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Writings and Essays Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2010s

  1. And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueen
  2. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
  3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  4. The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
  5. Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
  6. How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese Coleman
  7. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
  8. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
  9. Once More To The Ghetto And Other Essays by Jerald Walker
  10. Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
  11. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
  12. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
  13. On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall
  14. The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.
  15. Love’s Long Line by Sophfronia Scott
  16. The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
  17. Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
  18. You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
  19. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
  20. I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
  21. So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta
  22. lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts: essays by Ntozake Shange
  23. The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison
  24. The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Marita Golden
  25. The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles R. Johnson
  26. The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih
  27. Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter
  28. Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
  29. The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop (And You Can Too!) A Must-Have Resource for Teaching Writing Workshop in Grades K-12 (Professional Resources) by Kwame Alexander
  30. Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
  31. A Companion to African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett