December
2000 Contest
Question #12 (Posted December 19, 2000
12:29 AM EST) |
Question:
Who am I?
Hint: My Initials are J. K.
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: A.
Roberson (Thu 1/4/01 11:17 AM) Prize:
 Volunteer
Slavery (Two Cassettes)
Jill Nelson, Read by Karen Allen / Audio / Warner Books, Incorporated /
September 1994 |
November
2000 Contest
Question #11 (Posted December 19, 2000
12:29 AM EST) |
Question:
Who am I?
Hint: She is a gem of a poet.
Answer: Click
here
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Winner: Z.
(Thu 1/18/01 12:53 PM) Prize:
 A
Lesson Before Dying (2 Cassettes)
Ernest J. Gaines, Read by Jay Long / Audio / Random AudioBooks / September 1997
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October
2000 Contest
Question #10 (Posted December 19, 2000
12:29 AM EST) |
Question:
Who am I?
Hint: I'm really behind this site!
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: T.
W.
Rodriguez, GA (Wed 1/10/01 10:15 PM) Prize:
Volunteer
Slavery (Two Cassettes)
Jill Nelson, Read by Karen Allen / Audio / Warner Books, Incorporated /
September 1994 |
September
2000 Contest
Question #9 (Posted December 19, 2000
12:29 AM EST) |
Question:
Who am I?
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: Nandi
Crawford, Prichard, Alabama (Tue 12/19/00 5:13 PM) Prize:
A
Lesson Before Dying (2 Cassettes)
Ernest J. Gaines, Read by Jay Long / Audio / Random AudioBooks / September 1997
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August
2000 Contest
Question #8 (Posted July 24, 2000
11:36 PM EST) |
Question:
Visit this page http://aalbc.com/books/naacp.htm
and provide us with the winners of the NAACP award winning books for
Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's titles. You must also provide
the source of your answer
Hint: I'll sweeten the pot. Whoever
digs up this information will also get a copy of Mosaic magazine, Black
Issues Book Review AND the September 2000 and October 2000 prizes!
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: A.
Roberson (Thu 1/4/01 2:05 PM) Prize:
One
copy of the newly released:
 Not
A day Goes By
by E.
Lynn Harris
Format: Hardcover, 208pp.
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date: July 2000
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July
2000 Contest
Question #7 (Posted July 24, 2000
11:30 PM EST) |
| Question:
On the right is Mosaic Magazine publisher Ron
Kavanaugh. Who is the brother on the left?
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: L.
Stewart for New York, NY (Mon 7/31/00 9:42 AM) Prize: One
copy of the newly released:
Not
A day Goes By
by E.
Lynn Harris
Format: Hardcover, 208pp.
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date: July 2000
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June
2000 Contest
Question #6 (Posted May 29, 2000
2:51 PM EST) |
| Question:
Identify this author
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner:
A. Carter from Los Angeles, California (Wed 6/7/00 2:04 PM)
 Prize:
Nov-Dec 1999 issue of:
OBR: The Black Book Review
A magazine published 5 times a year, which focuses primarily on the review
of books by black authors. |
May 2000 Contest
Question #5 (Posted May 29, 2000
2:51 PM EST) |
Question:
Identify this author
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner:
C. Warner from Sterling, VA (Wed May 31, 2000 6:43 AM)
 Prize:
April - June 2000
Issue of:
Dialogue Magazine
A Quarterly Magazine Discussing African-American Art, Literature, Film and other Cultural
Issues |
April 2000 Contest
Question #4 (Posted April 6, 2000 10:57 PM EST) |
| Question:
Identify this author
 HINT:
(posted May 9th
2000 11:43 PM EST)
This author's book was once selected for the AALBC's,
"Coffee Will Make You Black", online reading group the Answer: Click
Here |
Winner:
L. Bolton from (Mon 7/31/00 11:44 AM)
 Prize:
January - February 2000
Issue of:
Black Issues Book Review
New Voices, New Visions |
March 2000 Contest
Question #3 (Posted March 12, 2000 10:35AM EST) |
| Question:
Identify this author
Answer: Click Here
Most Common incorrect answer: Jill Nelson |
Winner:
R. Smith from Albany, GA. (Monday, March 20, 2000 10:37 AM)
 Prize:
The Fall/Winter 1999 issue of
Mosaic Literary Magazine |
February 2000 Contest
Question #2 (Posted February 13, 2000 9:18 PM
EST) |
| Question:
Identify This Author:
Answer: Click Here |
Winner:
A. Roberson from Tucker, GA. (Feb 16, 2000 11:57 AM) Prize:
 The Race Is Not Given
(Click learn more about this book)
Author: Frank E. Dobson
Publisher: SterlingHouse Publishers
Date Published: February 1999 |
Bonus January 2000 Contest!
Question #1 (Originally Posted Jan. 6 2000 -
11:28 PM EST, Question Revised - Jan. 19, 2000 - 12:54AM EST) |
Prize: Two (2) Tickets to the
opening of the play:
THE SEVENTH SON: A play about the life and death of Tupac Shakur Click here for more information
Winner: F. Kenner (Fri 1/21/00 1:02 AM)
Name two (2) of the POETS in this photo (If you are
the photo you can't play!)
Bonus Prize: The book Tough Love: Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations on
the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur Click here learn about the for bonus prize
Winner: Kimani, Glenn Dale,
MD (Fri 1/21/00 11:56 AM)
Where was the photo taken? (Hint: You'll find the answer somewhere on the AALBC web site)
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#1 &
Bonus Question |
Question
#1
Poets From left to right
1 - Laini Mataka, 2 - Toni Blackman,
3 - Vanessa Richards, 4 - Sonia Sanchez,
5 - Tracie Morris , 6 - Imani Uzuri Bonus
Question
Photo Taken at: New Jersey Performing Arts Center Sacred Circle Spoken Word 3 Day
Festival and Conference Oct.29-31-99 Rehearsal Banquet Hall
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#2 |
Author,
Astrophysicist, Neil De Grasse De Tyson
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#3 |
Author-Professor-Griot-Poetess-Soul
Singer, Camille Yarbrough
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#4 |
Arthur
Flowers, Author of Another
Good Loving Blues
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| #5 |
Author,
Poet, Ishmael Reed
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| #6 |
Author,
Elizabeth Nunez
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| #7 |
Fab
Five Freddie, Hip-Hop pioneer, former host of Yo! MTV Rap
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| #8 |
Click
the links below for more information
Outstanding
Literary Work, Fiction
Blues: For All the Changes
by Nikki Giovanni
(William Morrow)
Outstanding
Literary work, Non fiction
Yesterday, I Cried
by Iyanla Vanzant
(Simon & Schuster)
Outstanding
literary work, Children's
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
by Faith Ringold
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
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| #9 |
Author Maya
Angelou
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| #10 |
Troy
Johnson, AALBC.com Founder and webmaster
 
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| #11 |
Sapphire
Author of Push
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| #12 |
John Keene author
of Annotations
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