It’s Lit
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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.
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'I Love the Way Voices Play With Each Other': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Trips Through Rock History With Dawnie Walton and The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
The author’s highly acclaimed debut novel evokes several of rock music’s unsung Black divas.
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On Juneteenth: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Explores the Origin of an American Holiday
Gordon-Reed’s book of essays put a personal lens on the day commemorating the emancipation of Texas’ enslaved population on June 19, 1865.
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'I Grew a Sense of Wonder': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Mines the Miracle of A Little Devil in America With Hanif Abdurraqib
The author’s latest book celebrates the rich and nuanced history of Black performance in America.