Black Literature

No, I am not talking about the questionable activity of send money to strangers. I am talking about using the tools 🛠 available here on AALBC. I just used my Libro.fm membership to send a Mother to be in the Caribbean a gift of my audiobook Auntie I Don’t Want You To Get Married. I would love ❤️ if you considered my work as a gift to give.

Girl. Spreads. The. Joy. Of. Christmas. To. People. . Book. By. -Connie. Shoefield Morrison...

Happy Mothers Day to all for a little discussion What is your favorite book or do you know of any book written by a Black woman while pregnant?

Big. Momma House. For. Holiday. Food. .12, Days. Of. Christmas. Soul,Food. By. Lashonda M. Stewert..

Hello Folks: After three years, I had to close my book storefront upstart in South Jersey. While I miss it, I don't regret closing because, at this stage of my life, I could not wait on an upturn in the market... Anyway, I doubled down on my online store with marketing and social media posts. Outcomes are fair, but still nothing to write about at length. At least not yet. I also challenged myself to attend book fairs in 2025 to vend, market my business, and learn more about the used book/antiquarian market. It was a rewarding endeavor, too! I met some great people in the business, and I have some return venues listed for next year. Anyway, I am still putting …

Throughout the annals of time, everyone from poets to poor men, from scholars to fools have preached, ranted or raved about how strong love is. I agree with the sentiment that love is indeed powerful. In fact, love is perhaps the most potent elixir on the planet, a gift from the Creator. And who is it that can argue about the beauty of love, or dispute the joy of love when it is new. Ahh, when love is new! Throughout the history of mankind, love has withstood the test of time like no other concept known to humans. it has conquered where the sword has failed. It has come through as an agent of change like nothing else before it. Love has been an one-of-an-kind experie…

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Community Book Center, cultural hub of black community, fighting to stay open BY KATY RECKDAHL | Special to The New Orleans Advocate, June 10, 2017 This article is worth reading because it speaks to the fight many are activity engaged in to serve our communities from a cultural perspective. If we all a profit driven corporations from outside our community do this on our behalf we are lost as a people and will suffer more than we already do. This article really raises the question I asked in another post about the viability of a book store focused on Black books; are they desired by enough people in the Black community to make it a available busine…

Say what you will about the blockbuster film Black Panther, love it or hate it, I could care less, you cannot deny it’s brilliance. And that brilliance begins with the emergence of Erik Killmonger. A young man driven, not just by his hatred of the oppressors of black people, but by the animosity of those that live with peace in the private kingdom of Wakanda. I believe a lot of writers could learn a great deal from a character like Killmonger. Marvel purposely set out for everyone to feel compassion for the bad guy. That was a new twist in itself. Marvel wanted you to understand, to relate, to fear the bad guy’s demise. They gave Erik, what so many others did not have, a …

Author: Tamar Grigsby Book Title: Little Lady Rose ISBN #: 978-1728308593 Book Summary: Rose is an inquisitive little girl who doesn’t think highly of herself until she is exposed to her mother’s uplifting, blossoming garden. This journey between a mother and daughter is guaranteed to lead to positive feelings like confidence and self-acceptance. “Little Lady Rose” illustrates that experiences, coupled with an adults encouragement and support, will foster a child’s self-esteem. I realize that 7 of 10 girls believe they are not good enough or do not measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships wit…

ISBN13- 978-0997924107 Publication Date - May 18,2019 I am interested in having my book reviewed. Thank you. A present-day disabled United States Army Veteran, now a Bounty Hunter with a prosthetic leg, is attacked and bitten by a large wolf in one of Maryland's National Parks while chasing a bounty. He fights off and kills the wolf, which turns out to be more complicated than he could have imagined. What follows is the horrific and intense journey of human transformation into something nightmarish - otherworldly. Baltimore, the inner city, is ill-prepared for the hell about to descend upon it.

