Black Literature

In 2018 I published Psychoactive Poetry @smashwords.com. Today I am releasing a 100+ sonnet cycle verse drama. Saffron and Nova: Beyond Myths and Stars employs the ababccddeffegg rhyme scheme of Alexander Pushkin's delightful verse drama, Eugene Onegin. My book is an allegorical 'love story' depicting unification of the right and left brain hemispheres. It has been said that poetry is the language by which this unification is to be achieved. Indeed the momentary harmonies of cognitive resonance experienced when the sense of beauty is deeply stimulated reflects in my view a glimpse of this unification. Poetry is or can be 'psychoactive' in this sense. This sonnet…

The Delany Bennets is an African American version of Pride & Prejudice set at a fictional HBCU in North Carolina. Publication date is Oct. 5 and I would appreciate reviews on am*zon, GoodReads and others. Since the late 1800s, Martin Delany University has provided home, career, and stability for generations of Bennets. Now, in 1999, the latest generation of Bennets prepare for the new millennium, unaware of the changes the year 2000 will bring. For Professor Elizabeth Bennet, that means questioning her position and dedication within the prestigious HBCU. She’s also tired of defending her rap music studies, especially to stuck-up outsiders like vis…

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In a recent interview published here on AALBC.com MacArthur Genius fellow winning author Edwidge Danticat said she was reading Dinaw Mengestu’s new book, “How to Read the Air.” Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Lannan Literary Award, and received a "5 under 35" Award from the National Book Foundation. His first novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears", was named a New York Times Notable Book and awarded the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among numerous other honors...

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The #1 Power List Bestselling Author, AALBC.com Bestselling Author, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author, National Book Award Winning Author (my prediction), and heir apparent to Jimmy Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates will write the new Black Panther comic for Marvel! So says the New York Times. Coates has "the juice" right about now. Black Panther No. 1 (coming 2016)

10 Books Written by Black Writers Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award

The Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference Hosted by: Killer Nashville and American Blackguard, Inc. Dates: Thursday, August 24, 2017 to Sunday, August 27, 2017 Website: Killer Nashville Email: Contact@killernashville.com Description: The Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference brings together forensic experts, writers, and fans of crime and thriller literature for four days of presentations, lectures, roundtable pitch sessions, networking and fun. Our goal is to educate and empower aspiring and established writers by connecting them with other industry professionals, and by distinguishing the best publishe…

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topic The fifty-first of the Cento series. A cento is a poem made by an author from the lines of another author's work. Dystopian Springtime The SSS Guava Iyanu - schomburg black comic book festival My Sexy OC's to Coolbeaniebabez Dates- astrology +astronomy IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: The artistic life cliche , older age loneliness , Sylvia Moy , Grandpa Amu cellphone holder , Prince Mural in Atlanta , The MB's Song8 , An interview with Sonequa Martin-Green URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/10/05/12/2024-rmnewsletter.html

For anyone writing a book or screenplay, this is a great opportunity to learn from Tananarive Due, writer of the Reformatory and the cowriter of the Twilight Zone episode " A Small Town" side her husband Steven Barnes. From Steven Barnes of Lifewriting People have called Tananarive the "Queen of Black Horror." Her latest book, THE REFORMATORY, has sold more copies than anything in her career - and we're in post-production on our first horror short film, THE KEEPER. We've taught thousands of writing students, and we're ready to expose three lies that keep writers struggling to reach their dreams to write horror that haunts and sells. Why ‘talent’ is a myth (and wh…

“...we have fewer independent book sites focused on black authors than we did five years ago. And the ones that remain are even more difficult to find.” Read the rest of the interview: http://aalbc.it/troy2011

Book Store Database on Huria Search Last week I updated Huria Search to take our bookstore database generate webpages for each bookstore to include a representative photos, video, social media links, website snap shot, map to the store social media links, hours of operation and more. The book store database may be found here. Here is an example link to a local store near Harlem: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/store.php?store_name=Sister%26rsquo%3Bs+Uptown+Bookstore This is an attempt to capture every single Black owned independent bookstore in America. The database currently has 113 stores. If there are any missing stores or stores tha…

SAW ON PBS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, EXPEDITIONERS FOUND SKELETONS IN AFRICA'S SAHARA DESERT,MYSTERY WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE.WERE THEY A ANCIENT AFRICAN TRIBE, PREHISTORIC MAN, NEANDERTHALS, ..A SKELETON OF A FEMALE WITH A SMALL SKELETON , THEY ASSUMED WAS A CHILD.//THIS WAS A BURIAL GROUND IN THE SAHARA DESERT///WAS THIS ONCE A THRIVING PLACE...SAW BOOKS ON AFRICA CULTURE, ON BLACK BOOKS SITES//LOT OF ANCIENT AFRICAN HISTORY AND PEOPLE..MAYBE THESE WERE AFRICAN KINGS AN D THERE PEOPLE, BLACK HEBREWS...BLACK ARABS, ARABS, EGYPTIANS,WHO KNOWS////.//ARCHAEOLOGIST,SCIENTIST CA…

The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead By ALEXANDRA ALTERSEPT. 22, 2015 Now, there are signs that some e-book adopters are returning to print, or becoming hybrid readers, who juggle devices and paper. E-book sales fell by 10 percent in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers. Digital books accounted last year for around 20 percent of the market, roughly the same as they did a few years ago.

The Wall Street Journal article is behind a paywall. However, it appears the article has been OCR'ed and converted to an audio file on Youtube. The crazy thing is thing is that the prices will be the same as they are on the Amazon website! How can they do it? Thank Wall Street. I wonder if they will have cafes and provide free WiFi like other so called bookstores? Will the employee just be low-level cashiers or knowledge sales people? I think Barnes and Noble can pretty much say goodnight The stick price is down 7% on this news, Nooks sales are down 25%, stores sales are down. You know I have to remove my Barnes and Noble buy links …

I just emailed our latest eNewsletter If you don't get it in your email box please consider subscribing. Below is an email I received in reaction to this mailing. “Troy, I am incredibly proud of all the effort and passion that you have poured into AALBC for all of these years. I discovered your site sometime in the 90s. I was living in my home town which is incredibly small, and at the time, predominantly white. I would sit up until late in the night trying to find a way to connect with literature by my own people. Then, I found your site and enjoyed it so much. I am ashamed that I have used and depended upon your site without ever making a monetary donat…

Book,Recovering The Black Female Body,Collection Of Essays,Details Black Female Presentation Across All Media. Black Women In Literature. .Among The Authors Alice Walker,Lucille Clifton. .Book By Vanessa Dickerson ,Michael Bennett..

I've been searching on the internet for a few hours trying to find a book I read in the 7th grade. I'm not sure what the genre is but it was definitely leaning towards fantasy. All I remember was a boy who had a (white or bay) horse and I think the horse was taken by an old man and he went on a journey to find the horse. They end up meeting at some cliffs and the horse emerges and so does the scary old man. Does this ring any bells? It had a really strange title too.

John. Carlos. Was. On . C-Span. John. Carlos. Book. John. Carlos ,Story,The. Moment. Sports. Changed. The. World. 1968. Olympics ,,John Carlos. And. Tommy Smith Each. Had. A Black Glove Fist. ,Raised On The Victory Stand . With A Australian Track. Star. He,Supported Carlos And Smith. Discussion On. C-Span Was About,Athletes And Activism....

