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All That She Carried
Begin with a single object: a rough cotton flour sack, about the size of a pillowcase. In the early 1850s, somewhere in South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose packed it before her nine-year-old daughter Ashley was sold away from her, probably forever. Inside she placed a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, a braid…
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Know My Name
Chanel Miller’s Know My Name begins with a woman who has lost herself and does not yet know how to say so. It opens in the aftermath of January 17, 2015, the night Miller was sexually assaulted behind a dumpster at a Stanford fraternity party by Brock Turner, a swimmer at the university. For three…
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
In October 1965, nine months after Malcolm X was shot and killed at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Grove Press published the book he and journalist Alex Haley had spent two years building together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a conversion narrative told in stages: Malcolm Little the street hustler, Detroit Red the criminal,…
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