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Racism

Begin Again
African American Writers
Ann Ronald

Begin Again

Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Baldwin and Glaude, rereading Baldwin to arrive at Glaude’s writing and thinking today.

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Autobiography/Memoir
Neal Ferguson

What the Eyes Don’t See

WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE The contributions of immigrants to the articulation of and striving towards the “American Dream” are unassailable. Those contributions are still

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Brown Girl Dreaming
Autobiography/Memoir
Brandy Burgess

Brown Girl Dreaming

BROWN GIRL DREAMING, Snapshots in verse The poetry of Brown Girl Dreaming fills pages like Polaroid snapshots, described through the nostalgic lens of a child

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

A Good American

Sometimes when picking a new book to review, it’s best not to look at the advance praise printed on the back cover. Words like “epic,

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In Memory of Troy Davis

This is an older poem, but one I thought just as relevant today as when first written. At The Superior Court   Counsel speaks before

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