tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75884874192846476042024-03-13T11:39:58.773-04:00Blacklitchat#Blog home for Twitter's #blacklitchat CommunityAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-79006466994875543262012-09-12T09:47:00.001-04:002012-09-12T09:47:57.901-04:00September #Blacklitchat Attica Locke The Cutting Season<p><img style="display: inline; float: left" class="alignright" alt="" align="left" src="http://www.atticalocke.com/TheCuttingSeason.jpg" width="270" height="398">We are so excited to have Attica Locke join us this Sunday, September 16 for #blacklitchat at 9 p.m. ET on Twitter. Her new novel, The Cutting Season, is out on Sept. 18. It's a murder mystery set on a plantation. The Cutting Season is a great story and we can't wait to ask her all about it and her writing process. Please join us for the chat and let us know you're joining us on Sunday in the comments. As always, it will be a fun chat and we welcome your questions. We also will have prizes to giveaway. </p> <p><strong>Here's how to enter for a prize for our chat with @atticalocke:</strong> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <ol> <li>Leave a comment below saying that you will join us for the chat.:</li> <li>Follow @bernadettedavis, @deegospel and @atticalocke </li> <li>Participate in the chat on Sunday, Sept. 16 </li> <li>Tweet one of the following before 5 p.m., 9/16:</li></ol> <p>RT @<a href="http://twitter.com/bernadettedavis">bernadettedavis</a> Join me & @<a href="http://twitter.com/deegospel">deegospel</a> for #blacklitchat Sun., 9/16, 9p ET w/ @atticalocke, author of #TheCuttingSeason @harperbooks. </p> <p>RT @bernadettedavis We're talking to @atticalocke about her new novel #TheCuttingSeason for #blacklitchat on Sunday at 9p ET. </p> <p>@harperbooks Prizes will be shipped only to U.S. addresses. Here's more about Attica Locke and her books. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/books/the-cutting-season-by-attica-locke.html">New York Times</a> review <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/09/entertainment/la-ca-conversation-20120909">Los Angeles Times</a> interview </p> <p><strong><img style="display: inline; float: left" class="alignright" alt="Attica Locke" align="left" src="http://www.atticalocke.com/AtticaLocke.jpg" width="270" height="405">About Attica Locke: </strong> </p> <p>Attica Locke’s first novel, Black Water Rising, was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize in the UK in 2010. It was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Strand Magazine Critics Award. The novel was also a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In addition, Attica has spent many years working as a screenwriter, penning movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and Dreamworks. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. She is a member of the board of directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. </p> <p>Visit her at <a href="http://www.atticalocke.com/">http://www.atticalocke.com/</a></p> <p> <strong>About THE CUTTING SEASON</strong></p> <p>Caren Gray is the general manager of Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate’s owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction complete with full-dress reenactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation has been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have grown sugar cane for generations, replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, her throat cut clean. The list of suspects is long, but when the cops zero in on a person of interest, Caren has a feeling they’re chasing the wrong leads. Putting herself at risk, she unearths startling new facts about an old mystery—the long-ago disappearance of a former slave—that has unsettling ties to the modern-day crime. In pursuit of the truth about Belle Vie’s history—and her own—Caren discovers secrets about both cases that an increasingly desperate killer will do anything to keep hidden. Taut, hauntingly resonant, and beautifully written, The Cutting Season is at once a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons its past with its future and a high-octane page-turner that unfolds with tremendous skill and vision, demonstrating once again that Locke is “a writer wise beyond her years” (Los Angeles Times).</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-56280585190566058132012-07-18T23:26:00.001-04:002012-07-18T23:26:04.854-04:00Summer Thrillers with Miranda Parker July Blacklitchat<h6><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.mirandaparker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/miranda4.jpg" width="354" height="274"></h6> <h6 align="center"><font size="3">Twitter Book Club Discussion: SOMEONE BAD and SOMETHING BLUE</font></h6> <h6><font style="font-weight: normal" size="3">Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. Miranda Parker, co-host of Blacklitchat and suspense author is our July host for this chat. We will be discussing her novel, SOMEONE BAD and SOMETHING BLUE (Kensington, July 2012).</font></h6> <p><font size="3">Miranda Parker is the author of the <em>Angel Crawford</em> series. After graduating from Agnes Scott, she worked as a features editor for various magazines and spent many years as a publicist. She began writing features for newspapers and magazines, focusing on subjects in lifestyle, religion arts and entertainment and published over fifty articles. However, writing fun, feisty, redemptive, “bad girl gone good” stories is her passion. She began writing fiction in 2005 after she took an online writing workshop taught by Chuck Palahniuk. Now Miranda Parker writes comic romance suspense novels. Miranda has appeared at the 2011 National Book Club Convention, the 2011 Decatur Book Festival, the 2012 SC Book Festival and has been featured in <em>The Atlanta Journal Constitution, RT Book Reviews</em> and <em>Publishers Weekly</em>. She resides with her family in Georgia. Visit her at <a href="http://www.mirandaparker.com">www.mirandaparker.com</a>.</font> <h6><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Xmm9dLMtpAQ/UAd-SWsxlkI/AAAAAAAAB-A/Z1G2wt5i0rk/s1600-h/sbsb7%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="sbsb7" border="0" alt="sbsb7" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DaRh8qIZveM/UAd-S90FHnI/AAAAAAAAB-I/1I_XZgf0WmY/sbsb7_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="331" height="473"></a> </h6> <h6><font size="3">SOMEONE BAD and SOMETHING BLUE. . .