“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor at Palestine Festival of Literature today.

just realized that someone has uploaded 18 issues of Free Palestine, an english language newspaper published out of DC throughout the 70s. you can find full pdfs on internet archive: archive.org/search?query=c…

Ella Jenkins, Chicago's first lady of children's music, dies at 100 chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/202…

Finishing up this book today-EDUCATING FOR EMPATHY: LITERACY LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT by Nicole Mirra.

Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony apnews.com/article/harrie…

The same forces that have been banning books and attacking libraries and librarians will now be in charge of our entire education system. Take heed!

Before underground parties, before raves, there were juke joints. Did you know “juke” is a #Gullah word? Linguist Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, PhD, wrote about the word in his seminal work “Africanism in the Gullah Dialect.”

I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting here in the future and other platforms, and I might post on my new account at tarabetts.bsky.social .

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How to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.

Just sharing my birthday celebration at Semicolon Books w/ Call & Response Books on Saturday, 1/4, 2-6PM.

“I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent, instead of constantly being the object of other peoples' exploitation and ferocity, would themselves be taking action on a grand scale and shaping other people to their own needs." ♥️🇭🇹🌺

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Writing is about persistence. You will get rejected. Some people will not like your writing: even you will not like your writing sometimes. The best writers are not the most talented but the most determined: those individuals who can keep writing even in the face of rejection.

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In the McCarthy Era, to Be Black Was to Be Red The Marxist sympathies of Black radical leaders like Paul Robeson, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry made them targets for the FBI. daily.jstor.org/in-the-mccarth…

Just sharing my poem for Lieutenant Uhura of “Star Trek” aka Nichelle Nichols.