Renown artist Charly Palmer and his wife, the dynamic sociologist Karida Brown have created a new book will be the must-have for all Black families: The New Brownies Book: A Love Letter to Black Families. You can preorder it here or by clicking on the photo above. They wanted to share about the book in their own words. It is below: A Love Letter By Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer Dear Reader: Within these pages we have set out to invoke the spirit of W.E.B. Du Bois’s original Brownies Book magazine. Like […]

Avery Goode is an Amazon best-selling author, who has penned nine Goode books, with a promise of more to come. Her latest, You, Me & She, is a typical page-turner. The synopsis: For recent divorcee Sophia Redding, dating sucked. In her opinion, the dating pool was full of piss. But just as she was beginning to think that she would never find love again, she meets her ideal man. By the time he reveals a secret about his life that […]

Tonya Comer has been named one of the Top 20 African American Interior Designers in the United States by the Black Interior Designers Network. She is principal of the boutique interior design firm, Tonya Comer Interiors. Her award-winning product designs have sold around the globe. She has also won awards for the roles she’s served as a community and business thought leader. As a global transformational leader, she serves as a speaker and workshop presenter helping people design their lives. […]

Terry J. Benton-Walker is the national bestselling author of Blood Debts, his magical young adult contemporary fantasy debut, which is out now from Tor Teen in the US and Hodderscape in the UK. Here is some of the praise Terry’s book has received: Terry J. Benton-Walker’s contemporary fantasy debut, Blood Debts, is “an extravaganza from start to finish” (Chloe Gong) with powerful magical families, intergenerational curses, and deadly drama in New Orleans. Most Anticipated from Buzzfeed, BookPage, Nerd Daily, and more. Featured […]

Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. Her stories have been featured on LeVar Burton Reads and Realm, and she is an executive producer on Shudder’s documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Due and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote for Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone and for Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also cowrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes cohost a podcast, Lifewriting: Write […]

Ruth P. Watson is the author of Blackberry Days of Summer, An Elderberry Fall, Cranberry Winter, and Strawberry Spring. A musical stage play, Blackberry Daze, is based on her debut novel. Her new book, A Right Worthy Woman, In the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank […]

Cecilia Rabess, a former data scientist at Google and Goldman Sach, is a new whose debut novel, Everything’s Fine, is a painfully funny, poignant, heartfelt novel that doesn’t just ask will they, but…should they? The book is is described as “a subtle, ironic, wise, state-of-the-nation novel, sharp enough to draw blood, hidden inside a moving, intimate, sincere and very real love story–or vice versa.” Quick synopsis: When Jess lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she’s less than thrilled to learn she’ll […]

Tricia Hersey is an artist, poet, theologian and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, an organization that examines rest as a form of resistance by curating sacred spaces for the community to rest via Collective Napping Experiences, immersive workshops, performance art installations, and social media. Her book, Rest Is Resistance, is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey’s lyrical voice and informed by […]

Jessica Wilson, MS, RDN (she/her) is a co-creator of the Amplify Melanated Voices challenge that went viral in 2020 and author of the power book, Her book, It’s Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies, is an anthem to weaponizing joy and build community. She is a clinical dietitian, consultant and author, whose experiences navigating the dietetic fields as a Black, queer dietitian have been featured on public radio shows and in print media, including the New York Times, Bustle, […]

John Blake, an award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together in his compelling book, More Than I Imagined: What A Black Man Discovered About The White Mother He Never Knew, which releases on May 2.   A Howard University graduate who is a senior writer and producer at CNN.com, where he writes about race, religion, and politics, John grew up in a notorious Black neighborhood […]