Black Books, Black Voices

Furious Flower Poetry Center
JMU The Breeze, VA - Nov 29, 2006 By Leila Saadeh, contributing writer. A woman s love for African-American poetry has expanded into a passionate, prominent poetry center at JMU.

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For readers, a new forum for black literature
DetNews.com, MI - Dec 10, 2006 Joy Bramble remembers when black writers struggled to attain their dreams and the attention needed to sustain them. “Now I can’t

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The Power of Blogs Part 5&Updates on AALBC.com
After all that talk about the power of Blogs, it is hard to believe that it has been a full month since my last update. Even now I’m thinking "I really can’t spare the time for this thing…, it is really another chore".However I remind myself of the real motiviation for setting this thing in the first place. One was to learn more about Blogs and use this thing in such a way that someone else
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Panel discussion entitled Their Eyes Were Reading Smut:
I attended a panel discussion entitled Their Eyes Were Reading Smut: The Impact of Ghetto Fiction on African American Literature which featured the following panelists (pictured above): Nick Chiles, author, and journalist, Nikki Turner, author of Project Chick , and Riding Dirty on I 95 http://authors.aalbc.com/nikki_turner.htm, Benilde Little author of "Who Does She Think She Is?", and
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Berkeley girl becomes ‘Deal’ case worker
Inside Bay Area, CA - Dec 7, 2006 “I went there thinking I would become a sports announcer or something in that line, but after talking to my Black Poetry professor about how much I loved

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Style Manuals
A selected list of sources available in WilsonReference Services.

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The Power of Blogs Part 4
Well it has been three weeks since the last post to my Blog. Hey it has been a busy three weeks with Christmas, New Years and everything else that goes on in the average life of someone with children and day job…I did spend some time looking a Blogs both big and small. I looked at big popular blogs like the Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/ smaller less popular blogs like the ones
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African American Newspapers
This collection of African-American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s. It also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which embody the African-American experience.This database will ultimately contain the complete text of seven African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century, including Freedoms Journal, The Colored American, The National Era, and The Christian Recorder. See Database Description for detailed information about individual newspapers.

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AALBC.com to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive Discounts
The African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com) to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive DiscountsThe AALBC.com will start selling self published books and small press titles direct to visitors of its web site at discounts ranging from 20% - 40% off list price. The AALBC.com receives an average of 250,000 300,000 unique visitors per month. The new
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Can Black people go 5 minutes without music?
…or rather why do we have to blast the music during every gathering?Having been back in Harlem now for about 4 years — after being away for over 20. There are plenty of improvements but one thing about this community that gets on my nerves is some folks apparent belief that we all want to hear their music or that it is fine to just blast you music out of your car, open window, or mobile boom
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