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Collage of 2021’s Most Acclaimed Books
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Sweetness of Water
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Just As I Am
The Sellout
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
The Personal Librarian
Home Is Not a Country
Black Girl, Call Home
Praise Song for the Widow
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Yellow Wife
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel
Imbila’s Tale: An English/Zulu Flipbook for Children
Sho
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
Magic City: A Novel
Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography
The Between
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
While Justice Sleeps
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
The Prophets
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!
Palmares
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
The Three Mothers (Hardcover)
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Me (Moth)
My Monticello: Fiction
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Wild Women and the Blues
The Girl with the Louding Voice
Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Seven Days in June
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Trees
In Every Mirror She’s Black
Creatures of Passage
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
The Other Black Girl
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora