Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
If a Black man has no bread in his pocket, the solution to his problem is not integration. It’s to go get some bread.
—Floyd McKissick, the intellectual architect of Soul City, North Carolina
Seton Hall law professor Thomas Healy released ☛SOUL CITY: RACE,
There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission… MLK, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Frederick Douglass were all salesman. Hell, Nina Simone, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and every other black woman who achieved any leap of success was a saleswoman… Each and every one of these people was selling something more precious than gold: a vision.
Trailblazing actress Cicely Tyson died yesterday at the age of 96. The new author just released her memoir ☛JUST AS I AM [pub: HarperCollins] three days ago along with a virtual book tour including a conversation scheduled with Whoopi Goldberg yesterday and Tyler Perry on Monday,
Major congratulations to legendary mystery author the Valerie Wilson Wesley on the release of her latest book ☛A GLIMMER OF DEATH [pub: Kensington] today. I’m embarrassed to admit that I did not know that the woman behind the beloved Tamara Hayle series is thankfully still writing books.
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow‘s highly-anticipated book ☛THE DEVIL KNOW: A BLACK POWER MANIFESTO [pub: Harper] drops today. Catch the author of the bestselling memoir ☛FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] in virtual conversation with CNN’s Bakari Sellers on Wednesday,
Today we celebrate the release of 96-year-old working actress, Cicely Tyson’s memoir ☛JUST AS I AM [pub: HarperCollins] written with illustrious author Michelle Buford. It’s flooring that my earliest memory of the Emmy winner is watching her brilliant performance in 1974’s Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and that my most recent is last year’s Cherish The Day,
Somehow after performing her beautiful and brilliant poem, “The Hill We Climb” for the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman found time and the bandwidth to tweet that her forthcoming books ☛CHANGE SINGS: A CHILDREN’S ANTHEM [Viking Books for Young Readers] and ☛THE HILL WE CLIMB [Viking Books for Young Readers] are already topping Amazon’s best sellers list,
Novelist Ladee Hubbard‘s second book ☛THE RIB KING [pub: Amistad] releases today. The New Orleans-based author’s first book ☛THE TALENTED RIBKINS [pub: Melville House Publishing] not only won the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction,
ICYMI: We’re raising our glasses for National Book Award-winning author and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi who announced on his Instagram last Friday that Netflix is adapting three of his antiracism books ☛STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA pub: Bold Type Books],
