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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. New Maya Angelou Documentary Film

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  2. How White Folks Got So Rich

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

    Troy,
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    Troy

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

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  5. The Dead Are Arising

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  6. Annual Coloring Contest Announcement

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  7. The 37th edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter

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  8. Finding Peace by Shakira Rivers

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  9. LEDISI! on THE BOOK LOOK!

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    TheBookLook

  10. Queen of Pain – Free Limited Time

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  11. Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

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    • 823 views
    Troy

  12. Black Authors and Readers Rock Weekend

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  13. Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies to be Adapted into Film

    Troy,
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  14. Mama Dee and Merchants of Souls

    Guest Earl Lynn,
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    • 805 views
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  15. RMNewsletter 4th Version March 30th

    richardmurray,
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    • 391 views
    richardmurray

  16. What We Can Learn From The Chinese

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    Balogun

  17. Brenda Jackson Celebrates Her 100th Novel

    Troy,
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    Troy

  18. Fundraising for The Black Authors & Readers Rock Weekend

    Troy,
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    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  19. New Black Owned Publishing Company

    Guest T. Stanley,
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    • 782 views
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  20. Javaka Steptoe Reads from Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Troy,
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    Troy

  21. Dark Universe: An Afrocentric Space Opera Anthology

    Milton,
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    • 1k views
    Milton

  22. THIRD WORLD PRESS 55th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

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    Troy

  23. Ma'am 

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    richardmurray

  24. Happy Besooned Juneteenth music

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    richardmurray

  25. The Tenth National Black Writers' Conference

    Troy,
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    Troy

  26. Book Review Request-Christian Fiction

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    • 828 views
    SHERABIM JOY

  27. Boston Globe journalist turns to fiction

    Hiawatha Bray,
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    • 859 views
    Hiawatha Bray

  28. Soul. Talk

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    • 851 views
    harry brown

  29. The Case Of Our Escape

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    richardmurray

  30. What Did Jesus Really Say

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    • 931 views
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  31. Dream. Big. Little. Ones.

    harry brown,
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    • 625 views
    harry brown

  32. RMNewsletter 5th format 07262026

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    richardmurray

  33. GORGEOUS GAYS GO GAGA: GHETTOHEAT®!

    HICKSON,
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    HICKSON

  34. Become an "Author You Should Know" on AALBC.com

    Troy,
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    Troy

  35. Writing Workshop Coming to Ohio March 2016

    Troy,
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    Troy

  36. KLEPTOMANIAC: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway?

    Guest Frank Chase Jr,
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    • 960 views
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  37. The Number of Profiled Authors Explodes

    Troy,
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  38. Passions Ignite

    Guest Clayton E. Corley, Sr,
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    • 872 views
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  39. Book Euphoria’s 2019 Weekend Block Party

    Book Euphoria 15,
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    Book Euphoria 15

  40. The New York Public Library Kicks off Immigrant Heritage Week 2020

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    Troy

  41. "Something in Madness" Novel Illuminates Reconstruction, the Roots of America's Racial Divide

    Guest Ed Protzel,
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  42. Dark Universe: The Bright Empire

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    Milton

  43. We Real Cool

    Troy,
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    Troy

  44. History of Creation: The Announcement

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    jkm Mbdw

  45. The Coming Race War in America by Carl Rowan

    Chrishayden,
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    Chrishayden

  46. Challenges Facing African American Youth

    Guest Karen Wicker,
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  47. Illusions of Paradise

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  48. Shitolian

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  49. For your consideration: Book Review

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  50. My life's challenges and how I'm overcoming them

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