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I don’t know what my grief looks like outside of social pressures to perform it in acceptable ways

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

Missing pages of Malcolm X’s autobiography purchased by the Schomburg Center at NY auction

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

Marvel taps Nnedi Okorafor to write Wakanda Forever series starring the Dora Milaje

Noted Indigenous author Sherman Alexie accused of sexual harrassment

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

Jemele Hill is finally out of SportsCenter after a year of controversies, joins The Undisputed

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

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

Nnedi Okorafor penning first Marvel Comics series set in a real African city

School bans students from writing about Malcolm X

‘Things Fall Apart’ Author Chinua Achebe Dead at 82

Student Discovers Forgotten Poem by America’s First Known Black Writer

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