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Stories Collection

- I count myself among the many African Americans who begin each new year with a period...
- A commemorative bench created by artist Seitu Jones was installed in Brooklyn's Fort ...
- Shortly after World War II--in 1949--Harlequin Romance was born; thus began the roman...
- Black speculative fiction is definitely on the rise. Dark Matter: A Century of Fictio...
- Tavis Smiley is being pushed out of his office. A papery gang, peopled by Bebe Moore ...
- I was reading The Langston Hughes Reader and found an interesting article that Hughes...
- Patti LaBelle's correct birthday is May 24, not October 24.
COPYRIGHT 2002 Cox, Mat...
- Chicago writer and media activist Stephanie Mwandishi Gadlin received the Zora Neale ...
- The history of slavery rewritten with Africans as masters and Europeans as slaves, Af...
- The Internet boom of the late 1990s produced a wave of E-business companies, Web site...
- With her novels If I Could and Rhythms, Donna Hill has proven that black romance writ...
- Every so often, literary scholars seem to want to dissect an author's body of work, h...
- Why didn't The Long Road to Freedom release as planned?
Harry Belafonte: The piece ...
- If there's one thing black online booksellers understand it's that their sites have t...
- Five major publishers tossed in bids for the rights to We Wear the Mask: The Life and...
- Over the last decade, works by African American writers have been flying out of Phila...
- Novelist Marita Golden founded the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 1990 to preserve and ...
- Michele: The information here is invaluable. Find out about the African American west...
- Aaliyah Biography Available From MTV books
Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, a biography ...
- Audio books are an excellent way to introduce African American children to their hist...
- In the Tribute to Alex Haley "Generous Mentor" by A'Lelia Bundles, Jackie Naipo, Alex...
- A launch party for Van Whitfield's new book, Guys In Suits, was held at the home of J...
- African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone by Alec Campbell, photographs by ...
- Dear Dr. Rosie:
I am a self-published author, and as part of my promotional efforts...
- Joy by Victoria Christopher Murray Walk Worthy Press, November 2001 $23.95, ISBN 0-44...
- Near Perfect by Sharon Mitchell Dutton, October 2001, $23.95 ISBN 0-525-94621-7
The...
- Eight Habits of the Heart by Clifton Taulbert Penguin, 1999, $9.95 ISBN 0-140-26676-3...
- Agent Djana Pearson-Morris has sold Proverbs to the People, a short story collection ...
- At forty-two, Monique Greenwood, with her husband, Glenn Pogue, is the owner of bed-a...
- The Art of Elizabeth Catlett by Samella Lewis Snowfire Publishing LLC, June 2001, $20...
- We are weeks beyond the September 11th tragedy, but not past the pain and our private...
- Addicted by Zane Pocket Books, October 2001, $14.00 ISBN 0-743-44284-9
Zoe Reynard ...
- Between Brothers by C. Kelly Robinson Villard, October 2001, $13.95 ISBN 0-375-75772-...
- Kwanzaa by A.P. Porter, Illustrations by Janice Lee Porter Carolhoda Books, Inc., 199...
- Push-Push! And Other Stories by Sindiwe Magona Beacon Press, June 2001, $14.00, ISBN ...
- Child of Promise: One Woman's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph by Cheryl Green Broadma...
- Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurs...
- Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern by Reuben A....
- It's Kwanzaa Time! by Synthia Saint James Little Simon, October 2001, $5.99 ISBN 0689...
- The Orphan Girl and Other Stories West African Folktales retold by Buchi Offodile Int...
- The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, founded by author Marita Golden and...
- Mike Glenn's voice deepens with passion and quickens with a kind of adrenaline rush, ...
- Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American ...
- Married Men by Carl Weber Dafina Books, September 2001, $14.00, ISBN1-575-66696-0
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- From the Soul: Stories of Great Black Parents and the Lives They Gave Us by Phyllis Y...
- Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Atheneum B...
- Great selections for your armchair travels or stepping out on the town Richard Wright...
- The literary world mourns the loss of two giants, David Earl Jackson and Glenn Thomps...
- Mass-market calendar publishers and black presses are opening the floodgates of Afric...
- Take two talented African American Internet professionals, add marketing savvy, a wor...
- A Chocolate Affair by Sheila Copeland BET Books, October 2001, $15.00 ISBN 1-58314-23...
- Hoop Roots by John Edgar Wideman Houghton Mifflin, October 2001, $24.00, ISBN 1-618-1...
- Hope and Family by Isabell Monk Illustrated by Janice Lee Porter Carolrhoda Books, In...
