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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. Guest Danny Holst
    Started by Guest Danny Holst,

    Sir, I request a book review on my debut novel. Pub. date: 8-7-20 ASIN B08FP45D56 / ISBN B08FG8CK5X The Harlem Story, originally written as an integrated, musical screenplay, incorporates R&B, gospel, and Hip Hop song lyrics and ideas from the script. In 1963, JAMES HARRIS and DIANE SMITH, gifted singers at age six, witness the murder of their parents by the Klan outside their Southern church. AUNT MILLIE, age 52, James' mother's religious aunt, flees with the children back inside the chapel. The House of God is set on fire. They are trapped inside, but a deacon arrives to rescue them. The next day, the Klan are arrested. A week later, f…

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  2. Guest GangTales Publication's
    Started by Guest GangTales Publication's,

    From Gang Tales Publications "GangTales Publications is the first publishing company of its kind that is independent and gives its authors 100% ownership of their creative work. GangTales Publications is owned and operated by CEO Stanley E. James II, based out of North Long Beach CA. His mission for the publishing company is to give the streets a voice that America’s national media news outlets do not cover or really given much concern, primarily in our poverty-stricken ghettos around the world. Here on the streets, the middle class and the poor are the majority. We have a voice. Let’s stand together and be heard!"

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  3. Guest Derrick Washington
    Started by Guest Derrick Washington,

    Greetings All, New author interested in getting my book reviewed and guidance. My First Best Friend brings to life the immediate and unshakable bondbetween parent and child, from the point of view of the father. Thissweet book depicts an energetic, fiercely independent, andunapologetically curious little boy and the strong pride the fatherhas in his son. The story explores and celebrates the father/childrelationship, describing his almost childlike enthusiasm for thejourney of parenthood, and his internal tension surrounding a desireto watch his boy grow up and a need to hold on to a childhood thatalready seems fleeting. Derrick Washington …

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  4. The 15-Time AALBC Bestseller, The ISIS Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing, is Back in Stock! @Pioneer1, I know how much you respect the work of Nelly Fuller, Welsing's mentor, so I'll send you a free copy if you don't have one.

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  5. Started by harry brown,

    THE ISIS PAPERS, BOOK ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY BLACK BOOK WEBSITE SAYS...ISIS, THIS IS NOT THE ISIS TERRORIST IN THE MIDDLE EAST ,THE IRAQ REFUGEES ARE FLEEING/THE ISIS PAPERS, BY FRANCES WELSING//THE CHAOS OF RELIGION AND WARS.////

  6. topics Cento Poetry, 12th round Astrology Dates If You Made It This Far -Benjamin Franklin's money pardon... benjamins -Julia Ibbini detailed three dimensional paper craft -Katherine Connell sprite light fashion tech -Do you know what a B movie is ? https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/08/13/2023-rmnewsletter.html

  7. Started by richardmurray,

    Your New Favorite Action Couple Filled With Magic Productions is excited to announce our next project, The Newlyweds: Blood at The Altar. On their wedding day, a couple must battle their guests for their marriage to survive. The film is a proof-of-con…

  8. Started by harry brown,

    The Ancestors, Black Supernatural And Horror. Book By ,Authors,Brandon Massey,Tanarive Due And L A Banks....

  9. Started by harry brown,

    In. A. Interstellar. War. A. New. Weapon. Language. Called. Babel - 17,,Can. Be. Used... Book. By. Samuel. Delany ...

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  10. For the book, Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God Anyway. There was a free ebook give away contest. I still have 8 free ebooks for those interested in entering the contest. To get the free ebook go to my facebook page titled Kleptomaniac Who's Really Robbing God Anyeay at to get the details. In any case, here are the rules. To win a free ebook for Kleptomaniac: Who's Really Robbing God, the first eight people who go to my blog at http://tithenomore.com must read a tithing post and write review comments and thoughts on one or more of the blogs. Then send an email to an email to the author that you have posted a review on the blog site. Send the email email address to fc…

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  11. Guest Ben T. Mel
    Started by Guest Ben T. Mel,