Asante Tales: This book is for the reading enjoyment of everybody. Human cultures all over the world have associated fables and tales with the bedtime interests of children and grandparents. Particularly in times past, when story-telling used to be the default form of entertainment for children, it was a highly valued tradition, given that it also functioned always as a supportive learning tool. This little book - based on the narrative culture of the Asante in Ghana - fulfills all the above objectives – and much, much more. The subjects it covers may appeal even more to you, if you are an adult animal lover, or just a lover of the written word; o…

Surrender. White. People ,Comedian D. L. Hughley Book. America -Will. Become. The. Majority. Minority. Nation. For. America. To. Move -Forward. Peacefully. White. America. Must. Put. Aside. It's Vision. Of--Superiority. And. Open. It's. Institutions. To. Benefit. Everyone.....Book-By. Comedian. D. I. Hugh!ey ...

Spelman Alumna Launches Global Celebration and Museum for Black Children Nationwide — Spelman alumna Veronica N. Chapman is a social entrepreneur and children’s book author on a mission to help make the world better for Black children. In an effort to achieve this goal, Veronica is launching Black Children’s Book Week (BCBW), a global celebration of Black children and the power of positive representation in children’s books and other media, and an accompanying Virtual Black Children’s Book Museum. …

Can you imagine yourself wanting to be loved so badly that you put yourself and children in life or death situations? Or wanting someone so badly that you disregarded the fact that they had other women in their lives, so you continued to put up with the cheating, waiting at the end of a line of women to be wifed? Well, that's Cassandra, she just wanted to be loved but was never shown the type of love she should of had. Cassandra never had the ideal childhood, all she wanted was love from her father who did nothing but direct he life into a nightmare, and shadowed every choice that she and her siblings made. She experienced a lot at a young age and was forced to grow up …

I will place entries in my witchtember 2022 prompt list in the comments. If you are part of art groups you know these prompt lists are simple things. Someone places a word for each day and you as the artist then create. I find these to be easy thematically, but my imagination is wide. COnsider doing the same but with storytelling The prompt image and my entries are below. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2055&type=status

topics The thirty-second of the Cento poetry series Dates with astrology + astronomy IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR: Patrice Rushen Trio in Black Omnibus with JAmes Earl Jones, In A Lonely Place from Ask Eddie of noircity, Honest Bunch Vibrator discussion, The Preacher's Wife from Movies That Move We URL https://rmnewsletter.over-blog.com/2023/08/12/31/2023-rmnewsletter.html

Beast. Of. Prey. In. A. Magical. World. Two. Black. Teenagers. Hunt. ,A. Magical. Beast. .Book. By. Ayana Gray. .....

MY LINKTREE https://aalbc.com/tc/clubs/page/2-rmworkposts/ RM WORK CALENDAR Poem of the Aeolian Heart Harp Around the first flail Cento series episode 93 https://aalbc.com/tc/events/5-rmworkcalendar/week/2025-03-01/ RM COMMUNITY CALENDAR Economic Corner - post mortem money Economic Corner - Boundaries of Spending power side demands of inheritance Madamoiselle Hazel Scott Scott Simone Flack Economic Corner - space mining Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards KWL Live Q&A: Music, Love and Storytelling with Xio Axelrod https://aalbc.com/tc/events/7-rmcommunitycalendar/week/2025-03-01/

These. Money. ..Worshipping. Black. Christian. Writers. ..These. ,Idiot. Will. Not. Write. About. Their. Bible. God. Demanding. ,,Cannibalism. ,Demanding. Commanding. Men. Women. Children. Babies. To. Be. Murdered . Again. And. Again. ....Moses. Is. A. Terrorist. ..Their. Jesus. A. Terrorist. ...Their. ,,God. Sent. Bears. To. Murder. Children. ...Their. Bible. God. Is ,,A. Psycho. And. A. Serial. Killer. ..They. Will. Not. Write. About. ,,This. Because. Of. Money. ......Preachers. Will. Not. Preach. ,Because. Of. Money. ....Christianity. Is. A. Slave. Chain. ...Black. People Pay. For. Their. Own. Ensl…

