Black Ink - Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor); Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)

Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This expansive collection seeks to shed light on that injustice, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in one magnificent volume that presents reading as an a...