By Felicia Pride, TheBackList.net Singer Akon has signed a book deal with rapper C-Murder's book ...
By Felicia Pride, TheBackList.net I didn't learn about Ida B. Wells until I was in college, which I ...
By Felicia Pride We pride ourselves on being strong. Shoot, we survived slavery, Jim Crow, and a ...
By Felicia Pride, TheBackList.net According to EURweb.com, a new book by the brother of James Earl ...
By Felicia Pride, TheBacklist.net Even after performing on Broadway as Walter Lee Younger in ...
By Felicia Pride, TheBackList.net Author Kim McLarin recently penned a piece called "Immersion ...
Essence magazine just wrapped up its first literary awards ceremony. I heard it was a smashing ...
Donna Hill published her first novel in 1990. Since then she's gone on to have fifty published ...
Not too long ago, I wrote about the potential closing of the historic African American bookstore Eso ...
Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy. He was a freedom fighter who knew ...
Even in the porn industry, Black folks get the short end of the stick. Okay, that was corny. But ...
I'm back. Hello BV fam. It feels like ages since my last blog back in '07. But a sista needed a ...
Is it me or did 2007 fly by like a speeding car? Actually I'm not too upset that it's over. Well, ...
I think books make a great gift. They're relatively cheap and they can be a rather simple decision. ...
There's been a lot of folks upset with how events/characters were portrayed in the film American ...
Nathan McCall, bestselling author of MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER, has returned to the literary scene with ...
One of the beautiful aspects of the written word is that it can be a historical reference that can ...
Media personality Tavis Smiley is expanding his publishing company SmileyBooks. The imprint, which ...
We've been talking a lot about fathers. So why not continue the discussion? Rameck Hunt, Sampson ...
I knew it was only a matter of time before Kanye West dropped his book. Especially since his mother ...