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Book Releases
Prince Memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ Coming Out in the Fall
April 22, 2019
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
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam – Washington Post’s First Black Woman Reporter
March 28, 2019
Pioneering Journalists Shares Her Story in New Memoir
AFFIRMED: One Woman’s Story of Racial Healing
March 28, 2019
“AFFIRMED: Life Lessons in Racial Healing and Transformation” is a compilation of thirteen uniquely different “life lessons.
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book Review
March 8, 2019
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.
WATCH: Authors of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” Discuss Book and Politics with Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper
February 15, 2019
WATCH: Authors of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics Land NAACP Image Award Nomination, Checkout their Conversation with Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper
New Author Releases Memoir – Surviving Forty-three Consecutive Years in Prison
February 12, 2019
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
Book Review: “The Truths We Hold, An American Journey”
January 31, 2019
She reflects fondly on a culturally rich childhood growing up in the Bay Area until the age of 12, when her mother took a job in French-speaking Montreal.
Ernest Withers: Undercover Agent for FBI or Forced to be a Spy?
January 24, 2019
Lauterbach’s book attempts a balanced and unbiased perspective on what Withers’ legacy will be: a traitorous informant who spied for the FBI or a blackmail victim forced to do as he was told.
Katherine Johnson, at age 100, is telling her life story
December 27, 2018
Retired NASA mathematician Katharine Johnson, who turned 100 last summer, has waited long enough to tell her own story.
Off the Shelf: Travel Through Time with ‘Black American History, From Plantations to Rap Culture’
December 20, 2018
As a Black Frenchman from Guadelopue, author Pascal Archimede realized that African Americans are inextricably linked to Black people around the globe, with shared roots from the mother continent of Africa.
Authors of ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics’ Book Tour Visits Los Angeles
December 20, 2018
By now, America has heard of the blue Democratic wave that surged in 2018, in large part to the constant support and advocacy of African American women.
Oh, the places Kyle Clark will go in his brand-new Hyundai Kona
December 6, 2018
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
November 22, 2018
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
November 16, 2018
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