Book Festivals Highlight Diverse Works Amid Banned Books Movement Maryland book festivals spotlight literary diversity and free speech amid rising book bans nationwide. Read More
Book Review: ‘Well-Read Black Girl’ by Glory Edim Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well-Read Black Girl Read More
How Moments of Racial Tension Are Shaping YA Literature Six well-known Black female authors with best-selling credentials came together to announce their joint project of a young adult novel Read More
Teen Magazine Posts Tweet Tagging Wrong Black YA Author A magazine for teen girls mistakenly confused two Black young adult authors in a tweet that took six hours to Read More
After Creating #PublishingPaidMe, LL McKinney Hosts Juneteenth Book Fest L.L. McKinney, the author behind A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, and the upcoming third novel in the Read More
#PublishingPaidMe Reveals Pay Discrepancies Between Black and White Writers Going into the third week of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, book Twitter went down another road Read More
Author Dhonielle Clayton Says Students Called Her a Racial Slur on Zoom The Belles author and We Need Diverse Books chief operating officer Dhonielle Clayton says she was called the n-word several Read More
Women Authors Attack Sarah Dessen Critic in Social Media Uproar This past week, young adult author Sarah Dessen tweeted a quote from a college article by a woman who campaigned Read More
Book Review: ‘The Belles’ by Dhonielle Clayton The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton My rating: 3 of 5 stars “The Belles” by Dhonielle Clayton revolves around a fantasy Read More
