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A Supersized List of October 2022 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read [UPDATED]
There are so many great new titles hitting the shelves in October we had to update it again.
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Watch: Alison Désir, the Running Activist
As a child, Alison Désir was given the nickname “Powdered Feet.” “It actually comes from the Haitian Creole saying, ‘You never see the person, just the footprints of where they’ve been in powder,’” Désir tells The Root. But Désir hasn’t always been a distance runner. In fact, she found running after a bout of depression.…