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The Root is sad to report the death of celebrated African-American contemporary author Eric Jerome Dickey. The news…

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Triumph amid tragedy is always bittersweet—a unique type of survivor’s guilt many of us have become all too familiar…

“I write bestselling novels,” Octavia Butler wrote on the inside cover of a notebook in 1988. 32 years later, that…

The legacy of Kobe Bryant continues to live on. The legendary athlete, Oscar-winner and author has added another New…

It’s a rare feat to score a spot on the New York Times’ bestseller list with your first book—and even rarer to have…

An uproar has erupted in the literary world as Michelle Obama’s Becoming is poised to knock a veritable juggernaut…

The Hate U Give is a New York Times best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas that chronicles the life of Starr…