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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. Running Scared

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  3. Two Fascinating Books Explore Ugandan history and culture

    Guest Christopher Conte,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Guest
    Guest

  4. Actual Solutions to Black Problems - New Book

    TSegal,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    TSegal

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

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 769 views
    harry brown

  6. Gwendolyn Brooks,Religious Allusion .

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  7. What happens when honeysuckles fall?

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

  8. Four Formerly Incarcerated Women Collaborate on a New Novel

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2k views
    MAFOOMBAY

  10. AYE, YO, SON: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 965 views
    HICKSON

  11. GHETTOHEAT FLASH: 5

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    HICKSON

  12. Children’s Africana Book Awards

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 801 views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 3.3k views
    Troy

  14. Children's Book Festival 2017

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

  15. White Privilege dispelled

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

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

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

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

    Donya,
    • 0 replies
    • 943 views
    Donya

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

    Guest Wyjuana Montgomery,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 976 views
    Troy

  20. The Black Russian: Vladimir Alexandrov

    MAFOOMBAY,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 784 views
    Troy

  23. Sharing News About My Book/Interviews

    Elva D. Green,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Elva D. Green

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

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

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

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

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
    Troy

  28. Conversation with Internationally Renowned Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Cynique

  30. Book Review Request: The Eve of Our September

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

  31. “Uninformed men make unsafe leaders.”

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  32. July Newsletter Showcases the Best of the Black Literature

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

  33. She Turned Tricks at Age 11...

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  34. GHETTOHEAT EATS!

    HICKSON,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.9k views
    HICKSON

  35. Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo

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

  36. Sisters In The Wilderness.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 838 views
    harry brown

  37. Book Review Request - Yet I Still Stand

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

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

    Troy,
    • 11 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  39. 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

  40. Book Review Request for The Kool Kids & The Land Of The Giants

    Guest James Tate,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.7k views
    Guest
    Guest

  41. Black Women, Forgotten Asset.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 872 views
    harry brown

  42. What do you think the state of African American Literature is today?

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.5k views
    HICKSON

  43. Diaspora: Return to Africa

    Guest K.A. Gendo,
    • 0 replies
    • 803 views
    Guest
    Guest

  44. Recovering The Black Female Body.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 780 views
    harry brown

  45. Looking for a good book on the Reconstruction period in America

    Troy,
    • 13 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  46. Book Review Request

    Guest Bianca Williams,
    • 0 replies
    • 757 views
    Guest
    Guest

  47. Book Review Request - Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X

    Maya Morrow,
    • 0 replies
    • 934 views
    Maya Morrow

  48. 26 Bestselling Children’s Book Authors You'll Definitely Love ♥

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  49. Guess Which National Bookstore Chain I'm In?

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 787 views
    Troy

  50. Review request: New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo's debut book A MOONLESS, STARLESS SKY

    Guest Odette Fleming,
    • 0 replies
    • 823 views
    Guest
    Guest

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