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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. Book Review Request - Comes to The Light: Learning About the Entangled Families of Edgefield, South Carolina

    Donya,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Donya

  2. LOL...You can't make this stuff UP!!

    Dee Miller,
    • 0 replies
    • 922 views
    Dee Miller

  3. Traveling Soul- Life Of Curtis Mayfield.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 877 views
    harry brown

  4. AALBC.com Website Upgrade - What Would You like to see?

    Troy,
    • 32 replies
    • 6.2k views
    Delano

  5. THE TEA Book Club

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  6. Memoirs Of A Public Servant,Charleston Hartfield.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  7. Book Review Request- A Life of Turmoil: The Short Stories of Ana Franken, 08150017

    Guest by Johanna Sparrow,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  8. Unpublished

    Guest,
    • 0 replies
    • 903 views
    Guest
    Guest

  9. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST-Trampling of the Weeds

    Guest Lajuanda Mitchell,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  10. Book review request—THE HOUSE OF ERZULIE by Kirsten Imani Kasai

    Guest Rosalie Morales Kearns,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  11. Read AALBC.com's September 27, 2017 eNewsletter​​​​​​​

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  12. Running Scared

    Guest Robert Leon Davis,
    • 0 replies
    • 644 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Image Award Call for Literary Submissions - Deadline Oct. 6, 2017

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  14. Two Fascinating Books Explore Ugandan history and culture

    Guest Christopher Conte,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Guest
    Guest

  15. Actual Solutions to Black Problems - New Book

    TSegal,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    TSegal

  16. A B C'S Of Blackness.,Neeta Black.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 779 views
    harry brown

  17. Gwendolyn Brooks,Religious Allusion .

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  18. What happens when honeysuckles fall?

    Guest Carmen Hendrix,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Four Formerly Incarcerated Women Collaborate on a New Novel

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  20. Bestseller Seal has a typo....argh!

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2k views
    MAFOOMBAY

  21. AYE, YO, SON: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 979 views
    HICKSON

  22. GHETTOHEAT FLASH: 5

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    HICKSON

  23. Children’s Africana Book Awards

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 812 views
    Troy

  24. J. Tremble's novel Secrets of a Housewife, is no a Movie on BET

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 3.3k views
    Troy

  25. Children's Book Festival 2017

    Melica Niccole,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
    Melica Niccole

  26. White Privilege dispelled

    Guest Daren Williams,
    • 0 replies
    • 979 views
    Guest
    Guest

  27. Book Review Request -"An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones"

    Guest Wendy Jones,
    • 0 replies
    • 952 views
    Guest
    Guest

  28. Book Review Request - Comes to The Light: Learning About the Entangled Families of Edgefield, South Carolina

    Donya,
    • 0 replies
    • 960 views
    Donya

  29. Please Review Bold, Brave and Courageous: A NO FEAR Success Guide for Teen Girls

    Guest Wyjuana Montgomery,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. Idris Elba will Direct a film Based upon the novel Yardie

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 987 views
    Troy

  31. The Black Russian: Vladimir Alexandrov

    MAFOOMBAY,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  32. Beyoncé’s New 600+ Book. Did you know about it?

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  33. Check out a Great Video From the Last Black Pack Party

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 802 views
    Troy

  34. Sharing News About My Book/Interviews

    Elva D. Green,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Elva D. Green

  35. Book Review Request: Love Is Not Black or White (Author Mary Rodwell)

    Guest Mary Rodwell,
    • 0 replies
    • 829 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Book Review Request- Hidden Commonalities: Identifying Cultural Similarities Among Africans and African Descendants

    Guest Saye Carrie,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. Kimberla Lawson Roby at the South West Florida Reading Festival

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
    Troy

  39. Conversation with Internationally Renowned Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Guest Gail Norris,
    • 0 replies
    • 733 views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. Connie "Cynique" Divers with the You Go Girl Bookclub

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Cynique

  41. Book Review Request: The Eve of Our September

    Guest Sharee Barlow,
    • 0 replies
    • 710 views
    Guest
    Guest

  42. “Uninformed men make unsafe leaders.”

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  43. July Newsletter Showcases the Best of the Black Literature

    Troy,
    • 9 replies
    • 2k views
    B.L. Brown

  44. She Turned Tricks at Age 11...

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  45. GHETTOHEAT EATS!

    HICKSON,
    • 2 replies
    • 2k views
    HICKSON

  46. Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo

    Guest Alicia Wiggins,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    admin

  47. Sisters In The Wilderness.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 848 views
    harry brown

  48. Book Review Request - Yet I Still Stand

    Guest D. Grace Jackson,
    • 0 replies
    • 721 views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. AALBC.com's Last MIllion Visitors Came From....

    Troy,
    • 11 replies
    • 4.9k views
    Troy

  50. Where is E. LYNN HARRIS on this list? He outsold just about every black author in america. You seem to never give him any props.

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

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