Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

by Ibi Zoboi (Editor)

Other authorsCoe Booth (Author), Rita Williams-Garcia (Author), Varian Johnson (Author), Tracey Baptiste (Author), Kekla Magoon (Author), Jason Reynolds (Author), Renée Watson (Author), Tochi Onyebuchi (Author), Justina Ireland (Author), Brandy Colbert (Author), Lamar Giles (Author) — 5 more, Dhonielle Clayton (Author), Jay Coles (Author), Nic Stone (Author), Liara Tamani (Author), Leah Henderson (Author)

Paperback, 2020

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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.