Get Lit! The 1619 Project Returns as a Visual Experience and More Books by Black Authors to Read This October

With 50-plus years of raw life experience navigating the world while nurturing a family that includes her famous son, Dr. O’Neal is sharing poweful lessons with the rest of us. “I wrote a memoir to share my life with the world! I want readers to know that I’m more than Shaq‘s mom, so it was necessary to open up and give what I call ‘my testimony.’ This book is my updated story, which captures my continued growth and the trials I’ve gone through since 2010,” she tells EBONY. “For inquiring minds, you get the truth directly from the one who knows me (Lucille). I hope readers realize that their lives have true purpose, and I’m hoping they continue to dream and pursue greatness. I urge everyone to love themselves and remain focused on the real men and women God called them to be.”

When Elise wakes up six months in the future, she and her best friend Cora have to figure out this new reality, and investigate the mystery behind her time travel in this pre-teen read.

Returning for the first time in 25 years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, the journalist, author and public speaker explains the dark side of contagious phenomena, including two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.

A Ghanaian Londoner who can sense trauma in the body through her work as a massage therapist returns to the motherland to face and heal her own traumatic life experiences.

A young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover they are under a curse. And she’s ready to break in this Southern gothic horror debut.

Designer, writer, activist and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller has written her memoir to celebrate a life in advocacy and journey and to answer the question “Where are the Black designers?”

Award-winning ‘The New York Times Magazine’ article reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing enslavement and resistance at the center of the American story, is now presented an illustrated edition, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images.

This interactive journal help readers discover a way of giving back, allowing readers from all backgrounds to embrace their present purpose, no matter where they are on their good works journey.

Divided into themes of joy in the body, breath, tears, laughter and every day, ‘Black Joy Playbook’ is designed to mine your memories to discover what joy looks and feels like to you and guides you to recreate it in your present-day life.

Exploring friendships and relationships with our mothers, quiet Funke and free-spirited cousin Liv deal with family tradegies and rebirth over a two-decade period in Nigeria and England.