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Dionne Sims, who opened Black Garnet Books in St. Paul, Minn., to sell books by BIPOC authors in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is selling the store to return to school and focus on writing. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Four years after two Minneapolis specialty bookstores were destroyed amid unrest following George Floyd's murder, Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore and Uncle Edgar’s Mystery Bookstore are thriving in their new locations. Their owner, Don Blyly, is also celebrating his 50th anniversary as a... Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Two novels, "Demon Copperhead" and "Trust," shared the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction while "His Name Is George Floyd" took home the nonfiction prize. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-08 21:55:41 UTC ]
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Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz tied for the Fiction prize, and 'Washington Post' journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa's took home the Nonfiction prize at this year's Pulitzer Prize ceremony on May 8. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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With hundreds of interviews, Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa piece together Floyd's life before his infamous death. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2022-05-13 12:00:15 UTC ]
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As the two-year anniversary approaches of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, new and forthcoming books reflect religion and spirituality publishers’ intensified efforts to recruit and acquire books by BIPOC authors. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown buys Nathan Harris’s follow-up to The Sweetness of Water, two Washington Post reporters sell a bio of George Floyd to Viking, and more. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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The pandemic, coupled with the protests that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis last year, has transformed the Twin Cities bookselling scene in the last 20 months. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has triumphed in a 10-way auction for His Name is George Floyd by two Washington Post reporters, Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-09 17:52:20 UTC ]
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The white woman behind the popular Instagram account @soyouwanttotalkabout has apologised after claims that she has co-opted the black author’s brandThe white woman behind an Instagram account with almost three million followers has apologised for the “harm” she caused to bestselling black... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-08-16 16:19:00 UTC ]
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Trump was taken to the White House bunker during protests last year over the police killing of George Floyd. Continue reading at 'The Huffington Post'
[ The Huffington Post | 2021-07-14 04:58:33 UTC ]
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On the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a panel at the U.S. Book Show discussed the challenges of and best practices for establishing a more inclusive publishing industry. It starts a the top, with a leadership that is willing to embrace the process of change. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Ben Philippe pitched "Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend" as a humorous guide. But as the world changed, he allowed himself to explore his own anger. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-26 18:53:10 UTC ]
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I first read Nadia Owusu’s debut memoir Aftershocks in June, as the United States—led by the white nationalist backed Republican administration—was several months into a still ongoing unchecked global pandemic which was disproportionately killing Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Americans.... Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2021-01-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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In visceral essays, Michael Eric Dyson explains the unrest after George Floyd’s killing. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-04 13:00:00 UTC ]
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As the founder and CEO of digital media investment bank Luma Partners LLC, Terence Kawaja is a problem solver by nature. But earlier this summer, as Kawaja watched his news feed, he found himself hearing about problems that left him at a loss. He read about the killing of George Floyd and police... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2020-09-03 12:30:00 UTC ]
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Since the killing of George Floyd in late May, the book publishing industry, overwhelmingly white at every level, seems to have reached a period of reckoning about its own history of exclusionary hiring practices. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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We are in a time of major change – following the brutal, televised murder of George Floyd – and it goes without saying that the book trade supports a movement that must succeed in establishing once and for all that black lives matter. For my new book, Slow Road to San Francisco, I drove from... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 06:15:35 UTC ]
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Among the revelations from Condé Nast's virtual NewFronts presentation last week was the launch of a dedicated podcast network, including seven new audio series tied to various brands in its portfolio. One of those, "The Pitchfork Review," debuts next week, comprising a weekly series hosted by... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-01 17:31:18 UTC ]
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In the weeks since the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, books about anti-racism have consistently topped bestseller lists. Many of these books have been purchased from the likes of Amazon and Barnes & Noble. To try and funnel some of these sales to Black-owned bookstores... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2020-06-19 21:16:38 UTC ]
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