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Stories Collection

- If the 50th anniversary celebration of Brown v. Board of Education is muted in many s...
- I am a black man who was born, raised, educated in the Deep South during the era of &...
- Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele W.W. Norto...
- The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips Soho Press, Inc., January 2004 $26.00, ISBN 1-5...
- Winners of the 2004 Black Caucus of the American Library Awards will pick up their ho...
- Thirteen years ago, Tracy Mitchell-Brown opened the doors of her Brooklyn brownstone ...
- Dax Devlon-Ross's Outside the Box: Profiles of African Americans Who Transcend Stereo...
- What will future generations know about the great mass movement for racial equality t...
- I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN BOOK PUBLISHING for more than twenty years and a subscriber t...
- 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. by Mark Kurlansky Ballantine Books, January 200...
- Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant St. Martin's Press, Jun...
- Halle Berry, will produce and star as a civil rights attorney in a film based on Nath...
- Hardcover
Fiction
1. Nervous/Zane (1)
($24.00, Atria Books, ISBN 0-743-45705-6)...
- Rebecca Carroll's narrative nonfiction on the legacy of Booker T. Washington, sold to...
- The Akwaaba D.C., the third bed-and-breakfast operated by Monique Greenwood, is a boo...
- ON THE BEHALF OF THE BLACK CAUCUS OF the American Library Association-Connecticut Cha...
- The Michael Eric Dyson Reader by Michael Eric Dyson Basic Civitas Books, January 2004...
- Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney-Whetstone William Morrow, April 2004 $24.95, I...
- The Icarus Girl, by Helen Oyeyemi, a 19-year-old Nigerian student at Cambridge Univer...
- Edward P. Jones's first novel, The Known World (Amistad/HarperCollins), won the ficti...
- Urban fiction. Street fiction. Hip-hop fiction. This genre's growth by any name can b...
- In the article "Slam or Be Slammed" (March-April 2004), the photograph show...
- Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex. by Marita Golde...
- Voices From the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines by Mary Ellen Doyle Louisia...
- In the rarefied world of haute cuisine, a black executive chef is indeed all anomaly....
- An historical novel, Kingston by Starlight, by Christopher John Farley, a senior edit...
- Anita Diggs has joined The Literary Group as an agent in New York, charged with bring...
- Special occasion keepsake box: Initials, dates, quotations, or the occasion itself ca...
- JR Lankford's The Jesus Thief, a biomedical thriller about the theft of DNA from the ...
- Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mo...
- Fourplay: The Dance of Sensuality by Brenda L. Thomas Pocket Books, March 2004 $12.00...
- The Devil's Garden by Adrian Matejka Alice James Books, October 2003 $13.95, ISBN 1-8...
- Zadie Smith's novel On Beauty and a nonfiction book about writing, Fail Better, to Si...
- Amber Communications Group, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona, reached an agreement to become...
- Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art Edited by Al...
- Mass-market paperback rights to Jill Nelson's Sexual Healing, sold to Liate Stehlik a...
- Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and ...
- Imani in Never Say Goodbye by Jackie Hardrick Enlighten Publications, March 2004 $15....
- HYATTSVILLE, MD -- As Jayson Blair answered questions from interviewer William E. Cox...
- Kayla Perrin's The Sweet Spot, about a jinxed pro-football player, to Lucia Macro at ...
- ATLANTA, GA
The Atlanta Daily World and the Auburn Avenue Research Library present ...
- Black: A Celebration of a Culture by Deborah Willis Hylas Publishing January 2004 $35...
- Evie Rhodes, a.k.a. Prophecy 1, gospel/hip-hop artist and songwriter landed a two-boo...
- In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative Edited by He...
- Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux W.W. Norton & Company...
- In a lush valley ringed by cloud-draped mountains, the idea of my book was born. I di...
- Nina Foxx's next love novel Marrying Up, to Carrie Feron at Avon, for publication in ...
- BookExpo America (BEA), returns June 3 to McCormick Place in Chicago, where it has me...
- Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan by William A. Fagaly, with e...
- Rosalyn Story's debut novel More Than You Know, about a marriage of musicians, sold t...
- To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-196...
- In this issue, we pay tribute to the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education...
