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10 Beautiful Covers of Books Written by Black Authors!

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Cole

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon 

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 

I’ve changed this list because @greengoths was kind enough to let me know of my mistake regarding Let’s Go Swimming On Doomsday! I apologize for my error and will make sure to research better for the next post! (Thank you to @professionalunicorn15 for your beautiful cover addition!)

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Tomi Adeyemi (interview)

YA Novels

“Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi

“Dread Nation” by Justina Ireland

“Finding Yvonne” by Brandy Colbert

“Tyler Johnson Was Here” by Jay Coles

“The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas

History

“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs

“Freedom Dreams” by Robin D.G. Kelley

“The Common Wind” by Julius S. Scott

Auto/Biography/Memoir

“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” Malcolm X

“Assata: An Autobiography” Assata Shakur

“Between the World and Me” Ta-Nehisi Coates

“This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins

“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

“Skin Folk” by Nalo Hopkinson 

“Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed

“Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor

“Dark Matter” by Sheree R. Thomas

“The Kishi” by Antoine Bandele

“Minion” by L.A. Banks

Comics

“Bingo Love” by Terrence Sage

“Rise of the Black Panther” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Black AF: America’s Sweetheart” by Kwanza Osajyefo

“Abbott” by Saladin Ahmed

“The American Way” by John Ridley

LGBTQ+

“Zami” by Audre Lorde

“Brother to Brother” by Essex Hemphill

“Under the Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta

“Burnt Men” by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

Poetry

“Helium” by Rudy Francisco

“Bestiary” by Donika Kelly

“How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars” by Alysia Nicole Harris

“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes

“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde

Authors

Toni Morrison

Zora Neale Hurston

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Octavia E. Butler

Ralph Ellison

Personal Favorites

“Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

“Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin

“We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

Honorable Mentions by People in the Notes

“The Skin I’m In” by Sharon G. Flake

“Jazz” by Toni Morrison

“A Mercy” by Toni Morrison

“The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

Jesmyn Ward

“All American Boys” by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds

“Just Mercy” by Brian Stevenson

“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by M.K. Jemisin

“Piecing Me Together” by Renee Watson

“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers

“The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead

“Sweet Thang” by Allison Whittenburg

“Shadowshaper” by Daniel José Older

“Dactyl Hill Squad” by Daniel José Older

“Midnight Robber” by Nalo Hopkinson

“The Sellout” by Paul Beatty

Editor’s Note:

children of blood and bone | tomi adeyemi

The Perfect Explanation of Privilege – In One Powerful Punchline

“The Pencilsword” is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, “On a Plate” hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.

How many times have you heard the “I’ve never been handed anything on a platter” argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?

Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.

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