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This 'N That
Brandy Burgess

Well-Read Black Girl

WELL-READ BLACK GIRL CONFERENCE As the news broke about the successful fundraising of the Well-Read Black Girl Conference and Festival to be held on September

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Black River

 A few months ago, Sunny posted companion musings where she and I both opined about the tempo and rhythms of Southern literature.  At the time, I

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Authors of color
Ann Ronald

Between the World and Me

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Between the World and Me takes the form of a letter Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son.  In a

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This 'N That
Sunny Solomon

Black History Month, Or Not

It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood

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Authors of color
Ann Ronald

Washington Black

Washington Black – Esi Edugyan’s tale of a Barbados youth taken by an inventor/scientist to be his slave, only to find that the boy will

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This 'N That
Sunny Solomon

Black History Month 2019

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019 It is February, the shortest month of the year. You know what that means, dear readers. It is Black History Month.

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Biography
Ann Ronald

The Black Count

At the end of his historical biography of General Alex Dumas, The Black Count Tom Reiss cites a passage written by the General’s famous son.

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Black Karma

When I reviewed Thatcher Robinson’s first novel, White Ginger, for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” I ended by hoping that Robinson would “write more about this intriguing

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Coal Black Horse

Robert Olmstead has given us a little literary gem in Coal Black Horse, the tale of fourteen year old Robey Childs, who has been sent

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Authors of color
Brandy Burgess

Lazaretto

Lazaretto What does it truly mean to be black (or not) and why does it matter? Lazaretto by Diane Mckinney-Whetstone challenges these questions and more.

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Benjamin Black + BBC

This one makes me so happy: Irish writer Benjamin Black’s Quirke novels (A Death in Summer) will be coming soon to your local tv or whatever

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History
Dan Erwine

Black Fire

Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax

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