Stories Collection

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