Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2020s

Writing Published during the 2020s Decade (2020 - 2029) by African-Americans. This includes essays and books on grammar, journalism, and language. No self-published. Non-fiction only. Adult only. No self-published.

No books on sexuality, feminism, immigration, pan-Africanism, poc solidarity, or intersectionality.

No books that are anti-civil rights (affirmative action and voting rights) or anti-reparations (cash payments, land, a federal bank, a federal department, and a black ethnostate (look it up!) directly or indirectly).

The black community is NOT synonymous with preventable diseases, mental disorders, physical/mental disabilities, cross-dressing, sexual perversion, promiscuity, hyper sexuality, trauma, misery, woe, crime, vulgarity, violence, vice, or sin. Any book that claims the black community is synonymous or champions any of the aforementioned, CANNOT be on this list.

The black community is NOT synonymous is with ill manners, ignorance, disrespect, disheveled appearance, unattractiveness, unpleasant attitudes, childishness, cursing, unsanitary grooming habits, or tackiness (like wearing clothes for the inside, outside the house). Any book that claims the black community is synonymous or champions any of the aforementioned, OR has a problem with rEsPeCtIbiLiTy PoLiTiCs directly or indirectly CANNOT be on this list.

Any books that violate any rules will be removed without comment.

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1	Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green 4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 499, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 495, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era by Tara T. Green 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 397, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker 4.40 avg rating — 768 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson 4.07 avg rating — 5,064 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays by Jesse McCarthy 4.34 avg rating — 140 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 486 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America by Calvin Baker (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith 4.37 avg rating — 757 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain 4.29 avg rating — 307 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed 4.18 avg rating — 10,381 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis by Tracy K. Smith (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 4.59 avg rating — 9,842 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Black Nerd Problems by William Evans 4.04 avg rating — 690 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Readying to Rise: Essays by Marcus Harrison Green 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston 4.02 avg rating — 757 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books) by Salamishah Tillet 4.21 avg rating — 214 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett 4.13 avg rating — 999 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Janet Dewart Bell 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Athena Dixon (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 83 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me by Chloé Hilliard (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 837 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb (Editor/Foreword) 4.49 avg rating — 228 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson 3.85 avg rating — 6,646 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Funny How Life Works by Michael Jr. (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 341 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	My One Black Friend: Stories from the Community by Chris Rock 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander by Sadie T. M. Alexander 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship by Elizabeth McHenry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 744 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle 3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A History of African American Autobiography by Joycelyn Moody (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	To Those Bounded by Donald Quist (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars