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Writings and Essays Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2020s

  1. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green
  2. Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Volume 1) by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
  3. See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era by Tara T. Green
  4. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker
  5. Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays by Jesse McCarthy
  6. Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby
  7. A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America by Calvin Baker
  8. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith
  9. We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain
  10. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
  11. There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis by Tracy K. Smith
  12. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
  13. Black Nerd Problems by William Evans
  14. Readying to Rise: Essays by Marcus Harrison Green
  15. You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston
  16. In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Salamishah Tillet
  17. The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett
  18. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West
  19. Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Janet Dewart Bell
  20. The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Athena Dixon
  21. F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me by Chloé Hilliard
  22. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb
  23. Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson
  24. Funny How Life Works by Michael Jr.
  25. My One Black Friend: Stories from the Community by Chris Rock
  26. Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander by Sadie T. M. Alexander
  27. To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry
  28. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin
  29. Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle
  30. A History of African American Autobiography by Joycelyn Moody
  31. To Those Bounded by Donald Quist
  32. Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
  33. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
  34. Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  35. Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson
  36. Three Or More is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012–2025 by Jelani Cobb
  37. Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 by John Edgar Wideman
  38. Mounted: On Horses, Blackness and Liberation by Bitter Kalli
  39. The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation by Anthony Walton