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Discover Books from the 2019 Schomburg Center Literary Festival

Explore books and selected author programs from the 2019 Schomburg Center Literary Festival below. 

Revisit the full lineup of events from the 2019 festival. 

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Black Girl Magic: A Poem

by Mahogany L. Browne

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Woke Baby

by Mahogany L. Browne

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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

by Margaret Busby

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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

by Glory Edim

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Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

by Tanisha C. Ford

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Ten Days in Jamaica

by Ifeona Fulani

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Honey, I Love

by Eloise Greenfield

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

by Saidiya Hartman

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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing

by DaMaris B. Hill, PhD

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House of Lords and Commons: Poems

by Ishion Hutchinson

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Call Me American: A Memoir

by Abdi Nor Iftin

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Beasts of No Nation

by Uzodinma Iweala

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Speak No Evil

by Uzodinma Iweala

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Missing Daddy

by Mariame Kaba

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Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems

by Shane McCrae

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No Ashes in the Fire

by Darnell Moore

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Dreamers

by Yuyi Morales

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Mount Pleasant

by Patrice Nganang

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War Girls

by Tochi Onyebuchi

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Long Way Down

by Jason Reynold

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Shake Loose My Skin

by Sonia Sanchez

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Cannibal

by Safiya Sinclair

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Explore the 2022 Schomburg Center Literary Festival

The Schomburg Center Literary Festival: Reading the African Diaspora expands the center's long tradition of championing authors of African descent from across the globe and publications that celebrate Black history and culture.

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