December
2001 Contest
Question #23 (Posted December 16,
2001 3:13 EST ) |
| Question:
Name five (5) "Official" AALBC.com Book Reviewers
Answer: Click Here
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Winner: N.
Crawford, Prichard Alabama (Tue 1/15/2002 1:09 PM) Prize:
 Into
Africa: A Personal Journey
Click to
order via Amazon
or Barnes
and Noble
by Yvonne
Blackwood
Format: Paperback, 193pp.
ISBN: 096822749X
Publisher: Abbeyfield Publishers
Pub. Date: February 2001 |
November
2001 Contest
Question #22 (Posted Oct.
29,
2001 6:18 PM EST) |
| Question:
Who is nicknamed was nicknamed the "Poet Laureate of Harlem"?
Answer: Click here
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Winner: C.
Warner, Sterling Virgina (Tue 10/30/2001 6:38 AM) Prize:
 QBR:
The Black Book Review
July/August 2001
The Harlem Book Issue
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October
2001 Contest
Question #21 (Posted Oct 29,
2001 6:22 PM EST) |
| Question:
Who is first African-American woman to be elected to the
250-member National Institute of Arts and Letters?
Answer:
Click Here
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Winner: S.
Edgerson, New Orleans, LA (Thu 11/8/2001 8:32 PM) Prize:
 Mosaic
Literary Magazine
Summer 2001
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September
2001 Contest
Question #20 (Posted Oct.
29,
2001 6:28PM EST) |
| Question:
Who was the
first
published
African?
Answer:
Click Here
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Winner: C.
Cliff Fri 12/7/2001 3:09 PM) Prize:
 QBR:
The Black Book Review
July/August 2000
The Harlem Book Issue
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August
2001 Contest
Question #19 (Posted Oct.
29,
2001 6:36PM EST) |
| Question:
Which was the first Broadway play by a black writer?
Answer:
Click here
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Winner: C.
Williams, Conyers GA (Wed 10/31/2001 12:39 PM) Prize:
 For
Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
when the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem
by Ntozake
Shange
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July
2001 Contest
Question #18 (Posted June 17,
2001 10:54AM EST) |
| Question:
Provide the URLs of ten (10) websites which focus on selling
books by African-American Authors. Note: The web sites may not be
a publisher's web site or an author's web site which only sell their own
books
Answer: Click
Here |
Winner: K.
Pannell, District Heights, MD (Tue 6/19/01 10:40 AM)
Prize:
  Forever
Timmothy B. McCann
Format: Hardcover, 355pp.
ISBN: 1575667576
Publisher: Kensington
Pub. Date: April 2001
McCann follows his highly successful debut novel, Until, with another
compelling novel, this one about two couples and their interconnected lives.
Over the course of a year, they learn from their past relationships and personal
shortcomings as well as grow from their friendships and choices.
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June
2001 Contest
Question #17 (Posted June 17,
2001 11:04AM EST) |
| Question:
Provide the URL's of five (5) websites that promote African-American
authors. Note: The web sites may not be a publisher's web site
promoting only their authors or an author's web site promoting themselves
Answer: |
Winner: A.B.
Wright (Thu 8/16/01 7:44 AM)
Prize:
Forever
Timmothy B. McCann Format: Hardcover, 355pp.
ISBN: 1575667576
Publisher: Kensington
Pub. Date: April 2001
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May
2001 Contest
Question #17 (Posted May 6,
2001 10:26 AM EST) |
| Question: Who
defines Hip-Hop as follows:
Hip-Hop, n.,
(a) The practice of white supremacy by white people + (b) the reaction of
Black people to (a).
Answer: Click
Here |
Winner: A.
Roberson, Tucker, GA (Thu 5/17/01 8:30 AM)
Prize:
  Team-Spirited
Parenting: 8 Essential Principles for Parenting Success
by Dr. Darlene Powell-Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson
Format:
Hardcover, 256pp.
Pub. Date: March 2001 |
April
2001 Contest
Question #16 (Posted April 15,
2001 8:40 AM EST) |
Question: Email
us a quote of author Bernice L. McFadden's from the AALBC on-line chat
session discussing her novel Sugar.
Answer: Click Here |
Winner: L.
Stewart, New York, NY
(Mon 4/16/01 11:05 AM)
Prize:
  Standing at the Scratch Line
by Guy Johnson
Format: Paperback, 555pp.
ISBN: 0375756671
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Pub. Date: January 2001
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March
2001 Contest
Question #15 (Posted April
15, 2001 8:40 AM EST) |
Question: AALBC.com
will be selling books at a book signing in April. Name the author and
title of the book.
Answer: Click Here |
Winner: J.
