Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
ICYMI: Rapper Raekwon the Chef announced the release of his fall memoir yesterday ☛FROM STAIRCASE TO STAGE: THE STORY OF RAEKWON AND THE WU-TANG CLAN [pub: Gallery Books], written with Anthony Bozza, on his Instagram yesterday. I’m hoping it’s as insightful as the Showtime docu-series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men,
You Got Anything Stronger? is me at my most vulnerable. I have recently found true strength in that vulnerability, and I want to share that power with you here, through this book.
—Gabrielle Union in You Got Anything Stronger?
She’s baaack!
We need to live in an antiracist society and people need to learn to be antiracist and practice antiracism. But I do not believe in your antiracist work if you have not engaged with Black humanity.
—Tarna Burke from the Introduction to You Are Your Best Thing: A Conversation from brenebrown.com
What a dream come true this is! It still astounds me to think that what began as a college essay a few years ago has made it all the way to ABC. No duo I’d rather work with to bring Greyboy to life than @yarashahidi & @chocolatemommyluv Let’s get to work!
If a Black man has no bread in his pocket, the solution to his problem is not integration. It’s to go get some bread.
—Floyd McKissick, the intellectual architect of Soul City, North Carolina
Seton Hall law professor Thomas Healy released ☛SOUL CITY: RACE,
Wash/Barrettes/Twists/Crisscross/Braids/Beads/Cornrows/ Wooden brush/Edges/Silk scarf/Nappy/Kitchen/ Beady beads/4c/Coil/Ouch/SuperGrow/Straighten…
—Jasmine Mans’ “Mama Has a Hair Salon in the Kitchen”
April is National Poetry Month and I couldn’t let another spring day go by without celebrating my favorite collection of poems released this year—thus far,
There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission… MLK, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Frederick Douglass were all salesman. Hell, Nina Simone, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and every other black woman who achieved any leap of success was a saleswoman… Each and every one of these people was selling something more precious than gold: a vision.
Trailblazing actress Cicely Tyson died yesterday at the age of 96. The new author just released her memoir ☛JUST AS I AM [pub: HarperCollins] three days ago along with a virtual book tour including a conversation scheduled with Whoopi Goldberg yesterday and Tyler Perry on Monday,
Major congratulations to legendary mystery author the Valerie Wilson Wesley on the release of her latest book ☛A GLIMMER OF DEATH [pub: Kensington] today. I’m embarrassed to admit that I did not know that the woman behind the beloved Tamara Hayle series is thankfully still writing books.
