Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Author Talk Just as the North Star

Just as the North Star guided the enslaved on their journeys to freedom

best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first collection of poems that demonstrate her spark and scope

the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize

by identity and place

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Author Talk Just as the North StarA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Todayas Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest petitionsits