Black Literature

When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy! No, wait, it's a girl! No, it is a boy!" Mom cried, "What did I have? A freak?" Yes and No. My freakish life parallels my father's in many ways: a Peoria whorehouse, abuse, alcohol and drug addiction, and frequent bad decisions. But I survived. And that's what my book is about, a real life story of overcoming obstacles, surviving and thriving. Learn more about the book at https://inapryorlife.com/

I suspect I’m one of a small handful of Black indie writers who write an African-American Historical Fiction series. I post daily on Instagram what I call this date in “white history.” It’s not Black history because to quote my favorite African Proverb: “Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero.” Every day, I post an episode of white history describing murders of men, women, and children, court rulings declaring us less than human, and terrorism directed toward Black Americans somewhere in America. It’s called “this date in white history.” When you understand their history, you must write about it. We need to tell people about whi…

Love. At. A. Black. College. By. Shavonne Latrice.

Author's name : Anton D. Morris Title: Exposed: Humanity Craves Power ISBN Softcover 9781663209610 ISBN Ebook 9781663209535 Publication Date November 16, 2020 https://mendjinnandangels.com/ Please consider this 92K novel for your book review. Reporters swamp Horus Fitsroy. They want to know if he orchestrated Sam Patterson's murder of Apollo Givens. Additionally, does his company owe reparations to the African American community? Horus' answer to both questions is NO. When he arrives home, he wants nothing more than escaping the political advisors in the front room. Jason, his old…

Oprah has a new selection coming out February 6th. Booksellers are not allowed to sell, loan, or display the book before the pub date. Right now they won't even say what the title of the book is or who the author is. All I have is the ISBN13: 9781616208776. If I knew the author was Black I might consider adding it to my database. Google say the publisher is Workman Publishing; which technically one could derive from the ISBN. I can't believe this is that serious. It is just a book... On another front Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House hit the selves earlier than expected. I had no intention of adding the book to the site, but my aunt…

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Happy Mothers Day to all for a little discussion What is your favorite book or do you know of any book written by a Black woman while pregnant?

INSIDE JOB WRITING INSTITUTE: The Art of Personal Essay Writing WORKSHOP Oct 01, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT CHANGE OF LOCATION - 1629 K St NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC About the event Everyone, even teen girls-- or maybe especially teen girls--have stories to tell. Esther Productions Inc. and The Black Student Fund, nonprofit organizations based in Washington, DC, are presenting a four-week writing institute designed to help each participant discover her inner story while learning how to present it using the personal essay. Award-winning journalist and author Jonetta Rose Barras will lead the workshop. She has expertly used the art of personal essay to take readers i…

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Pose any questions you have for for Alice Walker below. We will be interviewing her this week. I can't guarantee we can ask every question, but we'll try.

My new book The Tannell's Family Secret is available on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Tannells-Family-Secret-Lashonda-Beauregard-ebook/dp/B07B1H2Y2R Website: http://lashondabeauregard.webstarts.com/ Book Press Release link: http://issuewire.com/new-book-release-by-louisiana-author-1595664394119539 Book Synopsis: The Tannells are the wealthiest family in the fictional town of Bayouville, Louisiana. They seem to have it all with money, power, and fame. Thomas and Savannah have always tried to paint the perfect picture of the Tannell family, but are they really perfect? As a hurricane is approaching Bayouville, Louisiana, Mr. Tannell is dealing …

On sale this week at MVmedia, Abengoni by Charles R. Saunder and Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL Abegoni: First Calling Sword and Soul originator and Sword and Sorcery master Charles R. Saunders storms back onto the literary scene with an new epic fantasy sure to become a classic. Matile Mala, once the most powerful empire in the black continent of Abengoni, is slipping slowly into decadence, and becoming more and more vulnerable to aggression from the nations and tribes it once dominated. In the capital, Khambawe, ancient rituals endure, dominated by dreams and delusions. As Tiyana, who is both priestess and princess, conducts one su…

Congratulations to this year's 5 Under 35 Honorees! The National Book Foundation is proud to announce its 2015 5 Under 35 Honorees: Colin Barrett, Angela Flournoy, Megan Kruse, Tracy O'Neill, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Supported by a generous grant from Amazon Literary Partnerships, for the past ten years the 5 Under 35 program has recognized five promising young writers annually, each poised to make a tremendous impact on the literary landscape. Discover these five remarkable writers. LeVar Burton to host the 2015 5 Under 35 Ceremony The host of this year's 5 Under 35 ceremony is LeVar Burton, Curator-in-Chief & Host of Reading Rainbow…

Hello and Thank you to each and every one of you who takes their time to view this blog post. [A double Hello and Thank You to those who actually visit the channel] I wish to introduce to all of you a channel that turns the lens of modern media and works of art to a fresh perspective from an African viewpoint. I am the host and creator of the channel, Uncle Omari, and I would love to invite you all to this audio-visual experience where we celebrate, discuss and critique film, music, comics, animation, and all other art forms with special priority on Africa and Black creations. I would love for any persons interacting with the content on t…

Greetings, my name's Cal Lewis. I've recently published my first cybercrime fiction book, Maxed Out. It is available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon (If you're a Kindle Unlimited reader, you're eligible to read it now!). It's about a college couple struggling to keep their growing family together, while making a way for a better life. Fast-paced, heartfelt, refreshing are just a few words used to describe this entertaining book. Title: Maxed Out ISBN-10: 0999212109 ISBN-13: 978-0999212103 Publication date: December 9, 2017 Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Maxed-Out-Brick-Road-1/dp/0999212109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514332176&sr…

Sankofa Bookstore and Mahogany Books will host award-winning author Tracy Chiles McGhee for a reading and discussion of her book, "Melting the Blues," on December 17, 2016 at 4 p.m. The book, which Kirkus Review describes as "a brave, musical story rich with Southern history," examines the complexities of identity, yearnings for love and acceptance, and racial tension in 1950s Arkansas. McGhee -- a D.C. transplant who graduated from Catholic University Law School and Georgetown University -- is the winner of the 2016 Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award in the category of First Fiction and recipient of the 2016 BIG Greater Orange County Chapter/Amber Communications …

Greetings. The book ("Dear Dad") by Ky-Mani Marley is not a new one, but I didn't even know that Kymani had a book out until last Friday. I just happened to see it in the bookstore and I picked it up. Have any of you read this? In my opinion, it's the kind of book that can make you laugh, cry, think, and take notes for the purpose of doing your part to bring about a brighter tomorrow.

The 2014 NAACP Image Award Winners and Nominees for Literature were perhaps the best crop of books ever nominated. For years we used to complain about the poor quality of the nominees for these awards. Now that the book are good there is no one around to talk about how this list has imporved :-)

Black. Man. Preferred. Book. Purpose. To. Encourage. And. ,Motivate ,,Black ,Boys. And. Black Men Potential.. Book. By,Ayannah-Gallow...,

Preorder your book today! Release date: March 2, 2020 Take a space bakkie ride to Cape Town to encounter aliens, Africans in space, gender bending shamans, and enchanted waters. Set in post-Apartheid South Africa, no fiction collection is complete without a story or two about Nelson Mandela with an Afrofuturistic twist. Feminist and womanist, Colin Cloud Dance's strong African women characters create a new South African future. 'Colin Clouddance’s Cape Town Curios is a collection of stories which transports readers into the heart of South Africa. These are Urban Fantasy tales of the weird, the supernatural, and even the alien... In sh…

I did a search on the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston and didn't find anything here. I haven't read it yet but I'm hoping over the holidays I'll have some time to start. Ms. Hurston was a black writer living in Florida during the 1930s. This is supposed to be her best known and most controversial work, according to Amazon. It takes places in a black Florida town. She was accused of pandering to white readers by using black dialogue. The book was out of print for thirty years but was re-printed beginning in 1978. Has anyone read this who could comment on it?

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The Pink Panther Clique a new novel by Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark: Enjoy the book, but check the stories behind the book. All four of these Sisters were incarcerated for at least 8 years! Now I've known of Wahida since she was locked up with Martha Stewart (they were friends). She was a popular author while she was still jailed up. We have become friendly over the years and she is a supporter of AALBC.com. I was always struck by Wahda, because she is just a hard working woman. On top of that she is real cool people, a very likeable and friendly person. Wahida took out a…

Hello friends, My name is Toshia Stelivan and I have written my second children's book in the Horse of a Different Color Series, Horse of a Different Color: The Tallest Kid in the Class. The message that this book focuses on is bullying. It is also in English and Spanish. I like to provide content in my books of experiences that kids are going through in their life and try and help them through it. Synopsis: Madison wanted her upcoming birthday celebration to be the best one ever. There was just one problem: she wanted to invite Kasey, a girl the others made fun of because she was so much taller than the other students. Madison want…

Today in the forum discussion at Black Arts In America, artist Joseph Osbome, who works in a abstract, metaphonic, symbolic style of drawing and painting, asks this question: Does black art have to be a literal statement or is being a black person enough? As a fiction writer who sees himself as an artist, I thought it was a good question. Here is my answer to Osbome’s question: “We have this same challenge in fiction writing, especially novel writing. In my opinion, if we are speaking solely about “art,” even a piece of abstract art, it becomes a quality question. If we succeed in our work and it becomes art, then the question doesn’t matter. Then the reader or view…

Green Paper Group Presents The Artist & Author Exposure Event Welcome, all to Green Paper Group's Artist and Author Exposure Event!!! This event is designed to give authors and artists of the Michiana and other surrounding areas a platform to showcase their talents and display their merchandise, products, services etc to attending guest. All GPG guests will have a chance to win door prizes and enter our raffle drawing. So come out and show support to your independent exhibitors/vendors!

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'To readers unacquainted with it, Nasomi's Quest is a radical but valuable introduction to black speculative fiction, an adrenaline-spiked adventure into the occult and the power of dreams.' - Eugen Bacon, author of The Road to Woop Woop and Writing Speculative Fiction A love story. An ordinary girl and a tribal prince fall in love. Loving her costs him everything. Loving him earns her a vengeful nemesis. An adventure story. Witches, magic, secrets, dangerous things to come. He’s taken to the edge of the world. Grappling an unwanted gift, she follows. A transformation story. All she wants is to be an ordinary woman, but she may have to become something m…

@Troy This is "Yukio's" book. You should find it interesting for many reasons.

As a novice professional writer and publisher, I am learning many new things. I first learned of Advanced Review Copies (ARCs). The second thing I learned about was Galleys. Which method do you use to promote your book and get book reviews? Which one do you feel is more effective and why? If you have had some success but don’t do either, why don’t you?

This is the cover of a book I wrote a year ago. I wrote this book because i am passionate to the area I wrote about. Some feel as a black woman the images chosen should be of a black face rather than white because it would be more acceptable to a black audience. This book was not written with the color of a skin in mind but to a wide audience whether it be black or white. on the issue of Fornication & its understanding. I wrote this book truly geared toward the young upcoming adults who will be leading this country & this world soon. I would appreciate the views of this audience on the question of what color of person should be placed on the cover of a book.

Let me know how you are supporting AALBC through using Libro.fm? What book are you listening to? For November my selection is The Black Count.

Hello I know the environment is endanger so 12 years ago i made a wind up clock charge cellphones I went across Canada and America trying to have it completed and no one would help And i became homeless and wrote the book The man made homeless for making a clock charge a cellphone And no one would publish the book Many sad things happened. i figured out how to make perpetual motion with the device but it cost me my mental health I hope someone can help me get the book published so when people see me homeless they know why it happened Id very much appreciate anyones help Thanks f…

New Guild Survey Reveals Majority of Authors Earn Below Poverty Line"So what does that Federal Poverty Level statistic mean? Given that a single person earning less than $11,670 annually sits below the poverty line, 56% of respondents would qualify, if they relied solely on income from their writing. The survey also indicated that not only are many authors earning little, they are, since 2009, also earning less. Overall, the median writing-related income among respondents dropped from $10,500 in 2009 to $8,000 2014 in 2014, a decline of 24%. The decline came for both full-time and part-time authors with full-time authors reporting a 30% drop in income to $17,500 and part-…

Have any of you been published through, at least, one university press? I wonder especially to Historical Black Colleges, has anyone been published by a press from them. I dare ask, how many of them have a press? The following is an article about that process from one who has experience. Remember to click, read more to see it https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=1879&type=status

Preparing Black Youth For Success. Some Black People Are Involved With Trying To Motivate Black Children Educationally..Except The Church ,Preachers Love Money,Cars,Poverty All Around The Church ,They Do Not Try ,To Help Black Children. The Black Football Players Trying To Speak To Politicians About Unarmed Black Males Gunned Down By Police. . They Need To Talk About White Police That Have Been ,Fired The Past 6_Years For Being Klan ,KKK,Members..Preparing Black Children For Success Book By Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu..

