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Nordette Adams is a poet, fiction writer, journalist, and reluctant literary critic. As a child, she was often chided for reading books with a flashlight after her bedtime. Contact Nordette here.

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Narrative offers $25,000 book award

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

For you writers out there with the great novels gathering dust in your nightstand drawer, whip out and dust off for Narrative Library Book Award. If...
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What will poet Ishmael Reed say to poet Sapphire if Precious brings home Oscars?

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 · 5 comments

With all the talk of the movie Precious having ruled the NAACP Image Awards and speculation about how cast members Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'nique as...
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Spike Lee and others among stars in NBC's geneaology series

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Tonight NBC begins its ancestry and genealogy series "Who Do You Think You Are?" It airs 8/7c and is scheduled to run seven weeks....
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Van Jones makes a comeback, but will green future follow?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 · 1 comment

Van Jones said all the right words accepting the NAACP's President's Award at the organization's Image Awards show Friday night, Feb. 26. He reminded...
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Book includes Danziger Bridge case, addresses police brutality in New Orleans

While New Orleans residents still celebrate the Saints' long, hard road to Super Bowl victory and see a brighter future, the shadow of shame...
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Lucille Clifton's death and blogger's novel as movie tops weekly round-up

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This week's black books in blogs round-up begins with the Carleen Brice story. Bloggers are talking about their fellow blogger whose novel Orange Mint...
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Carleen Brice talks about LMN's Sins of the Mother and writing fiction

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Carleen Brice's book, Orange Mint and Honey, has been made into a Lifetime Movie Network movie called Sins of the Mother, starring Jill Scott. The...
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Debunked Sophia Stewart vs. The Matrix story still circulates web

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No, Sophia Stewart, an African-American writer who claims the the Wachowski brothers stole The Matrix Trilogy from her, never won a copyright...
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For the Love of Ivy: Had the movie been a book, it would be first black romance novel

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, the African-American Books Examiner eyes African-American romance novels. The black romance novel is young, meaning...
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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 middle,...
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