- The largest growth ever of blacks in the retail bookstore business came in the period...
- Pamela Newkirk's African American Life in Letters, epistles collected from from slave...
- Fifty years after the landmark May 17, 1954, Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of...
- Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music. by Lloyd Bradley, with photographs by Dennis Mor...
- Monsieur de Saint-George: Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary, A Legendary Life Redisc...
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel by Alice Walker Random House, April 2004 ...
- Whoopi Goldberg will apply her special brand of humor to a line of children's books f...
- Black Issues Book Review's editor for children's books, Suzanne Rust, chose several b...
- Venus and Serena Williams' Venus and Serena: Serving From the Hip, an account of thei...
- In January, Elaine R. Jones announced that effective May 1 she is stepping down as Pr...
- Edited by Danny Simmons Atria Books, September 2003 $20.00, ISBN 0-7434-7621-2
Dann...
- According to John Picton, in his essay "Seeing Double," "Yoruba people were said to h...
- In and Out of Our Right Minds: The Mental Health of African American Women
Edited b...
- by A. A. Clifford Hardbooks, March 2003 $13.95, ISBN 0-972-48040-4
In this futurist...
- The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life
by Denene Millner, Angela Burt-Murray and Mit...
- by Angela Johnson Simon Pulse, November 2003 $4.99, ISBN 0-689-86388-8
A 12-year-ol...
- While BIBR is devoted to books about African American culture and literature, we deci...
- In one of Countee Cullen's poems in eluded in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse by...
- Earl Cox, founder of Writersandpoets.com, fuels publishing success can be leveraged v...
- by Nikki Giovanni William Morrow, December 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-060-54133-4
Nikki Gi...
- by Toni Blackman Villard, August 2003 $16.95, ISBN 0-375-50914-3
Readers can grasp ...
- A down-to-earth material such as clay, or mud, so to speak, has been used to build so...
- The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game
by Oscar Robertson Rodale Books, November 200...
- by Caryl Phillips Knopf, October 2003 $23.95, ISBN 1-400-04109-0
This award-winning...
- by Dr. Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint Atria Books, November 2003 $27.98, ISBN 0-74...
- Selected and illustrated by Ashley Bryan Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas...
- Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist
by Lesa Cline-Ransome Illustrated by James E. Ransom...
- The former home of Carter G. Woodson, who championed the study of Africa American his...
- BALTIMORE, MD
Jambo, Watoto! African American Children's Book Festival, sponsored b...
- Seize the moment! If this is the year you committed to writing or perhaps self-publis...
- by Duriel E. Harris Elixir Press, October 2003 $14.00, ISBN 1-982-41800-8
Debut col...
- by Renee Gladman Krupskaya, September 2003 $11.00, ISBN 1-928-65018-X
A series of l...
- Recent years have witnessed a growing awareness of the crucial role photography plays...
- Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Edited by Jacob Haye and Karolyn Ali Atria Books, Oc...
- by Russell J. Rickford Sourcebooks, Inc., November 2003 $35.00, ISBN 1-402-20171-0
...
- by Kim L. Siegelson, pictures by Lisa Cohen Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Childr...
- Not even a raging December snowstorm kept people away from Brooklyn's largest African...
- K'wan, author of Gangsta (Triple Crown Publications; October 2002), and Road Dawg (Tr...
- It crowns the jewels of African American literature for children and young adults, an...
- Charm, technology and Caribbean-seasoned magic are the vehicles Nalo Hopkinson uses t...
- by Quraysh Ali Lansana Third World Press, April 2004 $20.00, ISBN 0-883-78257-X
Man...
- This book, published in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum to accom...
- by Darrin Keith Bastfield Da Capo Press, September 2003 $15,00, ISBN 0-306-81295-9
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- by Kimberla Lawson Roby William Morrow, January 2004 $19.95, ISBN 0-06-056849-6
The...
- by Alice Mead Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2003, $16.00, ISBN 0-374-37288-8 Ages 9-12...
- Nikki Turner, author of the The Hustler's Wife (Triple Crown Publications, March 2003...
- Today's black poets find themselves in an interesting (though not necessarily unique)...
- Northerners, and perhaps New Yorkers especially, have a tendency to regard slavery as...
- by Saul Williams MTV Pocket Books, September 2003 $11.95, ISBN 0-743-47079-6
If you...
- by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon University of Pittsburgh Press, November 2002 $12.95, ISB...
- by Kandia Crazy Horse St. Martin's Press, January 2004 $17.95, ISBN 1-403-96243-X
M...
- by Trisha R. Thomas Crown Publishers, February 2004 $22.00, ISBN 1-400-004874-5
In ...
- by Jeron Ashford Frame, illustrations by R. Gregory Christie Tricycle Press, Septembe...
- Hardcover
Fiction
1. Nervous/Zane (2) ($24.00, Atria Books, ISBN 0-743-45705-6)
...
- Kalisha Buckhanon's first novel Upstate, sold to Monique Patterson at St. Martin's, i...
- The blues haunts us, haints us, holds us tight to memory. Ancestor bound and rhythm r...
- The writings of Dr. Renita J. Weems can always be counted upon to impart loving truth...
- Edited by Wade Hudson Just Us Books, December 2003 $9.95; ISBN 0-940-97596-3
A swee...
- by Carole Boston Weatherford Xavier Review Press, July 2002 $10.50, ISBN 1-883-27511-...
- by Shawne Johnson Dutton [Penguin Group], February 2004 $23.95, ISBN 0-525-94810-4
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- by Tracie Howard Penguin Books, November 2003 $12.95, ISBN 0-451-20977-X
We all hav...
- Journalist Erica Kennedy's first novel, Bling!, about the hip-hop scene, scored the u...
- I still catch myself wondering how it all came to pass: One moment I was laud died in...
- Romance novelists have found great success over the past 10 years with the growth of ...
- When I met her, I knew we was going places. She finished high school.
[ILLUSTRATION...
- by Tracy K. Smith Graywolf Press, October 2003 $14.00, ISBN 1-555-97391-4
Smith, wi...
- by Latasha Natasha Diggs Surya Sounds, 2003 mszuliemusic@yahoo.com
The CD solo debu...
- by Bertice Berry Harlem Moon/Broadway Books September 2003 $11.95, ISBN 0-767-90989-5...
- by Darlene Johnson Villard/Strivers Row November 2003 $12.95, ISBN 0-375-75842-9
Jo...
- Larry Vincent Buster, author of The Art and History of Black Memorabilia (Clarkson Po...
- Imagine a room packed with people, in which five judge--picked at random--score poets...
- Never really a bold faced name even in African American letters, the literary achieve...
- by Lorenzo Thomas Blue Wind Press, May 2003 $19.95, ISBN 0-912-65277-2
This volume ...
- By Michael A. Eleyinafe American Book Publishing, November 2003 $14.95 ISBN 1-589-820...
- by Grace F. Edwards Doubleday, December 2003 $22.95, ISBN 0-385-50200-1
A taut, chi...
- FICTION
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips Knopf
Eden, Ohio by Shawne Johnson Dutt...
- Black Is Brown Is Tan
by Arnold Adoff Pictures by Emily Arnold McCully Amistad/Harp...
- Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the recording producer/entrepreneur, is set to play ...
- When Pearl Cleage is ready to work on a novel, a play or a column, she simply walks d...
- Were you asleep as the world converted from paper books to electronic books? No, pape...
- by Ruth Ellen Kocher New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, November...
- by Dr. Kirk Byron Jones Judson Press, June 2003 $13.00, ISBN 0-817-01445-4
Dr. Kirk...
- by Jake Lamar St. Martin's Minotaur, November 2003 $24.95, ISBN 0-312-28920-0
Have ...
- Based on the Paintings of Tim Brown by Audrey Glassman Vernick and Ellen Glassman Gid...
- Joyce Barnett is a devoted fan of author Margaret Walker. When this Louisville, Kentu...
- Dear BIBR,
I hope you're happy with the way the books to-film package ("Blair ...
- Five years ago, Black Issues Book Review was a brand-new magazine. We had, by God's g...
- Dorothy I. Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) since 1957...
- Kensington announced in October that it would once again publish books in the African...
- A first novel ForLove or Beauty by Tia Williams, Teen People magazine's beauty direct...
- It's always been something of a mystery how books are chosen in the first place for H...
