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Book Review
Book Review

For Her 88th Birthday, Toni Morrison Gives Us the Gift of Self-Regard

Maiysha Kai
2/18/19 12:21PM
It's Lit!
It's Lit!

The Inheritance

Lori D. Johnson
6/03/18 8:30AM
It's Lit!
It's Lit!

Talon of God

Wesley Snipes, Ray Norman
5/27/18 10:00AM
It's Lit!
It's Lit!

Dominate

Danielle C. Belton
4/29/18 9:30AM
The Root Video
The Root Video

Watch: Literary Giant Walter Mosley Doesn’t Need Inspiration to Write

Felice LeĂłn
3/29/18 4:27PM

Black Girls Rock! And Founder and DJ Beverly Bond Does, Too

Maiysha Kai
3/09/18 11:43AM

Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage and the Lifesaving Power of Homegirls

Damon Young
2/23/18 12:59PM

5 Books I’m Reading Now Since the Really Dumb and Self-Defeating Book Fast I Was On Is Finally Over

Damon Young
2/13/18 4:32PM

In An American Marriage, Tayari Jones Gets to the Heart of Our Matter

Maiysha Kai
2/13/18 1:30PM

These New and Upcoming Books by Black Authors Will Give You Life in These Perilous Times

Hope Wabuke
2/11/18 8:45AM

The Nerve: In This Will Be My Undoing, Debut Author Morgan Jerkins Isn’t Afraid to Go There

Anne Branigin
2/02/18 1:00PM
The Root Video
The Root Video

Watch: Author Nicole Dennis-Benn on Giving a Voice to Jamaica’s Working Class

Peter J. Rickards
4/27/17 9:05AM
The Movement
The Movement

Watch: Angie Thomas on Writing Her Best-Selling Young-Adult Novel Inspired by Oscar Grant

Peter J. Rickards
3/24/17 2:30PM

Black Lotus Is a Woman’s Search for Racial Identity in a Racist World

Hope Wabuke
8/17/16 2:12PM

Meet Yaa Gyasi, the Author of the Slavery Novel Everyone Is Talking About

Hope Wabuke
6/30/16 5:51AM

George Washington Williams Was a Black Human Rights Activist; So, What Is He Doing Hanging With Tarzan?

Todd Steven Burroughs
6/29/16 6:00AM