April is Black Women’s History Month. Last month author Omar Tyree announced that he would be publishing an adapted screenplay of his popular 1993 urban fiction ... on the book cover wore ...

Authors have told me that their books with black covers are frequently not shelved in the same part of the library as other YA-they're exiled to the Urban Fiction section-and many bookshops simply ...

“I’m done with writing all urban fiction,” he wrote ... universal themes… You can’t say because a black boy is on the cover of the book, that this book is only for black people.” ...