american literature
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Books You Need to Read This Black History Month
This Black History Month, check out our reading list of essential titles for the whole family.
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If You Read One Book This Juneteenth, Make it Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Zora Neale Hurston’s book is the perfect reminder of why we celebrate.
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NFL Exec Troy Vincent Calls Out Owners Over ‘Slave auction’ Combine
It may be the first time ever a Black man in their employ told the NFL’s white ownership that the combine looks like a slave auction to their faces.
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Defense Team for Ex-Black Panther Discover Evidence Withheld from Trial
The defense suspects falsified eyewitness statements and a compromised jury are among the evidence.
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Toni Morrison’s Novel Sula to Become New Limited Series at HBO
Sula was the second novel to be published by the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author in 1973.
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Nia DaCosta to Direct Movie Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer
Oprah Winfrey’s HARPO Films is also set to produce alongside Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
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“The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Praised by National Books Critics Circle
The award-winning poet has been honored with a fiction prize for her novel.
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André Leon Talley: 1948-2022
Talley worked his way to the top and left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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5 Books Black Harvard Students Read as Children
Looking to build your child’s library this holiday? Check out these classics favored by brilliant Black youngsters.