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Home » Latest News » Art & Culture » Books

Category: Books

illustrated cover of katie mitchell's prose to the people book. features a grid of collaged images of black bookstores
Posted inArt & Culture

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

Avatar photo by Bry Reed May 21, 2025May 21, 2025

Katie Mitchell of Atlanta, Georgia, is a writer, reader, and researcher whose online bookshop Good Books ATL offers vintage and contemporary reads from Black authors. As of last month, Mitchell is the author of her first book titled, “Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores.” In March, I had the opportunity to speak […]

Tamron Hall on her eponymous talk show.
Posted inArt & Culture

Tamron Hall, Harlem Honey, and Sweet Representation for the culture

Avatar photo by Teri Henderson April 16, 2025April 17, 2025
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Black in Blues: Imani Perry at Enoch Pratt Free Library’s 37th Annual Booklovers’ Breakfast

Avatar photo by Bry Reed March 11, 2025March 13, 2025
A woman smiles and tips her hat wearing a captain's uniform.
Posted inArt & Culture

Op-Ed: Her First Show

Avatar photo by Carole Hopson November 18, 2024November 18, 2024
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Book Review: Tiffany D. Jackson’s ‘Storm: Dawn of a Goddess’

Avatar photo by Bry Reed July 30, 2024
Book cover of The Book of Juju - Juju Bae
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The Book of Juju: Juju Bae talks about her new book, Baltimore’s old spirits,  and honoring the ancestors

Avatar photo by Bry Reed June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
Posted inArt & Culture

Book Review: “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” 

Avatar photo by Bry Reed April 26, 2024May 8, 2024
Photo of a man with brown skin.
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CityLit Preview: Mateo Askaripour Takes Space Seriously

Avatar photo by Bry Reed April 18, 2024April 18, 2024
A photo of author Jesmyn Ward. She is a smiling Black woman with curly hair wearing a burgundy top.
Posted inArt & Culture

Cities Need Booklovers

Avatar photo by Bry Reed February 27, 2024
Book cover of How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
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Book Review: “How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir”

Avatar photo by Bry Reed January 30, 2024

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