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Black history is synonymous with excellence in the Black history is synonymous with excellence in the face of adversity, resilience manifested through joy, and empowerment that is only possible in community. As February comes to a close, let this be your reminder: celebrating Black voices isn’t confined to one month. The stories, scholarship, poetry, and imagination of Black authors shape the literary landscape every single day. Read them in February. Read them in March. Read them when you need truth, when you need beauty, when you need challenge, when you need hope FICTION "Breath, Eyes, Memory" — Edwidge Danticat "The Color Purple" — Alice Walker "These Heathens" — Mia McKenzie "Sing, Unburied, Sing" — Jesmyn Ward "I’m So (Not) Over You" — Kosoko Jackson "The Piano Lesson" — August Wilson "The Famished Road" — Ben Okri "The Final Strife" — Saara El-Arifi "Jackal" — Erin E. Adams NONFICTION "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson" — Tourmaline "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" — Edda L. Fields-Black "Just Mercy" — Bryan Stevenson "Brother, I’m Dying" — Edwidge Danticat "Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself" — Ericka Hart "A Small Place" — Jamaica Kincaid "The Trayvon Generation" — Elizabeth Alexander "Bad Feminist" — Roxane Gay "The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey" — Toi Derricotte POETRY "Hemming the Water" — Yona Harvey "I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood" — Tiana Clark "Vessel" — Parneshia Jones "Carver: A Life in Poems" — Marilyn Nelson "Digest" — Gregory Pardlo "Above Ground" — Clint Smith "Homegirls & Handgrenades" — Sonia Sanchez "Citizen: An American Lyric" — Claudia Rankine "Life on Mars" — Tracy K. Smith #BookLovers #pghreads #blackhistorymonth #blackreadsmatter #blackhistorymonthreadinglist

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