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From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker
From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner
A Zibbys Most Anticipated Book of 2023
A Next Big Idea Club MustRead Book for January
AnEssenceBooks by Black Authors to Read This Winter Pick
AnEbony EntertainmentRequired Reading Book for January
A Lambda LiteraryMost Anticipated LGBTQIA Literature for January
A Southern Review of Books Best Book of January

A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibilitychange and lasting hope

There are stories that must be told

Acclaimed novelist and scholarDaniel Blackhas spent a career writing into the unspoken fleshing out throughstorytelling pain that cant be described

Now in his debut essay collection Blackgives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUstoqueer representation in the black churchBlack on Blackcelebrates the resilience fortitude and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display

AsDaniel Blackreminds us while hope may be slow in coming it always arrives and when it does it delivers beyond the imagination Propulsive intimate and achingly relevantBlack on Blackis cultural criticism at its openhearted best