Tag: Race
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DECENT PEOPLE by DE’SHAWN CHARLES WINSLOW
A sweeping and unforgettable novel about a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal. Winslow takes us back to West Mills, North Carolina. The year is 1976, and the three Harmon siblings are found shot to death in their home. The first crime in decades and everyone has an…
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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There) When I saw that the author wrote this…
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NERUDA ON THE PARK by CLEYVIS NATERA
An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification A beautiful debut novel. Eusebia and her husband, Vladimir, along with their daughter, Luz, have lived in Nothar Park which is a predominately Dominican part of New York for twenty years.…
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THE BLACK AGENDA Edited by ANNA GIFTY OPOKU-AGYEMAN
“The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long-overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in…
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CARE FREE BLACK GIRLS by ZEBA BLAY
This book is a look and a celebration of black women’s identity and impact on pop culture by HuffPost critic, Zeba Blay. Blay was the first person to give us the #carefreeblackgirls, in 2013 on Twitter. This is a series of essays that took me longer than normal to read. This isn’t my story and…
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Book Releases for Today!
All released today! Available everywhere books are sold! From Down’s to AI to Race and a twisty thriller!
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WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY BY TA-NEHISI COATES
This was a difficult book to review. It was also difficult to read and to know that what I was reading was truth. If you don’t know it as truth, you need to go way back and look at how we became America and who the people were that made up the rules that some…
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The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks
Mr. Hicks has given us more of “The Widow of the South” with “The Orphan Mother”. The year is 1867. The war is over and the South is having to adjust, including Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock–the “Widow of the South”. Mariah is a free woman now. She is dependent on no one…
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