Black Books, Black Voices

Juba to jive : a Dictionary of African-American Slang

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Two Years Ago - Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion
Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passionby Tanangachi Mfuni, Amsterdam News StaffOriginally Published Vol. 97 No. 40 September 28-October 4, 2006 2006, Amsterdam NewsWhen Harlemite Troy Johnson launched a website dedicated to Black books nearly eight years ago, it came out of a passion for Black people, he said.Today, Johnson s African American Literary Book Club (
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2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced
2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced http://books.aalbc.com/2008_essence_literary_awards_nominees.htm Would you believe I attended and forgot my camera! Actually I think I lost it today — cause I can’t find it. Bottom line I don’t have any photos to share. The awards program was a standing room only event. There were plenty of notable authors, celebrities, and book industry
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Contemporary Black Biography

Harlemnite Prays for Shootings… So Say the New York Times
Someone forwarded me a NY Times Article. The Times usually pisses me off when they write about Black folks ’cause they typically show the our most pathetic side.To be sure the NYT couchs these artilces in sympatheic terms and tone. But this is only to pander to their liberal audience at the expense of Black people.The late quote was from a Brother in Harlem about my age who said in response to a
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848

QuickStudy — Citing Sources
QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.

Karen Steffans Interviewed by AALBC.com
Karrine Steffans is the author of the New York Times bestsellering books The Vixen Diaries (2007) and the wildly sucessful and scandelous Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005).Confessions is currently [Oct. 2007] the all-time best selling book on AALBC.comI had a chance to interview Karrine, on October 3rd 2007, during the New York City leg of her hectic book tour for The Vixen Diaries: http://
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