Genre: Historical Fiction/Family Saga Two sisters Effia and Esia are born in two different villages and two different tribes in Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman who is the current […]
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
This was an amazing read! Initially when I heard about this book I knew it was something I wanted to read. Then when I saw how thick it was I was a […]
Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
Dorothy (Dolly) Kirwan Thomas was born into slavery on the island of Montserrat to a slave mother and an Irish slave owning father. Dolly saved the money she earned from huckstering and […]
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Cora was a slave on the Randall plantation when she was approached by Ceasar to runaway. Initially Cora declined, she had not thought about running away even though her mother ran without […]
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 This was such a captivating read. I was pulled in from the very first page and found it hard to put down until I was finished. This was my first […]
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Rating :🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 It’s 1992 and Ashley is in her last year of high school trying to be a normal student as the world around her is up in flames after the cops […]
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