As our fallen angel Whitney Houston once sang, “I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them…
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On the final night of February 2019, CNN’s Don Lemon openly said what we had all been thinking for the last 28…
Imagine landing on Black Planet after it’s been classified as abandoned property for years, uttering the words,…
Administrators at George Washington High School in Denver decided to reverse its policy on optional assembly…
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Like much of the rest of the discourse around jails, prisons and mass incarceration, Black History Month is not…
Publisher Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives…
Imagine dropping your 5th grader off at school for the Black History Month field trip that they won’t stop talking…
Publisher Synopsis: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know…
Publisher Synopsis: Jean Toomer’s Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,…
Publisher’s Synopsis: A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for 16 weeks, won the…
Black History Month 2019 has been one for the garbage books, amirite? Amongst our crew here at The Root, we’ve been…
Publisher Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week…
Publisher Synopsis: The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community
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28 Days of Literary Blackness With VSB | Day 19: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
Publisher Synopsis: Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.