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Michelle Obama Reveals Cover of Highly Anticipated Memoir ‘Becoming’
Michelle Obama revealed the cover of her upcoming memoir Becoming on Thursday. “As I prepare to share BECOMING this fall, I hope you’ll also think about your own story, and trust that it will help you...
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Tiffany Haddish Sued by Ex-Husband for Libel, Defamation
Tiffany Haddish’s ex-husband is suing her after she made claims that he abused and stalked her in her memoir The Last Black Unicorn, according to TMZ. In a lawsuit obtained by TMZ, her ex, William...
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Oprah Selects ‘The Sun Does Shine’ as Her New Book Club Pick
Oprah Winfrey has announced Anthony Ray Hinton’s The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row as her latest book club pick, PEOPLE reports. “I’m really excited and proud to be able to...
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Reality TV Producer Mona Scott-Young Releasing Debut Novel
Love & Hip Hop executive producer Mona Scott-Young can add author to her résumé with the upcoming release of her first novel, Blurred Lines. According to Variety, the book is the first project from...
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Octavia Butler Honored with Google Doodle
Octavia Butler, the iconic Africa-American science fiction writer, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday on what would have been her 71st birthday. Entering a field dominated by white male...
View ArticleWanda Sykes, LeVar Burton and Other Stars Perform MLK’s Essays for Audible
Wanda Sykes, Gabourey Sidibe, LeVar Burton and other stars have lent their voice to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.s work, Audible announced on Tuesday. The Radical King is a collection of 23 essays and...
View ArticleNobel Prizes Awarded to Black Author and Essayist for Writing
An author and an essayist were awarded Nobel Prizes on Monday for their work in General Nonfiction and Feature writing, respectively. Essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for...
View ArticleCharlamagne’s 2nd Book, ‘Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me’ Coming Soon
Following the success of his debut as an author, Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It, radio and television personality Charlamagne Tha God is set to publish his next highly...
View ArticleSurvivor of the Last Slave Ship Spoke to Zora Neale Hurston in 1930,...
Sixty years after slavery was abolished, author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston found the last surviving prisoner of the last slave ship that brought Africans to the United States, History.com...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Shares Unreleased Personal Pics Ahead of Memoir Release (PHOTOS)
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is in the midst of sharing several previously unreleased photos from her personal stash while working on her upcoming memoir, Becoming. The Chicago native’s first...
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