From cheesy romantic comedies to fantasy sagas
2020 was the year that Black literature was catapulted into the spotlight. As protests against racial injustice spread across the world after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, there was an unprecedented demand for books written by Black authors, specifically, “anti-racism” books.
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