<H6 class=dateline>Authors Unbound Online http://runt.it/nytselfpub By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Published: April 26, 2010 New York Times Reports that: "Book publishing is simply becoming self-publishing", and says "..small and crafty can beat big and branded." Could the mainstream finally be giving self-published authors some respect? </H6>

My new book Ratchet Woman takes a new angle on a form of women bashing that is widespread today. Single women are ofter targeted and criticized when they make somewhat questionable choices in order to survive and often care for children without the help of the fathers. One term often thrown around when a woman seems to be wedged into a bad situation originated out of popular culture and it is the word Ratchet. Ratchet cover a wide range of behaviors and situations, but often those using it had a hand in placing their targets in those life situations to begin with. http://www.prlog.org/12133532-ratchet-woman-released-by-book-express.html

Amber Alarm – Free Limited Time SEND OUT AN AMBER ALARM FOR MISSING RICH HUSBANDS! Amber Watkins is at it again. After getting a taste of the good life as the sidepiece of a married professional basketball superstar, Amber decided she couldn’t resist living like a high roller once more and her ticket is again through the rich husbands of other women. This time Amber soared to new heights and took her other woman antics to an international level. Amber finally achieved what she had been craving all along, but she also discovered that the methods she used to achieve her goals came with a cost. Will Amber flourish or flounder when she is caught in a most surprising man…

Pulitzer Prize-winning, Harvard professor Annette Gordon-Reed reviews Wil Haygood’s new book, Showdown, on Thurgood Marshall and racial segregation, in The Washington Post Book World. Gordon-Reed details Haygood’s cast of characters whom Marshall encountered while being confirmed before the Senate as the first African American Supreme Court justice. Gordon-Reed writes: On Southern senators What a cast of characters! There was the chairman of the committee, James Eastland of Mississippi, who had a plantation and whose father had allegedly lynched a black man. In a conversation with the new Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Eastland mused aloud that “you Kennedys always care …

"One of the publishing industry’s only black editors is transmitting ideas from writers on the margins to the mainstream readers who need to hear them." By Vinson Cunningham, Feb. 2, 2016 (Read the full article) Now is it a "Black Literary Movement" is the only beneficiaries are the corporations, who essentially do not employ Black people and a handful of Black authors?

Walter Mosley Fans, I can use your help. I which books am I missing? I found 53 different titles.

Hello! I am requesting a review for my new author's debut novel, After the Storm by Nisia Skyy. My name: Christian Cashelle Author's name: Nisia Skyy title: After the Storm ISBN-13: Publication Date: March 13, 2018 Synopsis: When Brooke wrote her ex, Rashad, out of her life, she vowed to move on and never let him back in. Now with a devoted boyfriend and a promising career as a future OB/GYN, she had all the pieces in place for a great life. As she begins to deal with personal convictions, Brooke starts to question her current relationship as soon as her ex reappears. While struggling with forgiveness, Brooke enters into a pe…

Based On A True Story: When O'shay London met Sanaa Holland, it was an instant attraction. They dated for a while and found themselves in love with each other. As the couple grapples with the circumstances that change their lives forever, the question of what truly bonded them arises. IS IT LOVE OR OBSESSION? By: J. Brinkley Publication Date: October 15th, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1699933138 Interest: Book Review

What's up Forum? I have a question. My second novel is a thriller that follows a naive sixteen year old who finds himself in trouble with some rough folks in Detroit in 1990. While it is centered on teens, there are many adult characters and the content is laced with profanity (this is how we spoke growing up) and instances of violence (it is a thriller). There are also characters that have had bouts with drug addiction (there is no drug use in the book). Teens can learn so much from this book, as can adults, giving them the insight on the behavior of the teens and what can be done to help the kids but I am torn between marketing it t…

