Sports among wide-ranging topics in new Black collection – MSR News Online

Courtesy of Andscape Raina Kelley

Sports Odds & Ends

It didn’t make Time’s recent “100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” but BLACKTOLD (Andscape Books, October), a collection of Black essays, deserves more than an honorable mention on any book list.

The 33 essays all written by Blacks, edited by Steve Reiss, the executive editor at Andscape (formerly The Undefeated), with “an urgent foreword” by Editor-In-Chief Raina Kelley, is according to its press kit, “a multi-purpose map, serving as a guide through . . .