Tag: Jay Z

• {New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018

  

  Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…

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  January 29, 2018

  in Every Issue, New Releases

  #1000blackgirlbooks, @AtriaBooks, @authorMsBev, @AuthorSaundra, @beingmrsjones, @Blakekarrington, @HarperPerennial, @IamCarlWeber, @iamgenesiswoods, @iammarleydias, @IyanlaVanzant, @JasonOverstreet, @JeanneTheoharis, @LLcoolJill, @MorganJerkins, @RebeccaRissman, @VanessaRiley, A More Beautiful and Terrible History by:Jeanne Theoharis, Alice Walker, An African American and Latinx History by:Paul Ortiz, Beneath The Darkest Sky by:Jason Overstreet, Best Laid Plans: A Hood Misfits Novel by:Brick & Storm, Beyonce, Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells, Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Blacksmith’s Song by:Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Booker T. Washington, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, Edwidge Danticat, Foolish by:Anna Black, Frederick Douglass, Get Over It! by:Iyanla Vanzant, Henry Louis Gates, Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories) by:Rebecca Rissman, If It Ain’t About The Money by:Saundra, Jamaica Kincaid, James Baldwin, Jay Z, Jr., Junot Diaz, Langston Hughes, Love Notes (Equilibrium Book 1) by:Christina C. Jones, Malcolm X, Marley Dias Gets It Done And So Can You! by:Marley Dias, Marlon James, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Michael Jordan, No Slam Dunk by:Cheryl Cooky & Michael A. Messner, Oprah Winfrey, Power, Roxane Gay, Solomon Northup, Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tempest by:Beverly Jenkins, Terry McMillan, The Bittersweet Bride (Advertisements for Love) (Volume 1) by:Vanessa Riley, The Family Business 4 by:Carl Weber w/ La Jill Hunt, Toni Morrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Dean Myers, Zora Neale Hurston

• {Excerpt} Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by:Valerie Graves

  

  INTRODUCTION MINING FOR GOLD IN MUDDY WATER . . . RETURNING THE PAGE The city of Pontiac, Michigan was celebrating its 150th birthday in March 2011, and my role in the festivities was “hometown girl made good.” Being honored as a lifetime achiever by Pontiac is no small thing—my hometown has produced two Olympic gold…

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  October 25, 2016

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  #PressureMakesDiamonds, @akashicbooks, @valgb, Akashic Books, Beyonce, Bill Cosby, Grosse Pointe, Jay Z, Johnnie Cochran, Lakeside Housing Project, Magic Johnson, Michelle Obama, President Clinton, Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by:Valerie Graves, Spike Lee, Valerie Graves

• {New Releases} Week 38 (Sept 12-18)

  

  Fiction Hidden In Plain Sight by:Sharon D. Moore Two Pastors. Two Penalties. One Shot at Redemption. When Philly-born playboy, Jason White, discovers a devastating family secret about the identity of his biological father, he launches an angry quest to find and confront the man. A lengthy investigation into his father, a prominent pastor of a…

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  September 12, 2016

  New Releases

  #BloodBrother, 1965, 1992 L.A. riots, @ben_westhoff, @bergnerdaniel, @DrJamesPeterson, @iLuvvit, @mikedays, @RWallaceBooks, @SandraNWallace, @SharonMWrites, Alabama, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Ben Westhoff, Blood Brother : Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by:Rich Wallace, Bloody Lowndes, Cee-Lo Green, Dr. Dre, East Coast / West Coast feud, Eazy-E from AIDS, Hidden In Plain Sight by:Sharon D. Moore, Ice Cube, Jay Z, Jonathan Daniels, Lowndes County, MC Ren, New Hampshire, Original Gangsta’s by:Ben Westhoff, Outkast, Rich Wallace, Sandra Neil Wallace, Selma, Sharon D. Moore, Suge Knight’s ascent at Death Row, the D.O.C., Tupac Shakur, Usher, voter registration

• {Book Attraction} Becoming Beyoncé : The Untold Story by: J. Randy Taraborrelli

  

  The first comprehensive biography ever published about America’s favorite living pop icon, Beyoncé, from New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. Beyoncé Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of…

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  February 26, 2015

  Book Attraction

  Becoming Beyoncé : The Untold Story, Becoming Beyoncé : The Untold Story by: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Beyonce, Beyonce Knowles, Destiny’s Child, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jay Z, Kelly Rowland, Matthew Knowles, Michelle Williams, New York Times, Parkwood Entertainment, Solange Knowles, Tina Knowles