Tracey Baptiste was born in Trinidad, where she grew up on jumbie stories and fairy tales, and decided to be a writer at the wise old age of three.

She has two grown children and currently lives in Florida with her husband, Stan, and their dogs. She has gained national recognition with her televised PBS special Brenda Watson’s H.O.P.E. “Each entry is deftly woven and full of such complex humanity that teens will identify with and see some of their own struggles in these characters…Offer a rich tableau of the black teen diaspora in an accessible way.”īrenda Watson, CNC, is the bestselling author of The Fiber35 Diet: Nature’s Weight Loss Secret and one of the foremost dietary authorities in America today. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.īlack is.sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.īlack is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds.īlack is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of.īlack is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.īlack is urban and rural, wealthy and poor, mixed race, immigrants, and more-because there are countless ways to be Black enough.Ĭontributors: Justina Ireland Varian Johnson Rita Williams-Garcia Dhonielle Clayton Kekla Magoon Leah Henderson Tochi Onyebuchi Jason Reynolds Nic Stone Liara Tamani Renée Watson Tracey Baptiste Coe Booth Brandy Colbert Jay Coles Ibi Zoboi Lamar Giles 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.

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