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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. Wisconsin's Last Black-owned Bookstore Closed

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  2. Book Review Request: Of Captivity & Kings

    E.Y. Laster,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    E.Y. Laster

  3. GHETTOHEAT: LONDON REIGN

    HICKSON,
    • 8 replies
    • 2.9k views
    HICKSON

  4. Interesting Photos of Black Authors from Events Over the Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  5. Phillis Wheatley Award Finalist-White Man's Disease

    Dr T,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Troy

  6. GHETTOHEAT: TANTRUM

    HICKSON,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
    HICKSON

  7. W.E.B. Dubois,The Talented Tenth.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 957 views
    harry brown

  8. Get on Your Large Book Cover on Every AALBC.com Page

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 693 views
    Troy

  9. GHETTOHEAT: HARDER

    HICKSON,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    HICKSON

  10. GHETTOHEAT: SONZ OF DARKNESS

    HICKSON,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.3k views
    HICKSON

  11. Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo

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

  12. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 741 views
    Troy

  13. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 902 views
    harry brown

  14. GHETTOHEAT: CONVICT'S CANDY

    HICKSON,
    • 5 replies
    • 3k views
    HICKSON

  15. AALBC mourns the loss of “Prodigy” of Mobb Deep

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

  16. Interested in a Book Review

    L. Cox,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    L. Cox

  17. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    HICKSON

  18. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 4.4k views
    Troy

  19. I request to have a book review

    Guest Eric F Wortham,
    • 0 replies
    • 723 views
    Guest
    Guest

  20. Librarian of Congress Names Tracy K. Smith U.S. Poet Laureate for 2017-2018

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Troy

  21. Community Book Center, New Orleans, LA, Fighting to Stay Open

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  22. Submissions Deadline: 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  23. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  24. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

    Guest CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD,
    • 0 replies
    • 943 views
    Guest
    Guest

  25. Eddie Green The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer

    Guest Elva D. Green,
    • 1 reply
    • 898 views
    Troy

  26. Would you Sacrifice to Support an Indie Bookseller?

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 5.4k views
    Troy

  27. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  28. Book review request -"College Life 101: Freshman Orientation"

    Guest J.B. Vample,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  29. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    Troy

  30. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 925 views
    Troy

  31. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 938 views
    Troy

  32. Book review request of The Weeping Time:Memory and the Largest Slave Auction In American History

    Guest Anne C. Bailey,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  33. AALBC.com Mourns the Loss of Novelist Rosalyn McMillan

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

  34. Book Review for Historical Creative NonFiction "More Than A Fraction"

    Imagination Lunchbox LLC,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Imagination Lunchbox LLC

  35. Book Review request

    Guest Sabin Prentis,
    • 0 replies
    • 848 views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. Long Shot, Craig. Hodges.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 890 views
    harry brown

  37. Fall Book Fest

    brokenbarspublishing,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    brokenbarspublishing

  38. I would like a review.

    Guest Mattye /crowley,
    • 0 replies
    • 678 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. In Depth Opinions & Feedback

    Guest My Sister's Keeper,
    • 1 reply
    • 791 views
    Troy

  40. A Study of Numbers: A Guide to the Constant Creation of the Universe by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.8k views
    Delano

  41. Shaun Randol Publisher of African Writers

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 990 views
    Troy

  42. GHETTOHEAT CELEBRATES 14 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    HICKSON

  43. HICKSONHOTNESS SHOW!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    HICKSON

  44. GAY PRIDE MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    HICKSON

  45. BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  46. SUMMER READING 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  47. Buffalo Soldiers.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 959 views
    harry brown

  48. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

    Guest Rhonda M. Lawson,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Guest
    Guest

  49. Sophfronia Scott presents "The Art of Memoir"

    Guest Writing for Your Life,
    • 0 replies
    • 722 views
    Guest
    Guest

  50. Creating Ethnocentric Academic Books

    Guest Edo Cherokee,
    • 0 replies
    • 627 views
    Guest
    Guest

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