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My Sister's Veil
K.C. Marshall |
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7:33AM
Monda Raquel Webb |
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Life Is Like
A Soul Train Line
Monda Raquel Webb |
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Looking For Sweet Love
R.L. Byrd |
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Searching For
Tina Turner
Jacqueline Luckett
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Master The Culture
Vernon Martin |
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My Street
G. Fitzgerald Coaston |
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Life In The Paint
John D. Hollis |
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Hostage of Lies
Maxine Thompson |
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No Greater Love
Kwanza |
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Multiple Orgasms
London Kennedy |
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That Was Then, This is Now
Curtis Bunn
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Black Youth Rising
Shawn A. Ginwright
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Tour Secrets
Winkk |
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Hollyhood
Valerie Joyner |
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Desperate Dating
Faith Murphy Knight |
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Don't Let Mama Read This
Hadjii |
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Eleven Months of Hell
China Ball |
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Reflections In Black
Leon Mann Jr. |
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Letters To My Young Sisters
Stephanie B. Tillman |
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Curtis Bunn (chairman), founder and chief executive officer is the author of Essence No. 1 best-seller, "Baggage Check," and "BookClub" - a collection of short stories about the lives of the members of five different book clubs. Inspired to create the National Book Club Conference after meeting with several reading groups around the country and leaving each inspired by the experience. After 25 years as a sports journalist in Washington, D.C., New York and Atlanta, Curtis now is an adjunct professor at prestigious Morehouse College, where he teaches Sports Reporting. The Norfolk State University graduate also created The Bunn Group, Inc., (www.thebunngroup.com), a marketing and public relations firm in Atlanta. |
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Carol M. Mackey is Editor-In-Chief of Doubleday Entertainment's Black Expressions Book Club, a club founded in 1999 to celebrate the voices and visions of African Americans. Black Expressions has seen unprecedented growth and success in its short history, making it one of the most successful new clubs in the Bookspan portfolio.
Under Mackey's editorial leadership, Black Expressions was voted Best Book Club by the African American Literary Awards Show in 2006. The club won the same honor in 2004 during Mackey's tenure. |
| Recently, she has been featured in Heather Covington's Literary Divas: The Top 100 + Most Admired African American Women in Literature, a compilation of biographies about African American women who have powerfully impacted America's literary history. Widely recognized as a leading expert on African American literature, Mackey has appeared on the CBS-TV Morning Show in New York to promote African American books. She is frequently interviewed by Publisher's Weekly on the state of African American publishing and in 2005 was named one of the 50 Most Powerful African Americans in Publishing by Black Issues Book Review. |
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Linda Duggins is Director of Multicultural Publicity of Hachette Book Group, USA. As Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair, she has helped to create a nationally recognized venue that promotes literacy and literary expressions with writers of the Diaspora. An avid booklover, she is also the Co-leader of the African Diaspora Literary Group in New York City. Her work at WBAI Radio in NY brings relevant current events to the listening community on a weekly basis. Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Terrie Williams, Dexter Scott King and Deborah Mathis are among the many great authors represented by Duggins at Warner. |
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Terrie Williams: Owner and president of The Terrie Williams Agency, one of the foremost publicity firms in the United States, and author of New York Times best-sellers "The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed in Today's Fast-Paced Business World," "Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens," and "Black Pain: It Only Looks Like We're Not Hurting." Among Williams' clients have been the late Johnnie Cochran, |
| actor/comedian Chris Rock, music mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, among countless others. Williams initiated the Stay Strong Foundation in 2001, an organization that empowers youths. |
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Derek T. Dingle: vice president and executive editor of Black Enterprise magazine, Dingle is the author of "Lessons From the Top: Success Strategies from America's Leading Black CEOs." For more than a decade, he has covered the B.E. 100s, which profile the 100 largest black-owned businesses, and he recently served as writer for B.E. 100s Exclusive, a newsletter for CEOs of these companies. In addition to his role as the managing editor of BE several years ago, he served as president and CEO of Milestone Media, Inc., which was the nation's largest black-owned comic book company. |
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Terrie Williams, the author of four NY Times best-selling books, including "Black Pain: It Only Looks Like We're Not Hurting," was listed among the 150 Power List of the last decade by Ebony magazine. More than an author, Terrie is president of the Stay Strong Foundation. From Ebony: "Williams has transformed her personal battle with depression into a crusade to educate our community about mental illness." Please visit www.terriewilliams.com
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