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This week, we hired greater than a dozen guest writers for O.W., during a recession. God is good! Regardless, I have encountered a deeply perplexing question posed by a newly appointed staff writer who recently accepted an assignment (actual email photo). https://owshowe.com/2020/06/12/black-or-african-american/ *sorry @Troy for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to post the actual pic, don't judge me people. How would YOU answer this question and why? Honestly, it gave me pause; both as a black (or African American) woman, veteran (2 services) and little sister to four amazing older brothers. Thus far, the response from my close communi…

News Release For Immediate Release 4/18/2021 Contact: Clarence N. M Coggins Clarence@Daniellegfny.com 973-943-4073 Six Magic Cans of Happiness: Danielle the Girl From New York Released Clarence Coggins, who writes books for children and is based in Jersey City, announced the release of his second book for the book series ‘’6 Magic Cans of Happiness: Danielle the Girl From New York’’. More information in http://daniellegfny.com/index.php/2021/04/17/have-you-entered-yet/ The recently announced book release aims to inform people who are interested in this book not only that it is n…

Forthcoming new novel by award-winning author Clarence Major seeks reviews -- contact info@manicdpress.com -- here's some info: “Clarence Major’s fiction has amazed me for years. And now The Lurking Place. This novel captures the late sixties in subtle ways that we seldom read. Major assumes the character of this narrator completely and fully, giving himself at once the narrative distance and fictive detachment required to render this story with building tension and expectancy. A wonderful addition to an already substantial oeuvre.” —Percival Everett, author of The Trees What happens when the drive to succeed professionally collides with ambition…

I have written about love in many stories, or alluded to in various works of art. But my most recent is a poem: THe Last Flail The artwork is also by me, a simple valentines 2022 is the title:) IF you are interested utilize the following link Single Status Update from 02/14/2022 by richardmurray - AALBC.com’s Discussion Forums But, I will like to see your own work?

Assata. Shakur. Talks. About. Being. A. Black. Woman. In. The. Black,Panther. ..Movement....

KWL Live Q&A – Sci-fi and Fantasy Roundtable featuring CJ Archer, Megan O’Russell, Kylie Quillinan and Sarah Woodbury by kobowritinglife | Jul 6, 2023 Sci-fi and Fantasy Roundtable featuring CJ Archer, Megan O’Russell, Kylie Quillinan and Sarah Woodbury The Kobo Writing Life team is happy to announce our next Live Q&A on July 27th from 6:00 PM-7:00 PM EST. KWL author engagement Laura and promotions specialist Rachel will be joined by a roundtable of four amazing sci-fi and fantasy authors: CJ Archer, Megan O’Russell, Kyle Quillinan and Sarah Woodbury! Bring all of your questions about writing in these genres to this talented group and stay tuned fo…

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Continued from Part One In order to give life and purpose to the three faceless mermaids that hang on my wall, I had to first give them names. Shimmer, StarFire, and SeaStar came to life in my literary vision. I could see them at long last and they were beautiful, brown-skinned,orphaned, mermaid sisters. They reached out to me every time I passed their stilled images on the wall. I had to tell their story. The voice that continually awakened me up in the middle of the night, beckoned me to write a book. Always three and four o’clock in the morning, I could be found in my dimly lit bedroom frantically writing. The question that plagued my thoughts was this: What w…

A Terrific Bookstore in Tampa's Ybor City, Best Books Rich Treasures they feature New, Used, and Rare Books. I've become friendly with these booksellers over the last couple of years. I found them to be cool people as they always expressed their gratitude in my efforts to help them. On my most recent visit. Gigi, one of the co-owners who is also a genealogist was telling me about her book, Thomas the Melungeon: His Locust Family of Free Persons of Color Civil and Revolutionary War Patriots. As we were discussing the book, it became clear we had relatives in the same region of North Carolina. As budding genealogist myself I happened to have my DNA available a…

Nehemiah Garvey is a man of faith and a high school basketball star in Newark, New Jersey. It's the 1960s and the city has been torn apart by riots (or rebellions, depending on one's perspective). Nehemiah wants to keep playing ball at Weequahic High School, where the talented and nationally celebrated Mickey Marcus is the coach. But Mickey is the only white coach left in the city and many powerful figures in the black community want to see him go. Nehemiah and Mickey undertake some basketball diplomacy to help turn Newark's reputation around. Mickey keeps the reins and with Nehemiah leading the community on and off the court, the team launches a bid to win the consensus …

My Bondage,My. Freedom. By. Frederick. Douglass. Talks. About. His,Transformation. From Slavery. To. Freedom....

