It’s Lit
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‘I’m Growing and Elevating in Real Time’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Gets Bamboozled With Insecure’s Yvonne Orji
The Emmy-nominated actress and comedian leans into her faith for her debut book, Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams.
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‘It’s Time White America Pays Attention’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! and Keith Boykin Run Down the Race Against Time
The bestselling author and political commentator's latest book explores the race-based fear fueling our nation's cold civil war.
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‘It Speaks to Your Inner Child’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Explores the Literary Frontier of Fantasy With Ayana Gray
The author's bestselling debut, Beast of Prey, puts a promising and Pan-Africanist spin on the fantasy genre.
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‘I Feel Safe With Books’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Talks Tiny Reparations With Phoebe Robinson
The comic and bestselling author's third book of essays is the first on her new imprint with Penguin Random House, Tiny Reparations Books.
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‘This Isn’t About Good People or Bad People’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Explores The Purpose of Power With Alicia Garza
The Black Lives Matter co-founder and Black Futures Lab founder puts our present moment in context with a riveting retracing of her own path to activism.
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PageTurners: In Both Fiction and Nonfiction, This Week’s Authors and Characters Play ‘Make Believe’
We aren't the only critics to describe Percival Everett's novel The Trees as 'page turning'; James Baldwin's prophetic essays are now available in paperback.
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PageTurners: Literature Racing Against Time, Ghosts, Past Decisions, and Police in the 1960s
This week's authors are haunted by ghosts of the past, attempting to stay rooted in the present, and preparing to fight for the future.
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‘It Is a Call, Not a Closing’: Why The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Can’t Seem to Unfollow Jill Louise Busby
The social media savant turned author dismantles online 'micro-fame'—including her own—in her debut collection of essays, Unfollow Me.
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‘I’m Trying to Get Everybody On’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! and Gabrielle Union Are Back With Something Stronger
The actress, producer, bestselling author and our first-ever repeat guest speaks candidly about her second memoir, You Got Anything Stronger?
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PageTurners: George M. Johnson Blesses YA Shelves With a 2nd Memoir; Michaela Coel Publishes Her Manifesto
New releases include tales of trauma, family and coming of age, essays about Jim Crow and a girl trying to survive in New Rochelle at the start of the pandemic