Excellence in Black Fiction
Here is some of the best fiction by Black authors published in 2024 and 2025.
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Excellence in Black Nonfiction
Here is some of the best nonfiction by Black authors published in 2024 and 2025.
Excellence in Black Music: Blues, R&B, Jazz, Folk, and Country
Enjoy these albums created by Black musicians and recommended by our staff members.
Excellence in Black Music: Pop, Rock, Rap, and Hip-Hop
We're highlighting albums created by Black musicians and recommended by our staff members.
Excellence in Black Movies and TV
We're highlighting staff-recommended movies and television shows written, produced, or directed by Black creators.
Black Joy
This list is inspired by Kleaver Cruz's The Black Joy Project, "a digital and real-world effort to center Black joy." Cruz says, "When we acknowledge that we exist in an anti-Black world that is set up to ensure we do not live, to choose life and to choose to enjoy aspects of that life is a radical act. Centering on Black joy [doesn't] ignore the realities of our collective pain; rather, it is about holding the pain and injustices we experience as Black folks around the world in tension with the joy we experience in the pain’s midst. Black joy is healing, resistance, and regeneration."
Black Joy: Books for Grade K-2
These are some of our favorite picture books that celebrate Black children, their families, and their communities.
