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Looking for a great way to spend your Saturday afternoon? Peep this announcement from the Austin African American Book Fest. . New York Times bestselling authors Isabel Wilkerson and Dr. Damon Tweedy will head up the fourteenth annual Austin African American book festival. The event will be held on June 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and for the first time will be a virtual event. The Festival remains free and open to the public, but attendees must register on Eventbrite. . This year’s festival falls on the birthday of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Our festival theme, We Wear The Mask, pays homage to one of Dunbar’s most famous works. Like the poem of the same name, the festival will explore the masks and methods we employ to deal with the social hierarchies, challenges to identity and implicit biases we must face to succeed within the broader society. . Visit https://www.aaabookfest.org for more information. . #blackpride #blacktwitter #speeches #blackexcellence #speaktruth #speaktruthtopower #independentmedia #unapologeticallyblack #blackmanhood #becauseofreading #bibliophile #bookwormlife #epicreads #bookstagrammer #booksofig #blackhistory #justread ##bookdiscovery #bookish #bookishlife #bookrecommendation #bookphoto #bookblogger #booklife #blackhistory #blackhistoryeveryday #blackhistorymatters #greatbooks #books #readblackwriters #vintagepaperback (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBng_SEAV6C/?igshid=1fkq57d5pddl7

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This cover deserves another showing. #angeladavis https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-S-RMAHPY/?igshid=19ztnn7vxfx57

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Reposted from @nmaahc Gil Scott-Heron was a poet and spoken word recording artist whose humor-laced, sharp critiques of politics, racism and mass media made him a notable voice of black protest culture for decades. He described himself as a “bluesologist”, which he defined as “a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues.” Drawing inspiration from his grandmother, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Sterling Brown, Scott-Heron crafted spoken word with political undertones. His music, which fused jazz, blues, and soul, influenced and foreshadowed music genres such as hip-hop and neo soul. One of his most well-known compositions, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” became a slogan used by the Black Power Movement. Scott-Heron received a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement award for his accomplishments. #NationalPoetryMonth #JazzAppreciationMonth #APeoplesJourney ⠀ ⠀ 📸 1. Courtesy PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty Images 2. Courtesy Leni Sinclair/Getty Images 3. Black leather jacket worn by Gil Scott-Heron. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Rumal Rackley ⠀ - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B-pK4pSAT-n/?igshid=6d3e54im1sz4

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Reposted from @nmaahc Poet and writer Margaret Walker used her first novel, Jubilee, to craft a semi-fictional account about a biracial enslaved woman born during the American Civil War. The book, which took thirty years to write, takes place in Georgia and Alabama, spanning slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Literature professor Joyce Ann Joyce has cited Jubilee as “the first truly historical black American novel.” Critical studies of the book emphasize Jubilee as the prototype for novels that present black history from a black perspective. ⠀ ⠀ Walker, who was born in 1915 into a family of storytellers, musicians, ministers, and teachers, first heard about slavery through bedtime stories that her maternal grandmother would tell her. As she grew older, she pushed her grandmother for more details with the intent of writing stories based on what she heard. Later on in life, she conducted extensive research on every facet of the black experience regarding the Civil War. She stated, “most of my life I have been involved with writing this story about my great-grandmother, and even if Jubilee were never considered an artistic or commercial success, I would still be happy to just finish it.” #HiddenHerstory #APeoplesJourney⠀ ⠀ 📸 Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, © William R. Ferris⠀ - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B92gQp6gyv7/?igshid=891jple8k2ue

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Birthday mic drop from Audre (February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992)🌟🖤✊🏾🎤 . . . . . . #vintagebooks #bookstagram #bookshelf #igbooks #bibliophile #readblackwriters #bookcommunity #coverlove #greatbooks #bookclub #books #bookwormsfeature #bookfeature #bookaddict #vintagepaperback #diversespines#blackpride #blacktwitter #speeches #blackexcellence #speaktruth #speaktruthtopower #independentmedia #unapologeticallyblack #becauseofreading #bookwormlife #bookstagrammer #booksofig #blackhistory #justread https://www.instagram.com/p/B8taqI0AGEr/?igshid=ymrkgkl22hh3

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On this day, Toni Morrison was born (February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019). . Today's special mic drop comes from Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison.🎤 . "I thought of myself as like the jazz musician — someone who practices and practices and practices in order to be able to invent and to make his art look effortless and graceful. I was always conscious of the constructed aspect of the writing process, and that art appears natural and elegant only as a result of constant practice and awareness of its formal structures. You must practice thrift in order to achieve that luxurious quality of wastefulness — that sense that you have enough to waste, that you are holding back — without actually wasting anything." . . . . . . . . . . #tonimorrison #tonimorrisonbooks #tonimorrisonbookclub #riptonimorrison #tonimorrisonquote #tonimorrisonbeloved #tonimorrisonquotes #tonimorrisontribute #tonimorrison👑 #tonimorrisonjazz #tonimorrisonsula #tonimorrisonforever #vintagebooks #bookstagram #bookshelf #igbooks #bibliophile #blackwriters #writers #readblackwriters #antiquarianbooks #bookstagrammer #booklover #bookcommunity #coverlove #greatbooks #bookfeature #bookaddict #vintagepaperback #diversespines https://www.instagram.com/p/B8tSjnsAR7g/?igshid=iwfcn3ryzq5l

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