PATHFINDERS: The Journeys of Sixteen Extraordinary Black Souls by Tonya Bolden invites readers to travel back in time and meet some of the extraordinary black men and women in America who have achieved great things against the odds. These are people who dared to dream, take risks, and chart courses to success On March 18, 2017 events will be held in 8 cities (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, […]
Kim Fields, a star in front of the camera and behind it for nearly five decades, and a truly beloved pop icon, has signed up to write her memoir – Blessed Life – for Hachette […]
Jean Shafiroff kicked off her Successful Philanthropy: How to Make a Life by What You Give book tour in Tampa, FL, on Monday, March 14, 2016 with an appearance on national program Daytime TV, airing […]
Whitney Friedlander/Variety: Broadcaster, author and producer Tavis Smiley has signed an exclusive multi-year development and production pod deal with Warner Bros. Television Group that will allow him to develop new scripted television series for broadcast […]
Four Fabulous NYC Women Share Their Tales of Triumphs, Tragedies and Love Ladies Who Lunch & Love, the dazzling debut novel from former Essence magazine columnist and NAACP Image Award nominee, Nathan Hale Williams, is […]
New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with the twelfth installment in the Reverend Curtis Black series, The Ultimate Betrayal, which hits bookstores June 9. Alicia Black, daughter of Reverend Curtis Black, has […]
The Monkey on My Back (on sale June 23rd, 2015) is the intimate autobiography of Emmy Award–winning actress Debbi Morgan, best known as Angie Hubbard on the long-running soap opera All My Children. This compelling […]
Second Novel Inspired by Author’s Life of Crime Having had an epiphany while incarcerated, Roy Albert Andrade, a former gangster and ex-con, wrote a novel entitled “Cultivating The DNA of Crime.” The book was technically […]
The 23rd Annual African American Children’s Book Fair will be held on Saturday, February 7, 2015, 1:00-3:00 PM at Community College of Philadelphia, 17th Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA. The event is free and open […]
First African-American Radio DJ- Jack The Rapper Gibson If ever one man embodied the black experience in America, it was Jack The Rapper Gibson, known to the world as “Jack the Rapper.” Beginning with childhood […]