It's a super hectic time for me so this month's posts will feature lists of outstanding recent and past reads that examine and celebrate the complexity of humanity as experienced embodied in Blackness.
Fiction
Someday Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
Graydon House, November 2022
[note: themes of grief and loss of a loved one as a result of death by suicide]
"Women Who Dare" series by (Ms.) Beverly Jenkins
historical fiction, romance
Rebel
Avon, May 2019
Wild Rain
Avon, February 2021
To Catch a Raven
Avon, August 2022
"Higher Education" series by Jayce Ellis
contemporary romance
Learned Behavior
Carina Press, November 2020
Learned Reactions
Carina Press, March, 2021
Non-Fiction - recent & older releases
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday
University of Illinois Press, April 2022
From Chapter One:
In the United States, the ideological power of images has been used by colonial settlers turned enslavers turned U.S. politicians and businessmen to construct Black people as continually outside the American politic as well as unworthy of the rights, liberties, and cultural representation secured for others in closer proximity to whiteness or wealth.
Africans in the Americas: A History of the Black Diaspora by Michael L. Conniff & Thomas J. Davis
The Blackburn Press, 2002
I've Known Rivers, Lives of Loss and Liberation by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Perseus Books, 1994
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