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Details: Written by By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer; Published: 27 September 2021

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America had yet to really understand sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s work was just beginning.

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Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 23 August 2021

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An Oakland, CA father is penning books with his 7-year-old son working as the illustrator

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 16 August 2021

The best of America—captured in print for the first time

Details: Written by Nina G. Jablonski, Penn State; Published: 02 August 2021

Sindiwe Magona has written over 130 children’s books. © Bjorn Rudner/Sindiwe Magona

The idea of doing a children’s book was planted back in 2010 when a friend impressed on me the importance of writing up my research on skin colour and race as an illustrated book for young readers.

Details: Written by By Norma Adams-Wade, Founding Member of the National Association of Black Journalist, Texas Metro News Columnist; Published: 22 June 2021

Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, Credit: MTE Publishing

Black mothers across the nation say they share a similar mind-numbing foreboding: the possibility of fear or hatred of Black people by police or racists killing their Black sons.

Details: Written by By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer; Published: 15 June 2021

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Oprah Winfrey's next book club pick is a debut novel set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War: Nathan Harris' “The Sweetness of Water.”

Details: Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia; Published: 28 May 2021

The Other Black Girl is a psychological masterpiece, where microaggressions and gaslighting turn a company’s ‘civilized’ atmosphere into a slowly unraveling horror

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 08 April 2021

"Black Sheep" is the story of Ray Studevent’s struggles as a mixed-race boy raised by the widow of his uncle.

With an afterword by My Haley, PhD, widow of Alex Haley, famed author of Roots and Malcom X

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 08 March 2021

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Portland activist and photographer, Richard Brown’s new book, This is Not For You, recently hit the book shelves at Powell’s bookstore, and has sold out.

Details: Written by MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press; Published: 23 June 2020

The description on Amazon says the president's niece "explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office"