A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader.

Other Noteworthy Titles - Brief article - Book review

A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports.

Book review

Acacia: Book One, the War with the Mein.

Brief article - Book review

Adventures and lessons await: a selection of children's and teen books that revisit old tales, introduce new characters, impart values and show some new moves.

Children's bookshelf - Children's review - Book review

Answered Prayer Guaranteed! The Power of Praying with Faith.

Brief article - Book review

At Home in the World.

An Evening With Caribbean Women Writers - Brief article

Aug. 24-25, 2007 Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago.

National Book Club Conference

Baseball: from the Negro leagues to MLB.

Major League Baseball - The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip through Buck O'Neil's America - Brief article - Book review

Beats, Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop.

Brief article - Book review

Black Issues Book Review best-sellers list.

Hardcover and paperback fiction and non-fiction books - Book review

Bringing the heat new young adult series.

Between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry - Brief article

Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought.

NONFICTION - Brief article - Book review

C. Vivian Stringer.

NONFICTION - Brief article

Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books.

Other Noteworthy Titles - Brief article - Book review

Cave Canem.

AWARDS - Brief article

Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies.

Brief article - Book review

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

AWARDS - Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Brief article

Chronicles of a Hot Stopper: The Rise of Devon Steele.

FICTION - Brief article - Book review

Coe Booth.

AWARDS - L.A. Times Book Prize Young Adult category - Brief article

Color Me Butterfly: A Memoir.

NONFICTION - Brief article - Book review

Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis.

It's about That Time: Miles Davis on and off Record - Brief article - Book review

Day-O!!! The Autobiography of Irving Burgie.

Brief article - Book review

Eric Jerome Dickey.

CONTEST

Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates School Dances.

Brief article - Book review

Farrah Gray.

NONFICTION - Brief article

Frankie Manning: The Ambassador of the Lindy Hop.

Brief article - Book review

From Spirituals to Symphonies: African American Women Composers and Their Music.

Brief article - Book review

Harlem Summer.

Brief article - Book review

In the beginning was the word ... Donda West--an English professor who has written a book about raising her hip-hop superstar son, Kanye West--reflects on issues of language, literacy and creativity.

Interview

Indigo Summer.

Brief article - Book review

Island women visionaries: how women writers are enhancing the Caribbean literary canon.

Janet McDonald 1953-2007: make some noise for the Project Girl.

Tribute - Obituary

Jeff Henderson.

NONFICTION - Brief article

Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image.

Noteworthy Title - Brief article - Book review

Lil' Kim.

NONFICTION - Brief article

Looker.

Other Noteworthy Titles - Brief article - Book review

Man Gone Down.

Book review

Marcus Samuelsson.

AWARDS - James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award - Brief article

Marvelous World: The Marvelous Effect.

Brief article - Book review

May/June's celebrations, gatherings and observances.

From the editors - Editorial

Moe Brighthaupt.

NONFICTION

No Momma's Boy: How I Let Go of My Past and Embraced the Future.

NONFICTION - Brief article - Book review

Nothing But Drama.

Brief article - Book review

On May 30, 2007, Up South Inc., and Hue-Man Bookstore present 'Jammin' With Baraka Fundraising Gala.'.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Brief article

Peniel E. Joseph.

AWARDS - Mark Lynton History Award - Brief article

People get ready for another Cosby book.

Between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry - 'Come on, People!: On the Path From Victims to Victors' by Bill Cosby - Book review

Ralph Ellison: A Biography.

Book review

R&B diva Faith Evans with Aliya King's Keeping the Faith, about the author's romantic yet stormy marriage to hip-hop legend Notorious B.I.G. to Karen Thomas at Grand Central, in a significant deal, at auction, by Marc Gerald at The Agency Group.

NONFICTION - Brief article

Revising the Caribbean canon: Caribbean women writers take their stories beyond Anglocentric traditions.

Rooted in the written word: cosmetology, history and business training are at the heart of a book club in California.

Books & clubs

School of hip-hop: urban educators devise innovative hip-hop curricula to help elementary and secondary students succeed academically.

She's Gone.

Book review

Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Brief article - Book review

Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.

Book review

Sleeping With Strangers.

Brief article - Book review

Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, AI Green, Phoebe Snow).

Brief article - Book review

Sterling Brown's A Negro Looks at the South.

Book review

The Biography of Dr. Dre.

Brief article - Book review

The Caribbean International Literary Festival.

Brief article

The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak.

Book review

The Femme Fantastik Tour.

NATIONWIDE - Brief article

The Get a Life Campaign: A Pocket Guide for the Busy Woman Who Wants It All.

NONFICTION - Brief article - Book review

The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification.

Brief article

The Gospel According To Rev. Walt 'Baby' Love: Inspirations and Meditations From the Gospel Radio Legend.

NOTEWORTHY TITLES - Brief article - Book review

The Gospel Remix: Reaching the Hip-Hop Generation.

Book review

The Notorious Ph.D.'s Guide to the Super Fly '70s: A Connoisseur's Journey Through the Fabulous Flix, Hip Sounds, and Cool Vibes That Defined a Decade.

Brief article - Book review

The Original African Heritage Study Bible (King James Version).

NOTEWORTHY TITLES - Brief article - Book review

The route to riches: business strategists and entrepreneurs map the way to make more green in a recent crop of books.

The Sacred Place.

Book review

The 3rd Annual Nyack Library African-American Author Conference & Book Fair.

NYACK, NEW YORK - Brief article

To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic.

Book review

Victoria Christopher Murray.

FICTION - Brief article

Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing.

Book review

Weapons of Mass Seduction: A Novel to Unleash the Sensual You.

Book review

Where there's a will ...

Between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry

Yardies: The Making of a Jamaican Posse.

FICTION - Brief article - Book review