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Adult Swim's Boondocks and its creator Aaron McGruder take on Tyler Perry

It's possible that the Boondocks, Season 3/Episode 8 entitled "Pause," video may not be available online for long, but last night Twitter...
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Oprah Takes On The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO

The Associated Press reports and GalleyCat echoes that talk show host Oprah Winfrey is teaming up with producer Alan Ball to make a movie of the...
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Novelist gives book marketing tips for fiction writers using social media

On Saturday, March 20, the African-American Books Examiner interviewed novelist and social media maven Ananda Leeke. She is the author of two books...
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Lucille Clifton's death and blogger's novel as movie tops weekly round-up

This week's black books in blogs round-up begins with the Carleen Brice story. Bloggers are talking about their fellow blogger whosenovel Orange...
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Black history education kicks off this week's blogs round-up

Black History Month kicks off this week's round-up of blog posts on black books and ends with an extra tidbit on the 1949 movie Pinky. In the...
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Black books blogger round-up February 2

This week's round-up of blog posts on black books begins with an event for writers, specifically poets. However, it ends with a event for authors...
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Alice Walker tops black books blogger round-up with poem

While she is not a black books blogger, meaning that her blog does not focus on books by black authors, writer Alice Walker opens this week's black...
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Whitewashing black books draws fire again

The whitewashing of black books tops this week's African-American books blogger round-up at African-American Books Examiner. Here are this week's...
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Black Books Blogger Roundup, January 12

Once a week, the African-American Books Examiner will search the blogosphere for posts about African-American books,writingor publishing. Here are...
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Murdered Writer's Journal Helped in Arrest of Suspect

In December over what was Christmas break for students at Indiana University, Bloomington, Michael J. Griffin, a white male and former U.S. Marine,...
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