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Non-Fiction From an African American Author
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Candacy Taylor

360 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

179 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Brittney Cooper

280 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned by Melody Simpson, Nafiza Azad

Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned

Melody Simpson, Nafiza Azad

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art essays challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Hugo Martínez, Rebecca Hall

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Hugo Martínez, Rebecca Hall

208 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction feminism graphic novel history race informative reflective medium-paced
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A Promised Land

The Presidential Memoirs #1

Barack Obama

29 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Fidel and Malcolm: Memories of a Meeting by Rosemari Mealy

Fidel and Malcolm: Memories of a Meeting

Rosemari Mealy

86 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose by Nikki Giovanni

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

Nikki Giovanni

1 hour, 42 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Dipo Faloyin

380 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced