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Well-Read Black Girl Festival ™ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book club turned literary series, festival & podcast 📚 Founder @guidetoglo ✨ ON GIRLHOOD anthology out now 📖 #WellReadBlackGirl

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Book Cover for: How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
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RT @nytimes: This year’s 25 winners of the MacArthur Fellowship include Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote "How to Be an Antiracist," the poet Hanif…

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In), Alice Walker

The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In)

Alice Walker
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Just a few more days until #TheColorPurple is released! 💜🥹 Who's ready!?

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations, Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Bell Hooks
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bell hooks always reminds me to love who I am presently and who I'm striving to become ✨

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes, Klancy Miller

For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes

Klancy Miller
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Now Reading * and cooking with FOR THE CULTURE by @klancycooks. A beautiful testimony to Black women and Femmes in food. It's filled with recipes, interviews, and culinary inspiration.

Hardcover, 2023

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin Diangelo

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Robin Diangelo
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What else needs to happen for our politicians & policymakers to denounce white supremacist terrorism!? I work from a space of vigilance but most days I want to say READ A BOOK! How To Be an Antiracist by @DrIbram White Rage by @ProfCAnderson White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo https://t.co/bVkLnMRrIv

Paperback, 2018

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Finding Me: A Memoir, Viola Davis

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis
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#WellReadBlackGirl podcast host, @guidetoglo, speaks with actor and author @violadavis about her new memoir, #FindingMe. Viola gets candid about books as a means of escape during her difficult childhood and how she found salvation in literature and more! https://mailchi.mp/wellreadblackgirl/viola-davis-podcast-finding-me https://t.co/Ov0KsMG3mB

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Little Book of Big Lies, Tina Lifford

The Little Book of Big Lies

Tina Lifford
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What are you reading for inspiration? Right now, what's bringing you joy & hope? Our hopeful reading list includes The Little Book of Big Lies by @tinalifford, Vibrate Higher Daily by @LalahDelia, and More Myself by @aliciakeys : https://t.co/deGabHXOd0 #wellreadblackgirl https://t.co/8MIZEkrf4y

Paperback, 2020

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Black Girls Must Be Magic, Jayne Allen

Black Girls Must Be Magic

Jayne Allen
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New podcast episode: Listening to Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' beautiful voice is the balm we all need! Thank you, @BlkLibraryGirl ❤️ Our May Book Club pick is BLACK GIRLS MUST BE MAGIC by @JayneAllenSaid ✨ And pre-order THE MAMAS by @helena_andrews ✨ https://mailchi.mp/wellreadblackgirl/may-book-club-new-pod-honoree https://t.co/MiPy3kYyYW

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Luster, Raven Leilani

Luster

Raven Leilani
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RT @zafatista: Currently loving PARAKEET by @mhbertino. Certain to love LUSTER by @RavenLeilani which is out tomorrow.

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura Warrell

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

Laura Warrell
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. @LKWarrell's #debutnovel SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM has been dubbed a "modern masterpiece" weaving unrequited love, loss, family, and reconciliation. Laura joins @mecca_jamilah in conversation at #WRBGFest22 on Oct. 29th. Virtual tix available: https://t.co/aSdLUUTkyC https://t.co/r9kdnpLntC

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book