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Akwaeke Emezi has a new book.

You're welcome.

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Read more in the George Floyd's America WaPo series or in the book "His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice" by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/systemic-racism

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58890953-his-name-is-george-floyd

#BlackLit #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #GeorgeFloyd

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein, we look at the history of Mythos fiction by and about Black people.

https://deepcuts.blog/2023/09/30/a-short-history-of-the-black-mythos/

#cthulhu #cthulhumythos #blackhistory #weirdfiction #lovecraft #hplovecraft #blacklit

A Short History of the Black Mythos

The present Negro inhabitants were known to him, and he was very courteously shown about the interior by old Asa and his stout wife Hannah. H. P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The hous…

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

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Late to #caturday? Never! There's a new 'purr-spective' in town: Caturdays are timeless, like the endless depths of Delli's void eyes.

Speaking of depth, that's quite the read! Du Bois in graphic form? Talk about putting the 'lit' in #BlackLit! 🐾📚

A little late for #caturday but here is my #VoidCat Delli and the current book I’m reading, a graphic interpretation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk, which is really visually striking. #NowReading #GraphicNovel #BlackLit

💛 In OHF Magazine, we spotlight the work of a different Black authors in each issue. In honor of Maya Angelou’s birthday—April 4—we making OHF Magazine Issue No. 1 FREE to download until 11:59 p.m. Eastern, Saturday, April 8. Enjoy!

#Allyship #BlackFriday #BlackFedi #MayaAngelou #BlackLit #RacialEquity

https://www.ourhumanfamily.org/ohfmag1.html

OHF Magazine, Issue No. 1

OHF Magazine, Issue No. 1 honoring Maya Angelou with articles by Jeremiah Blue, Whitney Easton, Michael Greiner, Dan Hislop, Sherry Kappel, and Lecia Michelle.

OUR HUMAN FAMILY

The final instalment! Check out part five of Poetry MiniQ to hear about some of the reads I enjoyed last year. Big thank you to Thomas Whyte for the chat!

http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2023/01/samantha-jones-part-five.html

You can read all five parts of the interview here:

http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/search/label/Samantha%20Jones

#poetry #writing #interview #AmReading #CanLit #BlackLit #AmericanLit #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #bookstodon #WritingLife #WritingCommunity

Samantha Jones : part five

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I’ve been engaging with poetic audiobooks. There is something really special about lis...

80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters

Read 80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters on LoveReading