Black Books, Black Voices

Mother s Day Stories
Mother s Day Stories: A Lifetime of Appreciation in a Few Words The Defenders Onlinehttp://tinyurl.com/troy-momI have a tribute to my mom here along with several well-known writers including: Martha Southgate, Jill Nelson, Tananarive Due, Bernice McFadden, Errol Louis, William Jelani Cobb, and the Reverend Al Sharpton.
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RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).

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Terry McMillan Speaks out on the ill of the publishing industry
The following link points to a letter, written by Terry McMillan, on the ills of the publishing industry. The letter addresses, among other things the hurt and pain, caused by these Tell-All Books that are so popular today.Visit http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/1/30333.html to read some very interesting commentary.
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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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Race Relations Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

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OK y’all this is big. Cheryl Woodruff, founder and former associate publisher of One World, Random House s multicultural imprint, has been named president and associate publisher of SmileyBooks.This will be an opportunity for Us to publish the kind of Black books we’ve all be claiming that the German conglomerates will not publish. Now I know it will not be easy and Smiley Books is not going to
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African-American Literary Industry Giants Gather in NYC
Book Expo America Recapby Kam Williamshttp://reviews.aalbc.com/book_expo_america_recap.htmBook Expo America, publishing s premier annual convention, was held this year at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City from May 29th to the 31st. On Saturday afternoon, black literary giants representing every area of the industry gathered inside the hall s African-American Pavilion for a reception
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The Best Black Book Search Engine Period!
http://thebestblackbooksearch.com Ok, despite the pretentious descriptor this is really a good way to query and learn about web sites that focus on books written by Black authors.I gathered all of the good web sites that I ve come across and restricted the Google search engine to return results from them. The sites include venerable institutions like Cushcity.com and Mosaicbooks.com, you ll also
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2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting - Denver, CO
As part of my role as a board member of the Literary Freedom Project, and a full page ad in Mosaic Magazine, I offered to help Ron work the table and help promote Mosaic Literary Magazine at the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Meeting.On the day I arrived in Denver (January 22nd) it hit 70 degrees. I was kicking myself for not bringing a lighter jacket. However, that concern
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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

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