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[…] Ota Benga” – Pamela Newkirk (HarperCollins/Amistad)   Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author “The Fishermen” – Chigozie Obioma (Little, Brown & Company)   Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography “Between The World and Me” –  Ta-Nehisi Coates (Speigel & Grau)   Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional “Soul Food Love:  Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family” – Alice Randall, Caroline Randall […]

[…] by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We’ve elected an African American president.” During a hearing at the U.S. House on reparations, activist-author Ta-Nehisi Coates fired back a McConnell, noting how the U.S. paid out pensions to the families of Civil War soldiers “well into this century.” He also called out […]

[…] calling for Gov. Northam to step down, the Gov. is pushing back on any idea of resigning and has now committed himself to reading black culture: “Roots,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others. Gov. Northam says this experience has enlightened him and moving forward he will use his position to promote racial healing. Let’s see how serious […]

[…] extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes special programs such as the blockbuster concert Bruno Mars Live at the Apollo, the world premiere theatrical reading of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s National Book Award-winning Between the World and Me, 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella, the annual Africa Now! Festival, and the recent New York premiere of the opera We Shall […]

[…] can be followed at Breaking Brown on Youtube. “I actually am the enemy,” he says during a discussion with castmate Lupita Nyong’o and Marvel comics writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Tuesday. (The comments were transcribed and reported by The Atlantic and Rolling Stone.) “It’s the enemy I’ve always known. It’s power. […]