So much this. My life & imagination & empathy have been immeasurably enriched by reading Black literature (not that these are the only reasons to do so).
Read Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Zora Neale Hurston, & Audre Lorde among others.
Don’t just read Black literature in this moment. Read Black lit for the rest of your life. Read and support the work of Black essayists, novelists, poets, today and forever and always. Do NOT make your support conditional on whether or not racism is in the headlines