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The Power List is the only national bestsellers list promoting books written or read by African Americans. You may add the Power List, best-selling books list, to your website by downloading this file text file (powerlist.txt), and simply pasting it where you want the bestsellers list to appear. The location should be at least 640 pixels wide With just a few lines of code the Power List will be automatically updated on your website when a new list is available (currently once a quarter). …

The African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) recently published an article outlining the top cities for African American readers. A variety of factors were used in their evaluation, including number of library visits per capita,number of book events for African American readers;number of African American book clubs, andnumber of African American book stores.After reading this article, not only did I come away with respect for the amount of effort AALBC put into delivering this informati …

Meet the Author Featuring O.H. BennettMahoganyBooks is proud to announce O.H. Bennett as the featured author of November's Meet the Author Book Signing & Author Talk. A resident of Fairfax, VA, O.H. Bennett's fourth novel, Recognition, represents a departure from his earlier works, characterized by rich depictions of African-American families rendered in quiet but powerfully charged prose. These qualities are present in Recognition, but with the addition of a twisting plot and thriller-like …

Easy Rawlins, who once spanned years between volumes, takes his third case of 1967. Or rather, his third batch of cases.What are the odds that the LAPD would not only press Easy (Little Green, 2013, etc.) to take a job, but offer to pay him for it? But that’s exactly what Roger Frisk, special assistant to the chief of police, does. If Easy will look for international weapons manufacturer Foster Goldsmith’s daughter, Rosemary, who’s gone missing from UC Santa Barbara, Frisk will pay him $6,000, w …

MahoganyBooks is excited to close out another successful Books for the Block campaign. This initiative allows us to partner with DC area organizations and media outlets to support the gift of literacy. We collect new and gently used children's books throughout the region and then turn around and give them away to children in our communities.  A big thanks goes out to our 2014 partners: emPower Magazine, WPFW Radio, Prince William County Friends of the Chinn Library, Boys & Girls Club o …

Celebrate Sonia!The Official NYC 80th Birthday Party for SONIA SANCHEZ!Friday, September 19, 2014 6 pm - 9 pmBedford Hall 1177 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn NY, 11216$35 at celebratesonia.eventbrite.comPerformances by: Ursula Rucker jessica Care moore Remarks by Haki Madhubuti of Third World Press Music by DJ Reborn and more!This year marks a milestone for our beloved and dear sister Sonia Sanchez. She turns 80 in September. Sister Sonia has a been a shining light in all of our lives, th …

The Zora Neale Hurston / Richard Wright Foundation Calls for Submissions for the 2015 Legacy AwardsThe Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are the premier literary awards presented to Black writers by their peers. The Legacy Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry each year honor the most accomplished and innovative writing published by Black writers from the U.S. and the Diaspora. All submissions must be made no later than November 12, 2014. "The Hurston/ …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPower List Announces Best-Selling African-American Books for Summer 2014New York, NY, August 5, 2014Autobiographies and books with political themes dominated both the hardcover and paperback non-fiction portions of the Power List, the quarterly compilation of best-selling books written or read by African Americans, which was released today. The one notable exception was a health-related book, 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 10 Days by nutritionist and …

Click here to view original web page at washingtoninformer.comAfter more than 40 years in public life, former mayor and Ward 8 Council member Marion S. Barry Jr., has finally written a book that tries to capture a full life that has taken him from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis to Washington, D.C.To many black Washingtonians, Barry, 78, is Washington because in the 40 years since attaining Home Rule, his name has stood out as the one that’s synonymous with the varied political fortunes of the …

MahoganyBooks Hosts Books for the Block: A Community Wide Book Drive to Collect Thousands of Books for Area YouthWoodbridge, VA June 9, 2014—MahoganyBooks announced last week that their Books for the Block book drive campaign will run this year from June 1 through September 1, and benefit youth in the Washington, DC Metropolitan region. In an effort to increase both access to literature and the love of books, residents of Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC are urged to clean off their …