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Entrepreneur Aims To Open Orlando’s Only Black-Owned Bookstore

An entrepreneur is working towards opening Orlando’s only Black-owned bookstore.
by NewsOne Staff
01.05.19
El Cajon, CA Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Man
Novel Inspired By BLM Wins Prestigious UK Award

Angie Thomas’ ‘The Hate U Give’ won the Waterstones children’s book prize in London.
by NewsOne Staff
03.24.18
Zora Neale Hurston
The Last Survivor Of Transatlantic Slave Trade Told…

A book penned by late literary giant Zora Neale Hurston, titled Barracoon, will be released in 2018.
by NewsOne Staff
12.25.17
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Anacostia Gets First Black Bookstore In 20 Years

Entrepreneurs Derrick and Ramunda Young opened MahoganyBooks; the first Black bookstore in Anacostia in 20 years.
by NewsOne Staff
12.09.17
How Do We Get Black Youth To Read…

At NewsOne, we believe that the child who reads is the child who leads. In keeping with that idea, we…
by NewsOne Staff
03.15.18
Prolific Author Walter Dean Myers Dies At 76

Walter Dean Myers, the author of more than 100 young adult and children books, died yesterday. He was 76 years…
by Erica J. Edwards
07.03.14
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Maya Angelou: Timeline for a Phenomenal Woman
05.28.14
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Remembering Legendary Black Author L.A. Banks

Some of you may have heard of author Booker T. Mattison or of his current book, Snitch, a top seller…
06.19.19
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France Honors Toni Morrison “The Greatest American Novelist…

PARIS (AP) – Toni Morrison is “beloved” in France, the country’s culture minister said Wednesday, as he inducted the celebrated…
06.19.19
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GOOD NEWS: Students To Perform August Wilson Monologues…

MANHATTAN – The soaring, lyrical monologues of playwright August Wilson have been performed by some of the theatre world’s greatest…
06.19.19
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Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival Under Way

From SeattleTimes.com The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, running April 17-25, is all over town this year.
06.19.19
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Lucille Clifton, Former Poet Laureate Of Maryland, Dies…

From BaltimoreSun.com: Former state poet laureate Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award winner whose work was lauded for its “moral…
06.19.19
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