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Hello, I am writing to share and request that I have recently released a collection of poems titled Love as of late. I am interested in an AALBC book review. Here is the info. you've requested per the guidelines: My name: Adrienne Wartts Author: Adrienne Wartts Book title: Love as of late ISBN: 9780578302782 Publication date: October 26,2021 Synopsis: Love…as a late is a nonfiction poetic narrative about a Nigerian man and Black American woman who desired to be together despite the geographical distance between them. Years after losing contact with each other, he passes away. As she reflects on m…

Hi I’m Kesha Jones the author of The Black Magician written by KayCee Jones ISBN 9798835806577 Publication Date June 13, 2022 availiabe on audiobook, ebook,hardcover and paperback The Black Magician A gifted Nubian princess was stolen from her land in Africa, and was brought to America to live in a place unknown to her. Overnight she went from being the royal daughter of the great warrior Manley- Chief of the of the Zauzuuzuu tribe, to living in chains with very minimum to eat. In the 1800’s being a slave in South Carolina was a scary place to be. Being beaten and separated from your family was an all too familiar story for slaves in this state. …

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Where Are They Now: Salvadore - Jaws In a comment in the deviantart post linked below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction detailing the continuing story of Salvadore from Jaws and his fishing or non fishing exploits after that fateful July 4th season in Amity Island. Help Jaws aficionado's solve the mystery of this resident! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be remo…

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Dear all, My novel Passing Through the World has just been published. It touches much on day-to-day life in Africa, family relations, childhood & teenage experiences amongst other themes. You are all welcome to begin a discussion forum on the book here. Book is marketable at amazon.com, authorhouse.com, barnes and noble amongst many other online bookstores. http://www.amazon.com/PASSING-THROUGH-WORLD-Childhood-Perplexity/dp/1467882712/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1329851828&sr=8-3 (Formats: Paperback, Hardcover and E-book) Here is the review at the back cover: Forji has the magical knack of showing the world as it appears through the eyes of a young p…

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Fiction by Black Writers: Who are the Readers? Tuesday, February 21, 6:30 pm The Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-222-4111 The Brooklyn Historical Society will host a panel discussion on assumptions about the marketability of books by black writers and solutions to increase readership with Essence Magazine book editor Patrik Bass; Vice President, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of new-old Random House imprint One World Chris Jackson; novelist and President of the Authors Guild Roxana Robinson, and Ibrahim Ahmad, senior editor at Akashic Books. The panel will be moderated by Elizabeth Nunez. Click for more information.

Some times I thought had good points 21:15 thanks for the point on simplicity with advertising, a good hook 25:40 thanks for the marketing for a team of writers 29:50 nice admittance to the basics 34:50 bookfunnel [ https://bookfunnel.com/ ] 40:23 let world building unfold when you are a character driven writer 47:10 watch out for the flow of fear in horror 48:17 what is in the dark is the key, the unknown,all concur 50:35 nothing is unsolvable 51:15 for writing teams you need to know when to moveon for the best of the team 54:30 you want to go where your readers are, and your readers are everywhere. . . what do they want from me and how can my book…

topics The forty-seventh of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. My four days at the National Black Writers Conference 2014 Valentine Nostalgia remake Creative side Commercial Haiku challenge DATES IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: A new World Wide Web is needed? , Little Red Riding hood , Nicolas Felicano and the true nature of black law enforcers , Chel , Black elected official potency in the USA , The Silver Maiden from the Thief of Baghdad , Law Enforcement Relatives URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/04/14/2024-rmnewsletter.html

