Our annual holiday season list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them: Ta-Nehisi Coates; Lewis W. Diuguid; Angela P. Dodson; Chike Frankie Edozien; Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns; Gerald Horne; Gerrick D. Kennedy; Jeff Pegues; Byron Pitts; Otis…

The end of 2017 is near, which means it is time for annual year-end “best of” lists to pop up everywhere. Here, The Root presents our annual list of the most compelling books published in 2017 by black authors in affordable, regular print runs—which is why Beyoncé’s $300 literary opus on the making of Lemonade that…