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New Books for the New Year: Find your new favorite book for January (Post)

The new year promises to be an exciting year for books. With so many great titles releasing throughout the month, it's easy to miss out on what just might become your new favorite book. Here are f ...

Review: In ‘Between the World and Me,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a Searing Dispatch to His Son(Post)

Inspired by James Baldwin’s 1963 classic “The Fire Next Time,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, “Between the World and Me,” is a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today. It takes ...

Dimitry Elias Leger Loves Haiti: Author's Homage to the Homeland(Post)

Artist Natasha Roberts will do whatever it takes to escape poverty, even if it means not marrying the guy she really loves. That her husband happens to be the leader of Haiti, and is offering her a w ...

Book Review: A Negro and an Ofay, by Danny Gardner(Post)

One of the great things about independent presses is that they are often the first to bring new or emerging voices to market. Craig T. McNeely’s Double Life Press is one such indy press, fairly new t ...

The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature(Post)

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 num ...

BOOK REVIEW: Isabel Wilkerson Reviews Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Homegoing’(Post)

HOMEGOINGBy Yaa Gyasi305 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.From the floor of the dungeon, I could see a fragment of sky through an air hole near the ceiling, a tree length beyond reach and too small for a ...

‘Stokely: A Life,’ by Peniel E. Joseph(Post)

Sourced from William Jelani Cobb of the New York Times Born in Trinidad in 1941, Carmichael moved to the United States at age 10. His father, Adolphus, worked as a carpenter and cabdriver, and ...

KIRKUS REVIEW: Rose Gold by Walter Mosley(Post)

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, ...

BSU Graduate, Now Museum Director, Publishes Book on Trailblazing Black Educator(Post)

July 7, 2015Dr. Ashley Robertson’s Book Pays Homage to Bethune’s Social Justice WorkMEDIA CONTACT: Damita Chambers, dchambers@bowiestate.edu, 301-832-2628 (mobile)(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) – “Ten years a ...

For The Little Brown Girls: 8 Lessons From Misty Copeland’s “Life In Motion” Best-Seller | Newsone(Post)

This weeks Deal of the Week book is the Powerlist bestseller, Life in Motion, by the celebrated #african american ballerina, #misty copeland. This is a must read for mothers and little girls alike. W ...

Go On Girl! Book Club Announces 2013 Award Winners(Post)

Go On Girl! Book Club Announces2013 Award WinnersNew York, NY - April 2014 - Go On Girl! Book Club, one of the largest national reading organizations in the U.S. dedicated to supportin ...

Marion Barry's Life Takes Center Stage at D.C. Book Signing(Post)

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 trie ...