By Keyaira Boone ·September 8, 2021 Published · September 7, 2021 Updated
Black authors are instructing us to be honest with ourselves and each other this season. Merging their own experiences with major news events (from the past and present), they are using fables and familiar themes to tackle the uncomfortable aspects of friendship, family and professional connections.
By presenting the value in anger, exposing our communal shortcomings, and rejecting performative allyship these writers are