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N. K. Jemisin
“N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges…
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Barry Jenkins
Based on the novel by James Baldwin,  “a timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year-old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a…
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Jennifer L. Eberhardt
“You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained…
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Colson Whitehead
“As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the Black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is ‘…
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Chanelle Benz
“Billie James’ inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned Black poet who died unexpectedly when…
Thick: And Other Essays
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“In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her…
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Ibram X. Kendi
“‘The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it.’ Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the…
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Jericho Brown
“Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both…
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Esi Edugyan
“Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him…
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Toni Morrison
“Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society,…