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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. Promoting Diversity In Children's Literature

    Shirley Gale,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views
    Shirley Gale

  2. Under One Roof: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training

    Guest Adam Henig,
    • 0 replies
    • 582 views
    Guest
    Guest

  3. HOW TO SOLVE 99 PERCENT OF LIFES PROBLEMS BY DONALD R MCKENNEY

    Guest DONALD R MCKENNEY,
    • 0 replies
    • 836 views
    Guest
    Guest

  4. OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS,,ALICE WALKER

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 904 views
    harry brown

  5. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Her Kind of Man

    Guest Elle Wright,
    • 1 reply
    • 986 views
    Troy

  6. BEFORE COLUMBUS, AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS/

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  7. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST

    Sheryl,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Sheryl

  8. Sambos Double Shuffle: A Nigger Dance

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.9k views
    Troy

  9. 69th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Paule Marshall was born April 9, 1929.  

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 756 views
    Troy

  10. Videos From the 2016 Nat'l Black Writers Conf

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 764 views
    Troy

  11. MORNING GLORY INSPIRATIONS

    Guest WILLEST WASHINGTON,
    • 0 replies
    • 691 views
    Guest
    Guest

  12. Self-Publishing Platforms Are Distributors Not Publishers 

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. What Are You Reading Now?

    Troy,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Dr T

  14. 62nd Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Carolyn M. Rodgers passed April 2, 2010.

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 755 views
    Troy

  15. Zane is a 213 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.2k views
    Troy

  16. GHETTOHEAT HOTNESS PRESENTS: AND GOD CREATED WOMAN!

    HICKSON,
    • 5 replies
    • 3.6k views
    HICKSON

  17. 59th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Nella Larsen Died March 30, 1964

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  18. New book

    Guest Cynthia Amis Dickerson,
    • 0 replies
    • 856 views
    Guest
    Guest

  19. Romance author Brenda Jackson has written more than 100 Novels

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  20. An Even Better Book Promotion Deal - the Large Book Cover

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

  21. "The House that God Built" ($23.95) and "Handfuls of Purpose" ($19.95) - $24

    Guest Handfuls of Purpose,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Guest
    Guest

  22. Ian Randle Publishers from Kingston Jamaica

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  23. VOICE FROM THE PAST

    Cynique,
    • 2 replies
    • 869 views
    Troy

  24. 378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events & More

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 755 views
    Troy

  25. 2016 National Black Writers Conference - Complete Schedule (Final)

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
    Troy

  26. 54th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Writer, Feminist,Toni Cade Bambara March 25, 1939

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 796 views
    Troy

  27. CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 706 views
    harry brown

  28. Children's Book Series book review

    Guest Ines Bustos,
    • 0 replies
    • 807 views
    Guest
    Guest

  29. Book Review Request - Historical Fiction

    Guest Cynthia D. Toliver,
    • 0 replies
    • 621 views
    Guest
    Guest

  30. 51st Day of #BlackHistoryMonth Chinua Achebe Passed March 21, 2013

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 966 views
    Troy

  31. Book Review Request

    Guest Shervine Thompson,
    • 0 replies
    • 756 views
    Guest
    Guest

  32. Chausiku: The Blood of the Clans Book Three

    Guest Pamela E. Cash,
    • 0 replies
    • 620 views
    Guest
    Guest

  33. 50th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald was Lynched

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 3.7k views
    Troy

  34. 48th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Dr. Ben Passed March 19, 2015

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 854 views
    Troy

  35. 47th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Born on this day in 1935

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 925 views
    Troy

  36. Canadian Black History Summit

    Guest Rosemary Sadlier,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Guest
    Guest

  37. New Policy for Book Reviews

    Troy,
    • 8 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Cynique

  38. 45th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Freedom's Journal

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 692 views
    Troy

  39. 44th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Ben Okri, Award Winning Nigerian Poet and Novelist

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 941 views
    Troy

  40. Ladies Who Lunch & Love

    Guest By Nathan Hale Williams,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  41. The Journey to Get the Love You Desire Begins with YOU!

    Guest Willie Muhammad,
    • 0 replies
    • 602 views
    Guest
    Guest

  42. BLACK PRESENCE IN THE BIBLE

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

  43. "It's the Poor Who Face the Savagery of the US 'Justice" System: The Cuban Five talk of their lives within the US working class

    Guest Jim Altenberg,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Guest
    Guest

  44. An Afternoon of Black Books with two Black Book Pioneers - Harlem Event

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 848 views
    Troy

  45. Your Book on two of AALBC.com's most popular pages for 50 Days

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 902 views
    Troy

  46. 35th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: History of Storer College

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 878 views
    Troy

  47. Guest

    Guest B,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.6k views
    CDBurns

  48. 34th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 840 views
    Troy

  49. 33rd Day of #BlackHistoryMonth: From Columbus To Castro: The History Of The Caribbean 1492-1969

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 772 views
    Troy

  50. BLACKS BUILT WHITEHOUSE

    harry brown,
    • 2 replies
    • 926 views
    Troy

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