The Essence Book Project is a computational database of every book ever ranked on the bestsellers' list published in Essence Magazine, 1994-2010.
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Joined February 2021
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@EssenceProject My 15th and newest book is GROCERY SHOPPING WITH MY MOTHER. It is a collection of my poetry, inspired by visits with my ma past few years. PLEASE PRE-ORDER book, it is out DEC. 6, just before holiday season. LINK TO PRE-ORDER: softskull.com/dd-product/gro…
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BWSA is thrilled to host our inaugural graduate student panel next Tuesday, Nov 9 at 6:30 PM EST! This year's theme is Black LGBTQ Studies. To register for the Zoom event, RSVP on our website blackwomensstudies.com/event…
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Today I'm honored to talk with Dr. Jacinta R. Saffold @ConcreteStories about her amazing data and bibliographic initiative @EssenceProject: how Black bestsellers shape the literary field. Join us for the webinar TODAY (10/27) from 4-5:30pm EST. #BlackBiblio #BlackArchives
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Hey Twitter friends!
Next week, Wednesday, I have the pleasure of talking about my labor of love, the @EssenceProject, with the ever brilliant @kinohin. Please consider joining us for what will certainly be a great time in Black bibliography.
Join us next week for the 1st session in @ConcreteStories's 3-part series on the @EssenceProject!
Oct. 27, 4pm ET: Black Bestselling Books & Bibliographic Concerns w. @kinohin.
Register at bit.ly/bsa-essence-book-10-2…
Co-sponsored by @SoFCritBibRBS.
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Join us next week for the 1st session in @ConcreteStories's 3-part series on the @EssenceProject!
Oct. 27, 4pm ET: Black Bestselling Books & Bibliographic Concerns w. @kinohin.
Register at bit.ly/bsa-essence-book-10-2…
Co-sponsored by @SoFCritBibRBS.
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Yvonne Boose at WNIJ, Thank you for the wonderful interview opportunity! northernpublicradio.org/2021…
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Our Fall/Winter Events series is here!!
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✨10/21: activist bookselling & community @ NYC's @bluestockings
✨@EssenceProject interview series w. @ConcreteStories + more
✨Collecting, Knowledge, & Power: Perspectives from Latin America speaker series
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What a wonderful memory, and thank you so much for sharing this! The Essence Bestsellers List was a huge blessing to my career as a whole (from the very beginning)!
Today, 24 years ago 📼 on @Essence paperback bestsellers list was...#BlackExcellence #literacytuesday
#research #Essence
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I wrote my first novel, MAMA, on a stolen IBM Selectric typewriter. I didn't steal it. And can't remember who did.
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Indeed. That @EssenceProject Bestsellers List saw us and promoted us black writers in decades we were selling yet still ignored in #publishing world. Thanks again, @Essence !! ♥️
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Become a member of the Black Women's Studies Association today! As a member, you're able to hold leadership positions, participate in our mentorship program, and more. Learn more on our website blackwomensstudies.com/dues/…
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So, this happened today!!!
Let me put this in context for you:
The Richard and Judy Book Club is to the UK what the Oprah Book Club is to America... – at Brooklyn, NY
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narrator in my head. Anyway, Essence Magazine dubbed Gathering of Waters one of the best books of the decade. I'm glad to have been able to honor Emmett Till in such a profound way. – at Brooklyn, NY
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Carolyn Bryant is still alive. Anyway, my novel, Gathering of Waters is an ode of sorts to Emmett Till and a way for to give his life a different sort of ending. The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi, which was as much of a surprise to me as it was to the other – at Brooklyn, NY
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I was born ten years after Emmett Till was murdered. But I never not knew about him. His name and what happened to him was the source of many family conversations. And of course, there was the photo of his battered face peering out from that open funeral casket. – at Brooklyn, NY
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Do you truly know your purpose? Well, before I discovered mine, I first had to begin working on, not just one, but on all areas of my life--and I had to do so in a specific order (spiritually, personally, and professionally)! amazon.com/Woman-God-Created… #purpose
