Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

well well well. if it isn't exclusively the music i started listening to before the age of 26. and dua lipa

Plan for the week: get my library card, check out the rest of the Percy Jackson series (already used my state library card for the first), rent 2 dvds, and think of all the good reasons to pay taxes.

Expensive dates aren't appealing. Just take me to a park. We can hang out near some old statues. Strangers can throw bread at us. Maybe, we'll fly south for the winter. That's romance, baby.

i’m an album girly
playlists are cool
but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally

Can’t wait for Kendrick and Doechii to put their minds together

Presentations are a b*tch! Goodluck 🫡

It’s okay to wait to be inspired! It’s going to get done regardless.