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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From: The family of Gloria Jean Watkins (bell hooks) and William Morrow Publishers Date: December 15, 2021 The family of Gloria Jean Watkins is deeply saddened at the passing of our beloved sister on December 15, 2021. The family honored her request to transition at home with family and friends by her side. William Morrow Publishers mourns the loss of bell hooks, New York Times best-selling author, cherished teacher, public intellectual, cultural critic and visionary. Gloria was a native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Born September…

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Jeffery Renard Allen's new novel, Song of the Shank is reviewed by Mitchell S. Jackson the review appears on the cover of the June 22nd New York Times Book Review.

Despite debuting with mixed reviews, Go Set a Watchman brakes records by selling 1.1 million copies in less than two weeks. From the publisher From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories fr…

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Break The Silence Surrounding Black Women Experience Of Violence. From Black Feminist Perspective . Therapist ,Researchers ,Activist And Survivors . Book By Carolyn West...

Yes. Kenlyn and I were working on getting the Audio files uploaded to Authors Republic. I am excited to announce that Auntie I Don't Want You to Be Married is currently under review by Authors Republic and soon to be available for purchase. I want to thank @Troy for his timely information. and will update you as the process moves forward. I'm fired up and ready to go!!!!

This book is not only controversial, provocative, and intelligent, it is also thought-provoking and relatable. The book is set in the city of Chicago, and is meant to spark important conversations, especially among the African American Community. Here is the synopsis for the book: When Journey Banks has a near death experience, she gets a revelation from an unlikely stranger that will change the course of her life forever. With her new compass for living, she eventually discovers that a choice she made caused a butterfly effect that crashed into the lives of everyone she knows. As each person is touched by the waves of Journey's decision, now they are al…

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The House at Sugar Beach: Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child -- a common custom among the Liberian elite. Eunice, a Bassa girl, suddenly became known as "Mrs. Cooper's daughter." For years …

Ghetto Tony And White Trash Tina – Free For Christmas Tony Kelly and Tina Watson were respectively known as Ghetto Tony and White Trash Tina when they attended a high school for academically gifted students years earlier because of their poor economic and social status compared to their classmates. Years later the two ex-classmates from opposite sides of life met at a high school reunion and found that they were both in the illegal drug business. Tony and Tina decided to join forces and try to boost each other’s drug influence by moving Tony’s urban oriented drugs into Tina’s rural area and Tina’s country cooked methamphetamine drugs into Tony’s city customer base.…

I was greatly impressed by Mr. Johnson's sobering and honest presentation of the problems we face as authors after seeing him on a C-Span panel a week or two ago. I was impressed enough to join your forum. You just cut through the bullshit and hype. It also forced me to try to come up with a solution for a number of problems. Here is one I offer up here for discussion and critiques. For black authors facing low literacy rates in their communities, the suggestions I make here may be the new face of writing. Not necessarily the graphic novel. Comic books perhaps could have done the job but comics can't here. Why? Because many individual black comic artists and writer…

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Milton Davis returns with another intriguing collection of stories with Visions: Volume Two. Davis has gathered previously published and new tales that range from historical fiction to horror, resulting in an entertaining and insightful look into his creativity. Prepare yourself for a creative journey you won’t forget! Visions Volume Two is the ultimate Milton Davis sampler. Inside is literally a smorgasbord of his best worlds with enchanting and fun characters. The stories provide a glimpse into his creative worlds, which snares the reader, grasping and holding them until the story ends. It’ll be hard to catch a breath, as the next story begins and does the s…

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The House at Sugar Beach: Helene Cooper Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child -- a common custom among the Liberian elite. Eunice, a Bassa girl, suddenly became known as "Mrs. Cooper's daughter." For years …

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59th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬: Nella Larsen was the first AA woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing Died March 30, 1964

Hi AALBC, I work in the marketing department of Casemate IPM, the US distributor for Ayebia Clarke Publishing. Ayebia specializes in African and Caribbean literature. I would be pleased if you would consider their book, Nervous Conditions, for review. Title: Nervous Conditions Author: Tsiti Dangarembga ISBN: 9780954702335 Pub Date: December 2004 Blurb: A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft neg…

Shaun is a publisher of African writers. The book Forbidden Fruit, shown in the video preview image below, was featured in our last eNewsletter. The crazy thing is that before I met Shaun in person (we first connected online) I assumed he was a Black woman! I guess I that was just pure unadulterated prejudice. At any rate, I was no less impressed by his work. In fact, this is one of best video videos I shot in a long time. Well first I broke down and purchased a microphone so much of the background noise present in my earlier videos is not present. But the main reason is that Shaun presented so well. I did not have to edit a second out of the video--this wa…

Check out THE TEA book club's reading list. They create interesting video of all of their book club discussions. I'll be working with them to help share the content. The folks behind the scenes really care about the subject and the video are high quality. Out goals overalp so I'll be working to help spread the word :-) _____________________ Sometimes I think the conversations on our discussion forum might make make interesting videos given the range of opinions. Logistically it would be a challenge just because of geography. We could do an online video, but I wonder if the dynamic of what we write could translate to video. Then …

The book club I have been working with The Tea actually selected Tayari's novel An American Marriage for the February Reading list, for which the topic was romance. The video below showed the selection process. The book club's discussion has taken place and I'm a guest participant. That video will be published later this month. I'm hoping the fantastic attention generated by being an Oprah selection will draw more attention to The Tea's Videos. The video below shows the selection process. Basically The Tea shoots three videos for each month's selection. The selection process (the video below), the get to know the author video (these videos are…

From Authors Publish “These publications accept creative nonfiction, including personal essays and memoir. Most of these outlets accept other genres also, like fiction and nonfiction. A few also publish translations and artwork. All of them pay writers, from token to pro rates, and are listed in no particular order.”

