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Click for more detail about Delights: Book 2: Essays by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes
Click for more detail about How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill by Jericho Brown
Click for more detail about Quietly Hostile: Essays by samantha irby
Click for more detail about The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Black and Female: Essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Click for more detail about You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about The Essential Dick Gregory by Dick Gregory
Click for more detail about Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic by Valerie Boyd
Click for more detail about The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Click for more detail about Promise Broken by K’wan
Click for more detail about You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Click for more detail about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
Click for more detail about The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
Click for more detail about The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays by Edwidge Danticat
Click for more detail about Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami
Click for more detail about Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community by Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Smalls Lloyd
Click for more detail about How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Click for more detail about Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about When We Free The World by Kevin Powell
Click for more detail about Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
Click for more detail about The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery by Rochelle Riley
Click for more detail about Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity by Artress Bethany White
Click for more detail about Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
Click for more detail about The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
Click for more detail about Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Click for more detail about New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
Click for more detail about When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
Click for more detail about Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird by Sarah Bird
Click for more detail about What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
Click for more detail about The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
Click for more detail about Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
Click for more detail about Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Click for more detail about And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueen
Click for more detail about The Groundings With My Brothers by Walter Rodney
Click for more detail about Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo
Click for more detail about Meaty: Essays by samantha irby
Click for more detail about Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays) by Sophfronia Scott
Click for more detail about Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
Click for more detail about New Orleans Griot: The Tom Dent Reader by Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Click for more detail about The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers
Click for more detail about They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Click for more detail about Blind Spot by Teju Cole
Click for more detail about Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Click for more detail about The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food by Randall Kenan
Click for more detail about Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs by Albert Murray
Click for more detail about Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole
Click for more detail about A Love Letter to Texas Women by Sarah Bird
Click for more detail about Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York by Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others…
Click for more detail about Love. Hope. Faith: Anthology (Volume 1) by Vanessa Miller
Click for more detail about The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson
Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) by Bill T. Jones
Click for more detail about Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home by Esi Edugyan
Click for more detail about MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach
Click for more detail about Life as Activism: June Jordan’s Writings from the Progressive by June Jordan
Click for more detail about Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies by Kei Miller
Click for more detail about White Girls by Hilton Als
Click for more detail about Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America by Kiese Laymon
Click for more detail about Dear Sir, I Intend To Burn Your Book: An Anatomy Of A Book Burning (Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture) by Lawrence Hill
Click for more detail about The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness by Kevin Young
Click for more detail about Living Out Loud A Writer’s Journey by Marita Golden
Click for more detail about Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce-Davies
Click for more detail about The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri
Click for more detail about The Trouble With Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
Click for more detail about “The Inside Light”: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston by Deborah G. Plant
Click for more detail about Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
Click for more detail about What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
Click for more detail about Forward From This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2009 by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Click for more detail about I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed
Click for more detail about What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison
Click for more detail about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
Click for more detail about Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays by William Jelani Cobb
Click for more detail about No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Bronx Biannual No. 2 by Miles Marshall Lewis
Click for more detail about Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest Gaines
Click for more detail about Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature) by Miles Marshall Lewis
Click for more detail about Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground by Ahdaf Soueif
Click for more detail about The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors by Wanda Coleman
Click for more detail about What Makes A Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future by Rebecca Walker
Click for more detail about Selected Writings And Speeches Of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Click for more detail about The Colossus Of New York by Colson Whitehead
Click for more detail about Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Click for more detail about Keeping Up With The Jones by Solomon Jones
Click for more detail about Coin Of The Realm: Essays On The Life And Art Of Poetry by Carl Phillips
Click for more detail about The Black Interior: Essays by Elizabeth Alexander
Click for more detail about Some Of Us Did Not Die: New And Selected Essays (New And And Selected Essays) by June Jordan
Click for more detail about These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family by Afaa Michael Weaver
Click for more detail about A New World Order: Essays by Caryl Phillips
Click for more detail about Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism by Clarence Major
Click for more detail about A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile by James Alan McPherson
Click for more detail about Fields Watered with Blood by Maryemma Graham
Click for more detail about The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America by Shelby Steele
Click for more detail about The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Wisdom of the Elders by Robert Fleming
Click for more detail about On Being Female Black Free: Margaret Walker 1932-1992 by Maryemma Graham
Click for more detail about The All-American Skin Game, Or Decoy Of Race: The Long And The Short Of It, 1990-1994 by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about To Be Real: Telling The Truth And Changing The Face Of Feminism by Rebecca Walker
Click for more detail about Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Volume I: New York Age Editorials (1914-1923) by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Shadow And Act by Ralph Ellison
Click for more detail about Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Click for more detail about Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture by Gerald L. Early
Click for more detail about Speech And Power Volume 2 by Gerald L. Early
Click for more detail about Deals with the Devil by Pearl Cleage
Click for more detail about Speech And Power Volume 1 by Gerald L. Early
Click for more detail about The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about A Burst Of Light: Essays by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about Great Slave Narratives by Arna Bontemps
Click for more detail about The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Click for more detail about Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 by Amiri Baraka