- Steppin' Out: An African-American Guide to Our 20 Favorite Cities by Carla Labat Aval...
- Take soul siren Patti LaBelle. Long before Patricia Louise "Patsy" Holte became one o...
- Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera Thre...
- News from the Publishing Front
by Michele D. Thomas
Publishers used to rack their...
- The Root Worker by Rainelle Burton The Overlook Press, June 2001, $24.95, ISBN 1-585-...
- Q--The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones Doubleday, October 2001, $24.95,...
- Play Therapy With Children in Crisis edited by Nancy Boyd Webb Guilford Press, August...
- African-American Holiday Traditions: Celebrating With Passion, Style, and Grace By An...
- Publishing circles are excited as major power broker Vernon E. Jordan Jr. prepares to...
- The events of September 11th have inevitably changed us all, but they will, if we ban...
- Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander Graywolf Press, October 2001, $14.00 ISB...
- OCTOBER SUITE By Maxine Clair Random House, October 2001, $23.95 ISBN 0-375-50630-6
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- The Harris Family by RM Johnson Simon & Schuster, October 2001, $23.00, ISBN 0-743-21...
- Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy by Bill Cosby Hyperion,...
- African American writers have hit major best-seller lists like never before. These au...
- A Swan Song by Janette Owens Oneswan Productions, June 2000, $12.00, ISBN 0-967-73120...
- The Red Moon by Kuwana Haulsey Villard, August 2001, $22.95 ISBN 0-375-50557-1
"To ...
- A Fool's Paradise By Nancy Flowers Wilson Flowers in Bloom Publishing, Marcli 2001, $...
- Sisterfriends: Portraits of Sisterly Love Essays by Julia Chance Photographs by Miche...
- Fonda's foray into the publishing business may benefit African American works. She re...
- In Our Own Image: Treasured African American Traditions, Journeys, and Icons by Patri...
- Self-publishing can be a challenge even for the most experienced veterans. But what h...
- When Butterflies Kiss by Sekou, Kiini Ubura Salaam, Elizabeth Clara Brown, T'kalla, N...
- The Rest of Our Lives By Dawn Connelly-Craig Waverly House Publishing, December 2000,...
- Ralph Ellison: Emergence of a Genius by Lawrence Jackson John Wiley & Sons, November ...
- Toisan Craigg has moved from Crown Publishing to Doubleday. She will work as assistan...
- Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs by Walter E.A. van Beek, photographs by Stephani...
- Water In A Broken Glass by Odessa Rose La Caille Nous Publishing, 1999, $15.00 ISBN 0...
- Futureland by Walter Mosley Warner Aspect, November 2001, $26.00, ISBN 0-446-52954-0
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- by Kim McLaurin William Morrow, November 2001, $24.00 ISBN 0-688-16905-8
Remember r...
- John Coltrane by Bill Cole Da Capo Press, 1993, $14.95 ISBN 0-306-8053-0
Biographer...
- Fall means a harvest of books by "newcomers" whom we read for the first time and hope...
- While riding the IRT from my Harlem neighborhood to our offices on 34th Street, I sto...
- Just Say No! by Omar Tyree Simon & Schuster, August 2001, $24.00 ISBN 0-684-87293-5
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- "When the rappers say `word' it is old. Our speech carries our whole existence."
Th...
- The Sound I Saw: improvisation on a Jazz Theme by Roy DeCarava Phaidon Press Inc., Se...
- Tupac Shakur's "Thug Life" and Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" are the descendants of the ghett...
- In a business that often tries to ride free with word-of-mouth, publishers are beginn...
- Snapshots is Love Picture Perfect by J. Jermayne Jaxson Publishing, 2001, $14.95 ISBN...
- He was not the kind of brother I had typically run into in a bookstore before, but he...
- Oscar Micheaux & His Circle: African American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silen...
- Ever After by Edwardo Jackson Striver's Row, October 2001, $22.95, ISBN 0-375-50636-5...
- necessary kindling: poems by anjail rashida ahmad Louisiana State University Press Se...
- Casting Shadows: Images from a New South Africa by Lesley King-Hammond, Mongane Wally...
- ROBERT "ICEBERG SLIM" BECK (1918-1992)
Robert Beck was born in Chicago in 1918. In ...
- A Ghanaian-born scholar marshalls all the evidence of the Old Testament's Akan origin...
- Whipping Switches & Peach Cobbler by Brian Egeston Carter-Krall Publishing, July 2000...
