How did October fly by so quickly? Luckily, these past 31 days served up a slate of books that brought us closer to truth-tellers in politics, music and media.
Veteran White House reporter April Ryan bares her soul in a new memoir, offering a look at what happens when the world suddenly turns its full attention on you. Lil Jon also bares his — at full volume — in the aptly titled I Only Shout So You Can Hear Me, revealing the circumstances that led to his world-famous persona.
Poet and professor J. Vanessa Lyon examines the enduring, along with often misleading and damaging, representations of race mixing in fine art and popular media in her new highly personal read.
From her social media series as heaven’s receptionist, welcoming in those we love who have just passed stage and screen and answering questions about the afterlife that keep us up at night, Taryn Delanie Smith brings us those answers, now in book form.
Wole Talabi is putting Nigerian sci-fi center stage with his debut novel, which revolves around an alien visitor, a Nigerian assassin and a South African astronomer and how their connection could change the world as we know it.
After he was the inspiration for her book, All Because You Matter, entrepreneur and economic advocate Tami Charles has now partnered with her teen son, Chris, for a new children’s read that centers around a young Black boy with much on his mind, from basketball and baking with grandpa to math class and video game conquests, celebrating the beauty of a neurodivergent mind.
Along with Tiki Davis’ self-help read about turning painful experiences and losses into wins, an exclusive photography book celebrating Black boyhood on the shelves, and more, this latest offering of books by Black authors is a powerful testament to the range, depth and brilliance of Black storytelling today.
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