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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2024. The Black Box: Writing the Race. Penguin Random House.

Abstract

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

2021. The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song.

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Penguin Books. Abstract

From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box,and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Tonya Bolden.

2019. Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow. Scholastic. Abstract

This is a story about America during and after Reconstructi