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[thefreeblackwomanslibrary]

TFBWL BOOKMAIL 🖤📚

Thank you so much to C. a kind book angel from Brooklyn, NY for sending us these literary gems for The Free Black Women’s Library book collection!!

An absolutely marvelous stack that includes

GORILLA, MY LOVE, an incredible selection of short stories written by the great Toni Cade Bambara, published by Vintage Contemporary Books, 1992

BROWN GIRL DREAMING written by prolific best selling YA icon Jacqueline Woodson

WE LOVE YOU CHARLIE FREEMAN the wonderful strange first novel written by the brilliant Kaitlyn Greenidge, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016

SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, a necessary and timely reflection on race, written by the profound Ijeoma Oluo, published by Seal Press, 2018

THE CASTLE CROSS THE MAGNET CARTER, the epic first novel from Kia Corthon, published by Seven Stories Press, 2016

CASTE/THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENT written by historian, journalist and award winning author Isabel Wilkerson, published by Random House, 2020.

a pop colored chap book entitled POCKET MICHELLE OBAMA WISDOM which features quotes and inspirational insight from our forever FLOTUS

And three plays from Black women playwrights that we absolutely adore

Katori Hall’s CHILDREN OF KILLERS, Tanya Barfield’s BRIGHT HALF LIFE, and THE LIGHT by Loy A. Webb. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Absolutely thrilled to add this wonderfully diverse stack of good reads to our book collection.

Especially excited to add the last three items to our stack of plays, 🎭 which is currently on the slim side. 🙃🎉

Thank you to C. A from Brooklyn for this impeccable contribution!! ♥️📚♥️

The Free Black Women’s Library happily accepts all manner of classic and contemporary texts written by Black women and Black non binary folks.

We love plays, prose, zines, comics, poetry collections, Afro-futurism, YA, memoirs, chapbooks, and so on and so on.

Feel free to send to your literary goodies to:

TFBWL

1072 Bedford Avenue

Box 39

Brooklyn, NY 11216

This is a grassroots community funded project that exists thanks to your donations and contributions.

To support the growth and sustainability of this project join our Patreon community. Link in bio.

Thank you!! 🖤⭐️📚

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[mamanerd22]

#monthlyroundup Finished April with 14 books. Though to be honest several of those were novellas. I knocked out 3 books for my @booksinthefreezer Reading Challenge. I only have 1 book left for that one and I'll be finished with my 12 horror. Maybe I'll double up and try to do everything 2x. I also knocked 3 off my @bookriot read harder challenge and 1 of the #MRDRC22 . A few horror, quite a few #KindleUnlimited novellas and some audiobooks. Highlights of the month include Over The Top by @jvn Fast Pitch by @nicstone and Electric Idol by @katee_robert #AprilReads #horror #novellas #nonfiction #romance #thriller #middlegrade #BlackWomenAuthors #BooksInTheFreezerReadingChallenge2022 #BookRiotReadHarder2022 #nerdymama #nerdymamabooks #booknerd #DiverseBookstagrammersRead #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CdCOiP1rboP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[kimlorraii]

#black woman appreciation #mindfulness #blackwomanmagic #blackwomenauthors #blackwomen #black women with locs #blackgirlfollowtrain #black tik tok

[thebeautyinthestruggle]

Hauntingly beautiful number one. #lastsummeronstatestreet #toyawolfe #blackwomenauthors #roberttaylorhomes #igreads #instabooks #bookreview @bklynlibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPEEFfuLRAsNlvIcCiqZm1i1DwqfPqolz5Fts0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#lastsummeronstatestreet #toyawolfe #blackwomenauthors #roberttaylorhomes #igreads #instabooks #bookreview

[tawanakwatson]

Author Spotlight David K. Bennett

Author Spotlight David K. Bennett

David K. Bennett, known to his close friends as Dave, is a serious reader of science fiction and fantasy, which began when he was very young.  David was introduced to Ray Bradbury while in the third grade, in junior high school and he read nearly every SF volume in his junior high school library.  David, for many years, toyed with the idea of writing, along with reading, and in the year of 2000…

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[writtenbygrimes]

