“I dreaded the approach of summer, when snakes and slaveholders made their appearance,” wrote Harriet Jacobs, author, educator, servant, mother of two — and escaped slave. Continue reading
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Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner – NYTimes.com
Best Books of 2014
BEST BOOKS OF 2014
by Clarence V. Reynolds
Freelance editor and literary arbiter Clarence V. Reynolds reads five books per day, or was that per month. Continue reading
50 Books By African Men That Everyone Should Read: Part 2 | bookshy
50 Books By African Men That Everyone Should Read: Part 2
Back in July, I got to work with Dele Fatunla, the editor for Royal African Society’s Gateway for Africa blog Continue reading
Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” – The New Yorker
by Teju Cole
Then the bus began driving into clouds, and between one cloud and the next we caught glimpses of the town below. It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points. Continue reading
The Books That Made Me Who I Am by Roxane Gay | BuzzFeed
Nearly every day, a friend or acquaintance tags me on Facebook, asking me to share a list of 10 books that have influenced me. Nearly every day, I read such lists from the same circle of friends and acquaintances. Continue reading