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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. Victor D. LaValle's "The Devil in Silver" PW Best Books of 2012

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

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  3. Video - Literary Agent Manie Barron talks about the author's responsibilitiy

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  4. Video and Images from the 2017 Harlem Literary Brunch

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  5. Video from The Go On Girl! Book Club 22nd Annual Author Awards

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  6. Video Intro to AALBC.com's Website

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  7. Video of DANIEL BLACK (If you don't enjoy this reading something must be wrong with you)

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  8. Video: Amazon's Effect on the Black Book Ecosystem

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  9. Video: Bestselling Author Tarkisha Wallace's Book, Little Girl Arise

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  10. VIDEO: Carl Weber talks about how he came up with the characters

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  11. Video: Kwame Alexander reads from The Undefeated

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  12. Video: Paulo Coelho on 20 Years of "The Alchemist"

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  13. Video: T.R. Simon talks about her new young adult novel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

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  14. Video: THE LAST BOOKSHOP imagines a future where physical books have died out.

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  15. Video: Troy Johnson at the Dock Bookshop in Ft. Worth Texas

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

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  17. Videos from the 2018 Texas Book Festival

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  18. Videos from the Harlem Book Fair - Newark (April 28, 2012)

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  19. Videos Pitching New Books Worth Reading

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  20. Videos Taken During Book Expo American (BEA) 2012

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  21. Videos: Saluting Go on Girl Book Club, Harlem Book Fair and More!

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  22. Viola. Davis. My. Memoir

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  23. Violence In The Lives Of Black Women!

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  24. Virtual Blog Tour new ebook INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS with bestselling authors Pynk and Carol Taylor

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  25. Visions Volume Two

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  26. VOICE FROM THE PAST

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  27. Voiceover Auditions - Interested?

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  28. Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century

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  29. Voices of the Harlem Renaissance with New Intro by Troy Johnson

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  30. Vote for Your Favorite Black Author of the 21st Century

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  31. W.E.B. Dubois,The Talented Tenth.

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  32. Waiting to Exhale is on President Obama’s Bookshelf

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    CDBurns

  33. WALK LIKE THE QUEEN YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN YOU ARE: Lyrics, Reverie and Praise

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  34. Walter Mosley

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  35. WALTER MOSLEY - for a benefit evening at Revolution Books

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  36. WALTER MOSLEY - for a benefit evening at Revolution Books

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  37. Walter Mosley Fans, I can use your help...

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  38. Walter Mosley Recommends AALBC's Self-Publishing Services

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  39. Walter Mosley Traveling in the Spirit of Carter G. Woodson

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    Terry Coffey

  40. Want Upcoming Book About Stopping Rise of Violence in Young Men?

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  41. WATCH: Two Transgenders Blow Out Girls In State Meet

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  42. WATN: Charlie Brown poll:please vote

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  43. WAVES review from Movies That Move We

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  44. Ways Of White Folk. Langston Hughes.

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  45. We Don't Need Amazon - Over 1,500 Audiobooks Added to AALBC

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  46. We Real Cool

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  47. We Write, Publish, and Read for Freedom

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  48. We. Cast. A. Shadow !

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  49. We're Accepting Book Review Requests

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  50. We've got the cure... Hill Harper and "The Wealth Cure" on episode 6 of TBL

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