<br><font style="font-weight: normal"></font></font></h6> <p><font size="3">In the bestselling tradition of Janet Evanovich, Miranda Parker's debut novel, <em>A Good Excuse To Be Bad</em>, brilliantly blended mystery and humor, and introduced a beautiful, brainy, and tough-as-nails, single mom and bail recovery agent turned sleuth. In Parker’s second novel, Angel Crawford has a lot on her plate—but between crime-solving and kindergarten carpool, it’s all in a day’s work…. Angel Crawford appears to be on good terms with her family and on the cusp of a budding romance with her sidekick/pastor/crush, Justus Too-Hot-to-Be-Holy Morgan. But Angel still hasn’t solved a mystery that has haunted her for six years -- her fiancé's, Gabriel, murder. Then she receives a mysterious delivery on her doorstep that not only splits Gabe’s case wide open, but sends her on a chase through Atlanta’s secretive speakeasy society, the annual Running of the Brides, and a romp around the Okefenokee Swamp with a hot U.S. Marshall. Will Angel find the answers she seeks, or just unearth more danger?</font> <p><font size="3">"This book takes you on a dance and never lets you sit down!" Emerge VA Magazine</font></p> <p><font size="3">“From the first paragraph to the last, Parker has readers engrossed in the world of shady characters, secrets, romance and lies.” APOOO Book Club</font></p> <p><font size="3">“Miranda Parker has done it again. She has created an exciting tale that keeps you on the edge of your chair trying to figure whodunit.” World Mosaic Reviews</font> <p><font size="3">“It was just what I needed: a fun rumble in the jungle with cool characters and plenty of action.” – Independent Online Booksellers Association</font> <p><b><font size="3"></font></b></p> <p><font size="3">Join us this Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE </font><a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat"><font size="3">here</font></a><font size="3">.</font><a href="http://www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat"><font size="3">www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat</font></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-48131697002577496062012-06-20T19:26:00.001-04:002012-06-20T19:26:57.603-04:00NYT Bestseller Francis Ray hosts June#Blacklitchat<h6><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.francisrayblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Francis-Ray-247x300.jpg" width="353" height="424"></h6> <h6><font size="3">Twitter Book Club Discussion: WHEN MORNING COMES</font></h6> <h6><font style="font-weight: normal" size="3">Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. We are excited and honored that Francis Ray is our June host for this chat. We will be discussing her novel, WHEN MORNING COMES (St. Martin, June 2012).</font></h6> <p><font size="3"><b>Francis Ray</b> is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Grayson novels, the Falcon books, the Taggart Brothers, and <i>Twice the Tempation</i>, among many other books. Her novel <i>Incognito</i> was made into a movie aired on BET. A native Texan, she is a graduate of Texas Woman's University and has a degree in nursing. Besides a writer, she is a school nurse practitioner with the Dallas Independent School District. She lives in Dallas.<font style="font-weight: normal"> Visit her at </font></font><a href="http://francisray.com/"><font size="3">http://francisray.com/</font></a> <h6><br><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://francisray.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/when_morning_comes-cover-200-2.jpg" width="304" height="430"></h6> <h6><font size="3">WHEN MORNING COMES . .<br><font style="font-weight: normal"></font></font></h6> <p><font size="3">Five men and women who grew up as orphans seek out their lost brothers and sisters, finding love and family along the way.</font> <p><font size="3">Dr. Cade Mathis learned early that he was not the son of the man who raised him. His adoptive father, a cruel, bitter man had always been quick to tell him that he was a bastard and an embarrassment to the rich society family whose daughter got pregnant with him. So when Cade received a full scholarship to college, he was only too happy to leave the only home he had ever known behind and never looked back. Now a successful doctor and one of the best neurosurgeons in the state, the only thing he still wants are answers about where he came from. What he doesn’t expect to find is Sabrina Thomas, the new patient advocate at his hospital or how this woman will lead him to the family he has been searching for and a love he never expected to find.</font> <p><font size="3">"Family dynamics are at the core of Ray's new series, along with plenty of heartwarming romance. The primary and secondary couples here are smart, caring people and readers will root for them, making this a compelling series starter."—<i>Romantic Times</i></font></p> <p><font size="3">"It's a perfect contemporary romance that will have you believing in true love. When Morning Comes is so powerfully written, and I guarantee, you won't want to miss it." -- Sizzling Hot Book Reviews</font></p> <p><font size="3">"Francis Ray creates characters and stories that we all love to read about."<br>--Eric Jerome Dickey</font> <p><font size="3">“Crisp style, realistic dialogue, likable characters and [a] fast pace.” —<i>Library Journal</i></font> <p><b><font size="3"></font></b></p> <p><font size="3">Join us this Sunday, June 24, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE </font><a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat"><font size="3">here</font></a><font size="3">.</font><a href="http://www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat"><font size="3">www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat</font></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-12275651772603449732012-05-15T10:00:00.001-04:002012-05-15T10:00:36.795-04:00Leonard Pitts, Jr. Hosts May 2012 Blacklitchat<h6><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.agatepublishing.com/html/WYSIWYGfiles/images/Leonard%20Pitts%20web%20ready.jpg" width="295" height="429"></h6> <h6><font size="3">Twitter Book Club Discussion: FREEMAN</font></h6> <h6><font style="font-weight: normal" size="3">Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. We are excited and honored that Leonard Pitts, Jr. is our May host for this chat. We will be discussing his novel, FREEMAN (Agate, May 2012).