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

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.4k views
    B.L. Brown

  2. Selling my First Book Directly in Many Years

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 769 views
    Troy

  3. Tupac Shakur .

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 957 views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

  5. GHETTOHEAT PRODUCTIONS

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views
    HICKSON

  6. Black Book Websites Going, Going....

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 4.8k views
    Troy

  7. Black Book Websites Need Love More Than Ever

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 4.5k views
    Troy

  8. I request to have a book review

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

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  11. Celebrate reading at the New Orleans Literary Takeover!

    Guest Rhonda M. Lawson,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Guest
    Guest

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 12 replies
    • 21k views
    Troy

  14. 2 for 1 Summer Book Promotion Special

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

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

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

  16. "TURN ON, TUNE OUT" REVIEW REQUEST

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

  17. Black-Unity! Terrance Amen.

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Troy

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

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

  19. Becoming Dad, Journey To Fatherhood.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  20. In My Daddys Arms,I Am Tall.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 984 views
    Troy

  21. INVITATION // Toronto Urban Book Expo 2017

    Guest Kya Publishing,
    • 1 reply
    • 962 views
    Troy

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

    Guest Anne C. Bailey,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

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

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.8k views
    Troy

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

    Imagination Lunchbox LLC,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Imagination Lunchbox LLC

  25. Book Review request

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

  26. Long Shot, Craig. Hodges.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 950 views
    harry brown

  27. Fall Book Fest

    brokenbarspublishing,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    brokenbarspublishing

  28. I would like a review.

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

  29. GHETTOHEAT

    HICKSON,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.6k views
    HICKSON

  30. In Depth Opinions & Feedback

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

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

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.9k views
    Delano

  32. Shaun Randol Publisher of African Writers

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  33. GHETTOHEAT CELEBRATES 14 YEARS OF HOTNESS!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    HICKSON

  34. HICKSONHOTNESS SHOW!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    HICKSON

  35. GAY PRIDE MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
    HICKSON

  36. BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  37. SUMMER READING 2017: GHETTOHEAT STYLE!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

  38. Samson Dempsey the Midtown Player Turns Novelist

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  39. Buffalo Soldiers.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    harry brown

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

    Troy,
    • 4 replies
    • 4.5k views
    Elva D. Green

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

    bsrealtalk,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
    bsrealtalk

  42. Sophfronia Scott presents "The Art of Memoir"

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

  43. Creating Ethnocentric Academic Books

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

  44. Go On Girl! Book Club Celebrates Authors in Chicago

    Guest Lynda M. Johnson,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  45. A Very Good Indie Author Publishing Panel

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.9k views
    Guest
    Guest

  46. Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Among Recommended Books for May 2017

    Troy,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  47. Documentary Film on Black writers of fantasy, horror and science fiction

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 933 views
    Troy

  48. Black Girl Dreaming.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  49. Book review request: Forbidden Fruit by Stanley Gazemba

    Guest Shaun Randol,
    • 1 reply
    • 984 views
    Troy

  50. The Youngest Marcher.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 998 views
    harry brown

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