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@authorshannondianne, a Black Queen, wrote:

Hi, cousins. So, in 2013, I wrote a book.

And then [publishing] agents told me to make the leading lady white because Black [Women and Men] didn’t have time

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#blackwomen #92percent #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackbooks #blackmastodon

@authorshannondianne, a Black Queen, wrote:

Hi, cousins. So, in 2013, I wrote a book.

And then [publishing] agents told me to make the leading lady white because Black [Women and Men] didn’t have time

(1/3)

#blackwomen #92percent #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackbooks #blackmastodon

@authorshannondianne, a Black Queen, wrote:

Hi, cousins. So, in 2013, I wrote a book.

And then [publishing] agents told me to make the leading lady white because Black [Women and Men] didn’t have time

(1/3)

#blackwomen #92percent #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackbooks #blackmastodon

@authorshannondianne, a Black Queen, wrote:

Hi, cousins. So, in 2013, I wrote a book.

And then [publishing] agents told me to make the leading lady white because Black [Women and Men] didn’t have time

(1/3)

#blackwomen #92percent #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackbooks #blackmastodon

@authorshannondianne, a Black Queen, wrote:

Hi, cousins. So, in 2013, I wrote a book.

And then [publishing] agents told me to make the leading lady white because Black [Women and Men] didn’t have time

(1/3)

#blackwomen #92percent #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackbooks #blackmastodon

Toni Morrison describes Seven Days in Song of Solomon. Each day was the responsibility of a Black Person. If you read in the papers that a Black Person was killed on your day, say Tuesday, then it was your responsibility to kill a random white person of that gender and age on a Tuesday.

#blackwomen #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

Toni Morrison describes Seven Days in Song of Solomon. Each day was the responsibility of a Black Person. If you read in the papers that a Black Person was killed on your day, say Tuesday, then it was your responsibility to kill a random white person of that gender and age on a Tuesday.

#blackwomen #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

Toni Morrison describes Seven Days in Song of Solomon. Each day was the responsibility of a Black Person. If you read in the papers that a Black Person was killed on your day, say Tuesday, then it was your responsibility to kill a random white person of that gender and age on a Tuesday.

#blackwomen #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

Toni Morrison describes Seven Days in Song of Solomon. Each day was the responsibility of a Black Person. If you read in the papers that a Black Person was killed on your day, say Tuesday, then it was your responsibility to kill a random white person of that gender and age on a Tuesday.

#blackwomen #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

Toni Morrison describes Seven Days in Song of Solomon. Each day was the responsibility of a Black Person. If you read in the papers that a Black Person was killed on your day, say Tuesday, then it was your responsibility to kill a random white person of that gender and age on a Tuesday.

#blackwomen #blackauthors #blackwriters #blackmastodon

Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
#blacksociologists #blackwriters #blackhistorians #blackpanAfricanists #blacktivists #ghana

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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka

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James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)

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Tunis Campbell [Sr.], a Black [Man] who built an independent community with its own schools, courts, and army in the heart of the South right after slavery ended. He gave Black [People] land, protection, and power, and the system tried to crush him for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis_Campbell_Sr.

#blackmen #blackamerican #blackhistory #blackclergymen #blacktivists #blackmagistrates #blackpoliticians #blackwriters #blackauthors #blackpublishers #blackmastodon

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Via AN

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"Urban renewal means negro removal"

- James Baldwin

#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackwriters #blackauthors #blacktivists #blackessayists #blackplaywrights #blackorators #blackfirsts #blackgay #blackhomosexuals #blacklgbtq #blackhistory #blackconsciousness #blackmastodon