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The Six African Americans Who Escaped slavery and became Millionaires in America.''U have read Thick:And Other Essays by Tressie?''Nope,you mean Tressie McMillan Cottom''Yea,a collection of essays on black female experience in america.''I Love Ghost Boys,by Jewell Parker Rhodes.Jerome main protagonist was killed a fate similar to Tamir Rice a 12year old massacred in 2014 in Cleveland.The murder is done by officer who confuses toy gun for real gun.He moves round as a ghost meets Emmett Till 14 year black teen murdered in 1955 and later also meets Sarah,police officer's daughter and try to uncover sources of Jerome's death.''Danez Smith's Poetry collection Dont Call Us Dead is particularly inspiring.It treats black challenges,hostile environment they operate opens the poetry with'Summer somewhere'a 25page long elegy imagines paradise for black boys murdered by police brutality.Angie Thomas wrote The Hate U Give a New York Times Best seller.It tells the story of Starr Carter a sweet little sixteen trying to