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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Next up for my #mrdrc22 prompt is a book that has won a literary award by a woman of color. This book will also be my next Blog Tour post coming out in March as a debut novel. Originally published in Spain in 2020, this book has now been translated into English and will be published in the United States in March 2022. A poet, turned novelist, Elena Medel is breaking into the scene with this sweeping transformative debut novel. Thank you to the publisher for this gifted novel and can’t wait to share my review with you all! (@algonquinbooks What are you reading this weekend? #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #readingislit #goodreads #ireadya #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigans #diversifybookstagram #decolonizeyourmind #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #idratherbereading #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading #readblackauthors #goodblackreads #bookrecommendation #moodreader #readallthebooks #translatedbook https://www.instagram.com/p/Caa6rIcpwcp/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Black living history fact: Ms. Opal Lee When Opal Lee was growing up in Texas, she would spend Juneteenth picnicking with her family, first in Marshall, where she was born, then in Sycamore Park in Fort Worth, near the home she moved into at age 10. She and her family lived in a predominantly white neighborhood in Fort Worth. When Mrs. Lee was 12, a mob of 500 white supremacists set fire to her home and vandalized it. The structure was destroyed, and no arrests were made. Experiencing that hate crime pushed Mrs. Lee into a life of teaching, activism and, eventually, campaigning. In 2016, at the age of 89, she decided to walk from her home in Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., in an effort to get Juneteenth named a national holiday. She traveled two and a half miles each day to symbolize the two and a half years that Black Texans waited between when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1863, abolishing slavery, and the day that message arrived in Galveston, where Black people were still enslaved, on June 19, 1865. Ms. Opal: “The difference between Juneteenth and the 4th of July? Woo, girl! The fact is none of us are free till we’re all free. Knowing that slaves didn’t get the word for two and a half years after the emancipation, can’t you imagine how those people felt? They’d been watching — that’s what they call Watch Night services — every New Year’s, thinking freedom was coming. And then to find out they were free, even two and a half years after everybody else. So, the 4th of July? Slaves weren’t free. You know that, don’t you? And so we just celebrate the hell out of the 4th of July, so I suggest that if we’re going to do some celebrating of freedom, that we have our festival, our educational components, our music, from June the 19 — Juneteenth — to the 4th of July. Now that would be celebrating freedom. On June 17, 2021, President Biden passed a bill making Juneteenth a National holiday. Ms. Opal stood alongside the president during this historic occasion and received the pen in which he used to sign off on the law. Black history IS American History!!! #opallee #juneteenth #wenotfreeuntilweallfree #blackhistoryeveryday https://www.instagram.com/p/CaV82dkL1ft/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✊🏾Black history moment ✊🏾: My ancestor was Dr. Lawrence W. Long and he was a local doctor in Union, SC who ensured other Black people had a place to get seen/treated for ailments due to the segregation in the South. We are the harvest. Shoutout to my cousins for sharing this info!! Posted @withregram • @exploresouthcarolina The Union Community Hospital was started by Dr. Lawrence W. Long, an African-American doctor, and served African-American patients during segregation. The hospital provided services to the African-American community of Union County for 43 years (from 1932 to 1975). Built as a house ca. 1915, it was converted into a hospital by Dr. L. W. Long in 1932 with the support of several local churches. #unionsc #oldhospital #africanamericanhistory #nationalregisterofhistoricplaces #nrhp #flashbackfriday #myancestor #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #iamblackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CaQhO5kPovr/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✊🏾Black history moment ✊🏾: My ancestor was Dr. Lawrence W. Long and he was a local doctor in Union, SC who ensured other Black people had a place to get seen/treated for ailments due to the segregation in the South. We are the harvest. Shoutout to my cousins for sharing this info!! Posted @withregram • @exploresouthcarolina The Union Community Hospital was started by Dr. Lawrence W. Long, an African-American doctor, and served African-American patients during segregation. The hospital provided services to the African-American community of Union County for 43 years (from 1932 to 1975). Built as a house ca. 1915, it was converted into a hospital by Dr. L. W. Long in 1932 with the support of several local churches. #unionsc #oldhospital #africanamericanhistory #nationalregisterofhistoricplaces #nrhp #flashbackfriday #myancestor #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #iamblackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CaQg01WvEzD/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Book Review: ✨All About Love by bell hooks bell hooks is so cerebral and takes knowledge to a whole ‘nother level that sometimes I feel inadequate to even discuss, let alone review her work. What I took away