After Creating #PublishingPaidMe, LL McKinney Hosts Juneteenth Book Fest L.L. McKinney, the author behind A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, and the upcoming third novel in the Read More
‘The Vanishing Half’ Dominates the Charts Amid #BlackStoriesMatter Movement Brit Bennett’s long-awaited sophomore book sits in the number one spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list as Read More
Recognizing Racial Injustice Delays and Defines Announcements: June 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks The deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd and the subsequent worldwide protests to combat racial injustice affected Read More
#PublishingPaidMe Reveals Pay Discrepancies Between Black and White Writers Going into the third week of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, book Twitter went down another road Read More
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Agents Resign After Red Sofa Literary Owner Calls Police on ‘Straight Up Looters’ in Minneapolis As the death of an unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police in Minneapolis sparks protests, a local Read More
Saying Goodbye to Bookstore Entrepreneur Poppy of TV’s ‘Single Parents’ One of TV’s dream literary businesswomen is Poppy on ABC’s Single Parents. Played by actress Kimrie Lewis, Poppy owns the Read More
May 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks AMERIE’S BOOK CLUB Singer and author Amerie will read Deacon King Kong by James McBride with her book club. “James Read More
Book Review: ‘Such a Fun Age’ by Kiley Reid Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid My rating: 3 of 5 stars Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Read More
Quarantine Life Lessons From Nicola Yoon’s ‘Everything, Everything’ With most of the U.S. population under some type of stay-at-home measure, it may feel like we’re Madeline Whittier from Read More
‘Sistas’ Actress Novi Brown Starts a Book Club Novi Brown, who currently stars in BET’s Wednesday night hit Tyler Perry’s Sistas, has joined the book club realm. Naturally Read More
Author Jia Tolentino and Model Kaia Gerber Discuss What to Take From ‘Trick Mirror’ During Quarantine The novel coronavirus quarantine has produced another celebrity book club. Supermodel Kaia Gerber, daughter of the legendary Cindy Crawford, started Read More
Author Dhonielle Clayton Says Students Called Her a Racial Slur on Zoom The Belles author and We Need Diverse Books chief operating officer Dhonielle Clayton says she was called the n-word several Read More
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: Find a Way The Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere based on the best-selling novel by Celeste Ng came to end with its eighth Read More
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: Picture Perfect The latest episode of Little Fires Everywhere continues to pit two mothers and their children against each other during a Read More
Publisher Flubs Quarantine House Tweet by Forgetting Authors of Color Little, Brown and Company shared a quarantine house tweet Monday morning to its almost half a million followers, but it Read More
April 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks AMERIE’S BOOK CLUB Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Singer-turned-writer Amerie chose Kevin Wilson’s New York Times best-seller and Read More
Black Fantasy YA Authors Discuss How They Are Revolutionizing the Genre Up-and-coming Black fantasy young adult authors convened on a YouTube video chat hosted by Black Girls Create to go deeper Read More
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ TV Review: Duo The fifth episode of Little Fires Everywhere ventured into the backgrounds of two mothers in suburban Ohio at odds about Read More
When Maya Angelou Shared Her Wisdom on ‘Moesha’ In honor of Dr. Maya Angelou’s 92nd birthday, she lit will analyze the master storyteller’s unforgettable appearance on the 1990s Black girl Read More