Hello, my name is Ta'Shay Mason and I recently published my debut children's book But i don't want to say GOODBYE! and I would like a book review. The book focuses on death, grief, and a creative way of memorializing a loved one. The death of a loved one is never easy to understand, let alone speak about. But for a little girl whose father has just died, the hardest thing is figuring out how to say goodbye. As Mommy makes funeral arrangements and tries to figure out the best way to say goodbye to a man who was loved by many, the little girl must find her own way to come to peace with her father’s death. As the funeral gets closer, will she find a way to say go…

Hi! I am writing the book blurb about my new book “Six Magic Cans Of Happiness 2: Danielle the Girl From NY”. False humility combined with fear of criticism is trying to pose a road block to my completing it. Here’s my first draft: Have you ever said to yourself, “I wish I knew that about money when was a kid?” Come join us as Danielle is learning these life changing principles. This the third book in the groundbreaking series Danielle the Girl from NY. In this episode we pick up where Danielle still waiting for her special package to arrive. We will find out what it is and why it’s so special. We will also learn the secret of the Six Magic Cans. Enjoy t…

From the 10/18/2021 issue of Publishers Weekly “Another Pandemic Surprise: A Mini Indie Bookstore Boom” PW showed AALBC some love by leading with a photo from my pop-up store on Black Wall Street 🙂 Please check out the article and use the social sharing icon to it with others.

What if the power to transform yourself was the power to transform the world? Two Sudanese ‘Lost Boys.’ Both fathers murdered during civil war. Both mothers forced into exile through lands where the only law was violence. To survive, they became ruthless loners and child soldiers, before finding mystic mentors who transform them to achieve their destinies. Separated by seven thousand years, and connected by immortal truth . . . "Epic. Intimate. Powerful. The transformative power of this book reignites stars and imaginations. This book is what the cosmos would read to enlighten itself!" - Zig Zag Claybourne, author of The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan and Afr…

This is for the coloring book project from the charity guild group on deviantart, mine is at 1:48+5:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTInog0-EqE if you are in deviantart , join the charity group i have felt very good about all the projects I have been apart of... many people talk about doing good, well here is a group that literally gets artists to do good. These coloring books will go to a bunch of kids who need all the positivity they can muster https://www.deviantart.com/goldenemotions/journal/Colouring-Book-Wrap-Up-1112011528 My image https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Colouring-page-for-charity-sickkids-of-canada-2024-105422…

Hi all, As Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month approach, I wanted to share information about my novel Arc of the Universe by Nikki Alexander which recently released in June 2025. The novel takes its name from the quote by Dr. King: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." The novel is contemporary and literary fiction about race, DEI, and police brutality in the context of big tech. In Arc of the Universe, a Black law professor has the opportunity of a lifetime to design a system of government for an experimental space settlement by a private tech company. But when she is stopped by the police one night …

MAY AUTHOR SIGNINGS AT HUE-MAN BOOKSTORE AND CAFE IN HARLEM, NYC Saturday, May 1st 11 A.M Miss Mellie Rainbow Reads to Kids Saturday May 1st, 4 P.M Devon Harris (Jamaica Bobsled Team) Keep On Pushing Tuesday, May 4th 6 P.M Victoria Rowell Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva Wednesday May 5th 12 Noon held at Gospel Uptown Pam Grier signs her Memoir FOXY Wednesday May 5th 7:30 P.M. Funny Man Daymon Wayans Red Hats Thursday, May 6th 6 P.M Torrey Maldonado Secret Saturdays Saturday, May 8th 4 P.M Financial Powerhouse Deborah Owens A Purse of Her Own Monday May 10th, 6 P.M Black Expression Mega Star Carol Mackey Sistergirl Devotions Tues…

Here are a just some of the recent nominees for 2011 National Book Awards. Dr. Manning Marable: http://aalbc.com/aut...ing_marable.htm Nikky Finney: http://aalbc.com/aut...kky_finney.html Yusef Komunyakaa: http://aalbc.com/authors/yusef.html Jesmyn Ward: http://aalbc.com/aut...esmyn_ward.html Carl Phillips: http://aalbc.com/aut...l_phillips.html