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Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime Credit...Jillian Tamaki Published Feb. 25, 2021Updated March 1, 2021 “I don’t remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep,” says the author, professor and editor, with Keisha Blain, of “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019.” What’s the last great book you read? I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I recently read on America’s political economy. The first, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermin...

HBO's 'Vanishing Half' Taps Aziza Barnes, Jeremy O. Harris as Writers Courtesy of Jasmin Harvey; Michael Bailey Gates The duo will also executive produce alongside Issa Rae and Stephanie Allain. HBO has found the writers for its potential series based on Brit Bennett's novel The Vanishing Half. Aziza Barnes and Jeremy O. Harris will adapt the best seller and serve as executive producers of the project. They'll also serve as executive producers; Insecure star and co-creator Issa Rae and Oscars producer Stephanie Allain are also EPs. The Vanishing Half, which became an instant best seller upo...

Hillel Italie Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s better known fans of mystery novels, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is now writing one. Clinton is teaming up with her friend, the novelist Louise Penny, on “State of Terror,” which has a plot that might occur to someone of Clinton’s background: A “novice” secretary of state, working in the administration of a rival politician, tries to solve a wave of terrorist attacks. The novel comes out Oct. 12, and will be jointly released by Clinton’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, and Penny’s, St. Martin’s Press. “Writing a ...

The Vanishing Half - Drama In Development At HBO

Jeremy O. Harris and Aziza Barnes Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (2020 Tony nominee for BLKS) have been tapped to adapt Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two writers will also executive produce the new series based on the best-selling novel along with writer Bennett, Issa Rae ( Insecure), Academy Awards producer Stephanie Allain and Gabrielle Ebron for Homegrown Pictures; and Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi for Hoorae. Published in 2020, The Vanishing Half concerns identical twins who leave their southern Black community as teen...