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Hey book lovers! I’m Tiffani Staten, and I want to invite you into a space where Black stories get the celebration they deserve.The Ink is Black is your monthly book club with a soulful twist – think of it as sitting with your friend who’s always got the perfect book…
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Secrets in the Rope: A Son’s Return and a Father’s Second Chance (opens the original)
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This month, Tiffani Staten is digging into The Double Dutch Fuss, the memoir from Emmy award winning filmmaker Phill Branch, someone Tiffani actually went to school with. She traces his path from Newark to Hampton to LA and back again, the rigid expectations of masculinity he grew up under, and the father-son wound at the center of it all. When his father has a heart attack, Phill has to decide what a second chance actually looks like, for a man who spent years rejecting him. Tiffani also gets p
The Fervent Whites: When Proximity Isn't Belonging (opens the original)
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It's 1982 in Fervent, a small Black hamlet outside Saugerties, New York. James and Ella White just got out of prison, exonerated for a murder they didn't commit, and they're moving right back into the only home they know. Problem is, their adopted son Morgan didn't survive their time away, and the two people who loved him most, Syl and Fate, are not exactly rolling out the welcome mat. This month, Tiffani Staten is digging into De'Shawn Charles Winslow's first mystery thriller, The Fervent White
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