For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] 2020 was a year full of reckonings. For the publishing industry, it meant coming face to face with its continued failures to address a lack of diversity in their companies, and in their slates of authors. According to an Opinion column published in the New York Times entitled “Just How White is the Book … Read more
[ad_1] In the forward to Black Futures—this eclectic anthology of Black imagination and achievement—co-editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham share its central question: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” Of course, that “right now” is necessarily a misnomer, because the world has changed, is changing, from the time this project … Read more
[ad_1] While shopping is DEFINITELY a bit *different* this year, Black Friday is still notoriously a wild time. One of those days that requires a cup of hot cocoa and a stack of good books to recover from. But luckily, we’ve got you covered. Here are our top 5 Black Friday recovery reads! 1. Let … Read more
[ad_1] Black Midwesterners live complex lives full of love, creativity, and community; but, that’s not usually the story told in mainstream depictions of Middle America. In 2017, scholars, artists, activists, and students banded together at the University of Minnesota to form the Black Midwest Initiative to promote work that more accurately captured the truth of … Read more