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The Latest Breaking News from James Baldwin

Reading, empathy & Austen adaptations

"I don't really hear, 'We've checked our quota for white middle class authors from Brooklyn'"

Salon

The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran; Fire Island by Jack Parlett – review

The author of gay cult classic Dancer from the Dance moves on from disco-fuelled revels to ‘death’s antechamber’ in his august portrait of a man for whom duty calls in Florida

The Guardian - UK

Seen and Unseen review: George Floyd, Black Twitter and the fight for racial justice

Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster’s brilliant book considers the history of communications technology in a racist society

The Guardian - US

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Anna Malaika Tubbs: The forgotten mothers of civil rights history

MLK Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin are household names, but what about their mothers? This hour, author Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how these three women shaped American history.

WEKU

How one book influencer championing Black authors is changing publishing

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.

WEKU

Homelands by Chitra Ramaswamy review – what it means to belong

Our sense of home explored through the story of a journalist’s friendship with a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor

The Guardian - UK

An emerging opera singer faces her past in new novel by Dallas author Rosalyn Story

DALLAS — Rosalyn Story is a renaissance woman. In addition to performing in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years, she has worked as a freelance journalist and has written several books.

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Nikesh Shukla: ‘Reading Spider-Man made me feel less alone’

The author and screenwriter on his love of comic books, James Baldwin’s moral fury, and how The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the funniest books ever written

The Guardian - UK

Photographer Steve Schapiro, whose photos captured civil rights, arts ‘time capsules,’ dead at 87

Actor Gary Oldman says his photos of MLK, David Bowie, others ‘capture a certain moment in time . . . He was an angel of a man.’

Chicago Sun-Times

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