@EssenceProject

The Essence Book Project is a computational database of every book ever ranked on the bestsellers' list published in Essence Magazine, 1994-2010.

 New Orleans, EssenceFest
essencebookproject.com/
Joined February 2021
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Welcome to the Essence Book Project! 📖 Through this project, we hope to illuminate how robust Black reading communities helped ensure that Black culture remained ahead of the digital turn. More info in our bio! #blackexcellence #research #literature
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Perfect Essence Book Bestsellers for Super Bowl weekend! 🏈 📚 @essence #superbowl #essencebookproject #essencebookbestseller #liarsgame #dirtygame #truetothegame #chargeittothegame #gametime #booktok #reading
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Because today is National Chocolate Cake Day! 🍫🎂📚 A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown was an @essence book bestseller in July 2006! #nationalchocolatecakeday #cupcakebrown #apieceofcake #essencebookproject #urbanliterature #urbanlit #streetlit
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Another @essence book bestseller to add to your shelf! The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities #divinenine #hbcu #essencebookproject #readblackauthors
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Do you remember these @Essence Book Bestsellers? #hillharper #blackbooks #nonfiction #BookTwitter #booktwt #bookclub #NationalLetterWritingDay
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The titles of these @essence Essence Book Bestsellers are also titles of songs! Can you name the artists?
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#cookingwithheartandsoul #soulfood #divinedesserts
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It's Monday! Act like you know and have a "Bad As I Wanna Be" attitude this week! 👊🏾#dennisrodman #1996 #essencebookbestseller
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Nikki Turner @iamnikkiturner dominated the Essence Best Bookseller list for years with her page turning novels! See the link for more info on her latest book! iamnikkiturner.com/
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This month 23 years ago, Sister Souljah's classic THE COLDEST WINTER EVER, made the Essence Book Bestseller list. Speaking of cold...how cold is it where you are? #burr #thecoldestwinterever #classic
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Dr. Jacinta Saffold, founder of Essence Book Project, profiled in @finebooks Fine Books & Collections magazine! Check it out! 🙌🏾 finebooksmagazine.com/blog/c…
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Twice on the Essence Book Bestseller list, @kevin_powell is back with a new book of poems, Grocery Shopping with My Mother, out December 6th!
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ICYMI!! 😃👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Dr. Jacinta R. Saffold, endowed Africana Studies chair at the Univ of New Orleans, discusses "How Black Women Use Books for Labor and Leisure: Notes from the ESSENCE Book Project." youtu.be/WedR5gKA4FA
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The project explores the literary history of Black popular books and women’s reading communities at the turn of the 21st century.
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Did you know that @lacooljill La Jill Hunt, contributing writer for shows such as BET's The Black Hamptons & The Family Business was on the 2004 Essence Book Bestseller list for her novel, Drama Queen?! 🔥🎬
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The Essence Book Project retweeted
Kevin Powell@poetkevinpowell4 Oct 2022
Replying to @EssenceProject
@EssenceProject My 15th and newest book is GROCERY SHOPPING WITH MY MOTHER. It is a collection of my poetry, inspired by visits with my ma past few years. PLEASE PRE-ORDER book, it is out DEC. 6, just before holiday season. LINK TO PRE-ORDER: softskull.com/dd-product/gro…

Grocery Shopping with My Mother

“Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country’s oppression through the gener…

softskull.com
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