It’s Lit
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‘It’s a Spiritual Thing’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Explores the Ethereal With Akwaeke Emezi
The bestselling author discusses the nonbinary world of the spirit, as intimately explored in their gripping memoir, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir.
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Finding Me: Viola Davis Announces an Upcoming Memoir
The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning actress’ ‘straight, no chaser’ life story will be released by HarperOne in partnership with Ebony Magazine Publishing.
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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.