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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. Christmas In. The. Hood. Nikki Turner

    harry brown,
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    harry brown

  2. Open. Season , Ben. Crump!

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 986 views
    Troy

  3. Book Review Request For New Release - To Find You

    Guest Cerece Rennie Murphy,
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    • 986 views
    Guest
    Guest

  4. Part Two: Diversity is not Racism--Producing Three Beautiful Black Sea Sisters

    Shirley Gale,
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    • 986 views
    Shirley Gale

  5. Review Request

    Guest Amy Watkins,
    • 2 replies
    • 985 views
    MissKorang

  6. AALBC Mourns the Passing of NBA Legend Kobe Bryant

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 985 views
    Troy

  7. Muscadine Wine: A Short Story Collection

    Milton,
    • 1 reply
    • 985 views
    richardmurray

  8. In Search of a Book Buyer: African American Women Top the List

    Troy,
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    • 984 views
    Troy

  9. LEDISI! on THE BOOK LOOK!

    TheBookLook,
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    • 983 views
    TheBookLook

  10. Book Sale

    Ann Bray Smith,
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    • 983 views
    Ann Bray Smith

  11. Netflix Releases Luke Cage (of Marvel Comics) Movie Trailer

    Troy,
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    Troy

  12. O'Shay & Sanaa: Suspense Thriller

    J. Brinkley,
    • 1 reply
    • 982 views
    Troy

  13. Review Requested For Vicenary: A Collection of Black and African Culture Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories

    Guest George Blacken,
    • 1 reply
    • 981 views
    Milton

  14. WALTER MOSLEY - for a benefit evening at Revolution Books

    Troy,
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    • 981 views
    Troy

  15. TEAM GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
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    • 981 views
    HICKSON

  16. Almost 1,000 book reviews have been published by AALBC.com.

    Troy,
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    • 981 views
    Troy

  17. Wildflowers

    Guest Delores Lowe Friedman,
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    • 981 views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Guest Wendy Jones,
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    • 979 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. The Youngest Marcher.

    harry brown,
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    • 979 views
    harry brown

  20. Los Angeles Has Three Black Owned Bookstores

    Troy,
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    • 979 views
    Troy

  21. Manning Marable's Malcolm X Wins Pulitzer!!

    TheBookLook,
    • 0 replies
    • 978 views
    TheBookLook

  22. The Best Selling African American Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 978 views
    Troy

  23. A Juneteenth crossing 250 years of USA aalbc project : Literary Verite

    richardmurray,
    • 3 replies
    • 978 views
    richardmurray

  24. 24 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All

    Troy,
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    • 978 views
    Troy

  25. New Book Club being offered by BLEXIT NJ

    daniellegfny,
    • 1 reply
    • 977 views
    daniellegfny

  26. Black. No. More

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 977 views
    Troy

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

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 977 views
    harry brown

  28. New Book

    kamorris,
    • 0 replies
    • 977 views
    kamorris

  29. Blue Mafia: New Book explores police brutality & federal reform in OH

    Guest Timtolka,
    • 0 replies
    • 976 views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. Libro.fm Sharing 100% of Fees between all Black-owned partner bookstores.

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 976 views
    Troy

  31. Am. I. Ready. For. Christmas. .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 975 views
    harry brown

  32. Discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi on the Black Syllabus

    Troy,
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    • 974 views
    Troy

  33. Namwali Serpell - THE OLD DRIFT, 3/26

    Guest Katy Lasell,
    • 0 replies
    • 974 views
    Guest
    Guest

  34. One Easy Way to Support Black Literature - Amazon.com

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 974 views
    Troy

  35. BOOK-DESERT ROSE,LIFE AND LEGACY OF CORETTA SCOTT KING..

    boitumelo,
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    • 973 views
    boitumelo

  36. Black. Warriors-Buffalo. Soldiers

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 973 views
    Troy

  37. Video: T.R. Simon talks about her new young adult novel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

    Troy,
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    • 972 views
    Troy

  38. 51st Day of #BlackHistoryMonth Chinua Achebe Passed March 21, 2013

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 972 views
    Troy

  39. New Picture Book Oh Brother, Little Brother

    Guest Candid Brandon,
    • 0 replies
    • 972 views
    Guest
    Guest

  40. The. Girl With. The. Louding Voice.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 972 views
    harry brown

  41. President Barack Obama's Reading List

    Troy,
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    • 972 views
    Troy

  42. FLOYD ADAMS DIED,FORMER MAYOR

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 972 views
    harry brown

  43. Random House Launched New Imprint with JAY-Z: Roc Lit 101

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 972 views
    Troy

  44. Daughter of City Sun Publisher starts journalist training program

    Delano,
    • 3 replies
    • 971 views
    Troy

  45. Gay Mega Church Scandal Makes Bestsellers Holiday List

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 971 views
    Troy

  46. Rolling out the New Website Design

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    • 0 replies
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    Troy

  47. Austin African-American Book Festival celebrates activism, empowerment

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 970 views
    Troy

  48. A New Poetry Collection Worth Checking Out

    Troy,
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    • 970 views
    Troy

  49. Book Review Request

    Guest William Carter, Jr.,
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    • 970 views
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    Guest

  50. COVID-19 Corona Virus

    Rodney campbell,
    • 4 replies
    • 970 views
    Rodney campbell

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