</font></h6> <h6><font size="3"><font style="font-weight: normal">In a career spanning more than 35 years, Leonard Pitts, Jr. has been a columnist, a college professor, a radio producer and a lecturer. But if you ask him to define himself, he will invariably choose one word. He is a writer, period, author of one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country and of a series of critically-acclaimed books, including his latest, a novel called </font><i><font style="font-weight: normal">FREEMAN</font></i><font style="font-weight: normal">. And his lifelong devotion to the art and craft of words has yielded stellar results, chief among them the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Visit him at </font></font><a href="http://www.leonardpittsjr.com/"><font style="font-weight: normal" size="3">http://www.leonardpittsjr.com</font></a></h6> <h6><br><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.agatepublishing.com/Resources/titles/93284100440140/Images/93284100440140L.gif" width="368" height="542"></h6> <h6><font size="3">FREEMAN . .<br><font style="font-weight: normal">Freeman is a love story--sweeping, generous, brutal, compassionate, patient--about the feelings people were determined to honor, despite the enormous constraints of the times. At the center of the novel is a love story. Sam Freeman, a liberated slave, embarks on a 1,000-mile journey to Mississippi in search of his wife Tilda. As Sam travels through the South, he encounters many different stories: slaves who are searching for their families, masters who won't give loved ones back and slaves who are killed on their way out of the South. Although the novel is set against the tumultuous backdrop of post-Civil War America, Pitts says, he wrote a love story to reveal the indelible strength of African-Americans during a time of oppression.</font></font></h6> <p>"Leonard Pitts has a passion for history and a gift for storytelling. Both shine in this story of love and redemption, which challenges everything we thought we knew about how our nation dealt with its most stubborn stain." —<b>Gwen Ifill, PBS</b>, author of <i>The Breakthrough</i></p><em></em> <p><br>"Post-Civil War America is fertile ground for novelists, but few have tilled it with such grace and majesty as Leonard Pitts. In Freeman, Pitts weaves a beguiling, cinematic love story against a rich tapestry of American history, evoking unforgettable characters in a narrative that could easily replace a shelf of textbooks. What a splendid read!" —<b>Herb Boyd</b>, co-editor of <i>By Any Means Necessary—Malcolm X: Real, not Reinvented</i></p><em></em> <p><br>"Leonard Pitts, Hr. crafts a novel as well as the great storytellers of our time. <i>Freeman</i> captured my attention from the very first sentence and my heart throughout. Sam and Tilda will stay with me for a very long time. I can't let them go." —<b>Sybil Wilkes, <i>The Tom Joyner Radio Show</i></b></p><strong><em></em></strong> <p><br>"I fell in love with Leonard Pitts Jr.'s fiction with <i>Before I Forget</i>. Now he's out with a new one, <i>Freeman</i>....It's a beautiful book, and I highly recommend it." —<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150239259665997">Carleen Brice</a>, White Readers Meet Black Authors blog</b></p> <p>Join us this Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">here</a>.<a href="http://www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat">www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat</a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-90140174262960975712012-04-20T20:07:00.001-04:002012-04-20T20:07:13.445-04:00MARTHA SOUTHGATE APRIL 2012 BLACKLITCHAT<h6> </h6> <h6><img src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2011/09/07/rv-taste11_ph_0504094776.jpg"></h6> <h6 align="center"><font size="4">Twitter Book Club Discussion: TASTE OF SALT</font></h6> <h6><font size="2"><font style="font-weight: normal">Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. We are excited and honored that Martha Southgate is our April host for this chat. We will be discussing her novel, TASTE OF SALT(Alonquin, September 2012).</font></font></h6> <h6><font size="2"><font style="font-weight: normal">Martha Southgate is the author of four novels. Her newest, The Taste of Salt, published by Algonquin Books, is in stores and available for pre-order now. Her previous novel, Third Girl from the Left, won the Best Novel of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was shortlisted for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. Her novel The Fall of Rome received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the best novels of 2002 by Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post. She is also the author of Another Way to Dance, which won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. She received a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts grant and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her July 2007 essay from the New York Times Book Review, "Writers Like Me" received considerable notice and appears in the anthology Best African-American Essays 2009. Previous non-fiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine,O, Premiere, and Essence.</font><font style="font-weight: normal"> Please visit her at </font></font><a href="http://www.marthasouthgate.com/"><font size="2">http://www.marthasouthgate.com/</font></a><font size="2"><font style="font-weight: normal">.</font></font></h6><font size="2"> <h6><br></font><img src="http://www.marthasouthgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Southgate_TasteofSalt_final.jpg" width="545" height="807"><br></h6> <h6><font size="2">TASTE OF SALT. . .</font><br><font size="2"><font style="font-weight: normal">Josie Henderson loves the water and is fulfilled by her position as the only senior-level black scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family back in landlocked Cleveland. Her adored brother, Tick, was her childhood ally as they watched their drinking father push away all the love that his wife and children were trying to give him. Now Tick himself has been coming apart and demands to be heard. Weaving four voices into a beautiful tapestry, Southgate charts the lives of the Hendersons from the parents’ first charmed meeting to Josie’s realization that the ways of the human heart are more complex than anything seen under a microscope.</font></font></h6> <p>[A] searing, gorgeous, brilliant and profoundly human novel about two generations of an African American family riding the slow-mo roller coaster of addiction.”—<strong><em>San Francisco</em></strong><strong><em> Chronicle</em></strong> <p>“In <em>The Taste of Salt</em>, Southgate writes with a minor-key melancholy that comes on softly, but lingers long after.”—<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em></strong> <p>“Southgate’s arresting, fluid prose and authentic dialogue come together in a resonating study of relationships, where selfish tendencies among the various characters are revealed, as are their feelings of regret. A fascinating story that shows how the mistakes people make affect all those around them.”<strong><em>—<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></em></strong> <h6><br><font size="2">Join us this Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE </font><a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat"><font size="2">here</font></a><font size="2">. <a href="http://www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat">www.twebevent.com/blacklitchat</a> </font></h6> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-66603613337935921852012-03-23T22:23:00.001-04:002012-03-23T22:32:59.460-04:00Aliya S. King hosts March #blacklitchat<img height="291" src="http://fashionindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/d6cb59b542071310.jpg.jpg" width="528" /><br />
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Twitter Book Club Discussion: DIAMOND LIFE</h6>
Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. We are excited and honored that Aliya S. King is our March host for this chat. We will be discussing her sophomore novel, DIAMOND LIFE(Gallery, February 2012). <br />
<b>Aliya S. King</b> is an award-winning journalist and the author of <i>PLATINUM and DIAMOND LIFE</i>. She is the co-author of <i>Original Gangster </i>and the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>Keep the Faith. </i>Her work has appeared in <i>Vibe</i>, <i>Giant</i>, <i>Uptown</i>, <i>Essence</i>, <i>King</i>, <i>Ms.</i>, <i>Us Weekly</i>, and <i>Teen People</i>, among others. Please visit her at <a href="http://www.aliyasking.com/">www.aliyasking.com</a>. <br />
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR . . . <br />
Set in the highest ranks of the music industry’s fame machine, Diamond Life is an intoxicating story of love, sex, ambition, money, betrayal, and the surprising realities of making it big. <br />
Alex Maxwell’s career as a journalist and celebrity ghost writer is taking off, despite the slightly embarrassing authorship of hip-hop super-groupie Cleo Wright’s memoir. And while Alex’s star is on the rise, it pales in comparison to her husband Birdie’s multiplatinum debut and world tour. Slowly but surely, everything they swore would never happen begins to come true, like leaving Brooklyn for a mansion in suburban Jersey and letting a reality TV crew into their home. Birdie is confronted time and again by the sexy groupies who pursue famous rappers like heat-seeking missiles and he’s forced to make some life-changing choices. <br />
Meanwhile, aging rapper Z, in recovery from drug addiction, is too busy trying to repair his marriage to leave much time for his son Zander, newly signed to Z’s label and struggling to maintain his appeal in the wake of a domestic violence scandal with his diva girlfriend Bunny. <br />
Record label president Jake is trying to deal with the death of his wife, multiplatinum R&B artist Kipenzi Hill, by drowning his sorrows in alcohol and women. When he meets Lily, a beautiful, quiet waitress, he can’t get her out of his head. But Lily has her own problems to handle and she wants nothing to do with the fame, drama, and baggage that Jake carries with him. <br />
This juicy follow-up to Aliya S. King’s <i>Platinum</i> is a scintillating roman à clef that takes readers behind the curtain once again for the real scoop on the biggest players in the hip-hop game—and the first ladies who hold them together. <br />
What they are saying… <br />
In this atmospheric follow-up to 2010’s <i>Platinum</i>, entertainment journalist King continues the saga of her hip-hop moguls (and the women who love them) that she started in<i>Platinum</i>… the author’s journalism experience with Vibe, Essence, and other publications lends an authentic air. Readers will enjoy guessing which real-life celebrity dramas might match their fictional counterparts. A solid page-turner.” <br />
-- <i>Publishers Weekly</i> <br />
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Join us this Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-83931596179991056442012-02-22T20:26:00.001-05:002012-02-22T20:26:51.395-05:00Jacqueline Luckett February Host #BLACKLITCHAT<p><img src="http://whytherearewords.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/jacqueline-luckett-preferred-photo-small.jpg" width="510" height="343"></p> <h5 align="center">Twitter Book Club Discussion: PASSING LOVE</h5> <p align="left">Join us for our #blacklitchat Twitter party. We are excited and honored that Jacqueline Luckett is our February host for this chat. We will be discussing her sophomore novel, PASSING LOVE(February 2012).</p> <p>Jacqueline worked in sales for Xerox for twenty years. During that time she married, raised a family and took creative writing classes where she reignited her love of writing. In 2004, Jacqueline formed the Finish Party (featured in <em>O Magazine</em>, October 2007) along with seven other women writers-of-color. The group provides strong support for each other's writing, good meals, friendship and fun. Since then Jacqueline has written two novels, Jacqueline is the author of two novels, PASSING LOVE and SEARCHING FOR TINA TURNER. <p align="center"><img src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1323455267l/12332677.jpg"></p> <p>Nicole-Marie Handy has loved all things French since she was a child. After the death of her best friend, determined to get out of her rut, she goes to Paris, leaving behind a marriage proposal. While there, Nicole chances upon an old photo of her father-lovingly inscribed, in his hand, to a woman Nicole has never heard of. What starts as a vacation quickly becomes an investigation into his relationship to this mystery woman.</p> <p>Moving back and forth in time between the sparkling Paris of today and the jazz-fueled city filled with expatriates in the 1950s, <strong><em>Passing Love</em></strong> is the story of two women dealing with lost love, secrets, and betrayal...and how the City of Light may hold all of the answers.</p> <p align="center"><em>“Luckett weaves a fascinating portrait of women of color who defy family and tradition to follow love and chase success.”