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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. Request for a Book Review

    Dr_APearson,
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    • 825 views
    Dr_APearson

  2. Lessons From A Gathering Of Men ~ How Mens Work Is Redefining Masculinity And Improving Mens Lives

    Guest Michael Taylor,
    • 8 replies
    • 2k views
    Coach Michael Taylor

  3. Salvation Song

    LydiaE,
    • 0 replies
    • 917 views
    LydiaE

  4. Rquest for Book Review

    Guest Mandla,
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    • 804 views
    Guest
    Guest

  5. Book Cover Collages

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Troy

  6. A Terrific Bookstore in Tampa's Ybor City, Best Books Rich Treasures 

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.5k views
    Guest
    Guest

  7. Book Review Request: The Enemy's Territory

    Guest Kem Smith,
    • 0 replies
    • 914 views
    Guest
    Guest

  8. Ohio Authors 1st Annual Kickback

    Guest Chanique J,
    • 1 reply
    • 987 views
    Troy

  9. Lola Leroy. Frances Harper.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    harry brown

  10. Video and Images from the 2017 Harlem Literary Brunch

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

  11. 7 Books Win NAACP Image Awards

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 891 views
    Troy

  12. Book Review request

    Guest Co Kane,
    • 0 replies
    • 747 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Children Black Book Fair,Baltimore.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 856 views
    harry brown

  14. Good Old Fashioned Common Sense: Books by J. California Cooper

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  15. Book Review Request: Bulletproof Faith

    Guest NereusMcnair,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  16. Victoria Christopher Murray Celebrates a Writing Career Spanning 20 Years and 27 Novels!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 776 views
    Troy

  17. Bestselling Books for November/December 2016

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 971 views
    Guest
    Guest

  18. It's not a question of bookselling…It's the raising of consciousness

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  19. Book Review Request: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

    Guest Robyn C. Spencer,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  20. "Growing titties takes focus."

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Mel Hopkins

  21. Wreath For Emit Till. Marilyn Nelson.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  22. Agent needed

    Guest Cherese Thomas,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  23. “Daddy and Roger and ’em shot ’em a nigger.”

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  24. Widening the Path: The Importance of Publishing Black Writers

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  25. Fiction by Black Writers: Who are the Readers?

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 846 views
    Troy

  26. The Best Black Books Coming out February 2017

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Troy

  27. Three Black writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature; do you know them?

    Troy,
    • 6 replies
    • 3k views
    Troy

  28. Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival - Author Village

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  29. Black Women are Always so angry - Truth, Excuse or Somthing else

    Guest Dee Miller,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. Answers to Book Industry Questions Posed 17 Years Ago

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    CDBurns

  31. 8 Ways to Be Published and Not Exploited

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  32. Book It Chicago 2017 March Literary Event

    Guest A.D.,
    • 0 replies
    • 690 views
    Guest
    Guest

  33. Can You Identify These Black Writers?

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  34. This might sound bigoted, racist, and homophobic but...

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  35. Book Review Request: Gettin' Down to the "Real" Nitty-Gritty, Life: American Dream or American Nightmare

    Guest Georgia Madison,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  36. The Highest Concentration of Black Owned Bookstores in the United States

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.5k views
    Troy

  37. Book Review Request for 1980s based book entitled "There and Now"

    Guest Abu Amina Salam,
    • 0 replies
    • 902 views
    Guest
    Guest

  38. Book It Chicago 2017 March Literary Event

    Guest Book It Chicago,
    • 0 replies
    • 827 views
    Guest
    Guest

  39. Rare Radio Interview with Thumper!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  40. Radio Interviews with Authors from 1998

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Troy

  41. What A Morning,Christmas With Black Sprituals.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 867 views
    Troy

  42. Amazon's Stranglehold: Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities

    Troy,
    • 19 replies
    • 5.9k views
    mzmina

  43. 3rd Annual Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete 2016

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 2.9k views
    Troy

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

    Guest Elva D. Green,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Troy

  45. December 2016 Newsletter – Great New Books, Articles, and More

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views
    Troy

  46. There is a GREAT New 100% Black Owned Message Board

    Guest The Black Board,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  47. Our November 2016 eNewsletter is out!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  48. An Afternoon With Tracy Chiles McGhee

    Sankofa Books,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Sankofa Books

  49. GHETTOHEAT HOTNESS PRESENTS: CONVICT'S CANDY!

    HICKSON,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.9k views
    HICKSON

  50. The Breakthrough.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 902 views
    harry brown

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