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Details: Written by HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer; Published: 14 November 2021

The “1619 Project,” created by Pulitzer prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones for the The New York Times magazine, has been at the heart of an intensifying debate over racism and the country's origins and how they should be presented in the classroom

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 03 November 2021

Want to prepare the ultimate comfort food dishes for your guests this holiday season, but trying to embrace a healthier or plant-based lifestyle?

Details: Written by By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer; Published: 27 September 2021

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America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s work was just beginning.

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Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 23 August 2021

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An Oakland, CA father is penning books with his 7-year-old son working as the illustrator

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 16 August 2021

The best of America—captured in print for the first time

Details: Written by Nina G. Jablonski, Penn State; Published: 02 August 2021

Sindiwe Magona has written over 130 children’s books. © Bjorn Rudner/Sindiwe Magona

The idea of doing a children’s book was planted back in 2010 when a friend impressed on me the importance of writing up my research on skin colour and race as an illustrated book for young readers.

Details: Written by By Norma Adams-Wade, Founding Member of the National Association of Black Journalist, Texas Metro News Columnist; Published: 22 June 2021

Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, Credit: MTE Publishing

Black mothers across the nation say they share a similar mind-numbing foreboding: the possibility of fear or hatred of Black people by police or racists killing their Black sons.

Details: Written by By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer; Published: 15 June 2021

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Oprah Winfrey's next book club pick is a debut novel set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War: Nathan Harris' “The Sweetness of Water.”

Details: Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia; Published: 28 May 2021

The Other Black Girl is a psychological masterpiece, where microaggressions and gaslighting turn a company’s ‘civilized’ atmosphere into a slowly unraveling horror

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 08 April 2021

"Black Sheep" is the story of Ray Studevent’s struggles as a mixed-race boy raised by the widow of his uncle.

With an afterword by My Haley, PhD, widow of Alex Haley, famed author of Roots and Malcom X

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