- Haiti celebrates its bicentennial in 2004, dated from the hard-won independence secur...
- One Day I Saw a Black King by J.D. Mason St. Martin's Press, September 2003 $23.95, I...
- Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by St...
- Tom Feelings, a celebrated illustrator of children's books, died August 25, 2003, at ...
- For the fifth year, the Sistah Circle Book Club, Inc. will recognize self-published a...
- The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for 2003 were announced on October 11, 2003.
Debut...
- "Ever since I was a kid, I used to cut out pictures from catalogs to represent charac...
- Pierre Toussaint: A Biography
by Arthur Jones Doubleday, September 2003 $24.95, ISB...
- Souls of My Brothers: Black Men Break Their Silence, Tell Their Truths, and Heal Our ...
- Hardcover
Fiction
1. Naughty or Nice/ Eric Jerome Dickey
($17.95, Dutton, ISBN ...
- Gerald Boyd, the former managing editor of The New York Times, who stepped aside last...
- NATIONWlDE
The Fifteenth National African American Read-In Sunday, February 1, and ...
- Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton Pantheon, June...
- Planning a romantic getaway? Want an ideal place for a romantic interlude? The writer...
- Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Edited by Bre...
- Who's Gonna Take the Weight? Manhood, Race and Power In America by Kevin Powell Three...
- BIBR readers, it has been a delightful challenge to be your link to the world of blac...
- FYOS Entertainment, LLC, recently struck a royalty-inclusive deal with Writer's Diges...
- Oprah's Book Club Pick: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
"Mr. Jarvis, I can h...
- When Black Issues Book Review published its first edition for January/February 1999, ...
- Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Celebration of Black Prayer
by The Schomburg Cent...
- FICTION
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, by Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Books
A Dista...
- Imagine writing a novel, having 700 attendees at your release party, and selling 500 ...
- With this issue, Black Issues Book Review proudly celebrates five years of publishing...
- The Harlem Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections From the Abyssinian Baptist Church, wher...
- Lerone Bennett Jr.'s plan was to retire from 50 years of magazine journalism so he co...
- When the renowned illustrator and portraitist Al Hirschfeld died in January 2003, he ...
- Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud Doubleday, November 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-385-5...
- The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts by Colson Whitehead Doubleday, Oct...
- In 1993, the African-American Heritage Society of Pensacola, Florida, published the f...
- Just a brief note to let you know how fabulous the dialogue article turned out. ["Thi...
- A sequel to Kimberla Lawson Roby's novel about a philandering minister was sold by he...
- It is estimated that 12 million to 15 million people taken from Africa were shipped t...
- For more than 50 years, Betye Saar has sought to achieve mastery in her artwork and t...
- Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do
by Pearl Cleage One World/Ballantine Books Septe...
- America Behind the Color Line: Dialogue with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, ...
- The December 2003 holiday grand opening of a 22,000 square-foot flagship store makes ...
- I received my first copy of Black Issues Book Review a few days ago. It's visually ar...
- Huey: Spirit of the Panther, by David Hilliard with Kent and Keith Zimmerman's, a por...
- You believe the stereotype perhaps: Librarians are somber souls who stand up from beh...
- Whether disaster strikes in Ethiopia, Croatia, Indonesia, Somalia, Vietnam, or on the...
- Baggage Claim
by David E. Talbert Simon & Schuster, October 2003 $22.00, ISBN 0-743...
- Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
by John D' Emilio The Free Press,...
- The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 11: Works for Children and Young Adult...
- DAPHNE MUSE'S ARTICLE "BOOK'EM!" REALLY gave my courtroom a boost (see BIBR, Septembe...
- Dreamland, a new novel by Martha Southgate, about the lives of three generations of A...
- Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Cr...
- MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS lives in an old kitchen, but you'd never know it. The architectur...
- Night Journey
by Murad Kalam Simon and Schuster, October 2003 $23.00, ISBN 0-743-24...
- Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, And Challenges Of Black Fraternities And Soror...
- When Wade and Cheryl Hudson (at right) were unable to find books for their children t...
- The widow of athlete, activist and author Arthur Ashe, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, has d...
- Cornel West's follow up to Race Matters, to be called Democracy Matters, was bought b...
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