NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Craft’s “New Kid,” a graphic novel about a 7th grader’s struggle to adjust to a private school with little diversity, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book. “New Kid” also received the Coretta Scott King Award for an outstanding work
NEW YORK (AP) — Stacey Abrams has a new book coming out this summer that will focus on her signature cause, voting rights. Henry Holt and Company announced Tuesday that “Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America” is scheduled for June 2020. Based on
As the last year of the decade comes to a close, we’re keeping our eyes out for books that will mark the beginning of a new era, written by fresh new voices and seasoned authors of color. One of our most anticipated reads comes from the late literary great Zora
NEW YORK (AP) — Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” has been a long and eventful journey. Begun a decade ago, his chronicle of a slave with an extraordinary memory who joins the Underground Railroad is the result of countless drafts, a shift from multiple narrators to a single
In his memoir I’m BETTER not BITTER, Anthony Tuggle takes us through his very personal journey with God—a journey that ultimately molded him into the Dynamic Husband, Loving Father, Friend, and Prolific Leader that we see before us today. After receiving the devastating news of kidney failure, and the
In a new picture book titled The Undefeated, artist Kadir Nelson brings Kwame Alexander’s “This One Is For Us” poem to life through eye-catching illustrations. Written in 2008, the poem was inspired by the election of our first African-American president, Barack Obama, which coincided with the birth of his daughter.
Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed novel, the first of the esteemed sci-fi author’s Patternist series, will be developed into a TV series by Amazon. The project comes from JuVee Productions, the company of Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, and will be penned by fellow sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor and Kenyan filmmaker
We’ve recently featured Marlon James’ eagerly anticipated new novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf on our curated list of literature by black authors that we’re most excited for this year. The book, which was only released days ago, will be adapted for the big screen by Warner Bros. and Michael B.
The new year calls for a refreshing variety of upcoming and recently released books by black authors, both seasoned and new, to potentially add to your reading list. Spanning across multiple genres, these fifteen books have been chosen to highlight the diversity of works within the community of black writers.
Mother and son Betty K. Bynum and Joshua Drummond co-wrote I’m A Brilliant Little Black Boy back in 2016, and now the children’s book is being turned into an animated series. The influential book has landed a deal with entertainment mogul Reginald Hudlin of Hudlin Entertainment, and the series will
