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Essay Collection: Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture? In Dark Days, the author Roger Reeves engages deeply with the way people actually live and think

Essay Collection: Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture? In Dark Days, the author Roger Reeves engages deeply with the way people actually live and think | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
“Being able to read the moon and the stars might be exactly what saves one’s life,” Roger Reeves writes in “Dark Days.” Left, a nebula photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope; right, a detail from a mural in Charlotte, N.C.  Image credits: From left: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA, Donald Waid; Travis Dove for The New York Times.
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Classic Appreciation: 'Mumbo Jumbo' by Ishmael Reed - A dazzling classic gets the recognition it deserves

Classic Appreciation: 'Mumbo Jumbo' by Ishmael Reed - A dazzling classic gets the recognition it deserves | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Praised by the likes of Tupac and Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed’s experimental novel about race in the US is, more than ever, a book for today
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Appreciation: On Octavia Butler, multi-award-winning novelist

Appreciation: On Octavia Butler, multi-award-winning novelist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
As a preteen, Octavia Butler decided she'd had enough of second-rate science fiction. "Geez," she said after watching Devil Girl from Mars, a 1954 B-movie. "I
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