Celebrating Black History, Black Excellence, and Black Joy Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the freedom of the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas. The newly freed Black Americans observed Juneteenth as a celebration of freedom and its fulfillment. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, is marked by celebrations, family gatherings, picnics, and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation as a measure of progress against freedom. As Juneteenth is an occasion for…
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The latest books to add to your TBR piles—out this week! FICTION THE GLORIOUS HERESIES by Lisa McInerney The Glorious Heresies is a searing debut novel…
Yaa Gyasi, Author of HOMEGOING
Called “an inspiration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Homegoing is a novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. It was…
Reads for the 2016 Summer Games
The Summer Games start this week and we want you to be prepared! Check out these books that will quench your thirst for competition and…