When Americans commonly know their history. . .a #BlackHistoryMonth thought. [ID. Image of my following statement: When Americans commonly know their history, then #BlackHistoryMonth will not just be proudly celebrated by Black Americans. Non-Black Americans will celebrate Black History Month with nearly as much pride because they will know they have benefited from longstanding Black struggles to make freedom, equality, and democracy a reality for Black Americans by making it real for all Americans. When we say Black history is American history, it is not a slogan. It is a historical reality.]
On one of the reasons they are banning antiracist history books. #BlackHistoryMonth #StampedfromtheBeginning
You listen long enough to people like this you’ll walk away thinking that White people bear little responsibility for slavery; that Black people contributed little to the abolition of slavery; that White people did it themselves; that White people saved us. What a shame.
Why they keep targeting me? It is not about me.
Why they keep targeting me? It is not about me.
Why they keep targeting me? It is not about me.
Why they keep targeting me? It is not about me.
It is striking. #racism #xenophobia #modelminoritymyth
Shout out to the author of this op-ed, Matt Reid (@footprintsink), and all the teachers using graphic novels to get students interested in learning about history. They work. They really do. #StampedfromtheBeginning
From @fictionaltiff 🙌🏾🙏🏾 • “Books I Read in 2024 Book Recs Pt. 4 Ibram X. Kendi writes in a way that brings a lot of knowledge, but still leaves the reader feeling like they’re reading a novel to be devoured. Not that we need to be entertained to learn about equality and unlearning racist structures, but it helps the learning process altogether when you’re able to read through something without feeling the need to put it down from downloading too much info in one sitting. This is how I also recently felt when reading On Palestine by Pappé and Chomsky and Ahed Tamimi’s They Called Me a Lioness (pinned post books). It was actually a rec quote by Ibram X. Kendi on the back of They Called Me A Lioness that encouraged me to pick up Kendi’s books sooner. When a nonfiction book teaches me a ton in a way that makes it easy to read and leaves me comfortable sharing it with others because it isn’t *too dense*, it becomes a book rec I’ll often return to. Anyway, this book, How to Raise an Antiracist is invaluable for educators, caregivers, and parents (of any race). There’s always things to learn and unlearn when the roots of our country have been founded on a hierarchy that harms everyone.” . #howtoraiseanantiracist #fictionaltiff2024recs #bookreviews #bookrecs #ibramxkendi
From @fictionaltiff 🙌🏾🙏🏾 • “Books I Read in 2024 Book Recs Pt. 4 Ibram X. Kendi writes in a way that brings a lot of knowledge, but still leaves the reader feeling like they’re reading a novel to be devoured. Not that we need to be entertained to learn about equality and unlearning racist structures, but it helps the learning process altogether when you’re able to read through something without feeling the need to put it down from downloading too much info in one sitting. This is how I also recently felt when reading On Palestine by Pappé and Chomsky and Ahed Tamimi’s They Called Me a Lioness (pinned post books). It was actually a rec quote by Ibram X. Kendi on the back of They Called Me A Lioness that encouraged me to pick up Kendi’s books sooner. When a nonfiction book teaches me a ton in a way that makes it easy to read and leaves me comfortable sharing it with others because it isn’t *too dense*, it becomes a book rec I’ll often return to. Anyway, this book, How to Raise an Antiracist is invaluable for educators, caregivers, and parents (of any race). There’s always things to learn and unlearn when the roots of our country have been founded on a hierarchy that harms everyone.” . #howtoraiseanantiracist #fictionaltiff2024recs #bookreviews #bookrecs #ibramxkendi
From @fictionaltiff 🙌🏾🙏🏾 • “Books I Read in 2024 Book Recs Pt. 4 Ibram X. Kendi writes in a way that brings a lot of knowledge, but still leaves the reader feeling like they’re reading a novel to be devoured. Not that we need to be entertained to learn about equality and unlearning racist structures, but it helps the learning process altogether when you’re able to read through something without feeling the need to put it down from downloading too much info in one sitting. This is how I also recently felt when reading On Palestine by Pappé and Chomsky and Ahed Tamimi’s They Called Me a Lioness (pinned post books). It was actually a rec quote by Ibram X. Kendi on the back of They Called Me A Lioness that encouraged me to pick up Kendi’s books sooner. When a nonfiction book teaches me a ton in a way that makes it easy to read and leaves me comfortable sharing it with others because it isn’t *too dense*, it becomes a book rec I’ll often return to. Anyway, this book, How to Raise an Antiracist is invaluable for educators, caregivers, and parents (of any race). There’s always things to learn and unlearn when the roots of our country have been founded on a hierarchy that harms everyone.” . #howtoraiseanantiracist #fictionaltiff2024recs #bookreviews #bookrecs #ibramxkendi
From @fictionaltiff 🙌🏾🙏🏾 • “Books I Read in 2024 Book Recs Pt. 4 Ibram X. Kendi writes in a way that brings a lot of knowledge, but still leaves the reader feeling like they’re reading a novel to be devoured. Not that we need to be entertained to learn about equality and unlearning racist structures, but it helps the learning process altogether when you’re able to read through something without feeling the need to put it down from downloading too much info in one sitting. This is how I also recently felt when reading On Palestine by Pappé and Chomsky and Ahed Tamimi’s They Called Me a Lioness (pinned post books). It was actually a rec quote by Ibram X. Kendi on the back of They Called Me A Lioness that encouraged me to pick up Kendi’s books sooner. When a nonfiction book teaches me a ton in a way that makes it easy to read and leaves me comfortable sharing it with others because it isn’t *too dense*, it becomes a book rec I’ll often return to. Anyway, this book, How to Raise an Antiracist is invaluable for educators, caregivers, and parents (of any race). There’s always things to learn and unlearn when the roots of our country have been founded on a hierarchy that harms everyone.” . #howtoraiseanantiracist #fictionaltiff2024recs #bookreviews #bookrecs #ibramxkendi
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
A few days ago, I gave my first book talk and signing @baldwinandcompany in New Orleans. I am still thinking about it. That majestic mural of James Baldwin. The seriousness and joyfulness of the questions. That so many people pledged to visit nearby AfricaTown, the setting of #Barracoon, where Zora Neale Hurston records the life story of Cudjo Lewis. The hugs and words of love and construction. Baldwin and the company who came together, I thank you. 🙏🏾
The other day I sat down @harvardbookstore with Laurence Ralph to discuss his new book SITO: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him. SITO is a beautifully written and riveting book about a teenager known as Sito who was shot to death at nineteen years old in his car in San Francisco. His killer, Julius, was seventeen years old. Five years earlier Julius’s brother had been killed by an acquaintance of Sito. Sito was widely blamed and lambasted in the media, and incarcerated for a time. When he got out, Sito became a prison abolitionist. Ralph explores the structural and systematic issues that perpetuate youth violence, particularly among youth of color. He documents in intimate detail the lived experiences of youth of color subjected to violence and incarceration and denigration—and the grief of their families. He chronicles the family grief in personal detail. Ralph is the stepfather of Sito’s half-brother. #Sito
One of the elements of #StampedfromtheBeginning I am most proud of is the music. It takes my words away. All I can say is you have to experience it on Netflix if you haven’t already. I couldn’t be more appreciative of the incomparable musical supervision of @djburtblackarach. I am so glad the @guildofmusicsupervisors recognized his excellent work—our work—with this nomination for Best Music Supervision for a Documentary. Congratulations to Amani and the village who worked on this film! 🙌🏾👊🏿🎧
