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    Black Enough
    Black Enough
    Black Enough
    Audiobook11 hours

    Black Enough

    Written by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coleen Booth and

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin and Ron Butler

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    About this audiobook

    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
    ISBN9780062885265
    Black Enough
    Author

    Ibi Zoboi

    Ibi Zoboi was born in Haiti, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the author of American Street, a US National Book Award finalist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and three children. You can find her online at www.ibizoboi.net.

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    • 5/5
      Was very good to listen to love all the stories that was in this book
    • 5/5
      Every word and every story was beautiful. I loved it.
    • 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."
    • 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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    • 3/5
      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.