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The Queen of Sugar Hill / With Love from Harlem

Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. Greene
The Queen of Sugar Hill:
A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
ReShonda Tate. William Morrow,
420 pages, 2024.
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
ReShonda Tate. William Morrow, 402 pages, 2026

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For every woman who has ever felt unseen, whose brilliance was overlooked, whose voice was silenced, whose story was never told, This is for you. -ReShonda Tate, With Love from Harlem

The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The ABCs of Democracy

by Hakeem Jeffries

Erasure

by Percival Everett

The Truths We Hold

by Kamala Harris

Lovely One

by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade

by Virginia Lynn Moylan

Fanon

by John Edgar Wideman

The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois

by Fanonne Jeffers

Promise

by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Read Until You Understand

by Farah Jasmin Griffin

A Strange Celestial Road

by Ahmed Abdullah

Cherokee Rose

by Tiya Miles

The Matter of Black Lives

Writing from The New Yorker

Grocery Shopping with My Mother

by Kevin Powell

The Black Civil War Soldier

by Deborah Willis

South to America

by Imani Perry

A Death in Harlem, Gone Missing in Harlem

by Karla FC Holloway

The Dead are Arising

by Les Payne

Marvel's Black Panther

by Todd Steven Burroughs

Red at the Bone

by Jacqueline Woodson

The Talented Ribkins

by Ladee Hubbard

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Aint and Other Plays

by Sonia Sanchez

For Gaza's Children

by Various Writers

An Extraordinary Life

by Josephine E. Jones

The Awakening of Malcolm X

by Ilyasah Shabazz with
Tiffany D. Jackson

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Vol 3

by Jawanza Kunjufu

Dr. Brenda Greene

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