Mitchell, Hyattsville, MD
(Sun 4/15/01 11:17 PM)
Prize:
 Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace Of Mind
by Iyanla Vanzant
Format:
Hardcover, 43pp.
ISBN: 0684841371
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Pub. Date: December 2000
March Prize Courtesy of Simon &
Schuster
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February
2001 Contest
Question #14 (Posted February 6,
2001 9:15 PM EST) |
| Question: Who
said:
1 - "I am am not a perfect servant. I am a public
servant"
&
2 - "Art for art's sake is just another piece of deodorized
dog-shit"
Answers: Click
Here |
Winner: C.
McKinney, Houston TX (Mon,
12 Feb 2001 09:15PM)
Prize:
  Good Peoples
by Marcus Major
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384pp.
ISBN: 0451409795
Publisher: New American Library
Pub. Date: March 2001
Edition Desc: REISSUE
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January
2001 Contest
Question #13 (Posted January 1,
2001 8:22 PM EST) |
Question:
Who is this author?
Answer: Click
Here
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Winner: C.
Warner, VA (Mon 1/8/01 3:11 PM)
Prize:
 A
Lesson Before Dying (2 Cassettes)
Ernest J. Gaines, Read by Jay Long / Audio / Random AudioBooks / September 1997 |
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January
2001 Contest
Donna
Clovis author of Locket
of Dreams:An African American Fairy Tale in Modern Times
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| #14 |
February
2001 Contest
1
- Rev. Jesse Jackson
&
2 - Author, Chinua
Achebe
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| #15 |
March
2001 Contest
The
answer to this question was in the newsletter and on our Events
Calendar
  The
Undiscovered Paul Robeson: The Early Years, 1898-1939
(Click title to buy on-line via B&N.com)
by Paul Robeson Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 400pp.
ISBN: 0471242659
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pub. Date: April 2001
Buy a
copy, autographed by Paul Robeson Jr., directly from AALBC.com!
Click PayPal Logo Below
This version of his
father's life is an important, well-wrought addition to African-American,
Cold War and theater scholarship.
~Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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April
2001 Contest
Archives of chat sessions, including McFadden's may be found here:
http://cwmyb.com/Reading_List.htm
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May
2001 Contest
Media
Assassin, Harry
Allen
"Calling
myself Media Assassin affirms
that writing is best served as an act of transformative violence. When I
was first published—in Brooklyn’s The
City Sun, then The
Village Voice, where “Hip-Hop Hi-Tech” originally appeared
(“It blew my mind,” Dr. Tricia Rose said, while researching her
seminal Black Noise)—one of
my aims was to someday produce work so inflammatory that reading it in
public might be deemed a seditious act."
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July 2001 Contest
www.mosaicbooks.com
An online "showcase for black literature," this Amazon.com
affiliate features a list of top-selling titles on the site.
www.justusbooks.com
Creators of Black Interest Books and Products for Young People
www.theblacklibrary.com
"THE BLACK LIBRARY’S mission is one we found people can
understand and relate to very easily. We will provide the community with a
bookseller who understands their need for a personal service which extends
far out side the normal/traditional retail setting (store)."
www.allblackbooks.com
"Black-Owned online bookstore and community focused on the particular
reading tastes of African American and Diasporan consumers."
www.blackbooksgalore.com
"...founded in 1992 by three African American mothers, who, as the
result of their challenges in finding quality books for their own
children, dedicated themselves to identifying and distributing great
African American children's books."
www.blackliterature.com
"...books by, for and about Black people"
www.jokaes.com*
*at the time this answer was submitted there WAS a Black book store at
this address. However, a check of the URL on June 24th no longer
shows a web site.
www.blackbookshelf.com
Comprehensive site with Black books, reviews, cinema, history, and
more.
www.cushcity.com
"World's Largest African-American Selection Books, Videos, Art
Prints, Toys, Software, Calendars & More"
www.sisterspace.com
"...the nation's only African American women owned and operated
book store specializing in books by and about African American
women."
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August
2001 Contest
1923---The Chipwoman's Fortune was the
first Broadway play by a black writer
(Willis Richardson)
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September
2001 Contest
In the U.S., Briton Hammon was the first black prose writer of
record with "A Narrative ... of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man" in
1760.
The first poet was Lucy Terry with "Bars Flight" in 1746.
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October
2001 Contest
Phillis
Wheatley whose Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773?
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| #22
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November
2001 Contest Langston
Hughes
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December
2001 Contest
Nichel Anderson
Walter Benefield
Kysha N. Brown
Tiffany Davis
Kirby Freeman
Lynne d. Johnson
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Akilah Monifa
Angeli R. Rasbury
RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Kalamu ya Salaam
Sister Shiree Sarana
Thumper
Paige Turner
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