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10 More Beautiful Covers of Books Written by Black Authors!

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna 

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow 

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

A Song of Wraiths and Ruins by Roseanne A. Brown

Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim & Various

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

What other beautiful covers do you love? 

Happy reading!

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Summer Read #3

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We Built This: Glory Edim Is Building An Empire With Books By Black Women

Glory Edim began building her empire of knowledge at an early age.

The founder of Well-Read Black Girl and author debuted her literary kingdom in the form of a digital book club that ensures black women who love reading, writing or both have a space to connect. With monthly reading selections and Twitter chats based on books by black women authors, the Nigerian-American has not only helped fill a huge void, but nourished a demographic often forgotten or erased by the literary world.

Since its 2015 launch, Edim has developed Well-Read Black Girl into an annual book festival in Brooklyn and an anthology, both of the same name.

Edim’s work empowers black women to feel seen and to start a revolution with their words. Between and beyond the pages, she is an author, a nerd, an advocate and a force. And she has no intention of slowing down.

As a part of HuffPost’s “We Built This” series for Black History Month, Edim talked to us about her passion for literacy, her vision for Well-Read Black Girl and the urgency of protecting black women.

Check out the interview here.

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new from Ballantine Books and editor and club founder glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: An Anthology. Featuring some of the most imfluential African American writers today.

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Handpicked Happening: Bigger than me

Meet Glory Edim. In addition to working closely with creators as Kickstarter’s Publishing Outreach Specialist, she’s the founder of Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG), a book club and online platform celebrating Black literature. (Get her TinyLetter here.) Take it away, Glory!

What should people know about Well-Read Black Girl?

 I want Well-Read Black Girl to be much bigger than me. I take the word “amplification” quite literally; every writer deserves to championed on a grand scale. By focusing primarily on novels by Black women, I'm building a community that's dedicated to supporting their work.

 What are some things you’ve learned since launching it?

1. Reading changes people’s perspectives, and ultimately their lives.

2. Everyone has a story, and helping others share their story is a privilege. 

3. Be bold with your creativity and take risks, even when you’re afraid.

 What was the last great book you finished?

 What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons, out this July.

Photograph by Medina Dugger

Eight projects I love

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Terre Magazine

Never Built New York

Fantastic Fiction at KGB

CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR

Oakland’s Mamacitas Cafe

 As the Crow Flies: Volume One

 Brooklyn Deep: Reporting Our Truth

Recommended reading

 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Five links I love

Seriously, everything is funny to Samantha Irby (Elle)

How Maya Angelou taught me to live a full life (BuzzFeed)

Remembering the great poet Gwendolyn Brooks at 100 (NPR)

How a trained journalist is using public art to expose media racism (ArtNet)

The rareness and difficulty of love: on James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (LitHub)

Etc.

Illustration by Shannon Wright

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10 New Books By Women Writers Of Color To Add To Your Must-Read List

Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl book club has some suggestions for your 2017 shelves.

At least, that’s how her book club, Well-Read Black Girl, got started. She began posting about new books she looked forward to reading on Instagram, and decided to do an in-person discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. That meeting was transformative for Edim and the other women in attendance. “Some people were crying, people just really got into what made the book emotional for them,” she told The Huffington Post in an interview.

It was an intimate gathering of 10 or so avid readers; now, two years later, the group has ballooned to over 40, not counting the growing online community Edim has garnered, or the book lovers who turned out to her recent events at the Brooklyn Museum or The Strand. In the future, Edim wants to open satellite chapters in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and anywhere else there’s interest.

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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library

By Glory Edim.

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ARC Review: "Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me" by Glory Edim

“Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me” by Glory Edim Publishing Date: October 29, 2024 Genre: Memoir, Nonfiction Page Length: 288 pages (electronic review edition) Synopsis: For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, but her love of books…

ARC Review: "Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me" by Glory Edim