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Africana Reviews: The Dew Breaker Love in a time of sorrow.
10 Books Essential for Women's History Month From Angela to Zora!
Jayson Blair Comes to Harlem Going to meet the man.
What To Read Next: March Kiss those book blahs good-bye!
Harlem Book Fair

The 6th annual Harlem Book Fair will take place from Tuesday, July 20, to Sunday, July 25, 2004. This, the largest book fair of its kind, is expected to draw more than 40,000 New Yorkers and visitors to West 135th Street (between Fifth Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevards in Harlem), from 12 PM to 7 PM. Visit for more info.


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The Africana QA: Octavia Butler

10 Children's Books Essential for Black History Month

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Africana Reviews: The Man in My Basement

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Top Books of 2003

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Vanguarde Bankruptcy Kills Three Black Mags

Africana Reviews: The Known World

The Africana QA: Novelist Edward P. Jones

Africana Reviews: A Distant Shore

Edward T. Jones wins 2004 National Book Critics Award
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Found on Boston Globe, Submitted by gdanyelz

It took ten long years for Jones to complete his novel that in effect airs a historical piece of what blacks...
Book tells stories fo extraordinary African-Americans
Posted on Sun 15 Feb 4:29pm
Found on shfwire.com, Submitted by desiflakes13

The National Visionary Leadership Project was founded by Drs. Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint it's mission...
Money Train: MTV Books Plucks Latest Author From Subway
Posted on Fri 9 Jan 11:36am
Found on The New York Times, Submitted by zmcedits

While pitching his self-published book, A Hip Hop Story in a subway car on a Brooklyn bound A train in...
The Token White Chick in The Cheetah Girls
Posted on Wed 27 Aug 4:04pm
Found on Ohio.com, Submitted by oochiwallah

The Cheetah Girls was finally made into a Disney Channel Original movie starring Cosby Show veteran Ravn...
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"You may all recall Shahrazad Ali's "The Black Man's Guide to Understanding the Black Woman." I think she's probably single-handedly the most..."

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