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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.

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    CDBurns

  2. 4th Annual African American Children's Book Fair

    Guest Reginald F. Lewis Museum,
    • 1 reply
    • 927 views
    Troy

  3. THE GREEN PASTURES,

    harry brown,
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    • 719 views
    harry brown

  4. 23th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth Wallace Thurman author of "The Blacker the Berry..."

    Troy,
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    • 784 views
    Troy

  5. Video Intro to AALBC.com's Website

    Troy,
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    • 4.3k views
    Guest
    Guest

  6. White Man's Disease

    Dr T,
    • 18 replies
    • 3.9k views
    Dr T

  7. Writing Workshop Coming to Ohio March 2016

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  8. Brown Girls Books Celebrates Two Years

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.7k views
    Chasitie

  9. RELATIONSHIPS,WHY MEN CHEAT/

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 814 views
    harry brown

  10. 15th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth Black Issues Book Review

    Troy,
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    • 1k views
    Troy

  11. Looking for feedback on Events Listing

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 806 views
    CDBurns

  12. Ethereal Voices

    Guest Shona Jabang,
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    • 617 views
    Guest
    Guest

  13. Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters

    Guest Jill Snyder,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views
    Chasitie

  14. Book celebrating 1st Black President

    Chasitie,
    • 37 replies
    • 7.1k views
    Cynique

  15. 7th Day of #BlackHistoryMonth The QBR 100 Essential Black Books

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
    Troy

  16. Stripper's Twitter Tale turned Feature Flick

    Mel Hopkins,
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    • 2.9k views
    CDBurns

  17. Ethereal Voices

    Guest Shona Jabang,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Guest
    Guest

  18. Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement

    Troy,
    • 4 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

  19. Amazon to Open Hundreds of Physical Book Stores!

    Troy,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.4k views
    Troy

  20. Racist Book About a White Teacher and Black Students

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.5k views
    Troy

  21. CHAOS OR COMMUNITY/

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 869 views
    harry brown

  22. Another Racist Book for Children Published #whatelseisnew

    Troy,
    • 10 replies
    • 5k views
    CDBurns

  23. Mrs.

    Guest Davis,
    • 1 reply
    • 989 views
    Troy

  24. Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, NY Jan 16, 2016

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
    Rochelle Spencer

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

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.9k views
    Troy

  26. The Impact of Prior Knowledge or Lack thereof on Writing

    Shirley Gale,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
    Shirley Gale

  27. Writers of colour pander to the white woman

    Troy,
    • 28 replies
    • 7.1k views
    Cynique

  28. Part Three: Diversity is Not Racism, The Difficult Road through Publication for Three Mermaid Sisters

    Shirley Gale,
    • 0 replies
    • 878 views
    Shirley Gale

  29. African American Literary Tea--THE WRITE STUFF

    Guest Sheila Morris,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  30. National Black Writers Conference Call for Papers & Poetry Cafe Auditions

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.6k views
    Troy

  31. Promote Your Book on AALBC.com for 50 Days!

    Troy,
    • 13 replies
    • 3.1k views
    Troy

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

    Shirley Gale,
    • 0 replies
    • 986 views
    Shirley Gale

  33. Part One: Diversity is not Racism, I Just Wanted Them to Look like Me

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

  34. Buy/Sell your used books with 1-click

    Bookscan,
    • 1 reply
    • 933 views
    Troy

  35. To .99 cents or not .99 cents?

    CDBurns,
    • 9 replies
    • 3.2k views
    Troy

  36. Nkiru Books is Online

    Troy,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.4k views
    CDBurns

  37. 2015 Year End Thank You From Troy

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views
    CDBurns

  38. HALLEUJAH, CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION/

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 820 views
    harry brown

  39. My first urban book

    Guest Tevin Lynn,
    • 1 reply
    • 929 views
    Troy

  40. Marlon James Wins the 2015 Man Booker Prize!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 673 views
    Troy

  41. Limited edition of 500 copies of Walter Mosley New Book!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 869 views
    Troy

  42. Iyanla Vanzant is Disliked by Some -- Who Knew?

    Troy,
    • 8 replies
    • 4.6k views
    CDBurns

  43. The Book Club Portion of AALBC.com is Growing

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 838 views
    Troy

  44. E-Mail Solicitation

    CDBurns,
    • 3 replies
    • 5.7k views
    Guest
    Guest

  45. Stories About 80-Year-Old Bridge Players In The Washington Bridge Unit

    Troy,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views
    Troy

  46. Kimberla Lawson Roby -- What A Career!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 908 views
    Troy

  47. December 2015 eNewsletter

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 5.7k views
    Troy

  48. Your Book on Our Homepage $1 Per Day!

    Troy,
    • 0 replies
    • 935 views
    Troy

  49. Whoopi Goldberg Partners With Book 0f the Month

    Troy,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    Troy

  50. GHETTOHEAT HOTNESS PRESENTS: GHETTOHEAT!

    HICKSON,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    HICKSON

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