Oh, do I celebrate Blackness through nofiction this month! Today, it’s biographies. Speak Up, Speak Out! The Extraordinary Life of Shirley Chisholm by Tonya Bolden (National Geographic Kids) Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi (Dutton) Lizzo: Breakout Artist (Gateway Biographies) by Lakita Wilson (Lerner) Nina Simone Young Trailblazers: The… Read More Black for Real: Biography

For me, as someone who is still only a reader and not a writer, it can be really hard to understand how personal books are to their creators, how much of themselves they share, whether they’re aware that they’re doing it or not. I’m beginning to realize that through this series. Please, don’t let them… Read More Banned Voices: Anna-Marie McLemore