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• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

  Essays

  Irby, Samantha

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  Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form.

• A Visible Man

  A Memoir

  Enninful, Edward

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  When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue , few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pure Innocent Fun

  Essays

  Madison, Ira

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  Madison explores the key cultural moments that inspired his career as a critic and guided his coming of age as a Black gay man in Milwaukee with insight and humor.

• Yes, Chef

  A Memoir

  Samuelsson, Marcus

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  Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundations of family, hope, and downright good food

• Becoming

  Obama, Michelle

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  An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

• Make Me Rain

  Poems & Prose

  Giovanni, Nikki

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  One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart

• Lovely One

  A Memoir

  Jackson, Ketanji Brown

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  Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, chronicles her life story and her extraordinary path to becoming a jurist on America's highest court, in her inspiring, intimate memoir.