5 must-read books by Black writers for the holiday season

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys is a story set during the civil rights era and follows the Southern Black boy, Elwood, who practices Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence. However, when Elwood is placed in a juvenile reformatory school where staff violently abuse the boys, he begins to question his beliefs about loving your enemies.


5 must-read books by Black writers for the holiday season

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