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BLACK VOICES JANUARY 2026 |
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Tenderheaded: A Memoir
by Michaela angela Davis
Recognizing how her light skin, light eyes, and light hair facilitated her access to the explosive intersections of hardcore, house, and hip-hop culture, Michaela angela Davis's Tenderheaded is the coming-of-age story of a stylist and editor who hustled during the golden age of the downtown NYC scene of the '80s, established a career through the hip-hop-fueled '90s, and reckoned with the media industry in the post-racial Obama years while being in service to Black women every step of the way.
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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
by Ben Passmore
Black Arms to Hold You Up is a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. From Robert Charles's shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and the aughts, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben--and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic.
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Shot Ready
by Stephen Curry
Shot Ready is a distillation of Stephen Curry's transformative philosophy of success--centered on preparation, constant improvement, creativity, connection, mindfulness, and joy--delivered in his incomparable voice and style. Stunningly designed and illustrated with more than 100 gorgeous photographs, Shot Ready is an intimate narrative and a practical blueprint for any reader who wants to unlock their own potential.
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Next of Kin: A Memoir
by Gabrielle Hamilton
In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the story of her family's unexpected dissolution. The youngest of five children, Gabrielle Hamilton took pride in her unsentimental, idiosyncratic family. After she grew up to find enormous success--first as a chef and then as the author of award-winning, bestselling books--her family ties frayed in ways both seismic and mundane until eventually she was estranged from them all. In Next of Kin, she offers a keen and compassionate portrait of the people she grew up with and the prevailing but soon-to-falter ethos of the era that produced them.
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The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum
by Valerie Wilson Wesley
At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance--and a shocking murder on Striver's Row--in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery for reader of Nekesia Afia, Jacqueline Winspear, Avery Cunningham's The Mayor of Maxwell Street.
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On Sundays She Picked Flowers
by Yah Yah Scholfield
Lone Women meets Sorrowland in this surreal Southern Gothic debut in which a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and is forced to contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself. Haunting and thought-provoking, On Sunday She Picked Flowers explores retribution, family trauma, and the power of building oneself back up after breaking down.
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The Seven Daughters of Dupree
by Nikesha Elise Williams
From the two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and host of the "Black and Published" podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family. The Seven Daughters of Dupree masterfully weaves together themes of generational trauma, Black women's resilience, and unbreakable familial bonds. Echoing the literary power of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis, Nikesha Elise Williams delivers a feminist literary fiction that explores the ripple effects of actions, secrets, and love through seven generations of Black women.
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Between Good and Evil
by Rochelle Alers
In the tradition of Studs Lonigan and A Stone for Danny Fisher, a transporting historical saga about three young men coming-of-age on New York City's rapidly changing, vibrant, challenging, sometimes heartless Upper West Side as they walk a fine line between right and wrong amid the turbulence and scandals of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Kenny, Frankie, Ray. For these best friends, life on the Upper West Side during the upheaval of the 1960s showed undreamed-of possibilities--and temptations. In the end, these three friends must decide how far they will pursue dreams that can guarantee success--or disaster. And each must come to terms with the kind of man he wants to be--no matter the consequences.
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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