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A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon…
For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school and her painfully proper mother are…
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A young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.
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A Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.
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One successful lawyer must decide whether to put everything on the line to right the deep inequities faced in one under-…
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After the unthinkable happens, the black community simmers like an unwatched pot. Can there be peace with the white folks…
Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the…
A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice.
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A childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father.
The legacy of slavery that is preserved in monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.
Electrifying and radically honest, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes their fiction, Dear…
A sharp, hilarious memoir about a nontraditional upbringing and growing up Black in a predominantly white community.
In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the…
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