- Publishers Weekly</em></p> <p align="center"><em>"Luckett is a writer to watch and admire."<strong>—ZZ PACKER,</strong> author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere</em></p> <p align="center">Join us this Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">here</a>.</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-36241897420082313482012-01-16T13:28:00.001-05:002012-01-16T13:28:17.789-05:00Bernice McFadden January 2012 #Blacklitchat Host<p><i></i> <h3 align="center"><img src="http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Bernice+McFadden+42nd+NAACP+Image+Awards+Arrivals+TM6U4cT-BdHl.jpg"></h3> <h3 align="center">Twitter Book Club Discussion: Gathering of Waters</h3> <p>Join us for our first #blacklitchat Twitter party of 2012. We are excited and honored that Bernice McFadden is out host for this chat. We will be discussing her fantabulous new novel, Gathering of Waters (January 2012) <p><b>BERNICE L. McFADDEN</b> is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classics <i>Sugar</i> and <a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/glorious.htm"><i>Glorious</i></a>, which was featured in <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, <a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/warmestdecember.htm"><i>The Warmest December</i></a>, was praised by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as "searing and expertly imagined." McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York. <p align="center"><img alt="Gathering of Waters" src="http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294/Booksandneedlepoint/31Udqjl3VPL.jpg"></p> <p><b><i>GATHERING OF WATERS</i></b> is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. <p><b>TASS HILSON AND EMMETT TILL</b> were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit. <p><b>FORTY YEARS LATER, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND,</b> Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. The two lovers are reunited, bringing the story to an enchanting and profound conclusion. <p><b><i>GATHERING OF WATERS</i></b> mines the truth about Money, Mississippi, as well as the town's families, and threads their history over decades. The bare-bones realism--both disturbing and riveting--combined with a magical realm in which ghosts have the final say, is reminiscent of Toni Morrison's <i>Beloved</i>. <p><i>Following her best-selling, award-winning novel </i><a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/glorious.htm">Glorious</a>,<i> McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of <a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/gatheringofwaters.htm#">Emmett Till</a>.</i> <p>"The rich text is shaped by the African American storytelling tradition and layered with significant American histories. Recalling the woven spirituality of <a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/gatheringofwaters.htm#">Toni Morrison</a>'s <i>Beloved</i>, this work will appeal to readers of mystic literature."<br>--<b><i>Library Journal</i></b> <p>"McFadden makes powerful use of imagery in this fantastical novel of ever-flowing waters and troubled spirits."<br>--<b><i>Booklist</i></b> <p>"As strange as this may sound, Bernice L. McFadden has created a magical, fantastic novel centered around the notorious tragedy of Emmett Till's murder. This is a startling, beautifully written piece of work."<br>--<b><a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/gatheringofwaters.htm#">Dennis Lehane</a></b>, author of <i>Mystic River</i> <p>"In her new novel, <i>Gathering of Waters</i>, Bernice McFadden brings her own special vision to the unfortunate story of Emmett Till and his murder in Money, Mississippi. This moving and magical novel, which traces the generations leading up to and away from that horrible night in 1955, drew me in immediately and swept me along through its richly imagined world. I couldn't stop reading, caught up as I was in that enticing place between truth and fantasy, the here-and-now and the what-was, the living and the dead, the ugliness and the beauty, the hatred and the love. What a rich chorus of voices Bernice McFadden has fashioned from this place called Money."<br>--<b>Lee Martin</b>, author of <i>Break the Skin</i> and <i>The Bright Forever</i> <p>Join us this Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 9PM ET to chat LIVE with Bernice McFadden about GATHERING OF WATERS <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">here</a>. </p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-13689061729746734812011-12-18T18:37:00.001-05:002011-12-18T18:37:10.831-05:00Tananarive Due hosts 2011 Best Books #Blacklitchat on Twitter<p><img alt="My Soul to Take" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA5UaRg3qwkcjtQLA1Frp9mNU4klAQ9idzbMEzyUrZ9Ycbxqc8sNrI9nq-UCjNngt7T4zxbN39NMVx6BhJ70DoLdZAAPgi3DAOjNcgKtAKK_Zq3_740D_62z5oyQXxUWsJR9xw0yba6z7/s350/MySoultoTake2.JPG"><img src="http://www.afrobella.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tanaphoto-1.jpg" width="266" height="362"></p> <p>Join us tonight for our year end #blacklitchat.Tananarive Due is our special host. We will be sharing our best book picks for 2011 and chatting with her about her new novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Soul-Take-Tananarive-Due/dp/1439176140">My Soul to Take</a>. To get to the online event click <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">here</a>. </p> <p><b>Tananarive Due</b> is an American Book Award-winning, <i>Essence</i> best-selling author of <i>Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House,</i>and <i>Joplin's Ghost</i>, and co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning Tennyson Hardwick mystery series. She lives in the Atlanta area with her husband and co-author Steven Barnes.</p> <p><b><i>more on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Soul-Take-Tananarive-Due/dp/1439176140">My Soul to Take</a>:</i></b></p> <p><b><i>Essence </i></b><b>bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due delivers a heart-stopping new novel continuing the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world.</b></p> <p>Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancÉ is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn't stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation.</p> <p>Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their healing "Living Blood" throughout the world, hoping to eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel, including beloved characters from her bestselling <i>Joplin's Ghost</i>, in a war of good against evil, making <i>My Soul to Take </i>a chilling and thrilling experience.