“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
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While a small, travel-friendly book from Brown’s Emergent Strategy Series, We Will Not Cancel Us serves as a powerful and timely resource for examining cancel culture. She invites readers to dare to shift away from constant punitive reaction and to consider in what ways call-outs can often (not always) perpetuate harm or do little to interrupt it.
Read MoreIs there really a need to read a book that “isn’t for us”? Deborah Harris thinks so. She reviewed “Uncomfortable Conversations” this week to set the record straight.
Read MoreCernata C. Morse, Ph.D. may not be well-known yet, but her storytelling skills in Beyond the Four Blocks: A Memoir definitely places her in the conversation with up and coming key contributors and influencers of Black Literature. Our contributing writer, Deborah Harris, lends her voice to this review.
Read MoreThe author, Tamara Winfrey Harris, was punching long-held beliefs about Black women right in the face. Through the everyday experiences of Black women, Harris tells our stories from our lens.
Read MoreDeborah writes a moving review of her experience with Justice Restored: A Series of Writings and Poems From Incarcerated Youth.
Read MoreI Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé (2018) is Michael Arceneaux humorous essay collection exploring identity, religion, and fan culture.
makes you laugh and think as it combines a variety of stories stemming from Arceneaux’s life experiences.
Read MoreDarkness in the Margins is storyteller magic, and Lola Rainey’s powerful command of voice in her poetry and prose makes her a literary conjure woman. Rainey makes darkness visible and silence speak.
Read MoreInspired by her life experiences and filled with several different kinds of poems, Worthy is the culmination of years patiently waiting to be recognized.
Read MoreIt took me a little over ten days to read Between the World and Me in the summer of 2016. When you find something so real and moving and painful, you can't help but want the other people in your life to feel those very real feelings too. Here is a long review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 memoir.
Read MoreWritten by C.C. Lyons, Alpha Females Unleashed: From the Boardroom to the Bedroom takes a look at how strong women, known as Alphas, tend to take charge and what that might mean for life and future happiness. She presented a wide range of ideas, but all coming back to the notion that knowing the ins and outs of an Alpha Female can help both men and women be their best selves for their partners, coworkers, and families.
Read MoreSo You Want To Talk About Race is a hybrid memoir and guidebook for discussing some of the toughest topics here in the U.S. Oluo uses her history and background to insert common racial topics onto her life, showing how the missteps of the majority population create a challenging world for people with Brown skin. Written to and for non-People of Color, So You Want To Talk About Race cuts to the heart of why this subject is so difficult.
Read MoreIn 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Africatown, a small settlement in Georgia, to document the first-hand account of a man named Cudjo Lewis. Barracoon is the culmination of interviews Hurston collected over multiple trips about Lewis' life, including his capture, enslavement, and eventual release.
Read MoreMillennial writers are speaking up and demanding attention. To help you join the revolution, here is a list of new (or newish) books written to help you rise up and fight for black liberation everywhere.
Read MoreI was excited about this book the moment I heard about it. I don't gravitate to poetry but I like to branch out and plus- this book has Beyonce in the title. It HAS to be good. With all the accolades, I expected this collection to be show stopping. But that wasn't the case for me.
Read MoreI got to know her work through her 2015 publication, Bad Feminist. From there I have followed her book tours, writing engagements, and social media. While her writing has always been a reflection of her life, Hunger gets even more personal.
Read MoreRest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin a joint memoir by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. It recounts the night of Trayvon's murder by a local neighborhood watch captain and into the murder trial that follows. The book is separated in sections devoted to each parent's perspective. One at a time, they remember their son and the events that took him away.
Read MoreHe calls himself "your personal astrophysics" and he is one fly guy. Neil deGrasse Tyson has been in the public eye for a number of years but most recently he was the guy who demoted Pluto. His latest book is Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, and I chose to experience it on audiobook.
Read MoreDivided into five sections, Life Comes From Concrete takes the reader through the recurring themes of Kevin Anglade's life from his childhood to manhood. With raw honesty and passion, he lets the reader in and asks nothing more than an ear to listen.
Read MoreMy love of the mundane prompted me to purchase and read Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps written in 2001. In 2014, an updated and revised version was published to include the changing styles of the later 2000s, which is the version I read.
Read MoreWould you be willing to say "Yes" for a whole year?
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