Black Representation & Self Interpretation: Owning and Controlling Our Images and Spaces. Join The Conversation TODAY 1:30 p.m. Eastern: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83056672690?pwd=Q2t6U2R2NGx1SW4yUk1tajJzRVFtUT09 Meeting ID: 830 5667 2690 Passcode: 1LKDDX #bookfair #books #readingblack

Whilst reading the autobiography of Leroi Jones, Baracka himself mentioned a David Henderson poem that he was very impressed with. The poem itself was based on the 1964 Impressions hit, Keep on Pushing. Anyway, Henderson was a co founder of the Black Arts movement and I was 'aware' of his name but couldn't quite place him. After some minor research, the penny dropped. He wrote a biography on Jimi Hendrix ( which I've just ordered) and De Mayor of Harlem. I think he was partly responsible for the 1968 book, Black Fire: an Anthology of Afro American Writing. My first port of call was here for some information on Henderson but I couldn't seem to find him in…

Lowell Hawthorne, President of Golden Crust, whose remarkable life was chronicled in his memoir, The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business, tragically took is own life Saturday. I met this Brother earlier in the year at a party for his publisher Akashic books. My initial take was a low key brother with a pleasant demeanor. I would never have known he was worth tens of millions of dollars. His business story was quite remarkable.

Hello AALBC friends! I am Amber T. Bogan, a wife, mother, corporate professional, real estate investor, self-proclaimed business enthusiast, and newly published children's author! Born from my passion for empowerment, I am excited to present to the world my debut title, Little Miss is Destined for Greatness! What originally started as a simple affirmation between my daughter and I has blossomed into something so much bigger than the two of us and I am honored to be on this journey! Description: Early on, children begin looking to us to help them carve out a place in this world. Affirming that they have the right to dream big will e…

Event Title: Detroit Book City’s 2nd Annual African-American Family Book Expo 2018 Event Date: Sunday, February 25, 2018 Event Time: 12 noon - 5pm Event Location: Northwest Activities Center, 18100 Meyers Road, Detroit, MI 48235 Website: www.detroitbookcity.com Contact/ Phone: Janeice R. Haynes, 248-209-6880 Join us at Detroit Book City’s 2nd Annual African-American Family Book Expo 2018! This exciting one-day event is designed to preserve literacy in our community – at the family level. Enjoy a winter afternoon with over 60 talented, Black Indie Authors of adult & children books. KIDZONE...HOT Popcorn, $6 soul food lunch, photo backdrop, LOTS OF DOO…

We. Cast. A. Shadow ,Sheds A. Light. On the. Violence. We. Inherit - The. Things. We. Do. For. Our. Family. Book By. Maurice. Ruffini./

Read AALBC.com's September 27, 2017 eNewsletter for to learn about our latest bestselling books, the current result of my research on Top 25 Black-Owned Sites, new books, and more.

Brenda Jackson bestselling author of more than 100 novels (yes 100!): we have 53 of 'em!

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Author Name - Joseph O. Adegboyega-Edun Title - Trazer: Kids of Stolen Tomorrow ISBN-13: 978-0692995037 Pub Date: 10/18/2017 Synopsis: The Dystopian Thriller that Will Pull You Into a Breathtaking World of Yoruba Mythology and Magic! It's the year 93 O.O., and Dara Adeleye is a student with a bright future and her life figured out. That is, until a chance encounter with a mysterious child changes everything. Dara lives in a world shaped by the Miracle of Elegua, an intervention by the gods in the fate of an Earth on the brink of collapse decades before she was born. Exceptionally gifted as an artist, her day-to-day attentions are on ex…

The Juju Girl Author – Nikki Marshall ISBN: 979-8718041026 Publication Date: March 4, 2021 The Great Storm of 1893 evicts 15-year-old Gabbie from her small-town home in Buras near the banks of the Mississippi and thrusts her into the world of New Orleans’ Creole high society. It's a world of debutantes, extravagant balls, and handsome young men in uniforms, and a city steeped in superstition, mystery, and magic. The the city counts conjurers, holy men, and practitioners of dark spiritual arts among its most honored denizens. It’s here Gabbie learns she has a paranormal Gift, but she doesn’t want it. Will that change when mysterious and danger…

Amazon started by getting indie authors to give them exclusive rights to sell their books, but now major publishers are doing the same thing?! I recently added 1,500 audiobooks to AALBC that you can listen to on any platform -- not just a Kindle. Here you may find the newest audiobooks. However, Trevor Noah's audiobook, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is only available from Amazon. If is a short sited strategy to give Amazon exclusive rights to sell a book. Let's see how that work for them. I already know consumers are increasingly dissatisfied with Amazon. But then again major publishers have never been known t…

This interview originally aired on May 25, 2010. Today, 4 years later, my opinions about Facebook have changed, becoming less favorable. Fours years ago you could reach many of your "fans," on Facebook, by simply posting a link to your website. Today with almost three times as many "fans" I do not have the same level of engagement when posting links to my website. Even buying an advertisement (a small $20 ad) does not yield the same reach I could get four years ago with 1/3 the "followers." It is clear that Facebook has diminished engagement for content containing links pointing to external website. This is based upon years of collecting data and careful…