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JoeyPinkney.com Presents... 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Phette L. Ogburn (It Can Happen To You)

This video features quotes from Phette L. Ogburn's interview on JoeyPinkney.com about her shorty story collection It Can Hapen To You. Read the whole intervi...
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Any media personality wants their ratings to reach the top. Melinda Wells has mastered the art of putting drama on her real talk radio show "Gossip Line". There's a new caller and when she airs more…

Any media personality wants their ratings to reach the top. Melinda Wells has mastered the art of putting drama on her real talk radio show "Gossip Line". There's a new caller and when she airs more than Melinda Wells is willing to share over the airwaves the tables begin to turn. With her ratings above any radio show on the east coast, can Melinda find the caller who knows more about her personal life than she cares to share? While her ratings are climbing her personal life is being exposed…See More
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JoeyPinkney.com Presents... 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Louise (Playing Dirty Mind Games)

This video features quotes from Louise Payne's interview on JoeyPinkney.com about her novel Playing Dirty Mind Games. Read the whole interview on JoeyPinkney...
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  I want to say thanks again for welcoming me to your web site in 2010 and the the authors who corresponded [and all other authors.]  It seems that the publisher I mentioned in earlier posts, regarding a prior novel, is…
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Any media personality wants their ratings to reach the top. Melinda Wells has mastered the art of putting drama on her real talk radio show "Gossip Line". There's a new caller and when she airs more…

Any media personality wants their ratings to reach the top. Melinda Wells has mastered the art of putting drama on her real talk radio show "Gossip Line". There's a new caller and when she airs more than Melinda Wells is willing to share over the airwaves the tables begin to turn. With her ratings above any radio show on the east coast, can Melinda find the caller who knows more about her personal life than she cares to share? While her ratings are climbing her personal life is being exposed…

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Posted by Nanette Buchanan on January 28, 2012 at 4:50pm

Pantha Coleone

Not for the faint of heart, but for the ready mind

If you really wanna know summin bout this hard hittin edge of a Game-

Whatz too it- And how to dooo it….

Played by both sides.. The street hood gangstas and the corrupt police?

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Well this provocative tale of an inner…

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Posted by Pantha Coleone on January 14, 2012 at 10:30pm

Nanette Buchanan

Just Venting - Bringing in 2012

Just Venting……Bringing in 2012

Happy New Year….for those of you who think it will not be a continuation of 2011 and the years before. I stopped making resolutions at the start of a new year when I realized by June I often forgot what most of my resolutions were. I started a new habit that I must say over the past ten years has worked for me. In August, the month of my birth, I think about my accomplishments, set new goals, and pray on them. I think in connection with my birth date those…

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Posted by Nanette Buchanan on January 3, 2012 at 4:19pm

Carmen M. Hall

BACKSLIDDA'

I am submitting my third book, 2nd Novel called,

BACKSLIDDA, (was it worth it?) about a woman named Cynthia who steps out of her religion that she's been involved in since a child.  Both of her parents were Pastors, and now at the age of 32 years old, never had a boyfriend, never been to a club, never smoked, never drank and, now she has become bored with her life.  Cynthia want's to do all the things she knows is wrong, but only one time, just one time, she wants to step out of her…

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Posted by Carmen M. Hall on December 15, 2011 at 11:54am

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Books in the Hood
By Emily Brady in Books, Featured Friday, May. 8 2009
When LaVerne Harris decided to open a bookstore in the South Bronx two years ago, she knew she it wasn't going to be easy. The area is known for a lot of different things -- urban blight, crime, poverty -- and a healthy book culture wasn't one of them.
But Harris, a 61-year-old primary school teacher who grew up on Simpson Street, was walking with some friends when she wondered aloud what it would take to put a bookstore in among the liquor stores, Laundromats, and take-out places.


Hip-Hop Lit Is Hot
February 11, 2008 by Kara Gebhart Uhl
Once limited to street-corner sales, hip-hop lit now can be found in major bookstores—and mainstream publishers are taking note.

From the Streets to the Libraries
Yolanda Degraff, a part-time employee, arranged books in the urban fiction area of the public library in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Gossip Girls and Ghetto Girls
Why are so many librarians—advocates of the uncensored right to read anything on all points of view—panic-stricken over teens reading street lit? As Amy Patee wrote in the July 2008 issue of School Library Journal, “There’s no getting around it: urban fiction forces many of us out of our comfort zones...

 
 
 

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