Family Reunion

Hands, scarred and wrinkledNails cracking in odd places Stress laid bareAll the pressure points revealedHair that greyed too earlyOut of place and yet, uniquely, just soUnlike her mother and everything of her fatherExcept upon further inspectionHis wit / Her faceHer generosity / His temper No patience - but that's no surprise Clumsy and studiousImpulsive and diligentTall, like himWide, like…

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#amwriting #blackwomen #community #InternationalWomensDay WomensDay WomensDaypoetry blackwomen blackwomenpoet blackwomenauthors poetrycommunity femaleempowerment wome #mentalhealth #poetryandprose #always #art #artists #attestations #Awestruck #beauty #beauty is everywhere #believe in yourself #beloved #bipoc #canvas #cautionary tale #creatives #creativity #family #grateful #IRL #Memories #portrait

[trascapades]

📚#ArtIsAWeapon Remembering author, anthropologist, southern Black life storyteller, trailblazer #ZoraNealeHurston, who was born January 7, 1891.

#ZoraNealeHurstonDay

📷 photograph by #CarlVanVechten .

Caption and images reposted from @thefreeblackwomenslibrary It’s Zora Neale Hurston Day ⭐️🖤⭐️

Are you familiar with the life and writing of this legendary free thinking world traveling rule breaking culture defining Black woman icon?

Which one of her novels have you read and enjoyed?

Today we celebrate the birth of a chosen ancestor, spirit guide and muse of The Free Black Women’s Library, also a quintessential Capricorn and role model for Black girl scholars researchers historians anthropologists story tellers and mean muggers world wide!!

Cheers to the goat!!

🖤🖤🖤 🎂🎂🎂🐐🐐🐐🥂🥂🥂

BTW!!!

for those doing The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge feel free to read

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD for - a book where the characters speak Geechee, Gullah, Creole, patois or AAVE

BARRACOON - a book of history , historical fiction or slave narrative

HITTING A STRAIGHT LICK WITH A CROOKED STICK - collection of stories, poems, letters or prose

DUST TRACKS ON THE ROAD - a memoir

#zoranealehurston

#freeblackwoman

#TFBWL

#tfbwlreads

#tfbwlreadingchallenge

#thefreeblackwomenslibrary #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #Barracoon #FreeBlackWomensLibrary #HarlemRenaissance #BlackWomenAuthors #BlackGenius

#ZoraNealeHurston #FreeBlackWomen #FreeBlackWomensLibrary #BlackWomenWriters #ArtIsAWeapon #ZoraNealeHurstonDay #BlackGenius

[goodblacknews]

Rest in power bell hooks, 69, acclaimed activist, poet and author of “All About Love,” “Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism,” “The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love” and so many other insightful, intellectual works. #bellhooksinstitute #intersectionality #blackfeminism #blackwomenauthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CXg_eQKPBZ9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[thefreeblackwomanslibrary]

#freeblackwomenslibrary #blackwomanbibliophile #books #blackbooks #freeblackwoman #booklover #mobilelibrary #tfbwl #brooklyn #blackwomenauthors #thefreeblackwomenslibrary

[sarahreesbrennan]

Reposted the repost from @ek_johnston to share the great list of indie bookshops and to celebrate these books being out! #blackwomenauthors #indiebookstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8dffTp04Z/?igshid=5rgoogryscb0

#blackwomenauthors #indiebookstore

[scribesandvibes]

#amplifyblackvoices / #onyxeditions #Repost @onyxeditions ・・・ There are some beautiful, insightful, painfully heartbreaking and inspiring books coming in the the next few weeks!! It’s the representation for me 🙌🏾💕 Ruby's Reunion Day Dinner by Angela Dalton Shady Baby by Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union Ty's Travels: Beach Day! - (My First I Can Read) by Kelly Starling Lyons Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia Where the Rhythm Takes You by Sarah Dass Every Time a Rainbow Dies by Rita Williams-Garcia (Paperback) Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia (Paperback) No Laughter Here by Rita Williams-Garcia (Paperback) Off the Record by Camryn Garrett My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers (paperback) The Nation Must Awake by Mary E Jones Parrish My Remarkable Journey by Katherine Johnson & Joylette Hylick & Katherine Moore Better, Not Bitter by Yusef Salaam Bamboozled by Jesus by Yvonne Orji Soundtrack: Don’t Stop the Music by Yarbrough & Peoples #booksbyblackauthors #blackmenwrite #blackwomenauthors #wellreadblackgirl #iseemebooks #representationmatters #booksforblackkids #blackmenread #amplifyblackstories #blackbookstagram #blackbookstagrammer ・・・ #vibewise: #BOOKSCOMEINALLCOLORS, #weallneeddifferentbookstolove. -#scribesandvibes / #popupstorytime https://www.instagram.com/p/CO1W77ahqCJ/?igshid=187n2abzxvkub

