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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. ***Book Review Request for Debut Picture Book: Freedom at Dawn

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    richardmurray

  2. The 2nd edition of the 2025 Richard Murray Newsletter

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    • 0 replies
    • 529 views
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  3. Request for Book Review: “Smashing Obstacles and Building Legacies” - Laing School and Freedmen’s Schools

    Lynette Jackson Love,
    • 1 reply
    • 465 views
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  4. Book Four Of the whileBlack Chronicles' "If Chicago Could Talk"

    aMhayes,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
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  5. Claim. Your. Throne. Jay. Barnett

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 376 views
    harry brown

  6. 2025 RMNewsletter 1

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    • 0 replies
    • 374 views
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  7. Digital Assassins Book cover Voting

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 1 reply
    • 661 views
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  8. The 52nd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter

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    • 0 replies
    • 698 views
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  9. KWANZAA. 2024

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 342 views
    harry brown

  10. I don't want fireworks, I want a slowburn. - munasheabson

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 402 views
    richardmurray

  11. The 51st edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter

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    • 0 replies
    • 679 views
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  12. 33 and single

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    • 0 replies
    • 459 views
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  13. The 50th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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    • 0 replies
    • 463 views
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  14. Nikki Giovanni

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 413 views
    richardmurray

  15. Nikki Giovanni favorite poem listing

    richardmurray,
    • 2 replies
    • 738 views
    richardmurray

  16. James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video + Transcript

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
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  17. BOOK REVIEW REQUEST: "The Green Green Book: The Traveler's Guide to Black-Owned Homesteads, Farms, Orchards, Vineyards, Foraging Forests, Apiaries, Ranches, and Markets"

    Rain,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views
    richardmurray

  18. **Book Review Request for Picture Book, "At the Edge of a Leaf"

    Vince_Poet,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views
    richardmurray

  19. Listening Landyn: Second Grader Walk & Roll (Book Review Request for Early Reader)

    New World Press, In.,
    • 2 replies
    • 755 views
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  20. PEACHES: Book Review Request for new picture book

    Gabriele Davis,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.7k views
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  21. White British Author Writing the African-American Experience

    Debz Hobbs-Wyatt,
    • 0 replies
    • 408 views
    Debz Hobbs-Wyatt

  22. The 49th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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    • 0 replies
    • 571 views
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  23. The Down Home Combo

    Milton,
    • 0 replies
    • 539 views
    Milton

  24. Malcolm. X A. Life. Of. Reinvention.

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 387 views
    harry brown

  25. November Literature 2024

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 396 views
    richardmurray

  26. A Palmetto Christmas Press Release

    Milton,
    • 1 reply
    • 599 views
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  27. Welcome to the 48th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 593 views
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  28. Black. Community. Thanksgiving.

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 876 views
    Troy

  29. **Book Review Request for Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt****

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 0 replies
    • 484 views
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  30. ****Book Review Request for DIGITAL ASSASSINS II: Taking the fight to the Judicial Branch of Government

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 0 replies
    • 479 views
    DanielleSpencer

  31. ***Book Review Request for Protecting Yourself: How Data Theft can Impact You

    DanielleSpencer,
    • 0 replies
    • 364 views
    DanielleSpencer

  32. Space Funk release party

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 503 views
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  33. How to get published

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 584 views
    richardmurray

  34. How To Make Natural Plant Dye From Aloe Vera Leaves from Amma T. King

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 508 views
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  35. Welcome to the 47th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 435 views
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  36. Submissions to the OverDrive Black History Sale and the OverDrive Romance Sale are now open!

    richardmurray,
    • 1 reply
    • 687 views
    richardmurray

  37. Authorization to Defend Humanity joint resolution

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 527 views
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  38. The 46th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 494 views
    richardmurray

  39. Kobo December Audiobook Promos

    richardmurray,
    • 1 reply
    • 428 views
    richardmurray

  40. Together. For. Kwanzaa

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 371 views
    richardmurray

  41. Black. Soldiers Veterans. Day

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 454 views
    harry brown

  42. The 45th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 472 views
    richardmurray

  43. Too Old to Dance but Young Enough to Rock 'n' Roll

    Milton,
    • 0 replies
    • 530 views
    Milton

  44. The Hidden Gem in the film MA 2019

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 809 views
    richardmurray

  45. Welcome to the 44th edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 415 views
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  46. Wild. Blood. Lauren. Blackwood

    harry brown,
    • 0 replies
    • 314 views
    harry brown

  47. Scary Set 2

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 406 views
    richardmurray

  48. ZONE. Colson Whitehead

    harry brown,
    • 1 reply
    • 748 views
    Troy

  49. Welcome to the 43rd edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

    richardmurray,
    • 0 replies
    • 410 views
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  50. Charity Book

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    • 0 replies
    • 573 views
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