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- North Carolina’s first Black-owned children's bookstore opens ahead of Juneteenth
- A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories hyperallergic.com/435183/freedom…
- A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo’s growing conflict, the U.N. says
- The Visual Power of Black Rest 'Black people are generally pictured as doing anything but relaxing—as being attacked, or agitating, or performing. The Black Rest Project aims to widen the lens.'
- Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued | @SmithsonianMag Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System, putting black scholars alongside white colleagues
- "The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story."
- 'Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.' newframe.com/how-amilcar-ca…
- "Gilliam in 1972 was the first Black artist to exhibit in the US Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; despite this, & almost certainly because he was working in a field dominated by white men, he would have trouble for decades gaining the attention of critics"
- "No single work by Baldwin is as connected to the issues animating Black Lives Matter as The Evidence of Things Not Seen, written long after Baldwin had lost the public’s affection and attention" -- @JoeVogel1 bostonreview.net/race/joseph-vo… via @BostonReview
- The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley 'It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.'
- She Was the Greatest Author of Her Generation. She Should Be Remembered for More Than Just Her Writing. Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon
- How Black lives became the hidden cost of clean energy 'Black activists in the U.S. are fighting the exploitation of Black resources and workers in the Congo'
- Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive 'The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unexamined. But she wanted you to read it.'
