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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. The 41st edition of the 2024 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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  2. RMNewsletter 4th Version February 23rd

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  3. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BLACK ANIMATION TODAY?! RMNewsletter 4th Version August 3rd 2025

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  4. PEN World Voices Festival, NYC May 4-10, 2015 - focus on Africa

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  5. Request for a Book Review

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  6. New Black Owned Bookstore coming to DC

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  7. Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018)

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  8. Price of Past Sins

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  9. Oprah’s Book Club Announces “Nightcrawling” by Debut Author Leila Mottley as Next Selection

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  10. Enter the AALBC.com Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition

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  11. GHETTOHEAT® IS ROCKIN' ON THE R-A-D-I-O-! #9

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  12. AALBC.com's Marketing Kit

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  13. 2017 Phillis Wheatley Award Winning Books

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  14. Help me find a book

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  15. EXCERPT: DON'T TAKE ME ALIVE

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  16. For Review - Mirrors of Life: What is your life in the mirror?

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  17. Book Review Request - A Pinch of Salt:  On the Edge of Apprehension

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  18. New Historical Fiction: The Short Happy Life of Wyatt Outlaw

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  19. April is National Poetry Month

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  20. Prestige: Pre-Social Event for the Baltimore Urban Book Festival

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  21. Aptaracorp Anual Survey of eBook Production Trends

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  22. Independent Bookstore Thrive Despite the Odds

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  23. 10th African American Literary Awards Show, Sept. 27th, 2014

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  24. DON'T TAKE ME ALIVE: Continued

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  25. For Review - Mirrors of Life Part 2: The Fight for Political Power

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  26. What are the three most important factors to turn a book into a film?

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  27. For photographers

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  28. The Settlement from Richard Murray

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  29. I entered the adult artwork world RMNewsletter 4th Version November 2nd 2025 

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  30. The 20 Most Well-Read Cities For African-Americans

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  31. Jamaica Kincaid, Sterling D. Plumpp, Armond White Win American Book Awards

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  32. Brown Girl Books Dominated April's Bestsellers List

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  33. SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SOIREE: GHETTOHEAT!

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  34. The Kwanzaa Coloring Book (Games & Puzzles)

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  35. Dr. Marvellus Djinn's Odd Scholars

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  36. Brave. Black..First.

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  37. GHETTOHEAT LOVE AFFAIR WITH HICKSON!

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  38. Cynda: A Cozy Romance Novel by Milton Davis

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  39. Schools out! Why spend quality time w/your kids?(Book review request)

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  40. Book Review Request - THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR by Yewande Omotoso

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  41. SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SOIREE: GHETTOHEAT!

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  42. The Long Walk Steamfunk E-Book Special

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  43. The Last Homily On Liturgoid

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  44. Another of my work became a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt

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  45. The 34th edition of the Richard Murray Newsletter in 2023

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  46. The 52nd edition of the 2023 Richard Murray Newsletter.

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  47. BOOK REVIEW ANNIVERSARY: The Gardins of Edin from Rosey Lee

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  48. BOOK LOOK CREATOR & THEME ARTIST NEW MUSIC VIDEO!

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  49. Brenda Jackson, Raheem Devaughn, Trice Hickman, Scandal returns on The Book Look!

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  50. Conversation with Bernice McFadden and Terry McMillan - Brooklyn, NY

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