Books

Here are the nominees we’re excited to see vie for the Young People’s Literature National Book Award

Poet Simone John talks her book ‘Testify’ and Sandra Bland’s legacy on the anniversary of her death in AAIHS interview

Rwandan publishing house Imagine We is cultivating African storytelling for global readers

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Junot Díaz accused of sexual harassment and sexist behavior

13-year-old #1000BlackGirlBooks creator interviews 11-year-old March for Our Lives advocate about honoring Black girls

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward signs new two book deal

‘The New Jim Crow’ lands on banned books lists in New Jersey prisons, now allowed after backlash

PEN announces 2018 longlist candidates, here are the nominees of color!

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

NPR releases Best Books of 2017 app, here are some picks by Black writers

Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood

Jesmyn Ward becomes the 1st woman and Black author to win National Book Award for fiction twice

The Blackest National Book Awards ever will be livestreamed on Facebook

National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson signs two-book deal with Riverhead Books

National Book Awards finalists show that black art matters

RedBlkGrl: The Box With Books by and For Black Girls

Black Dartmouth Student, Kaya Thomas, Creates Directory For Diverse Books

12-Year-Old Marley Dias To Publish Activism Guide For Kids & Teens

This New Book Delivery Service Sends Black Brilliance Right To Your Doorstep

An 11-year-old Black Girl Starts #1000BlackGirlBooks

5 Books for the Black, Queer Poet in Your Life

7-year-old Blake Ansari makes Kohl’s Foundation Regional Philanthropist for 2014 list

Teacher medically evaluated, placed on leave for writing science fiction novels about school killings

A list of empowering books for little black girls

Lupita Nyong’o options rights to film based on Americanah

Raising $80,000 for the Negro In History | CALL TO ACTION

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