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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Terry McMillan's new book: It's Not All Downhill From Here

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I know many of you are stuck in the house during this Covid-19 pandemic. I also know that many of you love to read and so I'm highligh...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

13-year-old founder of Books N Bros wants to inspire black boys to read

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A 13-year-old has started a youth-led book club program to help empower boys through African-American literacy. Sidney Keys III told ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Tayari Jones wins the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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American author Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her fourth novel An American Marriage. At an awards cerem...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Michelle Obama's "Becoming" has sold nearly 10 million copies

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Former first lady Michelle Obama's best-selling memoir, "Becoming," has sold nearly 10 million copies, the parent compa...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Kamala Harris's new book 'The Truths We Hold'

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From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Michelle Obama's "Becoming" is best selling book of 2018

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Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" has become the best selling book of the year in the United States, surpassing Michael W...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

See the movie, read the book Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime

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Spike Lee's Black Klansman is being released this weekend. The movie tells the incredible story of Ron Stallworth, a black police of...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Wesley Snipes new book: TALON OF GOD A Novel about the Battle to Prevent Hell on Earth

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The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no f...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Book of the week: The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison

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America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, ...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Must Read: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democrac...
Sunday, August 06, 2017

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AMERICA'S MOST FORGOTTEN ASSET by AMIA P. WRIGHT

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Within this book, the author aimed to restore, rehabilitate, and mend African American Women and the community. The entire world has ack...
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

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New book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America by Stacey Patton A challenge to the cultural tradition o...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Underground Railroad'

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The Underground Railroad, an inventive and searing take on slavery in 1850s Georgia, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, addin...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

Book of the Day: Black Hollywood Unchained

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In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artist to examine and re...
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Mother of Michael Brown releases book about son's death and its aftermath

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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden—the...
Friday, April 08, 2016

New Book: Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

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National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man...
Monday, January 19, 2015

LOVE, a new collection of poems.

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Normally my blog reports on issues in the African American community. In this post I would like to publicize the re-release of my new ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Black author interview with Gerald R. Johnson author of Tainted: Book of Revelations

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As an author myself I know how hard it can be for authors to get publicity for their books. With that in mind I have decided to post sh...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Black author interview with Tiana Nicole author of Deceitful Temptations.

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As an author myself I know how hard it can be for authors to get publicity for their books. With that in mind I have decided to post s...
Saturday, June 07, 2014

Michelle Obama speech at Maya Angelou Memorial

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Here is Michelle Obama's emotional speech at the Maya Angelou Memorial held at wake Forest University on 06/04/14