#amplifyblackvoices #onyxeditions #repost #booksbyblackauthors #blackmenwrite #blackwomenauthors #wellreadblackgirl #iseemebooks #representationmatters #booksforblackkids #blackmenread #amplifyblackstories #blackbookstagram #blackbookstagrammer #vibewise #bookscomeinallcolors #weallneeddifferentbookstolove #scribesandvibes #popupstorytime

[writtenbygrimes]

Behold Her

Behold Her In the sum of it all, there lies Beauty #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #WomensDaypoetry #blackwomen #blackwomenpoet #blackwomenauthors #poetrycommunity #femaleempowerment #womensupportingwomen #support #mentalhealth #relationships #poem

You don't look at me You used to Though it was never to see beauty Was beauty there? In your eye, I wonder Cracks and specks Errant things All disected and discerned, under your eye All the little things, The desperate things The shame-filled things Left to wonder How desperate I was To have your eyes upon me Undiscerning - a simple, admiring gaze Hopeful for the day That one fateful day…

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#amwriting #blackwomen #blackwomenwriters #womensupportingwomen #art #Black author #Black Poets #childhood #family #Female Empowerment #International Women&039;s Day #love #poems #Poetry #poetry community #relationships #women #Women&039;s Day

[trascapades]

🎨🖤#ArtIsAWeapon

👏🏿 This week's @time Magazine coverstory "Division and Destiny: How to Build A Truly Equal American Democracy" - written by Pulitzer prize-winning #author @isabelwilkerson - features #artwork by @lavettballardarts 🖤

#BlackHistoryMonth

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Reposted from @time TIME's new cover: @isabelwilkerson on how to build a truly equal American democracy.

How is it that politicians are banning books in a country whose founding First Amendment protects the right to free speech?

How is it that the United States, despite its wealth and technology, leads the world with more than one million deaths from COVID-19—more than any other nation on earth?

How is it that #insurrectionists could storm the citadel of American democracy in a crusade to overturn a presidential election?

Wilkerson dives into the question we're all wondering: "How did we get here?"

Read the cover story at the link in our bio. Artwork by Lavett Ballard (@lavettballardarts) for TIME

Reposted from @lavettballardarts I'VE BEEN KEEPING A SECRET‼️

Yes lightning can strike 2x and in my case I got another #TimeMagazine cover and I can't be more excited❣️

it's currently live on the time website.

Be sure to head to your new stands Friday February 3rd to pick up your copy and you will see not just by cover piece inspired by one of my favore authors @isabelwilkerson book CASTE: Origins of our Discontent.

But two other works the magazine decided to publish‼️

Thank you soo much to #victorwilliams @time for your trust and faith in me. My family @ejmphotodotcom for his great photos of the work for the cover.

My inner circle for their support and constructive critiques while making deadlines.

Thank so much!

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#tokietstudio

#sachistudioart

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See the article about how I created the art in the link in my bio...

More Big News to come!

#TimeMagazine #LavettBallard #IsabelWilkerson #Caste #BlackWomenArtists #BlackWomenAuthors #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BookBanning

[librarynoire]

New children’s book to be released soon! 📖 In 1960, 6 year old Ruby Bridges was the first black child to integrate an all white school in New Orleans. #ThisIsYourTime #RubyBridges #childrensbookssunday #newchildrensbook #childrensbiographies #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #childrensreads #childrensbookstagram #newbookalert #newbook #kidbookstagram #kidbooks #reading #storybooks #storybook #blackwomenauthors #africanamericanstorybooks #read #reading #booklife #booksbooksbooks #segregation https://www.instagram.com/p/CHVtomWgCGK/?igshid=o3meukrblm1s

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