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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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    harry brown

  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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    harry brown

  13. Nuclear powered arsenals as protection in fiction 

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  14. Writers Help Writers: Advice Needed

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    Kola Boof

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

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  16. Anne Rice The Beauty's Kingdom Interview

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  17. GHETTOHEAT® CELEBRATES 13 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

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    HICKSON

  18. 7 of 20 finalists for National Book Awards are Black

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    Troy

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

    harry brown,
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    harry brown

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

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

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

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  23. Nikky Finney explains why Black literature is so important

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  24. GHETTOHEAT® CELEBRATES BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2013!

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  25. HOT NEW RELEASE: COOCHIE 2

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  26. Their Eyes Were Watching God

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  27. Review requested for novel - Just My Luck

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    • 816 views
    Roz Seay

  28. Multiple movies based on one black book

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    • 522 views
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  29. WENDY WILLIAMS: SHOUT-OUT TO MY FRIEND, HICKSON...

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    HICKSON

  30. Cento poetry

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    richardmurray

  31. The Steamfunk Panel at The Mahogany Masquerade!

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

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  33. Helping Uplift People Can be Part of Capitalism

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  34. Book Review Request

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  35. Between. The. World. And. Me.

    harry brown,
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    • 786 views
    harry brown

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

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

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  38. African American Pavilion at BookExpo America 2005

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  39. Good Fortune by Noni Carter

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  40. AALBC.com eNewsletter Published

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

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  42. THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF GHETTOHEAT®!

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    HICKSON

  43. Looking for Reviews of African American Literature

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    Troy

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

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  45. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

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  46. How White Folks Got So Rich

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

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

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  49. The Dead Are Arising

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  50. Annual Coloring Contest Announcement

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