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    The Old Drift

    Namwali Serpell

    …“The Old Drift,” as do Italian and Telugu ones. “The local news is still delivered in seven languages,” Serpell told the Los Angeles Times about Lusaka. “My parents speak two…

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    The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    As a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and in frequent public appearances throughout the media, Henry Louis Gates Jr. emerged in the mid-1990s as a national spokesperson on…

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    My Promised Land

    Ari Shavit

    Ari Shavit is a commentator on Israeli public television and a leading columnist for the daily newspaper Haaretz. Born in Israel, Shavit served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense…

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    White Mother

    Jessie B. Sams

    …town and the door of Mrs. Rossie Lee. It proved to be the door to a new life. This is a true story. Its author, Mrs. Jessie Bennett Sams, was…

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    The Renunciations

    Donika Kelly

    for Writers & Books, a literary arts center in Rochester, New York. “This has to do with the title as well, there’s a story that I was telling myself about…

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    The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

    Sarah Aziza

    A brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza’s searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New

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    To Sir, With Love

    E.R. Braithwaite

    …parents went to Oxford University and he describes growing up with education, achievement, and parental pride surrounding him. He attended Queen’s College, Guyana and then the City College of New

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    In the Mecca

    Gwendolyn Brooks

    …to write poetry. By age 16, Brooks had already published poetry in the Chicago Defender, the leading African American newspaper of that time. Brooks’s writing further developed as she participated…

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    Doctor and the Aborigines

    Charles Duguid

    …to found Ernabella Mission in the Musgrave Ranges of South Australia. He lectured and spoke in the United Kingdom as well as Australia and New Zealand about the conditions of…

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    Black Metropolis

    St. Clair Drake

    …early 20th century unions played in the economic situation of blacks, Black Workers and the New Unions. Clayton wrote an autobiography titled Long Old Road – An Autobiography in 1963….

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    The Arrogance of Faith

    Forrest G. Wood

    …But in The Arrogance of Faith, Forrest G. Wood, argues that “Christianity, in the five centuries since its message was first carried to the peoples of the New World—and, in…

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    Justice in South Africa

    Albie Sachs

    …Professor Extraordinary. Sachs was pivotal in the construction of South Africa’s new Constitution. He presently serves as a Justice on South Africa’s Supreme Court, where he still uses his conciliatory…

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    The 90th Anniversary Celebration

    September 20, 2025, 9:00 am

    …past Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winning poets—Victoria Chang, Marilyn Chin, Eugene Gloria, Tyehimba Jess, Ilya Kaminsky, Adrian Matejka, Shane McCrae, and Monica Youn—as they read past and new works that speak…

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    The Dew Breaker

    Edwidge Danticat

    …prison guard’s victims, of their families, of those who recognize him decades later on the streets of New York, of those who never see him again, but are so haunted…

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    The American Indian Today

    Stuart Levine

    …of American Indian History of the Newberry Library in Chicago. She received research grants from the American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, University of Chicago…

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    Black Like Me

    John Howard Griffin

    …care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man. In the autumn of 1959, John Howard Griffin went to a friend’s house in New

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    The Yellow Birds

    Kevin Powers

    …of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Powers explained why he wrote The Yellow Birds: “One of the…

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    Kind One

    Laird Hunt

    …at Indiana University and The Sorbonne in Paris, Laird Hunt has also lived in Tokyo, London, The Hague, New York City, and on an Indiana farm. A translator and former…

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    Maasai

    Carol Beckwith

    …and New Guinea. Arriving in Africa in 1974, she traveled the continent, living with the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, and the Wodaabe of Niger. Her unique experiences led to…

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    The Other Room

    Worth Tuttle Hedden

    This prize-winning novel is about a young woman who unknowingly signs up to teach classes at an all-black college in New Orleans in 1920. It is one of the best—and…