Revisiting Rap's Groundbreaking Book, Black Noise
It's the first book that I suggest students read when they express any interest in Hip-hop studies. Here's why
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A Children's Book Publisher Got Tangled Up in the Critical Race Theory War
A writer turned down a big opportunity from Scholastic after being asked to remove "racism" reference from author's note
Someone Beat You to It: A Classy Photo Book on Strip Clubs
A French photographer documented gentlemen's clubs in the U.S. and turned out a book and photo exhibit
Former NBA Star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s Autobiography Is a Must Read for Socially Conscious Sports Fans
‘In the Blink of an Eye’ is released by Kaepernick Publishing
Three Decades of My Black Revolutionary Bookshelf
We thought we could save people’s lives with the manna…
A Fake Culture War Is All Republicans Have Left
But the Biden administration isn’t taking the bait
A Black Folks’ Guide to Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft was an unapologetic White supremacist—who just so happened to be one of the most influential figures in 20th-century fiction
4 Dr. Seuss Books We’d Love to Read in 2021, Ranked
Pour a little out for the diggy-diggy-Doc, y’all
Some Books That Ted Cruz May Find Useful
Just a little recommended reading for a senator who may not…
Remembering Phife Dawg as Only His Mother Could
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s memoir ‘Mama Phife Represents’ is a stunning work of elegy just when we need it most
6 Hot Takes We Wish Barack Obama Had Included in His New Book, Ranked
Excerpts from A Promised Land have put the former president in the hot seat — just imagine if he let these opinions fly in his best-seller
The Coronavirus Sanity Handbook: Comic Books
In tough times, there’s no escape quite like disappearing into a universe of real heroes
Stephen King Needs More Black Friends
As decades of his Black characters show, one tone-deaf tweet is…
The Decade Afrofuturism Reshaped Science Fiction — and the World
The aesthetic and political…
10 Stories LEVEL Didn’t Write, but You Should Still Read (Right Now)
Sure, we want every great story…