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Black Classic Press, Inc.

W. Paul Coates founded Black Classic Press in 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The company is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in operation in the United States. The company publishes about six titles annually; most are out-of-print historical books that the company brings back into print. The first books published by the company were pamphlets printed on a photocopier that Coates purchased. Along this same vein, Coates established BCP Digital Printing

in 1995 as an affiliated company of Black Classic Press. The printing company, a million dollar business, serves as the printer for the publishing company as well as companies and organizations in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.

07/16/2024

Day 2: SIGNED COLLECTOR'S SET OF BOOKS! https://www.blackclassicbooks.com/books-by-walter-mosley/

07/15/2024

Your Support is Needed Now. https://blackclassicbooks.com/

07/09/2024

Nubian Books, the only Black-owned bookstore in Clayton County, is thriving after the closure of Barnes & Noble. Learn about its journey and success.

06/20/2024

Rice farmer Rollen Chalmers has been integral to the region’s heritage-grains revival, and now chefs and home cooks are becoming loyal customers.

06/19/2024

The bean pie is sweet, custard-like, and a foundationally humble foodstuff. It’s also a culinary icon of the controversial Nation of Islam and of revolutionary black power.

06/18/2024

We are going through a tight Summer as well. So i can Feel Sister. Please support her. Got this from aalbc.com. thanks Troy
https://youtu.be/zfIfZtm2jRQ?si=ruxz80lvu_6gyFxs

VaLinda is seeking funds to pay back rent, purchase new carpet, and acquire 5 bookcases, 1,000 books to give out for free to children, and a bookmobile. The ...

06/05/2024

RIP WAXCAST
BROTHER EARL JONES, "WAXCAST", HAS JOINED THE ANCESTORS. INFO ON MEMEORIAL SERVICE WILL BE POSTED WHEN AVAILABLE.

05/02/2024

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us and our . So many entrepreneurs have stepped out faith and determination to create community spaces that uplift culture, lift up narratives that honor our pasts, (and our Afro-futures too). Add MahoganyBooks & our bookstore friends to your Saturday roster of places to visit and grab a book. Support is indeed a verb. 🖤

04/20/2024

Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, S*x and Nigerian Taste Buds by Yemisi Aribisala presents a sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian food, appraisal of the cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine

12/31/2023

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12/01/2023

Submit to the Killens Review. The Deadline Is Dec 1, 2023 Foward to a Friend Share Via Facebook Share Via LinkedIn REMINDER! The Deadline to Submit for the KILLENS REVIEW Friday, December 1, 202

11/30/2023

Two Las Vegas women opened a bookstore in honor of another bookstore that served the Historic Westside for more than 20 years.

11/22/2023

A historic bookstore in Oakland celebrated as it unveiled its newest work of art.

08/15/2023

Founder Kelly-Jade Nicholls wanted to create a ‘fun’ place that allows ‘black children to be children’.

08/12/2023

Well said.

Allow us to introduce ourselves, Derrick, Ramunda and our new college freshman, Mahogany (we’re officially empty nesters now). We are the owners & founders of MahoganyBooks. Proud HBCU grads (Shout out to Langston Univ. & Bowie State). Some of you are new here and others who’ve been rolling with us since we began online 16 years ago - to now, a physical store in Washington, DC, a location in Maryland, and late August, we’ll have a presence at National Airport in Virginia!

One of the reasons we created MahoganyBooks in 2007 was our commitment of making Black books accessible no matter where you live in the states. Not just the hot titles, but the ones often buried behind bestsellers, ones that have been pillars in the Black community for decades. Written by brilliant leaders, intellectuals, innovators, followers of African centered thought, and many others—often overlooked. Books that have sustained our people —even when we were HUNG for the very act of READING. To us, owning a bookstore is an act of revolutionary resistance all its own. Can you imagine having ancestors murdered because of their zeal and excitement to read words on a written page? Whew! And here we stand today, on the shoulders of our ancestors —OWNING a store full of Black Books! It often brings us to tears.

This thing runs so very deep with us. Study after study show when you read books with characters that reflect your own ethnicity, it INCREASES self-confidence and self-esteem. This is paramount to us. Growing up, many of us didn’t have access to books that looked like us, but instead were forced to read characters and storylines that never shared our story or experience. So yes, we proudly stand in such a time as this along with our fellow bookselling family who came before us and those working tirelessly now.

Again, welcome to our , where Black Books Matter. EVERYDAY!✊🏾
August is Black Business Month. Let’s continue to be intentional with our coins.
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07/15/2023

Liberation Station, which specializes in kids' and YA books by Black authors and illustrators, is North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore; we spoke with children's author Victoria Scott-Miller, who runs the store with her family, about the its origins and mission.

06/02/2023

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/amanda-gorman-book-sales-hit-204554766.html

The shine of Amanda Gorman’s work can’t be dimmed. Following a Florida school banning “The Hill We Climb,” sales have skyrocketed for the presidential inauguration poem as well as the poet’s “Call Us What We Carry” and “Change Sings,” according to Variety. The pieces of work have e...

06/02/2023

https://time.com/6284174/book-bans-black-children-publishing/

Like Amanda Gorman, we all must hear and honor Black children and those who dare to tell their stories.

05/19/2023

Malcolm X, a.k.a. El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, will be commemorated internationally this Friday, his 98th bornday anniversary.

05/14/2023

Young Dude "...if my work, if my books were not considered ban worthy dare i say, then maybe it's not worthy at all."

PEN America’s annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture will be delivered by MacArthur Fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the...

05/11/2023

Joining the legend in Black Publishing was a great honor. Watching this video it is clear the one thing that has helped each of us mature in our publishing is our commitment to Black people and our community. That message comes across repeatedly. We each shared that message from our own experience. Thank You Walter Mosley for taking the time out of your busy day to come to San Diego and join us. Troy Johnson from AALBC.com offers a wonderful tribute to Walter beginning at 17:50 in the recording.

04/16/2023

Damn I miss Dr. Ben. And George Simmons. I learned so much from them. Plain, straight forward and on point.

Author/historians Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben) and Professor George Simmonds discuss the untold truths in Religion and Western Culture in relation to Af...

03/25/2023

congrats David.

As a former school teacher in Baltimore, David Miller found that Black and Brown boys tended to lag behind girls in reading. When he became an...

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Baltimore, MD
21203

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http://www.blackclassicbooks.com/

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Black Classic Press is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in the United States. The company publishes about six to ten titles annually. Most are historical books dealing with all aspects of the African American, and African Diasporic experience and have been out-of-print for years. We take on as our special mission to bring those books back in to print and make them available to a new generations of readers. The company began publishing in 1978. Its first books were small pamphlets, printed on a desktop offset printer that founder, W. Paul Coates, purchased for $300.00 and set up in his basement. In 1995, Coates established BCP Digital Printing as an affiliated company of Black Classic Press. BCP Digital prints all books for Black Classic Press and provides print services for other publishers, non-profit and for profit businesses and organizations. Twenty-four years after its founding, BCP Digital Printing is distinguished as the first and only full-service African American owned book printing company in the U.S.