This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets by 
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir (2023) has been chosen as the 2024 summer reading book by the General Education Committee. According to the New York Times, "Sinclair’s breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood spent becoming the perfect Rasta daughter and an adolescence spent becoming one of Jamaica’s most promising young poets."
Students are encouraged to read How to Say Babylon in preparation for the fall semester 2024. Safiya Sinclair is the author of How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, which has been on numerous best book lists and is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a finalist for the Women's Prize in Nonfiction, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Kirkus Prize.
See also: Safiya Sinclair's website; Safiya Sinclair on X
The summer reading book is chosen each year by the General Education Committee, and read by all incoming first-year students and seniors as part of their Human Experience and Imagining Justice coursework.