from this book is that love comes from your very beginning. From the moment you come into the world, your environment that you were born into, shapes and molds your view of love. “When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another’s spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abuse cannot coexist.” (p. 6) “But love will not be present if the grownups who parent do not know how to love.” (p. 19) Love is extremely important. From loving ourselves, to loving others, to parenting little ones, to loving what we do for work, and loving our communities, operating from a place of love allows justice to work, to allow people to have freedom, and to have harmony within the spirit. You really need to be open-minded about this book because we have received so many confusing/incorrect messaging about love. What you think you knew about love may be different when bell explains to you her definition of love. We have been pigeon-holed into thinking about love in certain ways, and this book does help peel off the scales that covered our eyes about this topic. This book should make a shift in you in some way. You will start to think about things from a different perspective, and that is a great thing. bell hooks is very authentic and transparent when it came to sharing things form her personal life. I really appreciated how she compared some things in her life as a child as to how she would interact with them as an adult. She shares truths and hard hitting gut checks, and I’m glad she didn’t shy away from the toughness that is needed in this topic of love. Have you read her Love Trilogy? This book is apart of her Love series. #bellhooks #allaboutlove https://www.instagram.com/p/CaK6YhjPbE0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Black American History: Flo Kennedy “The biggest, loudest and, indisputably, the rudest mouth on the battleground where feminist activists and radical politics join in mostly common cause.” Kennedy used her flamboyant attire and outrageous comments to draw attention to injustices of all kinds from the 1960s until her death in 2000. Kennedy left Kansas, where she was born in 1916, for New York in 1942, graduated from Columbia University in 1949, then applied to Columbia Law School and was turned down. When she threatened to sue, a spot suddenly opened. She graduated in 1951, established a practice, and began taking on cases tied to her increasing involvement in the women’s, civil rights, and reproductive rights movements. Kennedy established the Media Workshop to fight racism in advertising, represented H. Rap Brown and the Black Panthers, and founded the Feminist Party, which nominated Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for president in 1972. She was one of the instigators of the Miss America Pageant protest in 1968 and organized a “pee-in” in Harvard Yard in 1973 to protest the lack of women’s bathrooms in university buildings. Learn more: Kennedy, Florynce. Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Randolph, Sherie M. Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: the Life of a Black Feminist Radical. Chapel Hill [North Carolina]: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Schudder, Diane and Florynce Kennedy. Abortion Rap. New York, McGraw-Hill. 1971. #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #readingislit #goodreads #ireadya #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigans #diversifybookstagram #decolonizeyourmind #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #idratherbereading #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading #readblackauthors #goodblackreads #bookrecommendation #moodreader #readallthebooks #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #flokennedy https://www.instagram.com/p/CaI_polLAci/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Reposting some good stuff this evening from @bookishboshemian - please follow her and her book subscription @readingrevolutionaries - 👏🏿 she 👏🏿 is 👏🏿 doing 👏🏿 the 👏🏿 WERK!! Posted @withregram • @readingrevolutionaries Have you read any of these? We’ve created a booklist that features Black protagonists (may of them teens) that refuse to subject themselves to the boxes their worlds try to place them in. Titles in this list also feature black protagonists who are navigating maintaining agency over who they are/want to be. ❤️Like ❤️Save ❤️Share These books celebrate joy and sense of Self (of which joy comes from) that manifests in spite of hardships, in spite of the dragons that must be slayed in masterfully mystical worlds, and in spite of societal projections. Author rep includes African, American (see what I did there), Caribbean and Afro-Latinx). We try to represent as much of the full spectrum we can while also ensuring intentions of our book lists aren’t altered. Reality remains many aspects of the black identity are still suppressed which affects the amount of literature produced or accessible stateside. Of course there are many books available - and that exploration is left up to you. ❤️❤️ #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #blackhistoryeveryday https://www.instagram.com/p/CaD8hPOLX7O/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Book Tour Spotlight & Giveaway✨: Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez FURIA was a Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick in September last year and praised as an “engrossing” and “high-energy” Own Voices novel (PopSugar and Booklist). It was included in best of lists by the likes of BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, Bitch Media, Parade, Barnes & Noble and more, making it one of the most talked about YA books of 2020. This is not just a powerful story about a girl trying to find balance between love and her dream of becoming a professional fútbol player; it is a love letter to girls around the world, and to the city of Rosario, Argentina. In a society that has strict expectations for women (fútbol not being one of them) and in a family with an abusive father, Camila has to find her voice in order to break the cycle. Even if YA is not your usual genre, I promise this incredible story will ignite La Furia in every reader. In celebration of Furia going to paperback I am giving away one of my gifted copies of this book. This book also fits a prompt in #MRDRC22 as a book that has won a literary award by a woman of color in this decade. To enter: - Like this post - Comment your favorite beverage - Tag a friend (unlimited) Giveaway ends Friday 2/18/22 at 8:59pm PST Fine Print: Must be 18 and have a US mailing address you are comfortable sharing upon winning. No giveaway accounts, no private accounts. Winner will be selected randomly and announced in stories and contacted via DM. The winner will have 24 hours to claim prize. The book is a gift by Algonquin books. Thank you to Algonquin Books (@algonquinbooks) and Yamile Méndez (@yamilesmendez) for this incredible novel. I can’t wait to read this book! ***Furia was the 2021 recipient of the Pura Belpré Award #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #furiapbk https://www.instagram.com/p/CaBGCPuPh2c/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Blog Tour Spotlight✨: Crushing by Sophie Burrows (@burrowsdraws) A cute and wonderful silent graphic novel based on two people who are living separate lives. You meet a young lady who is single and hoping to connect with someone. You then meet a young man who is also single, but seems to not like crowds or connecting with someone right away; however, he does seem to want to pair up with someone, but only on comfortable terms. This is a parallel story of two strangers who are looking for similar experiences. They are both looking to connect with someone, but are not finding opportunities to their liking. We can feel some of the emotions the artist invokes in her drawing; loneliness, hope, sadness, searching, looking, longing, feelings of being a bit overwhelmed, anxious, etc. The drawings really capture what it may feel like to be single, but longing for connection, friendship, relationships. We can also see comfort, and how one may want to be out there in the streets dating, but feel the call to be home in their own comfort and not wanting to go out, not wanting to be in the midst of crowds and loud places, etc. Also there is a sense of being out there in the crowds, around everyone, and still feel alone. We see a glimpse of online dating, and the obnoxious behaviors you may face when dating online. We see in-person anxieties when it comes to meeting people face-to-face, and how even if we want to be in a companionship, easing out of the comfort of our home/personal space is daunting at times. We see people coupled up/booed up, and think that's what's missing in our lives, but sometimes it feels good to be alone. You also see women looking at beauty standards trying to figure out how they stand out in the world among other women. Making changes to be more presentable. The book also shares how men may see themselves as attractive or not, and battling with their self-image as well. We are all trying to fit in and find a place in the world where we matter, and with those that care for us. This book packed a ton of things in here without even saying a word, and that is genius in itself. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-WQ1jPE4U/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Y’all have fun today with the Super Bowl. I’m a be over here reading… ✌🏾 Happy Sunday y’all! Are y’all reading or nah? 😝 #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #readingislit #goodreads #ireadya #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigans #diversifybookstagram #decolonizeyourmind #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #idratherbereading #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading #readblackauthors #goodblackreads #bookrecommendation #moodreader #readallthebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ8T4qOL1lv/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Things to say to yourself today and forever. Shine in your own greatness cause nobody can be you and that is 🔥!! #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #readingislit #goodreads #ireadya #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigans #diversifybookstagram #decolonizeyourmind #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #idratherbereading #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading #readblackauthors #goodblackreads #bookrecommendation #moodreader #readallthebooks #blackart Art credit: unknown - please tag if you know the artist https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ5YU2lPkPc/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Blog Tour✨: Clean Air by Sarah Blake Very unique type of literary work that talks about a post-apocalyptic world set in the future. This book is also very unique in that it discusses COVID in a historical setting, which seems quite interesting, as we are in the midst of the pandemic as we speak. This story discusses a climate apocalypse where the trees are essentially fighting back and over-pollenating the earth to such a degree in that the air is unbreathable and the earth is overgrown. It has been a decade since the Turning of the climate, and now humanity has rebuilt their world in airtight domes. Isabel and her family, is trying to