- Who's Qualified? By Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm Beacon Press, August 2001, $13.00 IS...
- Best Black Women's Erotica edited by Blanche Richardson Cleis Press, July 2001, $14.9...
- Bridges to Build, Rivers to Cross Mountains to Move by Kayo (Kraal Y. Charles) PAGAco...
- Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography After the Revolution Tim B. Wride, Cristina Vives a...
- Financed by actor/entrepreneur Wesley Snipes, Syndicated Media Group is publishing a ...
- The Spirit and the Internet say, "Click." See a book that interests you? We've includ...
- BlackFunk by Michael Presley BlackFunk Publishing, April 2001 $9.99, ISBN 0-970-59030...
- Self-published authors are going mainstream. Nichole Bailey-Williams' self-published ...
- Our Separate Ways By Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo Harvard Business Sc...
- Now is a great time for readers of African-American mysteries and thrillers: Their va...
- One of Alex Haley's `literary children' talks about how she received priceless guidan...
- The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 edited b...
- On-line business may not be for everyone--so weigh the pros and cons
Are you thinki...
- The only two historically black university presses in the U.S. have aggressive plans ...
- 10 Minutes Past Too Late by Anika Malone 1st Books Library, May 2001, $18.67 ISBN 0-7...
- NBC-TV weatherman and author Al Roker is doing another book with Simon & Schuster. Th...
- Whispers from the Cotton free Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkins...
- Sympathy for the Devil by Christopher Chambers Crown, September 2001, $23.00 ISBN 0-6...
- Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson Basic Books/H...
- From Def Jam Records to Def Poetry Jam, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons talks about the...
- Black Women in Publishing www.bwip.org/docs/clas.htm accepts and posts classified ads...
- African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by John O. Perpener...
- Black Thighs, Black Guys & Bedroom Lies by Hasani Pettiford Hasani Pettiford Publicat...
- It's been 25 years since literary master Alex Haley's Roots was first published in 19...
- Greenwichtown by Joyce Palmer St. Martin's Press, September 2001 $23.95, ISBN 0-312-2...
- Plain Brown Wrapper by Karen Grigsby Bates Avon Books/HarperCollins, August 2001, $13...
- Authentic Hair by Ademola Mandella, foreword by Malcolm-Jamal Warner Cosmic Nubian En...
- Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God by Russell Simmons with Nelson George Crown ...
- An edutainment site on the rise: www.kidzone.com
A great start to what could be a t...
- Authors reap what they sow in the ever-increasing high stakes adventure of self publi...
- Dear Dr. Rosie:
I've had great success with my self-published non-fiction book. I'v...
- Romance writer extraordinaire Francis Ray celebrated the release of her latest book, ...
- Too Beautiful For Words by Monique W. Morris Amistad Press, September 2001, $24.00 IS...
- Stormy Weather by Paula L. Woods W.W. Norton & Co., August 2001, $24.95 ISBN 0-393-02...
- Seven Soulful Secrets by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Doubleday, August 2001, $22.95 ISBN ...
- Urban Souls by Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou Urban Press, April 2001, $13.95 ISBN 0-97090...
- Wireless tech with a quickness
Attention handheld-lovers! Motorola's new Accompli 0...
- Never as Good as the First Time by Jonathon Michael Hicks Studio Publishing, 2000, $2...
- Hoops with Swoopes by Susan Kuklin with Sheryl Swoopes Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books...
- Bishop T.D., best-selling author, motivational speaker, and televangelist has partner...
- Soledad by Angie Cruz Simon & Schuster August 2001, $23.00 ISBN 0-743-21201-0
Angie...
- Special Interest by Chris Benson Third World Press, June 2001, $24.95 ISBN 0-883-7822...
- Joneeba!--The Exciting Workout and Fitness Program with the Dances and Drums of Afric...
- King of Rock: Respect, Responsibility and My Life With Run-DMC By Darryl McDaniels wi...
- Def Poetry Jam www.defpoetryjam.com
Michele: Get your word groove on at defpoetry.c...
- Tangled Web by Pamela Williams-Guinn Elton & Associates Publishing, June 2000,$13.95,...
- Music from the Sky by Denise Gillard, Illustrated by StephenTaylor Groundwood Books' ...
- BIBR participated in Book Expo America, the world's largest book trade show this past...
- Between Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey Dutton, July 2001, $23.95 ISBN 0-525-94603-9
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- One Dead Preacher by Tony Lindsay BlackWords, Inc., April 2000, $14.95 ISBN 1-888-018...
- New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Li...
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