It’s Lit
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Colin Kaepernick Announces Upcoming Children’s Book, I Color Myself Different
The activist and athlete will publish the 'deeply personal' story via his publishing company, in partnership with Scholastic.
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‘I Was Concerned With the Stories We Don’t Pass Down’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Talks Everyman With M Shelly Conner
The scholar's debut novel traverses migration, queerness and deeply held secrets, making for an intoxicating read.
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PageTurners: The Simultaneous Attack and Guidance of Literature
At some point in time, we all pick up a book to help us find a better way of understanding who we are. This week, we see that guidance spread across genres
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'Don't Black People Have Second Amendment Rights?': The Root Presents: It’s Lit! and Carol Anderson Take Aim at the Fatal Inequality of The Second
The bestselling author of 'White Rage' turns her historian's lens onto the anti-Blackness baked into the American right to keep and bear arms.
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'Those Narratives Are So Powerful': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Learns How the Word Is Passed With Clint Smith
Released this June, The Atlantic writer's stirring 'Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America' became an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
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PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here
Hot off the press literary releases to help you keep cool in this heatwave.
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'It Always Starts With People': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Revisits Such a Fun Age With Kiley Reid
The writer's debut novel was an instant New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
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Take a Look, It's in a MasterClass Book—LeVar Burton's Storytelling Rainbow!
LeVar Burton joins MasterClass to teach 'The Power of Storytelling,' referencing his own career journey.
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Will Smith Is Releasing a Memoir, and He Sat at the Red Table to Talk Fatherhood With Kevin Hart
Will Smith's memoir, aptly titled 'Will,' releases on Nov. 9. Plus, he and Kevin Hart got vulnerable on 'Red Table Talk.'
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Things to Read and Watch to Celebrate and Honor Juneteenth
A collection of books and media giving us intersectional insight into the experiences of those once enslaved.