</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-43537853512204251952011-11-04T01:09:00.001-04:002011-11-06T10:59:23.141-05:00NELSON GEORGE host November Blacklitchat<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Cjl_6X5GIvQ/TrNypjkF8kI/AAAAAAAABdg/dZeuSkq8Wtc/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="429" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LD_vtfWR_Fk/TrNywysDpkI/AAAAAAAABdo/ibbyUTsYxI0/image_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="image" width="285" /></a> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WbuebpCdYWY/TrNy6qvogII/AAAAAAAABdw/YRiTnOQIKj4/s1600-h/image%25255B10%25255D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="216" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-bE6YAGVPWyY/TrNzAnd-oMI/AAAAAAAABd4/79ntfKjSRfw/image_thumb%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="image" width="273" /></a> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Update: Chat Cancelled</span>.<br />
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“There are few people who can put the past seventy years of urban reality into the perspective<br />of the most recent hip minute like Nelson George. The Plot Against Hip Hop is no exception.<br />Nelson George braids actual facts and fictional characters flawlessly into a time-tunneled walk<br />along various developments in this now-megabusiness called hip hop. For those that say they<br />love hip hop as well as the total legacy it evolved from, it bodes well for them to keep this very<br />close to their head, heart, and attention.” —Chuck D, Public Enemy<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wiR_wghZDws/TrNzUBSMMMI/AAAAAAAABeA/pk0-c4ljp-Q/s1600-h/image%25255B16%25255D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="298" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1hatsZgBjxU/TrNzoQ42BsI/AAAAAAAABeI/twjM3kAgO1I/image_thumb%25255B10%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" title="image" width="314" /></a><br />
We are pleased to announce that Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 9pm<a href="http://blacklitchat.blogspot.com/#"></a> EST The Plot Against Hip Hop author, <a href="http://nelsondgeorge.net/">Nelson George</a> will be our Special Host for #blacklitchat Tweet Chat on Twitter!!!!!!!!!! So all you fans of Hip Hop Culture and Crime Noir, lets have an online book chat with him. <br />
<u><strong>Who is Nelson George?</strong></u><br />
Nelson George is one of the first writers to document hip hop culture and is the author of several award-winning books on the subject, including <strong><em>Hip Hop America</em></strong> and <strong><em>The Death of Rhythm & Blues</em></strong>; he also coauthored (with Simmons) <strong>Russell Simmons’s</strong> autobiography <strong><em>Life and Def</em></strong>. He directed <strong>Queen Latifah</strong> in the HBO film “Life Support”, and is an executive producer of VH1’s long-running <strong>Hip Hop Honors</strong> broadcast.<br />
<strong><u>What is The Plot Against Hip Hop?</u></strong><br />
The Plot Against Hip Hop is a noir novel set in the world of hip hop culture. The stabbing murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard/security expert D Hunter, suspects there’s much more to his death. An old cassette tape, the theft of a manuscript Robinson wasworking on, and some veiled threats suggest there are larger forces at work.<br />
D Hunter’s investigation into his mentor’s murder leads into a parallel history of hip hop, a place where renegade government agents, behind-the-scenes power brokers, and paranoid journalists know a truth that only a few hard core fans suspect. This rewrite of hip hop history mixes real-life figures including Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Russell Simmons with characterspulled from the culture’s hidden world, as Illuminati, FBI agents, and West Coast gangstas roam the hard streets D Hunter walks down.<br />
D Hunter is a tough, black-clad product of crime-ridden Brownsville, Brooklyn, a man whose family has been devastated by violence and who has dedicated himself to protecting people in an age of insecurity. Hunter has his own secrets, his own vulnerabilities, which he fights to overcome as he becomes a reluctant private eye. After reading The Plot Against Hip Hop, you’ll never hear the music the same way.<br />
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<strong><em> What Others are Saying about Nelson George?</em></strong><br />
“Nelson George is one of my greatest influences as a writer . . . He inspired me in many ways,<br />and he continues to inspire with The Plot Against Hip Hop.” —Talib Kweli <br />
“One of our coolest cultural critics has written a mystery page-turner about the underbelly of<br />hip hop, and it’s woven with signature whip-smart insights into music. Nelson George’s smooth<br />security-guard-turned-detective, a.k.a. D, scours a demimonde as glamorous as Chandler’s Los<br />Angeles. This plot has more twists and turns than a pole dancer, and D definitely needs an<br />encore—he’s destined to become a classic.” —Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club <br />
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<em>What is BlackLit Chat?</em></h5>
It's a stream of tweets about books by Black[including Pan-African, African-American, Brit, Caribbean, Canadian Black, etc.] authors in real time during a specified time. Our time for this chat is Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 7-8 PM EST. Remember it here via Facebook at<a href="http://www.facebook.com/blacklitchat">http://www.facebook.com/blacklitchat</a>. <br />
