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“Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an…
“Bob was determined to solve, in one stroke, the problems of overpopulation and racism. The charming, larger-than-life lawyer and his brilliant wife, Sheryl, a former homecoming…
“The In-Betweens tells the story of a biracial boy becoming a man, all the while trying to find himself, trying to come to terms with his white family, and trying to find his…
“In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. Finally, white men…
“Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any…
“Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry’s short stint in the public eye changed the…
“In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a ‘national treasure’)…
“Fearful of violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her…
“Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor Black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian…
“As she recovers from a breakup with a lover who had meant everything to her, Trisha Low grapples with the meaning of everything, in memoir rich with theory and digression, but…