Book Releases

Prince Memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ Coming Out in the Fall

NEW YORK (AP) — The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death is coming out Oct. 29. Random House confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that “The Beautiful Ones” will combine a Prince unfinished manuscript with rare photos, scrapbooks and lyrics. First announced just weeks before his 2016 death, the 288-page book will include an introduction by Dan Piepenbring, whom Prince had chosen as a collaborator. The memoir is an exclusive partnership with the Prince Estate. ″‘The Beautiful Ones’ is the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book Review

Over the course of the 150+ years since Emancipation, the descendants of slave owners have continuously operated to prevent Blacks from pursuing the American Dream. In the face of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, southern municipalities, cities and states passed Jim Crow laws denying African-Americans the right to vote, travel, buy land, possess a gun, get an education, and so forth. 

New Author Releases Memoir – Surviving Forty-three Consecutive Years in Prison

LOS ANGELES, CA.  – Knowledge Power Books and Malik Bookstore will host a book signing event for first-time author Edward “Renee” Harden on Saturday, February 16, 2019, 3:00 p.m. at Malik Books, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall, 3650 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., #245, Los Angeles. Harden was sentenced to seven years to life for murder at seventeen. With good behavior and being a “model prisoner,” he could have been released after serving seven years. He spent a total of forty-three years consecutive years and an additional two years in a transitional housing program. Thirty-one of those years he served

Oh, the places Kyle Clark will go in his brand-new Hyundai Kona

Thanks to Hyundai and Taste of Soul 2018, Kyle-Kyson Clark is one step closer to becoming the“modernday Dr. Seuss.” The 26-year-old Florida native and children’s book author is the 2018 winner of the 2nd annual Hyundai and Taste of Soul giveaway. Clark was selected out of over 100 video submissions. The requirement was a short video clip of contestants telling Hyundai how they make LA a better place.

Bill Duke: 40 Years On Screen & Behind The Camera

Many aspiring actors move to Los Angeles in hopes to find success. Some of them imagine themselves on red carpets, while others envision receiving their own Hollywood Walk Of Fame star. What happens when that illusion breaks and you have no idea what you should do? That’s the question legendary actor Bill Duke answered in his new book  “Bill Duke: 40 Years On Screen and Behind The Camera.”

‘BECOMING’ BY MICHELLE OBAMA SELLS MORE THAN 725,000 UNITS IN U.S. AND CANADA ON ITS FIRST DAY OF PUBLICATION

Penguin Random House announced today that BECOMING, the highly anticipated memoir by former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, sold more than 725,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on the first day of its publication, Tuesday, November 13. BECOMING’s first-day sales, including preorders, represent the largest single-day sales total for any book published in 2018 by Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher. BECOMING was published in the U.S. and Canada in print and digital formats by Crown Publishing, a part of Penguin Random House, with a first printing of 1.8 million copies