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Illuminations
George Floyd
You can be a bother who dyes
his hair Dennis Rodman blue
in the face of the man kneeling in blue
in the face the music of his wrist-
watch your mouth is little more
than a door being knocked
out of the ring of fire around
the afternoon came evening’s bell
of the ball and chain around the neck
of the unarmed brother ground down
to gunpowder dirt can be inhaled read more »
Speaker News
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Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies will be adapted for television by Tessa Thompson for HBO Max.
Shondaland
On Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA novel Chlorine Sky, "Here’s the book, here’s a part of my heart, I hope you like it.”
New York Times
Congratulations to Aimee Nezhukumatathil whose World of Wonders landed at #5 on the New York Times' Best Sellers in Nonfiction!
BBC
Listen to this interview with poet Valzhyna Mort as she reflects on first-hand stories from friends who are protesting in Belarus.
