Dr. Daniel Black is the powerful author and dynamic orator who has written several acclaimed novels celebrating Black culture and ancestral memory. His head-spinning works include The Coming, Perfect Peace, They Tell Me of a Home, The Sacred Place, Don’t Cry for Me, Isaac’s Song, Twelve Gates to the City and Listen to the Lambs.   He will be honored with the Walter Mosley Author of Distinction Award at the 2027 NBCC.   His next offering in the spring of 2027 is The Arrival, described […]

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, Emmy® Award-winning producer, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 47 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night, Black Star, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, J vs K, an illustrated novel he penned with Jerry Craft, and the motivational primer for graduates, creatives, and professionals, entitled Say Yes, Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), and The Undefeated, the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated […]

Lauren Francis-Sharma is the immensely talented author of three award-winning novels. Born in Baltimore to parents from Trinidad, Lauren has built an acclaimed literary career by unearthing hidden histories and untold truths.   Her three published works are fanstastic: ’Til the Well Runs Dry, Book of the Little Axe and Casualties of Truth. Her work spans continents and centuries— from a small village on Trinidad’s North Coast to 18th-century Montana to post-apartheid South Africa—yet always circles back to questions of identity, justice, and forgiveness.   […]

Clay Cane is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, radio host, and political analyst. More than 3 million listeners tune into The Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM each week, his commentary is heard on television networks such as ABC, MSNBC, FOX and CNN, and his work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN.com, and BET. He is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult, Live Through This, and Burn Down […]