James Baldwin

Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

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Notes of a Native Son

Baldwin’s prose and storytelling is so poetic and heartbreaking. There are chapters in this that will stay with me forever.

muskaan bal

Gavin

Early essays on black-consciousness via pop culture. This prefigures the modern internet left (Racialicious and Feministing) by 60 years; but with a wit and casual familiarity with high art that prefigures Clive James, though with a more tragic air.

Chiyeung lau

70 years later and still more relevant than ever

Mariana Rocha

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Isabella Agostino

Mikre 

london

savannah eden

vive

Nav Singh

Alejandra 

Andrew Louis

lea da silva

Jacob Mishook

Andrew Ireland

Audrey Kalman

Notes of a Native Son

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