Guest Kimberly Stowers Moreland is the author of African Americans of
Portland, a pictorial history. From hundreds of black and white and
sepia-toned photos, Moreland pieced together a slice of the local African
American narrative, one that reflects how prior to World War ...
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In her book Shop, Cook, Eat: Outside of the Box, author Chrisetta Mosley
tells how she lost 170 pounds by stepping outside of the prepared food box.
The goal is to help readers reconnect with their food and take control of
their health in very own kitchen using whole, natur...
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Author and academic Dr. David Imhotep discusses his book, The First Americans
Were Africans which asserts that Africans were the first Americans and that
they arrived 51,000 years prior to the Mongolians.
“Africans not only came before Columbus, but were in the Americas lon...
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Author Veronica Faye discusses her latest book, Gemini Jones: My Past Came
Knocking – The Savannah Wooten Case. The novel’s lead character,
Gemini Jones, is a successful African-American attorney who manages a
high-profile career while keeping her bipolar disorder in chec...
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Dr. Thabiti Lewis, author of Ballers of the New School : race and
sports in America, shares insights into the realities of race in sport
culture. Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come
along that effectively explains contemporary athlete...
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Newslady is the memoir of Carole Simpson a trailblazing African American
woman journalist. Simpson was the first woman the first African American
woman national network television correspondent, the first African American
woman to anchor a national network newscast and the ...
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Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is
Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of
her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of
their friends, neighbors, and business associates, ...
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About Never Dead by Jumata Emill Jones
Emerson McGee has spent most of his life living with a secret, and the
first-year law student’s menacing struggle with his sexuality is only the
half of it. His wife, Danielle, has her own scars, thinly veiled behind her
upper-middle ...
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Black Book Talk starts its "summer reads" series with an interview with
novelist Sabur IM. This Gen-Xer discusses his book Journey into a Man’s
Broken Heart with co-hosts Emma Jackon Ford and Patricia Welch. Says IM, "I
always heard people say, 'It's better to have loved a...
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