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On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives—and ours. A true fable, Permission to Dream by Chris Gardner is a timeless and timely book for turning dreams into action—beginning right now, from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness. On sale now wherever books are sold. More ▶

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AALBC videos have been viewed over 1 million times, but I can do a better job of making readers aware of them. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be sure you are notified when we’ve added a new video.

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AALBC’s Founder, Troy Johnson, hosts a conversation about the upcoming children’s book Papa’s Free Day Party with the book’s author Marilyn Nelson; Boley, Oklahoma’s Mayor, Dr. Frances Shelton; and Boley Town Historian, Judge Henrietta Hicks.

Leading independent children’s book publisher Just Us Books will publish Papa’s Free Day Party, a powerful new picture book by award-winning poet and author Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by award-winning artist Wayne Anthony Still this April. The book is based on the true story of Marilyn’s grandfather, who escaped a racist attack as a child, was taken in by a white family, and went on to build a new life in the all-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma. Watch the video ▶

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In this video, esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam describes his latest book, Cosmic Deputy. Representative poems from Salaam’s fifty years (1968 – 2019) of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet’s multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black literary aesthetic, Salaam explores the cultural inheritances of Black resistance movements, blues music, and the ways in which these sources and others have shaped not only his own work but Black letters more broadly.

This video was recorded at the Community Book Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Watch the video ▶

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Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of 23 books of poetry, nonfiction, and children’s literature. Lansana is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow and serves as Acting Director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, where he is also Writer in Residence for the Center for Poets & Writers and Adjunct Professor in Africana Studies and English. Watch the video ▶

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d. E. Rogers is a screenwriter and the author of thirteen novels. He is also an 8-time AALBC bestselling author with 5 bestselling books on our site. Here he talks about marketing, selling, and distributing his books. He also talks about how he uses AALBC’s platform to increase his books exposure—it is how he got my attention.

His most popular book, on our site, Black States of America: Real Black Power, follows an alternate timeline where President Lincoln lived. Watch the video ▶

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The third annual Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival is pleased to announce the 2021 BCLF Short Fiction Story Contest for:

1. BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers' Prize
2. BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean

The contest this year calls for stories that resonate with this year’s festival theme, A Tapestry of Words and Worlds, that explores and reveres the connections, ties, and bonds between the Caribbean ancestral lands and the diaspora communities they have birthed.

We invite submissions that speak to issues of land, justice, ancestral knowledge, belonging, ownership and oral histories; stories of pain, joy, grief, hope, return to memory; stories that critique and challenge the creative imagination to re-envision the world in the diaspora and the Caribbean. Learn More ▶

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Dear Reader,

As always, you are why we’ve been able to make AALBC the premier online platform for books by, or about, Black people. Your paid subscription, book purchases, suggestions, engagement on the site, commenting, social sharing, and advertisements helps support our mission to celebrate Black books and authors.

Peace and Love,
Troy Johnson
Founder & Webmaster, AALBC.com

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★ AALBC.com eNewsletter – April 14, 2021 - Issue #323

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