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  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    I Just Keep Talking

    Try:
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    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Winfred  Rembert

    Winfred Rembert

    Winfred Rembert (1945 - 2021) was an artist from Cuthbert, Georgia. His paintings on carved and tooled leather have been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, and compared to the work of Jacob Lawrence, ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    I Just Keep Talking

    Try:
    Chasing Me to My Grave
    by Winfred Rembert

  • Namwali Serpell

    Namwali Serpell

    Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    I Just Keep Talking

    Try:
    On Morrison
    by Namwali Serpell

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