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Jaleel White’s memoir ‘Growing Up Urkel’ is out now and I cannot wait to read his life story

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Tina Knowles to tell her story in ‘Matriarch,’ a memoir scheduled for next year

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Black girls TheGrio Nancy Redd's Real Body Manual

More Black children are hitting puberty early: author Nancy Redd gives tips for breaking stigma around body talk

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Don Lemon can’t wait for women — especially Black women — to read his new memoir

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Kamala Harris’ memoir, ‘The Truths We Hold,’ has become a #1 bestseller overnight

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A new novel by Zora Neale Hurston reimagines the biblical King Herod

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Whoopi Goldberg turns menopause into the hero in new comic book ‘The Change’

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Publishing may lack diversity but at Essence Fest, Black authors took center stage

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Jenn Jackson’s ‘Black Women Taught Us’ honors sheroes in our history and midst

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Shay Youngblood, writer of ‘Black Girl in Paris’ and ‘Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery,’ dead at 64

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Book clubs, assemble! Jay Ellis, Uzo Aduba, and Will Packer all have upcoming memoirs

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A new book will bring ‘The Shop’ to your coffee table, with a foreword by LeBron James

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Percival Everett, Walter Mosley, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kwame Alexander, Questlove, Common, Joél Leon, theGrio.com

8 books by Black authors to gift for Father’s Day

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Lauren Wesley Wilson’s ‘What Do You Need?’ helps Black women ask for what they deserve at work

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Alice Randall, My Black Country, My Black Country book, Black country singers, Black country stars, Black country songwriters, Black women in country music, Black history of country music, Black men in country music, Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, Alice Randall books, country music, country music history, Miles Marshall Lewis, theGrio.com

Country music pioneer Alice Randall gets to the roots of the genre in ‘My Black Country’

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Christine Platt, ‘The Afrominimalist,’ wants to help you live intentionally

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Kerry Washington almost canceled her memoir after learning the truth about her father

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Mellody Hobson financial literacy books

Mellody Hobson teaches financial literacy in new children’s book

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Venus Williams book

Venus Williams draws from personal health and wellness journey in new book

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Sister to Sister: Two Black women writers talk loving and leaving Islam

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