live a somewhat normal life inside of these domes, but now the peace that has been stable for a a decade is now being shattered by a serial killer. Isabel is obsessed with trying to find this killer before her family is harmed, and also fascinated at the same time on why and how this person is trying to destroy the little peace that have while also trying to survive the air that they can’t breathe. A very suspenseful read, and the story keeps you on your feet making you wonder who it is that is trying to destroy the world they carefully built in these 10 years since the Turning, and how she can protect others from these random killings. I don’t want to give too much away as this book just came out Tuesday, but it was quite a wild ride I took with this book and the imagery and depictions the author weaves in were very helpful in helping me engage in this story. Thank you to Algonquin Books (@algonquinbooks) and Sarah Blake (@sarahblakeauthor) for this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #cleanair #sarahblake https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ2uYfpvB1F/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Book Mail✨ So excited for these titles!! If it's one thing about me, I'm a read some nonfiction. Especially about Black folk. Thank you to the publisher @chireviewpress for these gifted copies! Looking forward to diving into these!! If you are looking for some nonfiction works this Black History year, make sure to check these out! #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #blackhistory365 https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ0eUB6r34j/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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✨Black Business Highlight✨ ✊🏾@buyblackauthors✊🏾 Joining a Book of the Month Club featuring Black authors is a great way to establish a sense of community and connection. No matter where you are on your journey as an ally or you want to experience writing from the Black viewpoint, reading a book by a Black author will further your journey. A current best seller by a Black author will be mailed to you each month. Not only do you support Black authors but Black owned bookstores too. A subscription is $37 a month which includes shipping. In exchange for your book subscription, we place 10% in an earnings pool to be given to neighborhood Black owned bookstores with physical locations, quarterly. They are vetted through their American Booksellers Association subscription, so we know they are legit. If you’ve ever thought about BOTM, now here is an alternative featuring Black authors! Buy Black Authors!!! #blackbookstagram #maddblackreads #blackbibliophile #wellreadblackgirl #blackreaders #readingislit #goodreads #ireadya #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #becauseofblackreaders #booknerdigans #diversifybookstagram #decolonizeyourmind #fortheloveofreading #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #blackandbookish #idratherbereading #blackbookblogger #becauseofreading #readblackauthors #goodblackreads #bookrecommendation #moodreader #readallthebooks #buyblackauthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CZx3AvBrpmG/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Cause every Black history month is not the same without James Baldwin. Photo credit: @arturodraws What James Baldwin work made you fall in love with him as a writer? For me it was his fiction work at first but then when I dove into his nonfiction work like The Fire Next Time I was completely undone and became a lifelong student of his. #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #jamesbaldwin https://www.instagram.com/p/CZvQwQypiUE/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Word of the week: Cathect Meaning: to pour into another person, invest yourself into an idea or something worthwhile. This word is being brought to you by All About Love by bell hooks. I swear bell be spitting bars in her books!! This book was definitely something I needed right now. Have you read her Love Trilogy? What words have you learned recently? #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile #newwordalertmonday #vocabularywords #cathect https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsuWY3Ldz4/?utm_medium=tumblr
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maddblackgemini · 2 years
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Reading these articles about how people around this nation is banning books is not surprising. What’s even scarier are the bills being passed because state governments don’t want to upset or make white folks uncomfortable about race. Sounds like we are heading in the complete opposite direction and repeating history with Black codes and Jim Crow. Segregation. Lynching. Etc etc. Performative recognition of Black lives is just that. Performative. When George Floyd was murdered and the entire nation erupted, the “we stand with Black lives” didn’t really stand. It was flimsy. Performative. Putting kente cloth images around items to promote Black artists but not giving space on the marketing board or the entire higher management is not representative of the consumers is utterly disgusting. Banning books is not changing a thing. I encourage and challenge us all to buy the books that get banned. Share them with others. Buy them as gifts. Suggest them as Bookclub reads. Whatever you can do. Knowledge is power and our children definitely need to read all the books being kept from them. It’s imperative. #mysundayrant #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile https://www.instagram.com/p/CZqQPLlrgAV/?utm_medium=tumblr
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