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✡🏳️‍🌈Fantastic Alice Fox♿🌈

fantasticalicef

Ok! Thread/Event! Who are your favourite Black Authors? Pick at least two but as many as you want. Also, feel free to tag them or tweets about their books or

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Happy Juneteenth! This a perfect day to talk about how black people have always fought for freedom and how that fight often led us to seek it beyond U.S. borders.

This paternalistic use of “outside agitator” is doing some impossibly heavy lifting to mask your terror of black people. That Langston Hughes quote about “beware the day they change their

John Thatamanil

My reasons for optimism re the election: 1) Unprecedented level of youth voters; 2) HUGE turnouts for early voting; and most importantly 3) the massive outpouring into the streets after

Jasmine Lane 🐢🐘

Zora Neale HurstonRichard Wright W.E.B Du BoisFrederick Douglass James BaldwinToni MorrisonAlice WalkerLorraine Hansberry Langston HughesClaude McKay Ralph EllisonMaya Angelou August WilsonGwendolyn BrooksPaul Lawrence Dunbar Teach the Canon.https://

Mason Archie, II

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AmericanStudier

Been too long since I highlighted great public scholarly pieces. Got one of my own with @myHNN coming later today, but first, here are a handful from the past week

Chloé S. Valdary 📚

This sums up @DrIbram ‘s premise pretty well I think and what’s horrible about it is not it’s sophist attempt at reducing America to its ills but in its casual,

cheesewizbandit

Black men love telling you that they love to read, but it’s always some stupid ass rich dad, poor dad types of books. They don’t ever tell you about how

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bukopandanielle

gonna start a thread of my favorite lines from poems/books as told in animal crossing screenshots “If you must strike, do so at night,/ when I’m outside and alone and

Rosemary Pennington

Okay, journalists, let's have a talk, shall we? Because I am damn tired of seeing lazy reporting and lazy framing like this.First off: Let's remember what these protests are about.

Only the artists will survive

Today the membership of @PWDAustralia vote on whether to remove two board members.How we got to this position is absolutely mind-blowing and it will make a great screenplay.This is my

🦑🐙The Cerebral Hedonist🐙🦑

Okay so I've done this before but it was like waaaay last year. So here we go. A list of Black and POC classics cause apparently we've hit on the

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Sometimes, the problem is a tangled ball of complexities. I joked about suing someone for the asthma, but as my dad loved to say, "You can't sue the government." I

MichaelRosenYes

1/ Poetry suffers at the hands of people who say it must be this way or that way when the history of poetry tells us that it is a fantastic

#BlackLivesMatter The ongoing demonstrations made me think of this poem, written by Langston Hughes. (From my copy of The Black Poets, an anthology by Dudley Randall) Last semester I took