You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi Set in both Brooklyn, NY, and Trinidad, West Indies, author Akwaeze Emezi takes us on a ride with Feyi, a Nigerian-American twenty-something struggling to come to terms with a personal tragedy. We...
Black Cake: A Novel by Charmaine Wilkerson February here in Canada means freezing temperatures and countless snowstorms, but Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake was the sweet relief I needed from the winter gloom. The novel follows siblings Benny and Byron Bennett who,...
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie Sistah Girls, are you looking for a novel that is funny, well-fleshed out and with more than a sprinkle of African culture, then, I’ve got you. Now, I’ll keep it real with you, I have a taste for stories with lots of...
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working...
Sistah Girls, I don’t know about you but I am not a big fan of movie adaptations, come on, more than half the time they ruin the story, still I’ll admit that they can sometimes be just the plug for getting book recommendations, which is how I found Sheila...
Sistah Girls, it’s Juneteenth, and what better way to celebrate the long holiday weekend than to curl up with a good book? We put together a nice chunky listicle that you can peruse through. We know that some Sistah Girls like to read for entertainment and some...
For women of color to continue the conversations that we have in the nail salon, beauty parlor, church, and during our lunch breaks at work. This is a place where you can kick off your shoes and get comfortable.