Too much risk, not enough profit—-those were what the naysayers told Donna and Donya Craddock when they were looking for investors to open a new African-American bookstore back in 2008. “[Dallas’] Black Images and [Ft. Worth’s] Black Bookworm closed for a reason,” one said. “There’s not any real money to be made in selling books.”… Continue reading DFW’s Dock Book Shop: 7 Seasons Of Success
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The Romance Slam Jam: 20 Years Of Elevating Black Romance
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Denzel and Pauletta Washington and even President and First Lady Obama: for decades, they and thousands of others have positively exemplified African-American men and women in lasting, loving relationships. However, for too many book publishers, the idea of black authors writing love stories and romance novels were neither logical or… Continue reading The Romance Slam Jam: 20 Years Of Elevating Black Romance