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Leading British scholar Gary Younge, born to parents from Barbados, writes about Black cultural identity. His latest book, “Dispatches from the Diaspora,” published in November, examines identity “from Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter.”

On a chilly Sunday afternoon in Brockton, Mayor Robert Sullivan sat in a cozy corner of a new bookstore on Main Street and read a bilingual children’s book to a couple dozen patrons and staff.

Whether you’re searching for community-centric narratives, culturally conscious novels or an escape from reality, there’s something for every reader on this list.

Three books — a chronicle of Black Wall Street and biographies of W.E.B Du Bois and scholar Merze Tate — are the recipients of this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award, a collaboration between the Museum of African American History and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation that recognizes scholars whose work explores facets of African American history across the country.

Richard Lewis Taylor is a longtime summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard. In 1979, he and his family purchased a cottage in Oak Bluffs, one of the island’s six towns, after several Roxbury families introduced the island to him, he said.

As a young girl growing up in the west side of Chicago, Chaz Ebert was most notably two things: a voracious reader and a precocious entrepreneur. Both her mother, who worked at a publishing company at the time, and one of her sisters, who shaped Ebert’s reading tastes, were bookworms, and Ebert followed in their stead.

For the second year in a row, Roxbury will dedicate a day to centering the literary arts, as the Greater Roxbury Book Fair returns to the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library.

For Black communities, and especially Black men, mental health can often be a taboo subject, but actor Courtney Vance is fighting to bring the issue out of the shadows.

Keith Boykin wasn’t planning on writing a book in 2022 when the idea for “Why Does Everything Have to Be about Race?” took hold.

When Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley revealed his queer identity to his congregation at the historic Myrtle Baptist Church in Newton, Massachusetts, the group embraced him with love and acceptance.

Fall is a season of book releases, and the Harvard Book Store, an independent shop  in Harvard Square, recently hosted three authors whose new books, already bestsellers, explore the lives of women who become changemakers.

A new study of racial representation in U.S. school books by The Education Trust holds that numbers alone don’t cut it: To change unequal representation for people of color is to change not only how many are portrayed, but also how they’re portrayed.