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    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
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    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
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    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

    By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth and

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    Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.

    Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.

    Black is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.

    Black is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.

    Black is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.

    Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more—because there are countless ways to be Black enough.

    Contributors:
    Justina Ireland
    Varian Johnson
    Rita Williams-Garcia
    Dhonielle Clayton
    Kekla Magoon
    Leah Henderson
    Tochi Onyebuchi
    Jason Reynolds
    Nic Stone
    Liara Tamani
    Renée Watson
    Tracey Baptiste
    Coe Booth
    Brandy Colbert
    Jay Coles
    Ibi Zoboi
    Lamar Giles

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9780062698742
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    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
    Author

    Ibi Zoboi

    Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of American Street, a National Book Award finalist; Nigeria Jones, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; Pride; My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich; Star Child; Okoye to the People; the Walter Award–winning Punching the Air, cowritten with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam; and the Coretta Scott King Honor–winning picture book The People Remember. She is also the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her family. You can find her online at ibizoboi.net.

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    • 5/5
      This is a great book. I think this is something that teachers should have high school students read. There wasn't a story that I didn't like. MY favorite stories were:
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    • 5/5
      A collection of short stories full of substance, exhuberance, questions, and love. What is it like to be Black and young in the U.S.A.? These stories are a joyful reminder that there is no one answer: there are many. Black is country, is queer, is grieving, is a first crush, is mad at their parents, is summer camp and ghost stories, is mall rats, is beaches, is heavy metal, is church retreats, is city life, is knowing your ancestors, is Black Lives Matter, is making beautiful art. "My hope is that Black Enough will encourage all Black teens to be their free, uninhibited selves without the constraints of being Black, too Black, or not Black enough. They will simply be enough just as they are."