THE BLOSSOMING OF BLACK LITERATURE.

This visualization highlights the growth of Black authorship in recent decades. The assortment of pencils emulates a bar graph, illustrating the proportion of Black-authored books published each year since 1985. Hover over each pencil to explore the data.

In 2021, an estimated 3,427 books were published.

Of those, 315, or 9.2%, were written by Black authors.