On this day, ten years ago, I was in a fourth-grade classroom, teaching Black children in a world that had already decided against them. Nine years ago, I was at Brown University, teaching a college course I had built with Kandy that spoke back against educational violence. 1/4

Rest peacefully, Nikki Giovanni 🖤
(June 7, 1943 - December 9, 2024)

Essay in “The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature” cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

Martin Luther King’s letter to James Baldwin - @HarmonyHoliday

1973 letter from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin, where she thanks him for providing a promo quote for “SULA,” and apologies that Random House didn’t buy Baldwin’s book, “IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.” - @lostblackboy

Sonia Sanchez (left) & Toni Morrison (right) at the Celebration of the Life of Toni Cade Bambara, 12/17/1995, the Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Susan J. Ross