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Powerful and Pretty: Serial entrepreneur Morgan A. Owen spills the tea on how to build a business from the ground up in her new book

THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — Morgan A. Owens had a lot to smile about during her exclusive interview with The Westside…

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Linsey Davis Teaches Celebrating Diversity with Her Second Children’s Book ‘One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different’

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Linsey Davis Teaches Celebrating Diversity with Her Second Children’s Book ‘One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being…

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Black Fatherhood Shines in New Animated FIim

THE AFRO — For the most part, Historically, stories about Black fathers in mainstream media often carry a misleading, yet…

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Neena Speer’s First Year in Law School Made Her Better Attorney — And an Author

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Speer’s mindset was that somebody is going to deal with what she dealt with and ask what law…

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Jayla Groom Penned Book After Seeing Her Mom’s ‘Wanted’ Mugshot on Crimestoppers

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Groom, from Hueytown and a rising junior at the University of Alabama (UA), has penned a book about…

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Mother and 7 Year-Old Daughter Encourage Girls to See Beauty; not Differences

BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Dee Edwards remembers her daughter Aubrey coming home from school one day upset that she didn’t look like…

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Summer Book Reviews

WASHINGTON INFORMER — The truth is, though, summer’s halfway over and you’ve done everything you wanted to do so now you’re…

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A Fully Illustrated Edition of James’s Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” with Photography by Steve Schapiro

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — In 1963, two of James Baldwin’s most influential essays were fused to form a bestselling book…

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L.A. Based Poet Shares Inspiring Story in, ‘Black Indian: A Memoir’

LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — After a childhood of family secrets and a lost heritage, Shonda Buchanan set out to find the…

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Dennis-Benn’s novel of Jamaican immigrant is magnetic, wrenching

FLORIDA COURIER — In her new novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn contrasts the deep chasm between the American dream and immigrant reality, and…

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