Blackboard: African American Bestsellers

BlackBoard: African American Bestsellers is an organization that promotes bestselling titles written by and about African Americans.[1] The BlackBoard Bestsellers List was started in August 1991 by Faye Childs and Debbie Wade. The list appears monthly and is syndicated in newspapers.[2] BlackBoard gathers bestseller information from African American bookstores.[2] Each year, the organization announces a list of "Books of The Year," which features both fiction and nonfiction titles.[3]

  1. ^ "The BlackBoard List | About Us". Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  2. ^ a b Cain, Joy Duckett (May 1994). "Faye Childs: Charting Our Books". Essence. 25 (1): 64 – via Ebscohost.
  3. ^ "The BlackBoard Books of the Year Presented at BEA". the American Booksellers Association. 2003-06-04. Retrieved 2020-06-22.