It’s time to charge our melanin with some great, new books by black authors! American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Author Lauren Wilkinson, a New York native, debuted with her page-turning novel American Spy, which was named “one of the best books in 2019 so far” by Time. The espionage thriller, which has been inspired by real life events, takes us back to 1986 with a black female FBI intelligence officer. This thriller is full of drama and romance—a no-brainer for a summer read. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (by multiple authors) This 2019 YA fiction book features an intriguing compilation of short stories from some of today’s top black authors in the Young Adult genre, providing a glimpse of what it means to be young and black in America. Authors: Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Dhonielle Clayton, Kekla Magoon. Leah Henderson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds. Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson,Tracey ...

5 New Books by Black Authors    It’s time to charge our melanin with some great, new books by black authors! 1) American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Author Lauren Wilkinson, a New York native, debuted with her page-turning novel American Spy, which was named “one of the best books in 2019 so far” by Time. The espionage thriller, which has been inspired by real life events, takes us back to 1986 with a black female FBI intelligence officer. This thriller is full of drama and romance—a no-brainer for a summer read. 2) Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America (by multiple authors) This 2019 YA fiction book features an intriguing compilation of short stories from some of today’s top black authors in the Young Adult genre, providing a glimpse of what it means to be young and black in America. Authors: Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Dhonielle Clayton, Kekla Magoon. Leah Henderson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds. Nic Sto...

Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Critical Insurgencies) Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, free thought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present. Free thought encompasses many different schools of thought, including atheism, agnosticism, and nontraditional orientations such as deism and paganism. Christopher Cameron suggests an alternative origin of nonbelief and religious skepticism in America, namely the brutality of the institution of slavery. He also traces the growth of atheism and agnosticism among African Americans in two major political and intellectual movements of the 1920s: the New Negro Renaissance and the growth of black socialism and communism. In a final chapter, he explores the critical importance of free thought among participants in the civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960...

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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams 16 years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of the African race, was intended to be "a general rebellion against the subtle message from even the most liberal white authors and their Negro disciples: "You belong to a race of nobodies. You have no worthwhile history to point to with pride." The book was written at a time when many black students, educators, and scholars were starting to piece together the connection between the way their history was taught and the way they were perceived by others and by themselves. They began to question assumptions made about their history and took it upon themselves to create a new body of historical research.  The book is premised on the question: If the Blacks were among the very first builders of civil...

Leaked footage shows George Floyd begging police not to shoot him just before his murder by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. “ OK, Mr. Officer, please don’t shoot me. Please, man,” Floyd said when officers approached as he sat in his car. One officer had a gun drawn and aimed at Floyd’s head.  “I just lost my mom, man, ” Floyd said in the bodycam footage. “ Please don’t shoot me, Mr. Officer, please.”  Floyd also apologized throughout the video as the pigs cursed him with profanity.  “ Put your fucking hand up there, ” one pig ordered. “ Jesus Christ, keep your fucking hands on the wheel.” When the police attempted to put Floyd in the back of a police vehicle, Floyd  told them that he was claustrophobic.  Floyd was then forced to the ground. It was then that then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin shoved a knee into his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as Floyd cried out: “ I can’t breathe .” Witnesses begged other police officers a...

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