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“Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel…
“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…
“They didn’t know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one’s life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam’s seven years…
“From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and,…
“Pop culture is the Pandora’s Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through…
“For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the…
“Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem is invited to the annual cotillion thrown by African-American high society of Queens. Caught between the indifference of her father, the…
“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…
“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…
“When a stack of pulpy paperback novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she - a white woman - had been married to a Black man from…