    The first part of an illustrated trilogy of African history will be out March 1st to mark the anniversary of the Victory at Adowa. The Adowa Trilogy of books is a self-published E-Book on African Unity explored through three Emperors (Emperor Tewodros I, Emperor Yohannes IV and Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia) that were vital in the founding of the modern Ethiopian nation, the home of the African Union. Global black history and current states of African descendants throughout the world will be examined from an African perspective throughout the series. Lion of Magdella Synopsis: A visionary, a restorer of order and unity, a bloody tyrant, a nation builder and mod…

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  12. Started by Troy,

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  13. Started by harry brown,

    Assata. Shakur. Talks. About. Being. A. Black. Woman. In. The. Black,Panther. ..Movement....

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  14. Started by Milton,

    The Muscadine Wine cover reveal! Art by Elizabeth Leggett! Muscadine Wine is a collection of stories based on my upbringing in Southwest Georgia. The stories range from contemporary to fantasy fiction and occur in places where I've either lived or visited frequently. It's a labor of love dedicated to the land and the people I call home. Muscadine Wine will be available for preorder in April 2022.

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  15. Started by SymoneSmith,

    My name is Symone Milan Smith Title of the book is Sugar Cane Land Hardback ISBN 13 9781639457526 Date published September 1, 2023 Author Symone Smith Inspires Self-Identification in Children in New Book, “Sugar Cane Land” (wgno.com) Hello readers, my name is Symone Smith. This is my second children's book; I wrote this book to show all children that sometimes adults experience the same things as them. My book tells an amazing story of being different and how it's ok to be different. Nothing is wrong with your skin being dark, splotchy, losing pigmentation, or being fair complexed. The way that you look from your big …

  16. Started by Milton,

    MVmedia Weekend Special: The Amber Adventure Combo! Join Amber's and her friends as she discovers her history, her heritage and her powers! A great series for the young and the young at heart. Get the Amber and The Hidden City hardback and Amber and the Enchanted Sword paperback at a special price. Both books signed by author Milton J. Davis. Amber Adventure Combo

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  20. Ill. Be. There. My. Life. With. The. Four. Tops. Duke. Fakir The. Last,Living. Member. Of. The. Four. Tops. Talk. About. His. Life,Singing. With The. Four. Tops. Four. Tops. Lead. By. Lead. Singer. Levi. Stubbs One. Of. The. Top. 5. Greatest. Singers. To. Sing,,My. Opinion ......

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  21. Started by harry brown,

    Sisters. Experience. Pain. At. Holiday. Time,Mother. Murdered,Innocent,Father. In. Jail. Book. By. Twyla...

  22. My debut novel, Mirrors of Life was released in August of 2019. It's the tale of a young African-American mother who is determined to break the family-cycle of generational welfare and guides her children to avoid the pitfalls of their hardship environment and leap over the systematic roadblocks that confine many to juvenile delinquency. This compelling tale of faith and perseverance leads to intrigue when her spiritually inclined and ambitious son, Derrick, becomes a venture capitalist and attempts to build a civic-minded conglomerate that undercuts the retail and gas prices set by a group of avaricious businessmen led by the narcissistic and callous, Erich …

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  23. Fatherless Black Families ,A Problem That Grows Each Year,Generations Of Black Children With A Father,Involved,In Their Lives .Becoming Father-Journey To Fatherhood,Book By,Leonard Pitts Jr..

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  25. Guest Fatima Shaik
    Started by Guest Fatima Shaik,

    It seems to me that there is a contemporary wave of black satire, drawing from the well of Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison's) and updating it to today. We Cast A Shadow (Maurice Carlos Ruffins) opens as strongly as the Battle Royale complete with humiliation, nudity, and horrifying racial dependencies. The Sellout had all the cadencies of contemporary speech and today's pace with unexpected (seemingly stream of consciousness) scenarios and pitch-perfect class divisions. Both authors were able to sustain these narrators for the entire novels. Do you know of others doing this kind of work? I read really widely--histories to fiction to memoirs and across continents.…

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  26. Started by boitumelo,

    THE BOOK ,THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR IS ABOUT.A BLACK BOY'S FAMILY MOVES INTO A HOUSE THAT WAS USED IN THE UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD...STRANGE AND SCARY THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN..IN 1984 A MOVIE WAS MADE CALLED, HOUSE OF DIES DREAR WITH HOWARD ROLLINS,SHAVAR ROSS,GLORIA FOSTER AND CLARENCE WILLIAMS 111.......

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  27. Started by Slaise,

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  28. Guest Joylynn M. Ross
    Started by Guest Joylynn M. Ross,

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  29. Started by Slaise,

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  30. Guest Eric Obenauf
    Started by Guest Eric Obenauf,

    We are interested in a book review and have advance reader copies (printed or digital) ready to share! Synopsis Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s recent past and near future — starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s. In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Ass…

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  31. Guest Dee Miller
    Started by Guest Dee Miller,

    OK, I find myself having to educate some folk about the alleged 'Angry' Black Women, so decided to write about it. Book title: Are Black Women Always so Angry? Hmmm (Truth, Excuse or Something else) One evening, while I was channel flipping in hopes of finding a comedy, a documentary, a lecture about something positive – anything on the upswing, I heard those words, 'Black women are Always so angry' and that did it for me! The purpose of this book of narrative, non-fictional articles promise to bitch slap you into owning your truth, then apologizing, forgiving, and hugging it out. It will enlighten, educate, answer that burning question that keeps so ma…

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  32. In 1978, Peoples Temple, a Black multiracial church once at the forefront of progressive San Francisco politics, self-destructed in a Guyana jungle settlement named after its white leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. Over 900 people died in the largest religious murder-suicide in American history. The majority of them were Black women from all walks of life. Sikivu Hutchinson, the first African American woman to write a novel about this tragedy, asks: What was their story? "Sikivu Hutchinson's vision of Jonestown, of the real people who left behind despair for what they thought was belief and hope, is a valuable one - h…

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  34. Guest umbrarchist
    Started by Guest umbrarchist,

    Free SF in Project Gutenberg by: Mack Reynolds Black Man's Burden (1619) http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32390/32390-h/32390-h.htm http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25744 This is so old that Malcolm X and MLK could have read it. I bet it would never have gotten published if a black man had written it back then. I didn't run across it until the 70s. I suppose now it might qualify as Blach Retro-Futurism

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  35. My friend has been writing a speculative romance fiction novel for quite some time but she is facing a severe writer’s block at the moment, which is why she wants to hire a professional romance ghostwriter to get the help. She is only looking for the credible and high-quality ghostwriters who are able to write about the speculative romance genre. It will be so helpful if someone can kindly provide the details of the reliable ghostwriter who can provide the quality work and also who can maintain the confidentiality of a client. Kindly provide some useful recommendations.

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  36. topics Cento poetry series , round 16 Bayonetta - super smash bros. collage Lifewriting podcast with Tananarive Due side Steven Barnes, how to write horror Left handed tutorials Sudowoodo in the rainforest for a positive cause If You Made It This Far: Lego salmon, Making the engine to traverse the planets, Haitian fables from Chevelin Pierre, Headscents to provide aroma with artistic flair, Calling all Black Female Photographers to apply for an opportunity https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/06/09/10/2023-rmnewsletter.html

  37. AALBC.com mourns the passing of Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 — March 22, 2013), author of classic novel “Things Fall Apart”

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  38. In my research of top Black websites, I stumbled across a video on The Root, in which Idris mentions he is directing a film on a book that "everybody read," called Yardie. by Victor Headley Well I did not read it, and I figured some of you all have not read it either. If you are into Urban fiction it really sound like something you'd want to check out. The film is in post production and is scheduled to be released in 2018. I'm sure I'll publish a review.

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  39. Started by harry brown,

    Former. First. Lady. Michelle. Obama. ,Is. Working. On,. A. Book. ,Called,Becoming. She. Was. On. Tv. Last. Night. Talking,About. Her. Live. In. The. Whitehouse..Raising,Her,Daughters ,Among. Other. Things..Book. Will. Be. Published. This. Year.......

