Publisher ‘profoundly sorry’ for hurt caused by Spirou and the Blue Gorgon as it recalls 30,000 copies from shopsA comic book has been withdrawn from sale by its Belgian publisher after an outcry over racist depictions of black people and “hyper-sexualised” images of women.The publisher Dupuis... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-05 13:10:34 UTC ]
For founder and owner Jazzi McGilbert, the concept bookshop and creative space is a physical offering for Black people in L.A. to be themselves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-06-17 19:58:19 UTC ]
Libraries can celebrate BHM with displays, events, and more — but it won't mean much if the library isn't a safe place for Black people. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-03 11:31:00 UTC ]
Frederick Douglass pushed for progress for Black people, but Andrew Johnson erased it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-03 12:00:00 UTC ]
The author of a debut novel about diversity in the workplace on how black people act around white people, embracing her hair, and what’s changed a year after George Floyd’s murderZakiya Dalila Harris was born and raised in Connecticut and is currently based in Brooklyn. Now a full-time writer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-06-05 17:00:15 UTC ]
One of the things that Black people know to be true is that when we lift up our voices to celebrate our joy, share our pain, or warn of the injustices levelled against our communities, we are often silenced—either by being denied the necessary platforms to elevate our voices, or by wilful... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 17:56:08 UTC ]
Having collected views from Black people across the publishing industry for the past year, the Black Agents and Editors’ Group has outlined 15 steps for how those in the trade can do better. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 07:18:36 UTC ]
Let me start this by telling you an embarrassing story about me. When I first started as an agent, I never wore my hair in its natural state. This is because, like most black people, I had been taught from a very early age that natural textured hair is seen as unruly and therefore... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-08 21:57:21 UTC ]
Easu McCaulley takes on the 'barbershop or barbeque questions' Black people have about how the Bible addresses their lives —and reveals God's love. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
In the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice, marketers and agencies that work with Vice Media have added terms like "Black Lives Matter," "protest," "Minneapolis" and even "Black people" to blocklists. As a result, the publisher's news coverage related to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2020-06-24 17:00:52 UTC ]
Oprah Winfrey announced today that her next book club selection would be Deacon King Kong by James McBride, a novel that she says resonates at a time when America is facing a reckoning over race and violence against black people. “In a moment when our country roils with righteous anger and grief... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-16 20:04:23 UTC ]
Illustrators Dapo Adeola and Ken Wilson-Max have said the industry could be on the cusp of change over diversity but it requires more black people in sales teams and greater transparency on race. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 15:01:56 UTC ]
I want to acknowledge that my experience as a South Asian is not the same as those of Black people in this country. Although it’s important to note that we may have some shared experiences, the current BLM protests are about Black Lives, and it’s crucial to know the difference. However, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 19:31:29 UTC ]
The pioneering Black journalist is revered for her reporting that exposed lynching as a white tool of political terror against Black people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2020-05-04 22:44:29 UTC ]
In Megan Giddings’s debut novel Lakewood, desperation leads to a loss of self in a capitalist medical system bent on taking advantage of Black people and their bodies. After the death of her grandmother, Lena, a college student struggling with overwhelming medical debt and taking care of her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-03-24 11:00:00 UTC ]
Although picture has improved since 2017, research shows that last year only 4% of books for the youngest readers featured a minority ethnic heroIn most children’s books, according to one London primary school pupil, “people are peach”. Another feels there are “no black people” in the stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-09-19 11:15:59 UTC ]
Ibram X. Kendi opens his latest book with his worst memory as a high school student competing in an oratorical contest. Having spent his short lifetime internalizing negative messages about Black people from Black people, from white people, and from the media and culture at large, Kendi... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-28 11:00:52 UTC ]
There's something missing from YouTube's book blogging community: Black people and books by Black authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-06-27 22:17:41 UTC ]
As Facebook defends its handling of Russian political interference, an ex-employee published another scathing critique of the company's culture. Facebook "has a black people problem," Mark S. Luckie wrote in a lengthy internal memo circulated earlier this month and made public on Facebook... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a time when black people are disrupting presidential campaign speeches nationwide in an effort to be recognized as human beings, "Negroland," the new memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson, offers poignant insight into what it means to have been raised in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]