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</ol>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-36065045569787053132011-10-09T23:45:00.001-04:002011-10-09T23:48:25.278-04:00Tayari Jones Hosts #Blacklitchat Anniversary<p sizcache="25" sizset="0"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vBRVf1MESz8/TpJqUJOiCgI/AAAAAAAABbA/0raG7TIUSz8/s1600-h/tayari_jones_chat%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="tayari_jones_chat" border="0" alt="tayari_jones_chat" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mdVX88u2p0k/TpJqWmNMHnI/AAAAAAAABbE/6FUsaQgAiRs/tayari_jones_chat_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="480" height="451"></a> </p> <p>Happy Anniversary to #<strong>blacklitchat</strong>!!! We are pleased to announce that Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 9pm EST Silver Sparrow author, Tayari Jones will be our Special Host for #blacklitchat Tweet Chat on Twitter!!!!!!!!!! So all you fans of Tayari, lets have an online book chat with her. We may have some surprise drop ins from past #blacklitchat co-hosts. </p> <h3 align="center"><em><font color="#008080">Tayari Jones</font></em></h3> <p sizcache="24" sizset="3"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/11_03_10/Author-and-40-under-40-honoree-Tayari-Jones.jpg" width="378" height="407"></p> <p>Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming of age story set during the city's infamous child murders of 1979-81. Jones herself was in the fifth grade when thirty African American children were murdered from the neighborhoods near her home and school. When asked why she chose this subject matter for her first novel, she says, "This novel is my way of documenting a particular moment in history. It is a love letter to my generation and also an effort to remember my own childhood. To remind myself and my readers what it was like to been eleven and at the mercy of the world. And despite the obvious darkness of the time period, I also wanted to remember all that is sweet about girlhood, to recall all the moments that make a person smile and feel optimistic." <p>Leaving Atlanta received many awards and accolades including the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction. It was named "Novel of the Year" by Atlanta Magazine, "Best Southern Novel of the Year," by Creative Loafing Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post both listed it as one of the best of 2002. She has received fellowships from organizations including Illinois Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Arizona Commission on the Arts and Le Chateau de Lavigny. <p>Her second novel, <em>The Untelling</em>, published in 2005, is the story of a family struggling to overcome the aftermath of a fatal car accident. When asked why she chose to focus on a particular family in this work after the sprawling historical subject matter of Leaving Atlanta, Tayari Jones explains, "The Untelling is a novel about personal history and individual and familial myth-making. These personal stories are what come together to determine the story of a community, the unoffical history of a neighborhood, of a city, of a nation." Upon the publication of The Untelling, Essence magazine called Jones, "a writer to watch." The Atlanta Journal Constitution proclaims Jones to be "one of the best writers of her generation." In 2005, The Southern Regional council and the University of Georgia Libraries awarded The Untelling with the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices. <p>The Silver Girl, her highly anticipated third novel, is forthcoming from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tayari-Jones/e/B001IXTSWE#">Algonquin Books</a>. An excerpt has been published in Calaloo. Tayari Jones debuted the piece as a headline reader at the conference of the Associated Writers Conference in Atlanta. <p>Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She has taught at Prairie View A&M University, East Tennessee State University, The University of Illinois and George Washington University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University. She was recently named as the 2008 Collins Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, researching her fourth novel. <a href="http://www.tayarijones.com/books">http://www.tayarijones.com/books</a> <ul></ul> <h4 align="center"><em><font color="#008080">I’ve heard about Silver Sparrow, but don’t know what it’s about?</font></em></h4> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/2011/07/26/silver_sparrow.jpg?1311695148"> <p>With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist,” Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. <p>Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s families– the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich and flawed characters, she also reveals the joy, and the destruction, they brought to each other’s lives. <p>At the heart of it all are the two girls whose lives are at stake, and like the best writers, Jones portrays the fragility of her characters with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women. <p sizcache="24" sizset="5"><img src="http://aboutaword.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/screen-shot-2011-05-20-at-10-05-51-pm.png"></p> <p>Praise for SILVER SPARROW: <p><i>“Tayari Jones is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester…” </i><br><b>—<i>The Village Voice</i></b></p> <p>"A love story... full of perverse wisdom and proud joy....Jones's skill for wry understatement never<br>wavers."—<strong>O, </strong><strong>The Oprah Magazine</strong><br> <p><b><i><img src="http://feministing.com/imageStorage/Maya_Tayari%20Jones-thumb.jpg"></i></b></p> <p><i>“Jones is a master and Silver Sparrow is a revelation, alive with meaning and hope.”</i><br><b>—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of <i>Lark and Termite</i></b></p> <p>“<i>Silver Sparrow</i> is rich, substantive, meaningful. It is also, at turns, funny and sharp, haunting and heartbreaking.”—<strong><i>The Root </i></strong>(<i>The Root</i> )</p> <p>“Nakedly honest...dazzlingly charged” —<i><strong>Atlanta Journal Constitution </strong></i>(<i>Atlanta Journal Constitution</i> )</p> <p> <img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOVTHcycW1iZQhzjS0EM9Jh7z8StJr1Gxh6lMWdxgaikza_pwVhcQcHyqWGkpkKcOX34FD7RC7haQ4Oq3Qbv_qU1Bs5LH-dnrPxWeMGWcaKV-0WVfzU1ftHtCoDBo8atGhk51zFN0RE6Y/s1600/IMG_1277.jpg" width="506" height="387"></p> <p align="center" sizcache="24" sizset="6"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpztx9qlfyC40TytHQ8jTYLYH07CKtgVL10_D8hDVykSYLl9Y&t=1&usg=__R-Gp01aaX3cTXQk8m1TBqdHRMDM=" width="315" height="126"></p> <p></p> <h3 align="center"><em><font color="#008080">What is BlackLit Chat?</font></em></h3> <p>It's a stream of tweets about books by Black[including Pan-African, African-American, Brit, Caribbean, Canadian Black, etc.] authors in real time during a specified time. Our time for this chat is Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 7-8 PM EST. Remember it here via Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/blacklitchat">http://www.facebook.com/blacklitchat</a>. </p> <p sizcache="23" sizset="3"> <em><font color="#008080">How does it Work? 3 Easy Steps</font></em></p> <ol sizcache="23" sizset="4"> <li sizcache="23" sizset="4"> <div align="left" sizcache="23" sizset="4">Get a <a href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a> account, or login, or remember your Twitter Password.