Coming Soon July 9 moon closest to south pole in its orbit around the earth, runs low. First commercial outdoor theater in the U.S.A. in Mount Vernon Gardens New York City 1800. From "historical info 1" link below: [ In 1800, though, chef-turned-theatre manager, Joseph Corre, opened the first *commercial* outdoor theatre on the northwest corner of Leonard Street and Broadway in New York City. It was called The Theatre at Mount Vernon Gardens and was situated within Corre’s private outdoor park and tavern. ...The performance advertised for the first evening was entitled Miss in Her Teens; or the Medley of Lovers. Playing the leading roles were some of New York’s…

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Remember just before Christmas when I said Santa was bringing me a Kindle but I was unsure if I really wanted one? Well, it’s taken a couple of months but I’m liking it! It’s still not pretty like a book but the convenience of carrying a 500+ page book in my purse along with LOTS of other books just waiting for me to read – SCORE! I got the Kindle Reader and the giftor acknowledged that the Fire would be overkill for me and I crocheted a cover for it so it wouldn’t be quite so ugly. Next up – some sort of ‘smart phone’ I guess. Not that I really need one but I’m tired of telling folks to stay out of my business when they talk about my antique flip-top phone…

You may view all the photographs here: http://aalbc.it/bpp12-photos You authors like Victoria Christopher Murray next to K'wan, Sandra Kitt next to JM Benjamin. Jamal Joseph author of Panther baby was there. Author and radio talk show host Michael Basiden was there. The founder of Amistad Press Charles Harris and Legendary Literary Agent Marie Brown. Literary icon Cheryl Woodruff as in the house. Plus William Fredrick Cooper, Carol Taylor,, Atim Annette Oton, Editor Anita Diggs, Ron Kavanaugh (Host), Carolyn A Butts (African Voices Magazine), Harvey Hass Nunes (Host), Charisse Carney-Nunes (Host), Gilda Squire, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Michael L. Breaux, Alli…

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Keisha’s Mama Is So Fine – Free Limited Time Someone in high school always had a mother that drove the teenage boys wild and in Derrick Lacy’s school it was Janice Thompson. Janice was the mother of his childhood friend Keisha, who was a cheerleader. All the other boys would ask who Janice was when she came to sporting events and Derrick would tell them she was Keisha’s mama. The other boys would respond with, “Keisha’s Mama Is So Fine.” Sixteen years later Derrick found himself in a most unusual situation with Janice who was a still beautiful fifty year old woman and he was a thirty-three year old man. As they looked into each others’ eyes would they cross that lin…

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Oprah Winfrey On My Computer Tablet Talking Her New Favorite Book,Underground Railroad By Colson Whitehead.Lots Of Books About Slaves Escaping Slavery ,Present Time Black People Are,Are Self Enslaved,Confined By White Supremacy.

Poets and Writers Article by Elizabeth Nunez, "Widening the Path: The Importance of Publishing Black Writers " "Many black writers have not been as fortunate. It was not a renaissance after all, that booming interest in books by black writers in the 1990s. It was a passing fad, like last season’s fashionable style in clothes, replaceable when publishers, their eyes on the exotic, “discover” an untapped ethnic group among writers of color." The above quote, from the article, about the rise in the popularity of Black books during the 1990s being a “fad” was interesting. I guess given how short-lived the so-called renaissance was, the term is appropriate. But…

Librarian of Congress (Carla Hayden) Names Tracy K. Smith Poet Laureate Press Contact: Jennifer Gavin (202) 707-1940 Public Contact: Robert Casper (202) 707-1308 Website: Poetry at the Library of Congress Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today announced the appointment of Tracy K. Smith as the Library’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2017-2018. Smith will take up her duties in the fall, opening the Library’s annual literary season in September with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a professor at Princeton University, succeeds Juan Felipe Herrera as Poet Laureate…

Solutions. For. Black. America,Author. Says. He. Wrote. Book. Because. Black. People. Need. To. Reclaim. Rebuild. Urban,Communities..Talks. About. Black. Genocide. In. The. Streets..Book. by. Emmanuel. Barbee..