In New Novel, Award-Winning Author Louis-Philippe Dalembert Explores Racist Violence from Multiple Perspectives Winner of the 2020 French Voices Grand Prize in Fiction for The Mediterranean Wall follows with Milwaukee Blues Shortlisted for 2021 Prix Goncourt, New Novel Receives Albertine Publishing Grant “Superb”—Le Monde Contacts: Scott Manning, scott@scottmanningpr.com, 603-491-0995 Abigail Welhouse, abigail@scottmanningpr.com, 332-203-3423 Digital review copies available via Edelweiss. Print and digital review copies available on request. Author available for virtual interviews and events. “For years, Louis-Philippe Dalembert ha…

The Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, has woken from his slumber. He posted on Facebook, “Sadly, Daylight Saving Time is coming to an end yet again.” Such an important issue in the overall scheme of things. Thank you for your insight. Now he is proposing a bill to stop federal dollars from going to colleges that enable anti-American terrorist supporters. What the hell does that mean? How do demonstrations at Universities enable terrorist supporters? We have Nazis marching in Florida and you and the Governor are silent. I asked him to name the groups. No response. This is dangerous because Republicans can use this to affect voting from young peop…

Anyone want to make a story or create something involving Kang? And maybe not Kang but a character like him? ARTICLE TITLE Jonathan Majors' Response Over Marvel’s New Kang-less Plan for the MCU Is Heartbreaking Stephanie Holland August 1, 2024 The official announcement that “Avengers 5” will now be titled “Doomsday” and that Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the franchise to play the villainous Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom has put the final nail in the coffin of Kang the Conqueror. Following the lackluster reception to “Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” there were questions about whether Kang and his variants were interesting enough to be the Marv…

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http://thebooklook.com/photo/rally-for-marcus-books-save-marcus-books-country-s-longest A couple months ago, the building that the iconic bookstore, Marcus Books, shares was behind in payments. Although they were able to pay 5 days after the due date, a court let speculators buy it before the 5 days. The court extended time to the speculators, but didn't give Marcus Books an appropriate 5 day extension. An associate of Marcus Books is supplying $1.64 million to purchase the building back.

This was a project I've been talking to a number of people about. Deliberately choosing to make a book a NY Times Bestseller. I joined others in a national effort to place Victoria Christopher Murray's new novel, Forever an Ex (Touchstone, June 17, 2014), onto the NY Times Best-selling books list. Like opening weekend for a film, the date surrounding a book's publication are very important, specially the week before and the week after are crucial. We are trying to generate as many sales as possible up until Saturday June 21st. The book is available at where book are sold. Here are some links I recommend: MahoganyBooks: http://aalbc.it/4evermb…

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Name of Book: BLACK CYANIDE / white pill Author: Anonymous From: TRANS(form)ed Press, Boise, Idaho Proposed Publication Date: February 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-734-1079-4-4 Looking for a book review from AALBC: SYNOPSIS: A hundred pages. A hundred chapters. A hundred years. Concise but ambitious, BLACK CYANIDE / white pill is raw America swallowed whole‒to flower or shatter‒or both. The inimitable coming-of-age tale of Amos Sideways, his beloved mother once a slave, BLACK CYANIDE / white pill grapples with race, love, & religion, for a complete century, from the Deep South to …

This came to me in an email from the American Booksellers Association. They host a weekly Zoom conference "Coffee Break." It strikes me as absurd that an organization purportedly advocating from booksellers would expressly prohibit conversation about boycotting the monopoly Amazon. Damn, it should be the ONLY freaking thing they are talking about! But Amazon can bring a publisher to it's knees by refusing to carrier their books. Remember how Amazon pimp-slapped Macmillan. Antitrust Guidelines The booksellers in the room (virtual or otherwise) are, by definition, competitors. This means that under the law, they are prohibited from di…

Layla spent the first eight years of her life in a loving home with her grandparents. That comfort all ended once welfare caught up with her mother who was still receiving food benefits for her. After moving to her mothers’ home, the dysfunctional relationships continued for years. Layla was abused emotionally, physically, and sexually. She looked to her mother for love and protection but never found it. Layla’s mom, Val, often told her she looked like a boy and would never amount to anything just like her dad. Layla began connecting with the wrong men for what she thought was love. Several of those relationships produced children and ended just as quickly as they began. …

CENTO Series episode 89 Poetry lovers, enjoy the centos in episode 89, links to far more poetry is in the page linked below

I'm looking for some good books or literary work from the Harlem Renaissance to read and I'm in desperate need of some help. I've already read Zora Hurston's stuff. Same for Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes, along with a pretty good anthology called Ebony Rising. I don't know where else to start though. Any more suggestions though?

Things You Can’t Tell Mama - Your Best Friend’s Mother – Free Limited Time Everyone has done something at one point in their lives when they think – I can’t tell mama about this. Twenty-three year old Ravon Prior comes home for a two week visit from Chicago and had a “Things I Can’t Tell Mama” experience with forty-four year old Quinella Jordan, the mother of his best friend. Ravon finds himself involved in a heated sexual relationship that he never imagined would ever happen. Ravon feels like he is almost addicted to Quinella and even an unexpected torrid encounter with a woman from his past doesn’t break their strange attraction. Ravon and Quinella’s secret fling is d…

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