About
Troy D. Johnson is the founder and president of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com), the oldest and largest website dedicated to books by and about people of African descent. Since launching AALBC in 1998, he has become a leading advocate for Black literature, supporting authors, publishers, and bookstores nationwide.
Featured Work
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
2020
I wrote a new introduction to The New Negro: Voices of The Harlem Renaissance which was originally published in 1925 by the Albert and Charles Boni Publishing Company. Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke edited this groundbreaking anthology, which he described as “…embodying these ripening forces as culled from the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance.”
