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Excerpt: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue Is a Black, Queer, Coming-of-Age 'Memoir-Manifesto' for Us All

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Alive at 89: For Her First Posthumous Birthday, Toni Morrison Is Getting an Epic Party at the Brooklyn Museum

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VSB's Damon Young Wins Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

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Issa Rae Options Tayari Jones’ Novel Silver Sparrow, Which Follows the Daughters of a Bigamist

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Excerpt: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue Is a Black, Queer, Coming-of-Age 'Memoir-Manifesto' for Us All

I Don't Want to Die Poor: In His Newest Book, Michael Arceneaux Articulates the Angst of a Generation

The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas Is About to Hit Us With a New Novel, Concrete Rose

Great Moments in Black Her-story: 10 Books That Celebrate the Presence, Power, and Legacies of Black Women

Black History, Black Stories: 7 Books That Center Our Legacies for Longer Than a Month

Alive at 89: For Her First Posthumous Birthday, Toni Morrison Is Getting an Epic Party at the Brooklyn Museum

#BlackStoriesHavePower: Barnes & Noble Suspends Plans to Publish Diverse Editions After Backlash

An Immigrant’s Story: Acclaimed Author Edwidge Danticat Wins $100,000 Prize for Her ‘Genre-Spanning Work’

VSB's Damon Young Wins Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

Issa Rae Options Tayari Jones’ Novel Silver Sparrow, Which Follows the Daughters of a Bigamist

A Word: How We Fight White Supremacy Reminds Us That ‘We’ Have the Power

28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB, Day 28: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young

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'My Blackitude Was Prominent in Everything I Did': André Leon Talley on Wearing Blackness in White Spaces

Bakari Sellers' Invisible Black America

What We’re Reading Now: Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism

'My Memory Is Intact': Will André Leon Talley's Memoir Confirm That the Devil Does Indeed Wear Prada?

'So Little of Who I Am Happened in Those 8 Years': Michelle Obama's Book Becoming Is a Netflix Documentary

Excerpt: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue Is a Black, Queer, Coming-of-Age 'Memoir-Manifesto' for Us All

I Don't Want to Die Poor: In His Newest Book, Michael Arceneaux Articulates the Angst of a Generation

The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas Is About to Hit Us With a New Novel, Concrete Rose

Great Moments in Black Her-story: 10 Books That Celebrate the Presence, Power, and Legacies of Black Women

Black History, Black Stories: 7 Books That Center Our Legacies for Longer Than a Month

Alive at 89: For Her First Posthumous Birthday, Toni Morrison Is Getting an Epic Party at the Brooklyn Museum

#BlackStoriesHavePower: Barnes & Noble Suspends Plans to Publish Diverse Editions After Backlash

An Immigrant’s Story: Acclaimed Author Edwidge Danticat Wins $100,000 Prize for Her ‘Genre-Spanning Work’

VSB's Damon Young Wins Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

Issa Rae Options Tayari Jones’ Novel Silver Sparrow, Which Follows the Daughters of a Bigamist

A Word: How We Fight White Supremacy Reminds Us That ‘We’ Have the Power

28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB, Day 28: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young

28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB | Day 27: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones

28 Days of Literary Blackness With VSB | Day 26: Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

28 Days of Literary Blackness with VSB | Day 25: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas