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Hot Summer Beach Reads
If you love to read and plan to hit the beach this summer, BV Bookshelf has put together a list of ...
The Get 'Em Girls Guide to the Perfect Get-Together
Ten years ago, three members of BV Conversations were doing the things message board denizens do -- ...
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Buffie the Body Bares All in Her Memoir, 'Vixen Icon'
'Vixen Icon,' by Buffie Carruth, better known as "Buffie the Body," starts out with the author's ...
Award-Winning Author Carleen Brice Sparkles with a Tale of Love and Family
'Children of the Waters' is the latest engaging offering by Carleen Brice, who writes with aplomb ...
The Long Fall: Walter Mosley returns with a Manhattan Murder Mystery
The last time I interviewed Walter Mosley, he said he was done with Easy Rawlins. He was putting him ...
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Hit the beach with 'Sag Harbor'
Ah, summer. If you're an adolescent, it is that sweet, yet trepidatious, in-between time the last ...
Farai Chideya Explores Black Rock & Roll
What is "black music"? Truth is, long after the days of Jimi Hendrix, groups of black folk who ...
A Conversation With Chris Gardner: Start Where You Are
When we caught up with Chris Gardner, owner and chief executive of an institutional investment firm, ...
Peer Pleasure: A Book Review for Young Adults
Glamour. Seduction. Suspense. ZOMG! Get ready to add some extra spice to your gossip game with 'Peer ...
Stitchin' and Pullin:' Tales of Quilting
'Stitchin' and Pullin: A Gee's Bend Quilt' by Patricia C. McKissack will become a fast favorite of ...
Leonard Pitts: A man, His music, and His family, The Story of a Brutal Awakening
What happens when the sum of the man no longer equals the whole? That's what a washed up entertainer ...
Black Identity in the Age of President Barack Obama
"Few institutions in our country have been under siege as long as the African American family,'' ...
Lisa Nichols: Living the Life You Love
Lisa Nichols helped scores of people realize their dreams through her best-selling 'Chicken Soup for ...
The Gift of Words: Mother's Day Book Picks
Does your mom (or a mom you love) love to read? With Mother's Day around the corner, BV Bookshelf ...
A Conversation With J. California Cooper
For more than four decades, the inimitable playwright and author J. California Cooper has ...
Van Jones: Obama's Black Czar of Green Jobs
Van Jones: Quotes on Green On the Grassroots Success of His Book: "Jones ultimately ...
Works on Race Take Three Pulitzers
Three stories with narratives centered on race won the Pulitzer prize this week, including Lynn ...
Bill O'Reilly Book on Obama - Yawn
Sometimes you have to give the devil his due. If you would have told me a media hack and ...
L.A. Banks is Queen of the Damned
When the 'Twilight' series hit with such a splash, it was good news for L.A. Banks. The ...
Shaun Robinson Pens Book to Empower Teen Girls
Spelman graduate, 'Access Hollywood' correspondent and Emmy Award-winning journalist Shaun Robinson ...
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