</div> <li sizcache="23" sizset="5"> <div align="left" sizcache="23" sizset="5">Join the chat by clicking this link. <a title="http://is.gd/fYHlB" href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat</a></div> <li sizcache="23" sizset="5"> <div align="left" sizcache="23" sizset="5">Now login with your Twitter Password. </div> <li> <div align="left">To join the conversation on October 30, please follow #blacklitchat on Twitter for a conversation moderated by me (@BernadetteDavis) and my co-moderator @deegospel. And if you aren't already, follow @tayari</div></li></ol> <div class="zemanta-related"> <h6 style="font-size: 1em" class="zemanta-related-title"> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p></h6></div> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-86501090963028318212011-09-16T22:39:00.000-04:002011-09-16T22:39:42.155-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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(NEW YORK) September 16, 2011 - The <strong>15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival</strong> presented by <strong>BET Networks</strong> kicked off last night in NYC with the Opening Night world premiere of <strong>Nelson George</strong> and <strong>Diane Paragas'</strong> documentary <strong><em>Brooklyn Boheme</em></strong>. Stars such as <strong>Chris Rock, Spike Lee</strong>, festival ambassador<strong>Mario Van Peebles, Maxwell, Giancarlo Esposito</strong> and <strong>John Boyega</strong> (who's filming a movie with Spike) came out in support of the film many describe as a "love letter to Brooklyn."</div>
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"We're very excited to be premiering this film at Urbanworld," said George. "Hopefully, the exposure we're receiving at this festival will create opportunities for us to bring 'Brooklyn Boheme' to the rest of the world."</div>
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Additional celebs/VIPs in attendance included BET's <strong>Stephen Hill</strong>, Basketball Wives' <strong>Meeka Claxton</strong>, radio personality <strong>Egypt Sherrod</strong>, culture critic <strong>Michaela Angela Davis</strong>, stylist/entrepreneur <strong>Marlo Hampton</strong>, actor<strong>Hassan Johnson</strong>, director <strong>Qasim Basir </strong>and <em>The Start of Dreams </em>directors <strong>The Horne Brothers</strong>.</div>
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Urbanworld continues through Sunday 9/18 with appearances by <strong>Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson</strong>, <strong>Lynn Whitfield</strong>, <strong>Tyrese, Jamie Hector, Valerie Simpson, Sonia Sanchez, Tami Roman, Chad Coleman, Nashawn Kearse</strong> and more. Visit www.urbanworld.org for more information.</div>
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Nelson George will be guest host of #blacklitchat in November.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932082084523211319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7588487419284647604.post-78082390704902859052011-09-15T10:33:00.001-04:002011-09-15T10:33:43.462-04:00Connie Briscoe Hosts September Blacklitchat This Weekend<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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We are pleased to announce that Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 9pm EST Money Can't Buy Love author, Connie Briscoe will be our Guest Host for #blacklitchat Tweet Chat on Twitter!!!!!!!!!! So all you fans of PG County & Sisters & Husbands lets have an online book chat with the author .</div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Lenora Stone used to say if she didn't have bad luck, she wouldn't have any luck at all. At age thirty-eight, instead of socializing with Baltimore's A-list, she photographs them for <i>Baltimore Scene</i>, a glossy magazine filled with beautiful people who, unlike Lenora, never have to worry about car trouble and overdue bills. As much as she'd love to slam the door on her overbearing boss, quitting isn't an option. She's barely making her mortgage payments and, though her condo might not be a palace, it's hers. Lately even things with her boyfriend Gerald haven't been right. They've been together for three years but he can't seem to ask the one question she's been waiting for. But what Lenora doesn't know is that her luck is about to change...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #7a7a7a; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Just when she thinks things can't get worse, Lenora wins the jackpot in the Maryland lottery. In a heartbeat, all her dreams become possible. She quits her job and indulges her every desire-starting with a shiny, silver BMW and a million-dollar mansion. Gerald is finally ready to put a ring on her finger and the city's most exclusive women's group is dying for her to join, officially moving Lenora from behind the lens, into the limelight. But in Lenora's lavish new world, all that glitters definitely isn't gold. Her old friend's are concerned about her sudden changes, and Ray, a sexy, young landscaper Lenora covered for the magazine is looking for more than a purely professional relationship. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">As her life starts to come together, the things Lenora holds dear begin to fall apart. Has her world really changed for the better, or does fortune come with a heavy price?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #7a7a7a; line-height: 20px;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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heart, Briscoe taunts us with the convincing and complex character, Lenora
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">It’s a stream of tweets about books by Black[including Pan-African, African-American, Brit, Caribbean, Canadian Black, etc.] authors in real time during a specified time. Our time for this chat is Sunday, August 21 from 9-10PM EST.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">3. Now login with your Twitter Password.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #eaeaea; color: #7a7a7a; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">or hangout here at <a href="http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat">http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat</a></span><br />
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