Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2010s
2. 
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by:
Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating — 4,085 ratings 
5. 
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing 4.52 avg rating — 359 ratings
7. 
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by:
Damon Young
4.14 avg rating — 4,694 ratings 
9. 
Once More To The Ghetto And Other Essays
by:
Jerald Walker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay
by:
Cheryl A. Wall
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
18. 
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
by:
Phoebe Robinson
3.84 avg rating — 23,540 ratings 
22. 
lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts: essays
by:
Ntozake Shange
3.72 avg rating — 132 ratings 23. 
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by:
Toni Morrison
4.19 avg rating — 4,942 ratings 24. 
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
by:
Marita Golden
4.42 avg rating — 108 ratings 25. 
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling 3.81 avg rating — 526 ratings
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
by:
Bryan Shih
4.42 avg rating — 189 ratings 27. 
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The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop
by:
Kwame Alexander
4.40 avg rating — 128 ratings 30. 
Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
