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They say that when a woman cuts her hair, her life is about to change. While this might be true, I believe that my life changed when I found these 5 poets. So I offer this: a woman is about to change her life when she picks up a poetry book.
1. Warsan Shire:
@wu_shire
Before writing on Beyonce’s Lemonade, Warsan Shire was well-known to the blogosphere. Her first poetry book, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, was one of the first books that shaped my 20s.
2. Chloe Mitchell
@iamchloemitchell
Chloe Mitchell was featured on one of Kanye’s best album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Her poem, which fit perfects with the song by the way, tells of what happens after a breakup, how two people who once loved each other become enemies and eventually strangers.
Her poem, “If They Let us” was featured on the cover of ANTI.
Continue here!
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A few literary suggestions for Black History Month
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maybe you know Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from when Beyoncé sampled her TEDx talk, “We should all be feminists,” or maybe you’ve been following her emergence as one of the most prominent voices of African literature over the last two decades. Her latest novel, Americanah, was selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013.
Edna Lewis
Edna Lewis had a hell of a career. She worked her way up as a seamstress, eventually fashioning a dress for Marilyn Monroe. Then she became the first African-American celebrity chef. Then she broke her leg, so she wrote a cookbook. The Taste of Country Cooking was interspersed with personal stories of growing up in a freed-slave settled town in Virginia, and redefined what many thought of Southern food.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay (@roxanegay), famed author of Bad Feminist, is a Tumblr favorite, and not just because you can follow her. She writes about what it means to be a woman of color. She’s the first Black woman to write for Marvel, and she’s writing queer WOC into their storylines. She pulled her unreleased book from publishers Simon & Schuster after their deal with Milo Yiannopoulos was announced. It’s easy to admire her actions as much as her writing.
Follow these too:
Afro Editions (@afroeditions) posts and reblogs all things Black lit, including this bell hooks Valentine’s Day card and these suggestions for Black sci-fi.
The Center for African-American Poetry and Poetics (@caapoetryandpoetics) highlights exactly what you think it will.
Bonus: We highlighted it last year, but Black Children’s Books and Authors (@blackchildrensbooksandauthors) deserves a spotlight on it again.
Don’t miss our upcoming BHM Answer Times. This week and next week, we have:
2/21—Angelica Ross (@missrosscreative), transgender rights advocate.
2/22—Actress Amandla Stenberg (@amandla)
2/23—Comedian and actor Andrew Bachelor, better known as King Bach (@kingbach).
2/24—Washington Post (@washingtonpost) editorial board member and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart.
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#Repost @horcelie • • • • • Today is World AIDS day. Myself, @vida_wednesday and @munya_radzi. Each from a different country in Africa- Ghana, Congo and Zimbabwe. We gathered to share why we are wearing a red ribbon. Please share to raise awareness. Francais: Aujourd'hui est Journee Modiale de Sida. Dans ce video on vous explique pourqoui nous avons porte le ruban rouge. Lingala: Lelo eza mokolo ya Sida mondiale. Na video oyo tozo ko lobela pona nini to lati ba ruban rouge pe pona nini tozo lobela likambu oyo. . . . . #WorldAidsDay #Afroedition ##Seropisitive #Sida #JourneSIDA #ENDAIDS #GlobalHealth #Womenempowe #Congo #Ghana #Zimbabwe #Africa #Development #Change #AIDS #Campaign #Itaintover #Change #HIV #Afrique #StandwithCongo #RDC #education #health #Lasante #Congo #AIDS2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq4SL_zBuVl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fvo7x5rn788x
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Having what I call a literary lunch and preparing my script for tomorrow’s podcast on Beloved by Toni Morrison.
Tune in here to listen and here to read along!
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“Deadline reports that the series adaption of Sula will follow “two Black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio neighborhood called The Bottom, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood. Nel Wright has chosen to marry, raise a family and become a pillar of the Black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping from The Bottom, submerging herself in city life, and coming into her own as a woman more intellectually and sexually free than anyone around her. Eventually, Sula and Nel must face the consequences of their choices, and their complicated bond. Along with a mysterious third man named Shadrack, they create an unforgettable portrait of a strange American community, and the relationships, tragedies and triumphs that define it.”
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“In her show’s first season, Quinta Brunson won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For a Comedy Series tonight, making her only the second Black woman to win in the category after Lena Waithe, and the first to win solo.”
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“The FX/Hulu’s upcoming series based on Octavia Butler’s Kindred has dropped its first trailer, which shows fear and anguish amid mysterious time travel.”
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“The eight-episode series stars Mallori Johnson as a woman and writer who gets forcibly ping-ponged in between the present and America’s past of slavery. All the while, she is navigating an interracial relationship, which becomes even more complicated as she reckons with the racial violence embedded in her family.”
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“First Black Woman To Visit Every Country In The World To Release Memoir Inspiring Travel And Intentional Living.”
Jessica Nabongo says, “The book isn’t about convincing people to travel to every country in the world. It’s to show people that their dreams are valid and achievable.”
#black authors#black travel#new releases#jessica nabongo#the catch me if you can book#memoir#afroeditions
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“Following in the footsteps of other superstar athletes like Serena Williams and Stephen Curry, four-time major champion and former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka announced she would be releasing her first children's book with a post on Instagram on Tuesday. Titled "The Way Champs Play," the book is set to be released on Dec. 6 and, in an amazing flex, will be published by her production company Hana Kuma.”
"I hope this book inspires kids to chase their dreams and encourages them to believe they can do anything they put their minds to," Osaka wrote about the project.”
#black authors#black childrens book authors#naomi osaka#the way champs play#new releases#black publishers#afroeditions
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“U.S Mint announced it has begun shipping out the first quarters featuring trailblazing American women, beginning with poet, writer and activist Maya Angelou, the first Black woman to appear on the quarter. “
“Angelou is depicted on the coin with her arms uplifted. Behind her are a bird and the rising sun, which are "inspired by her poetry and symbolic of the way she lived."
#black authors#black poets#maya angelou#us mint#us coins#us quarter#phenomenal woman#black firsts#afroeditions
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“Groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon, and futurist Janelle Monáe is joined by literary collaborators Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas for a conversation moderated by ALOK to celebrate the launch of The Memory Librarian at BAM. A sexy, soulful, and dissident collection of short fiction, The Memory Librarian brings to the written page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album Dirty Computer.
The stories in The Memory Librarian explore the lives of those living in an increasingly surveillance-hungry, totalitarian order—striving to see and hold onto their “dirtiness” without being tracked down and cleaned. Filled with the artistic innovation and brave themes that have made Janelle Monáe a global influence, this anthology sees our battles about gender identity, political violence, and sexuality as matters of space, time, love, and the power of memory.”
EVENT DETAILS:
LAUNCH OF THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN: AND OTHER STORIES OF DIRTY COMPUTER
CO-PRESENTED BY BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE, AND THE LIT. BAR
APRIL 18 8PM
ALL TICKETS INCLUDE A BOOK. $45, $55, $65. GENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS GO ON SALE ON 3/21/22.
Updated to add other cities:
#black authors#literary events#janelle monae#new releases#the memory librarian#black bookstores#lit bar bookstore#afroeditions
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“Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a big production on Tuesday about how wrong it is that children’s books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member.”
A day later, the very same book “Antiracist Baby" is a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon. Ha!✊🏾
#black authors#black childrens books#antiracist baby#ibram x. kendi#best seller#ha ha yes#judge ketanji brown jackson#afroeditions
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