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African American Book
African American Book Clubs
African American Literature Book Club AALB
Founded by Troy Johnson in 1997, AALBC.com, LLC is a widely recognized source of author profiles, book recommendations, intriguing on-line discussion boards, writer's resources, articles, and critical reviews of books written by and about African Americans.
HomePage: http://aalbc.com/
Black Expressions Book Club
Black Expressions focuses on contemporary and classic African-American fiction plus a wealth of titles in key areas such as heritage & culture, inspiration/religion, health and beauty, relationships, cooking and home, career and personal finance, self-help, kid's books and more!
Black Expressions was voted "Book Club of the Year" at the 2004 African American Literary Awards Show held in Harlem, New York.
HomePage: http://www.blackexpressions.com/doc/full_site_enrollment/fse_homepage.jhtml
The Sisters and Brothers of HotLanta Book Club
The Sisters and Brothers of HotLanta Book Club was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in May 1997. Our mission is to increase appreciation of the African American culture through its literature while forming lasting friendships among readers. Our motto is : Reading to uplift, understand, and celebrate the Black experience. The book club also focuses on empowering African American communities, businesses and people socially through community outreach programs.
The Sisters and Brothers of HotLanta Book Club believes that literary discussion is a tremendously effective vehicle for facilitating the exchange of ideas about topics that are of issue to the Black community. Literary dialogues provide neutral ground upon which we can share our frustrations, joys, triumphs, and sorrows. The Sisters and Brothers Book Club also believes that reading and discussing literature written for, by, and about us is very therapeutic, serves as an excellent networking tool, and leads us to better understanding of ourselves.
HomePage: http://www.sistersbrothers.com/
R.A.W.SISTAZ (Reading and Writing SISTAZ)
R.A.W.SISTAZ (Reading and Writing SISTAZ) focuses on reading, writing, and discussing books primarily by African-American Authors. Our groups (both online and off) are not only book clubs, but resources to readers, writers, and literary enthusiasts; thus our founder's motto of "Keeping You in the Know Regarding the African-American Literary Community."
Our main goal is to provide information to the African-American Literary Community regarding books, authors, events, and other industry news. We offer our services and our sites free of charge, as avenues to promote literacy, to encourage our authors to continue following their dreams and to facilitate the open exchange of literary information; basically connecting both readers and writers.
HomePage: http://www.rawsistaz.com/
Go On Girl! Book Club
Founded in 1990 in New York City by three office friends, the Go On Girl! Book Club is the largest African-American women's book club in the country. Today the organization has grown to more than 30 chapters and over 300 sisters nationwide and supports the literary works of authors of the Black African Diaspora.
HomePage: http://www.goongirl.org/
Slavery was the great contradiction in the new nation that had affirmed in its Declaration of Independence a basic belief that “all men are created equal” and have “inalienable” rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Many of the country’s early leaders believed that African slaves were intellectually inferior to whites. Phillis Wheatley, a Boston slave, challenged those racist assumptions early on. Brought to America as a young girl, Wheatley was educated by her masters in English and Latin. She became an accomplished poet, and her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) was published in England. Like the white patriot poets, Wheatley wrote in 18th-century literary forms. But her highly structured and elegant poetry nonetheless expressed her frustration at enslavement and desire to reach a heaven where her color and social position would no longer keep her from singing in her full glory.
Wheatley’s poetry, along with that of other slaves, begins a powerful African American tradition in American poetry. In 1746 Lucy Terry, a slave in Massachusetts who was also educated by her owner, wrote the first poem to be published by a black American: 'Bar's Fight.' The poem, which was not published until 1855, describes the victims and survivors of a Native American raid against settlers. It was followed by Jupiter Hammon’s biblically inspired, hymnlike verse, "An Evening Thought; Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries" (1761).
Born at the time of the founding of the nation, African American poetry retained its concern with the burning issues of the American Revolution, including liberty, independence, equality, and identity. It also expressed African American experiences of divided loyalties. Just as white Americans experienced divided loyalties in the republic’s early years—unsure whether their identity derived from the new country or from their European past—so too did African Americans, who looked always to their African past and to their problematic American present.
African American Poetry Sites
* Mr. Africa, Inc. - A non-profit charitable corporation that is very passionate about bringing forth the gift of creative writings and poetry to the masses and serving as a catalyst for readers and poets. Has links to poetry groups and forums.
