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Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone 

Book Review by Dr. Brenda Greene The prolific award-winning writer Walter Mosley once said that speculative fiction is a natural genre for Black writers, for it allows them to create a world where they center themselves, their history, culture, language, religion, spirituality, and color. Speculative...

Desiree Cooper’s Black Summers. Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors

“Black Summers also became a powerful, tender, and hopeful collection about the personal and racial traumas of Black childhood.” - Desiree Cooper, Black Summers By Dr. Brenda M. Greene When Desiree Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, first conceived of Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban...

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We Have Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America

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Daniel Black’s Don’t Cry for Me and Issac’s Song

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Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

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Book Review: The Work of James E. Cherry

Reviewed by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneBetween Chance and Mercy: PoemsEdge of the Wind: A...

A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing

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“When We Trouble the Waters…”

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They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

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Justice for Garvey

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Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

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Faith, Politics, and the Illusion of Post-Racial America

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