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Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 28 July 2022

Photo Courtesy of Michelle Obama Books

Four years ago, The Forever First Lady released her memoir, “Becoming,” which has since sold more than 17 million copies. Now Obama has taken to social media to announce her plans for a new book entitled “The Light We Carry.”

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 18 July 2022

Lisa Robertson’s Boat works against the certainties much poetry strives to achieve. (Image/Poetry Foundation)

The foundation granted thefund $343,750 to study poetry book distribution in Africa.

Details: Written by Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina; Published: 22 June 2022

Alyssa Collins

Collins explores how Black writers began engaging with the idea of posthumanism when Blackness had historically been imagined as inhuman

about-Black-Authors

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 02 May 2022

Andre Lewis Carter

Portland author Andre Lewis Carter is a retired navy veteran who writes fiction, essays and plays.

Details: Written by NNPA Newswire; Published: 07 March 2022

Much like the book, the Podcast Network covers all aspects of Black culture, creating a collective universe for authors and content creators.

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 28 January 2022

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A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.

Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 13 December 2021

Chidiebere Ibe

Chidiebere Ibe is a Nigerian medical illustrator and a first year medical student disrupting the status quo by “portraying anatomy, physiology and pathology on Black skin.”

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 03 December 2021

Released Today in Paperback, the Book Tells the Remarkable Story of the 1969 Protest and the Racial Barriers the Students Overcame to Spur Change and Build Successful Careers

Details: Written by HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer; Published: 14 November 2021

The “1619 Project,” created by Pulitzer prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones for the The New York Times magazine, has been at the heart of an intensifying debate over racism and the country's origins and how they should be presented in the classroom

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 03 November 2021

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