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Unbothered
Actually, Black Erotica Author Zane Never Left
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Kourtney Pope
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Books By Black & Latine Authors We Can’t Wait To Read In 2023
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I Finally Read bell hooks’
All About Love
& Not To Be Dramatic, But It ...
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Ineye Komonibo
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Black Folx Must Document Their Stories. I’m Showing The Community How.
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Renata Cherlise
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Black Love
R29Unbothered Presents The Black Love Reading List
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Roxane Gay Has One Hot Take That Just Might Shock You
Ineye Komonibo
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Amazon
Prepare To Hibernate With An On-Sale Kindle From Amazon’s Fall Prime Day
Mercedes Viera
Oct 10, 2023
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The Steamiest Romance Novels Written By Black Authors
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Who Taught Us To Run From Grief? This Children’s Book Faces It He...
Having your first book come out on your birthday is quite the coincidence (and a pretty neat birthday gift!) for most people. But for Maryah Greene, the 28
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Gloria Alamrew
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I Stopped Hiding Parts Of Myself I Thought I Had To Erase After R...
There was a moment in time when I looked around internally, only to find myself wedged in a mirrored corner of uncertainty. It was a blurred reflection of
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Dawnshaeé Reid
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Unbothered
These Are The Books I Want To Pass Along To My Daughter
Motherhood made its way onto my life path shortly after I turned 25, blessing me with a daughter while bringing on the fear and angst of the new responsibi
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Dawnshaeé Reid
Unbanned
“I Can’t Shut Down Because I Tell The Truth:” H...
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning&nbs
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Niki McGloster
Unbanned
An Abolitionist Approach To Fighting Against Book Bans
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black
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Danialie Fertile
Unbanned
The Far Right Is Trying To Ban The Truth — Here’s What We Can Do ...
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black His
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Brea Baker
Unbanned
When Did “Woke” Lose Its Meaning & How Do We Get It Back?
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black His
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Kathleen Newman-B...
Unbanned
George M. Johnson: America Banned My Book, But I Refuse To Stay S...
Unbothered continues its look at the tangled history of Black culture and identity with ROOTS (Un)Banned, a series of stories on book banning for Black His
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George M. Johnson
Unbothered
Shavone Charles On Disrupting The Tech Industry & The
Black I...
Shavone Charles has done it all. Known mononymously as SHAVONE., she’s a multi hyphenate creative who’s made her mark in music, fashion and tech. Her t
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Stephanie Long
Unbothered
Danielle Prescod Talks Being Black In White Fashion Spaces
Welcome to Fashionably Black!, a style and culture guide for Black people highlighting the cultural moments, pioneers, and conversations we’ve always bee
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Venesa Coger
Unbothered
Here’s A Black Love Summer Playlist — Curated By The Hottes...
What makes a good soundtrack to a love story? That’s the question we asked authors Ashley M. Coleman (Good Morning, Love), Ebony LaDelle (Love Radio), an
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Unbothered
Books By Black Authors To Add To Your Summer Reading List
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Unbothered
Why Kai Harris Fought To Write A Story About Black Girlhood In
When Kai Harris was writing What The Fireflies Knew, it was important to her to tell a story about Black girlhood. “I have always enjoyed reading about B
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Stephanie Long
Unbothered
Meet The Black Folx Helping You Fall (Back) In Love With Reading
Some of you read a lot. Y’all be reading reading — stacks of books as tall as you are, from cover to cover. Frankly, I’m impressed and a little jealo
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Danialie Fertile
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Black History Month 2022
How bell hooks Raised A Generation Of Radical Feminists
R29Unbothered continues its look at Black culture’s tangled history of Black identity, style, and contributions to the culture with ROOTS, our
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Zakiya Luna
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Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait To Read In 2022
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Stephanie Long
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GLAAD Joins The Fight Against LGBTQ Book Bans
Updated December 8, 2021 at 10:56 a.m. ET: On Wednesday (December 8), LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD joined over 400 advocates in a statement of s
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Stephanie Long
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Janelle Monáe Is Writing A Short Story Collection Inspired By
Janelle Monáe is making her literary debut with The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer. Based on the Afrofuturistic world of Dirty Co
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Stephanie Long
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Buki Papillon’s
An Ordinary Wonder
Is Anything But Ordinary
When Buki Papillon’s An Ordinary Wonder was released in September, it was met with wide acclaim — and for good reason. It’s a captivating queer comin
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Stephanie Long
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If We Were Different, We’d Be Perfect: An Exclusive Excerpt From ...
It’s been seven years since lauded poet Yrsa Daley-Ward shook the literary world with the book nayyirah waheed called “a symphony of breaking and mendi
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Yrsa Daley-Ward
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Solange Joins The Black Book Revolution With Saint Heron’s Free C...
Since 2013, Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron creative studio has been a beacon of Black culture, one that has preserved our legacy while allowing today’s t
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Stephanie Long
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Phoebe Robinson’s Tiny Reparations In The Publishing Industry
It’s almost absurd to think that Phoebe Robinson — a successful comedian, author and actress of 2 Dope Queens fame would have difficulty selling her fi
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Stephanie Long
Book-ish
We’re Raising A Fist For The Radical Hood Library, Noname’s Lates...
Last week, Noname opened the Radical Hood Library, a Black-led, Los Angeles-based literary liberation project that was created to service Black and brown p
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Stephanie Long
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CaShawn Thompson & Lilly Workneh Are Reminding You That #BlackGir...
In 2013, CaShawn Thompson declared that Black girls are magic. Inspired by negative attention Black women were receiving in the media, the illustrious phra
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Stephanie Long
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Hey, Hurston/Wright Foundation — What About Black Trans Lives?
Updated September 24, 2021, 4:06pm ET: In 1990, Marita Golden and Clyde McElvene created the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation as a supportive s
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Nichole Perkins Is Giving Black Women Permission To Be Perfectly ...
Nichole Perkins, a renowned pop culture commentator and former podcast host, is not afraid to dive deep. On the award-winning Thirst Aid Kit podcast, for e
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Stephanie Long
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