The 25 finalists for this year’s National Book Award have been revealed, and it’s time to make room on your bookshelf for these superior reads. Among the list are returning winners such as Terrance Hayes, who won the poetry award for Lighthead back in 2010. This year, his poetry collection
Being a late 80’s baby, I have encountered In Living Color as a very young child, but more so as an adult. Some of my favorite characters (along with everyone else’s) include Wanda, Fire Marshall Bill, and Homey D. Clown. While I found them and the situations they were
Did you know that by the fourth grade, over 80% of America’s black male students are not proficient in reading? Many factors contribute to this alarming figure, such as limited access to engaging and age-friendly reading material, an absence of black men in black boys’ early reading experiences, and the
Within the last few years, Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi has had quite the success. Last March, Adeyemi earned a seven-figure book deal for her Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, and the film adaption is currently in development at Fox Studios, according to Deadline. Earlier this month, the book was
I’ve been on a personal quest to discover more stories about complicated and unapologetic black female protagonists. As more black writers are entering the spotlight in both literature and film, we’re witnessing a promising shift where the days of inaccurate or lazy representation of black women are almost behind us.
N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-winning science fiction fantasy novel The Fifth Season is currently being developed into a television series at TNT. Shortly following the announcement of Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death novel being adapted for television, the news is yet another exciting victory for black authors telling distinctive stories. The
