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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: Of Captivity & Kings

    E.Y. Laster,
    • 0 replies
    • 978 views
    E.Y. Laster

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

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

    Dr T,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 932 views
    harry brown

  5. Would you Sacrifice to Support an Indie Bookseller?

    Troy,
    • 22 replies
    • 5.2k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 671 views
    Troy

  7. Book Review Request: Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety

    Guest B.L. Brown,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.9k views
    B.L. Brown

  8. Interested in a Book Review

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

  9. Help Select AALBC.com's New Bestselling Book Seal

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.1k views
    B.L. Brown

  10. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 722 views
    Troy

  11. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 861 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  13. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    HICKSON

  14. Black Book Websites Going, Going....

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 4.6k views
    Troy

  15. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 4.4k views
    Troy

  16. I request to have a book review

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  21. We've lost 197 Black Owned Book Stores in the last few Years

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 20.5k views
    Troy

  22. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

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

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

  24. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

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

  25. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    Guest J.B. Vample,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  27. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 986 views
    Troy

  28. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 914 views
    Troy

  29. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 907 views
    Troy

  30. 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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.6k views
    Troy

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

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

  33. Book Review request

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

  34. Long Shot, Craig. Hodges.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 867 views
    harry brown

  35. Fall Book Fest

    brokenbarspublishing,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    brokenbarspublishing

  36. I would like a review.

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

  37. GHETTOHEAT

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.4k views
    HICKSON

  38. In Depth Opinions & Feedback

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

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

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Delano

  40. Shaun Randol Publisher of African Writers

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 957 views
    Troy

  41. GHETTOHEAT CELEBRATES 14 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    HICKSON

  42. HICKSONHOTNESS SHOW!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    HICKSON

  43. GAY PRIDE MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    HICKSON

  44. BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  45. SUMMER READING 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  46. Samson Dempsey the Midtown Player Turns Novelist

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.3k views
    Troy

  47. Buffalo Soldiers.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 939 views
    harry brown

  48. Authors Let AALBC.com Maintain Your Official Web Presence

    Troy,
    • 4 replies
    • 4.3k views
    Elva D. Green

  49. Oh What Will You Do? Children's Book

    bsrealtalk,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.6k views
    bsrealtalk

  50. Sophfronia Scott presents "The Art of Memoir"

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

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