We’re happy to announce our President, Nora Brooks Blakely, is offering a limited number of in-depth presentations and workshops centered on the life, work, and continuing legacy of her mother, Gwendolyn Brooks.
#GwendolynBrooks
#Blackpoetry
#blackliterature
#womenpoets
#americanpoetry
AI erotica that sounds like it was written by someone who's never been to a cookout.
Generic. Stiff. No flavor.
Not just diverse characters. Actual cultural voice built into every sentence.
This was made for us.
#BlackCreatives #AIStorytelling #BlackLiterature #EroticFiction
This Is My America is one of several contemporary novels challenged in school districts because it directly addresses wrongful conviction, race, police violence, and how justice can look different depending on who is involved.
#BlackAuthors #BlackBooks #BlackLiterature #BlackVoices #BlackCommunity
The home of Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes is finally getting the restoration it deserves, thanks to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/r...
#Blackliterature #landmarks
A memorable scene from Toni Morrison’s Sula: blacklitnetwork.org/podcasts/sul...
#AALS #SIUEBrainFood #BlackLitNetwork #BlackLiterature #ToniMorrison
Charting an extraordinary outpouring of obituaries and tributes for a towering Black novelist -- shorturl.at/MnyDd
#AALS #SIUEBrainFood #BlackLitNetwork #BlackLiterature #ToniMorrison
A short take on the remarkable reception of Toni Morrison -- shorturl.at/bcWvN
#AALS #SIUEBrainFood #BlackLitNetwork #BlackLiterature #ToniMorrison
A short take on the remarkable reception of Toni Morrison -- shorturl.at/tgM2P
#AALS #SIUEBrainFood #BlackLitNetwork #BlackLiterature #ToniMorrison
A short, short from Toni Morrison's Beloved -- shorturl.at/D1Ctd
#AALS #SIUEBrainFood #BlackLitNetwork #BlackLiterature #ToniMorrison
African American Classics You’ll Love ✨
Curated by Bibliophile on a Budget 📚
Powerful stories, timeless voices, and essential reads that belong on every bookshelf.
View full list: amzn.to/46Tktin #afflink
#books #reading #readinglist #bookclub #BlackLiterature #BookRecommendations
📚💙 #booksky
Good Dirt: A Novel
"Sometimes the only way forward is to look back"
Sale: $30 to $2.99
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Rating: 4.3/5 (5,033 Reviews)
#Historical #Fiction #Family #Legacy #Mystery #BlackLiterature #BookSky #Books
In Black Faces, White Spaces, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.
#BlackLiterature #BlackResilience #EnvironmentalChange
I am a multi-genre author with over 15 unpublished adult books written featuring black women. The one thing they all have in common is romance and happily ever afters! Hopefully, one day, my books will be available for everyone to read! 🤞🏾 #writers #blackliterature #bluesky
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston
#ZoraNealeHurston #LiteraryQuotes #SoulWork #LoveAndHealing #BlackLiterature
Toni Morrison gave voice to truths power wants silenced. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, her words in Beloved exposed America's deepest wounds and celebrated Black resilience. Her legacy stands firm against erasure. #BlackHistoryMonth #ToniMorrison #Beloved #BlackLiterature
In Minor Black Figures, Brandon Taylor follows the story of a Black painter who grew up in the South and is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. This novel is an involving and tender portrait of friendship, creativity, and the connections between them.
#BlackLiterature
Love doesn’t vanish overnight; it erodes, stretches, waits. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones explores what commitment means when justice fails and who we become in silence. Mass incarceration not only imprisons the accused but reshapes lives of the left behind
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature
Two sisters.
One history that refuses to disappear.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi traces generations shaped by slavery, colonialism, and the inheritance of memory — from Ghana to America.
Some stories don’t end.
They echo.
Have you read this one?
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature
Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy is a guidebook for cultivating a right relationship with change, utilizing our own nature and that of creatures beyond human as our teachers.
#BlackLiterature #Change #BlackExcellence
In this blog post, author Jamall A. Calloway reflects on IMAGINING EDEN, Black theology, and James Weldon Johnson’s reimagining of Genesis. buff.ly/fHXFYiQ #BHM #BlackTheology #JamesWeldonJohnson #BlackLiterature #ReligionAndLiterature #BlackHistoryMonth @aaads-iraascu.bsky.social
Ingrid R. G. Waldron's, There’s Something in the Water, exposes the environmental injustice practiced by the government against Indigenous and Black communities.
#BlackLiterature #BlackResilience #BHM
Ayobami tells a story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption.
#BlackLiterature #BlackFiction #BlackExcellence
This Black History Month, read Black authors and amplify Black voices. 📚✨ Stories help us learn, reflect, and grow. Explore this reading list from bookshop.org/ and keep learning year-round:
tinyurl.com/mryknfpw
#BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors #BlackVoices #BlackLiterature #BooksMatter
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The poetry of Counter Cullen
"Incident"
#blackliterature
#HarlemRenaissance
Mahogany L. Browne's textured imagery creates an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America.
#blackliterature #blacklove #blackexcellence
A Black History Month episode of Tracey’s Keepin’ It Real highlights librarians, Black literature, and a community read-in centered on shared storytelling.
Listen now: buff.ly/8HmZb2D
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature #CommunityCare
Colson Whitehead, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle, continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
#BlackLiterature #BlackExcellence
Square black image with a silhouetted image of a Black woman in profile. It reads: Black History Month. Celebrate important people and events in the history of the African Diaspora. Running along the left side, it reads: Yesterday, today, tomorrow. At the bottom is a white Bywater Books logo.
🖤 Black history is living, ongoing & essential.
➡️ It deserves to be remembered, preserved, protected, taught & read.
📣 Loudly & without limits.
#BlackLiterature #BlackAuthors #BlackStoriesMatter #BlackVoicesInBooks #BlackHistory #LiteraryLegacy
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