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Just Us Books, a publishing house focused on African American children and young adult books, is founded by Wade and Cheryl Hudson. 1991. Tom Low and Philip Lee co-found Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. 1992. The African American Children's Book Fair started in Philadelphia by Vanesse Lloyd ...
Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded by W. Paul Coates in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Dorothy B. Porter, as well as reissuing significant works by Tony Martin, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden ...
Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group [2] Salariya Book Company: Brighton: England: United Kingdom 1989 Scholastic: New York City: New York: United States 1920 Clifford the Big Red Dog. The Magic School Bus. Goosebumps. Simon & Schuster: New York City: New York: United States 1924 Skyhorse Publishing: Tamarind Books: United Kingdom ...
Lee & Low was founded in 1991 by Chinese Americans Tom Low and Philip Lee as a children's book publisher specializing in books featuring people of color and one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States. [2] Low says, "There was a void in children's books.
While African-American book publishers have been active in the United States since the second decade of the 19th century, the 1960s and 1970s saw a proliferation of publishing activity, with the establishment of many new publishing houses, an increase in the number of titles published, and significant growth in the number of African-American bookstores.
AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club, is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African Americans and people of African descent, with content also aimed at African-American bookstores. [1] [2] AALBC.com publishes book and film reviews, author profiles, resources for writers and related articles. Launched in 1998 ...
Third World Press has published works by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as by Sonia Sanchez, Sterling Plumpp and Pearl Cleage. [10] The list of authors published by TWP also includes Amiri Baraka, [11] Margaret Walker, Sam Greenlee, Naomi Long Madgett, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Mari Evans, [12] Kalamu ya Salaam, Gloria Naylor, Gil Scott-Heron, Chancellor Williams, [13 ...
This is a list of books published by Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollins acquired in late October 1999. [1] [2] It is the oldest imprint devoted to the African-American market, [3] and takes its name from a slave ship on which a revolt occurred in 1839.