WENDY WILLIAMS: SHOUT-OUT TO MY FRIEND, HICKSON...

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  31. Cento poetry

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  32. Salvadore's Salty Sea Shanty

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  33. The Steamfunk Panel at The Mahogany Masquerade!

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  34. A.L. Shields a.k.a., Stephen L. Carter

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  35. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

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  36. Book Review Request

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  37. Between. The. World. And. Me.

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  38. ...Talking About Good Music, Check out I Called Him Morgan

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  39. The Journey To The Promised Land Requires A Divine Consciousness

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  40. African American Pavilion at BookExpo America 2005

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  41. Good Fortune by Noni Carter

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  42. AALBC.com eNewsletter Published

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  43. Rooftop Diva – A Novel of Triumph After Katrina – Free Download – Limited Time

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  44. THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF GHETTOHEAT®!

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  45. Looking for Reviews of African American Literature

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  46. New Books for the Spring with Patrik Bass of Essence Magazine

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  47. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

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  48. How White Folks Got So Rich

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  49. I Met Two Sexual Predators One Evening (or Power Corrupts)

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

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