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'Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement' with Ethel Morgan... youtube.com/live/e5cg9_j-c… via YouTube

Tracy Chapman, who has not performed in public in years, performs 'Fast Car' with Luke Combs at the #Grammys :

Happy Black History Month!

'My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?' —Paul Robeson

#HappyBirthday to Angela Davis!

As the celebration of Mr. Schomburg continues, please allow me to re-introduce myself. I am the author of this book:

What’s the first word you think of when you see E. Jean Carroll?

Absolutely over the moon to annouce my next picture book! This will be the FIRST picture book biography of Octavia Butler, so to have my words illustrated by Hayden Goodman and published by Simon Kids is such a dream ☀️

Do YOU support E. Jean Carroll? 🖐🏽

YES or NO

Who are the ones leeching off the government?

Drop a 💙 for VP Kamala Harris who’s been VERY impressive, especially on women’s rights and gun reform! 🙏 💙

Who agrees with Stephen King? ✋✋✋

Straight Down to the Bones

'In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.'
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POTUS has nominated Judge Melissa DuBose to fill an opening on a U.S. District Court! If she’s confirmed, Judge DuBose will be the1st POC and openly LGBTQ judge to serve on Rhode Island’s federal bench! We need MORE Black women leading courtrooms! brnw.ch/21wG4n7

June Jordan’s “MLK in Memoriam” says best what this day means. But this week we will be working with another poem…

In 1978 June Jordan presented l “Poem for South African Women” at the UN, drawing ancestral energy from protests dating back to 1956.
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Someone needs to explain this to me.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024 #GoogleDoodle
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‘I am sick of symbolic things. We are fighting for our lives.’~ Fannie Lou Hamer

Today, 12/18, 6:30 PM: In celebration of what would have been Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis’s 75th wedding anniversary, actors Leslie Odom, Jr., and Kara Young, will read from the archival collection of letters between this couple. #SchomburgCenter eventbrite.com/e/precious-lov…