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  40. Guest Madinah S.
    Started by Guest Madinah S.,

    I’m certain that we can all agree that although supremely rewarding, writing and taking a book to press is extremely challenging, particularly with the decrease in earnings that have plagued the literary industry for greater than a decade past. Thus, one must pose the question, “how are you employing technology to build your audience of readers?” Quick, I have a few questions to ask: 1. Name five Black animated characters. 2. Okay, now, name three Black (and female) animated characters. I’ll wait... You see, a lion’s share of the projects that we develop for O.W. Showe can be traced back to expanding her audience in…

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  41. Started by harry brown,

    My. Vanishing. Country. Book. About The. South In. This. Country . The-Past. Present. And. Future. Book. By. Bakari Sellers. He. Often. Talks-In. C. N. N. News ...

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  42. One World publisher and editor-in-chief Chris Jackson acquired world rights to the two new titles, including audio rights, from Gloria Loomis of the Watkins/Loomis Literary Agency. He will edit both books. Jackson was Coates's editor at Spiegel & Grau when Coates won the 2015 national Book Award for Nonfiction for Between the World and Me. Read the rest of the article at Publishers Weekly

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  43. I don’t remember when I started, but I have the deepest love and appreciation of African-American short stories. I remember when I first picked up Black Voices, compiled by Abraham Chapman in 1968. There was a story in it that I remember to this day, “Summer Tragedy”. An elderly couple took a drive. They were in their 80’s, they were still in love. They were holding hands. They were losing their home, their children had gone, and all they had was each other. So, they drove off of a bridge. Together. In death as in life. I read that story, written in the 1931 by Arna Bontemps, one of the master writers of the Harlem Renaissance, and I shook with feeling, knowin…

  44. Hello AALBC Members! I recently self-published my debut novel, Of Captivity & Kings, the first installment of the historical fiction series. It was inspired by the ancient Kingdom of Kush, migration, the Sao civilization, and the fall of Meroë. Of Captivity & Kings captures a variety of characters involved in the luxury trade, the growing desert climate, religious persecution, and a rising slave trade in 4th Century Africa. I’ve posted some of the information below as well as a brief synopsis and would love to be considered for AALBC’s book review! Thank you in advance for your consideration. Title: Of Captivity & Kings Au…

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  45. Guest Author De'Kari
    Started by Guest Author De'Kari,

    If you are into reading urban fiction / street literature, I hope you will give my books a try.

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  46. Grand Re-Opening of Revolution Books on November 15! The Funds Needed to Get to the Finish Line... Let's Work Together Friends, We are in the final push to re-open Revolution Books on Sunday, November 15! This is going to be a wonderful celebration of the bookstore about the world and for a radically different world -- re-opening in Harlem! Our new address: 437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @ 132nd Street. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the internationally renowned Kenyan novelist, will be flying in for a reading and talk at the Grand Opening, and Andy Zee, spokesperson for Revolution Books, will speak about "Revolution Books and the Emancipation of Humanity." Check b…

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  47. My book The Harlem Renaissance Time Traveler's Diary is available now. The Harlem Renaissance Time Traveler's Diary is a suspenseful time travel story filled with jazz. Visit my website to view my books https://lashondabeauregard.webstarts.com Book Synopsis: West Barrington, a musician from 1926 Harlem, seems to have everything going for him. A job at the most popular nightclub in Harlem, a music career that is taking off, and a girlfriend, Lanna Gold, who's the lead singer of the group Crystal Dream. But when West awakens after falling asleep on the eve of 1927, he realizes that he has been thrown into a world far beyond 1927 after he discov…

  48. Guest Kia Harris
    Started by Guest Kia Harris,

    “A Year to Exhale” by Kia Harris A contemporary romance fiction depicting the trials, tribulations and celebrations of four dynamic women who endeavor to balance professional success with success at love. Mia, Taryn, Tanya, and Winter, are childhood friends who have built a sisterhood that withstands the rest of time. These wildly successful woman, don’t hesitate to make it known that along with their class comes some real swag and a lot of feistiness. Although they desire to have love in their lives, they refuse to settle for less than they know they deserve. After all, they’ve settled in the past and it only resulted in disappointment. …

  49. Started by Troy,

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