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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. 2017 Phillis Wheatley Award Winning Books

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    Troy

  2. Videos: Saluting Go on Girl Book Club, Harlem Book Fair and More!

    Troy,
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    Troy

  3. Black Unity From Fantasy To Reality.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 861 views
    Troy

  4. Hi All I'm new to this forum.. My name is Mercy

    Guest Mercy,
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    • 643 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Wisconsin's Last Black-owned Bookstore Closed

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
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    Troy

  6. Book Review Request: Of Captivity & Kings

    E.Y. Laster,
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    • 984 views
    E.Y. Laster

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

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    Troy

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

    Dr T,
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    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    harry brown,
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    • 939 views
    harry brown

  10. Would you Sacrifice to Support an Indie Bookseller?

    Troy,
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    Troy

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

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    • 674 views
    Troy

  12. Book Review Request: Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety

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    B.L. Brown

  13. Interested in a Book Review

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    • 1.1k views
    L. Cox

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

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    • 3.1k views
    B.L. Brown

  15. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
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    • 726 views
    Troy

  16. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
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    • 870 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
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    Troy

  18. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.8k views
    HICKSON

  19. Black Book Websites Going, Going....

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 4.6k views
    Troy

  20. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
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    • 4.4k views
    Troy

  21. I request to have a book review

    Guest Eric F Wortham,
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    • 707 views
    Guest
    Guest

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

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    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  24. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

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

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

    Troy,
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    • 1.1k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 20.5k views
    Troy

  27. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
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    • 1.6k views
    Troy

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

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

  29. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

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

  30. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

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

  32. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 992 views
    Troy

  33. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 922 views
    Troy

  34. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 910 views
    Troy

  35. 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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

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

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

  38. Book Review request

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

  39. Long Shot, Craig. Hodges.

    harry brown,
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    • 870 views
    harry brown

  40. Fall Book Fest

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    brokenbarspublishing

  41. I would like a review.

    Guest Mattye /crowley,
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    • 669 views
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    Guest

  42. GHETTOHEAT

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.4k views
    HICKSON

  43. In Depth Opinions & Feedback

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

  44. 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

  45. Shaun Randol Publisher of African Writers

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    • 962 views
    Troy

  46. GHETTOHEAT CELEBRATES 14 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

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    HICKSON

  47. HICKSONHOTNESS SHOW!

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    HICKSON

  48. GAY PRIDE MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
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    HICKSON

  49. BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
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    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  50. SUMMER READING 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
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    HICKSON

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