Writings and Essays Published by Black Americans in Decade: 2010s
And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueen
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese Coleman
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Once More To The Ghetto And Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall
The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr.
Love’s Long Line by Sophfronia Scott
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts: essays by Ntozake Shange
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Marita Golden
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles R. Johnson
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter
Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
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
Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
A Companion to African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett