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• Chrome Valley

  Poems

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. “We praise their names / the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks,” she writes in tribute to those who came…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Love Letters

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  From celebrated Black writers, creators, and thinkers―and with a foreword by John Legend―comes a collection of letters and original illustrations on the subject of Black love, a powerful and heartfelt celebration of Blackness in all its many forms.

• Vinyl Moon

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplife our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  The long form poem is a practice of poetics in joy, gratitude, sadness, resilience and pain. This literary work serves as a practice of self-reflection and accountability in the wake of the prison system. This poem is dirge work acknowledging unjust…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chlorine Sky

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend.

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers.

• Woke

  a Young Poet's Call to Justice

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  Woke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.

• Black Girl Magic

  BreakBeat Poets. Volume 2

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  A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

• Black Girl Magic

  a Poem

  Browne, Mahogany L.,

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  Black Girl Magic is a journey from girlhood to womanhood and an invitation to readers to find magic in themselves.

• Well-read Black Girl

  Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves : An Anthology

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  An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.