Two women. One secret.
A world where survival depends on performance.
Passing (1929) still unsettles because it asks what it costs to be seen — and what it costs to disappear. Quiet. Controlled. Dangerous.
Black History Month, Day 22.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Passing #ReadBlackAuthors #LumosSpin
History is not distant.
It is structural.
The Underground Railroad forces us to confront the brutality beneath the myth — and the cost of survival in a nation built on stolen labor and stolen lives.
This is not comfortable reading.
It isn’t meant to be.
It is necessary.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Love doesn’t vanish overnight; it erodes, stretches, waits. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones explores what commitment means when justice fails and who we become in silence. Mass incarceration not only imprisons the accused but reshapes lives of the left behind
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature
Some stories whisper.
Some stories haunt.
📖Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward confronts mass incarceration, addiction, and the ghosts history refuses to bury.
The living carry more than breath.
They carry memory.
What lingers after the past is supposed to be over?
#BlackHistoryMonth #SouthernGothic
Two sisters.
One history that refuses to disappear.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi traces generations shaped by slavery, colonialism, and the inheritance of memory — from Ghana to America.
Some stories don’t end.
They echo.
Have you read this one?
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiterature
Some people grow up never thinking about race.
Others don’t have that luxury.
📖 Americanah is a love story —
but it’s also a sharp, modern examination of race, immigration, and identity.
It asks a quiet but powerful question:
Who gets to define “Blackness”?
Have you read it?
#BlackHistoryMonth
Native Son is confrontational, not comfortable. Richard Wright shows how society cages a life before it begins—fear, poverty, and racism shape destiny before choice. Bigger Thomas isn't a monster alone; he's a product of a system valuing him beforehand.
Day 14 of 28.
The Color Purple is a story of survival, sisterhood, and the slow return to self.
Celie teaches us that even in silence, a voice is forming. Even in darkness, something is growing.
Black women’s stories are not footnotes.
They are foundations.
#BlackHistoryMonth #TheColorPurple
She searched for love.
She found herself.
Zora Neale Hurston gave us Janie Crawford — a Black woman who refuses to disappear inside expectation.
Day 13 of 28.
We are still watching the horizon.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ZoraNealeHurston #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #BlackWomenWriters #LumosSpin
The Bluest Eye is a mirror. Toni Morrison explores what happens when society makes a child believe she’s unworthy of love and the cost of that belief. It’s about beauty, race, shame, innocence, and internalized hatred. Some books are hard but necessary. This one is both.
#BlackHistoryMonth
What does it mean to remember what a nation would rather erase?
Some stories don’t stay in the past; they echo, haunt, and demand remembrance. Morrison urges us to confront America’s buried trauma, slavery’s aftermath, and the cost of forgetting. During Black History Month, it’s about reckoning, not nostalgia.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book preserves the voice of Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. By listening to his words as they were spoken, hx becomes personal, human, & impossible to distance ourselves from.
Remembering is not passive.
It is an act of responsibility.
#BlackHistoryMonth
This book tells the story of the Great Migration—when millions of Black Americans moved not out of curiosity, but out of necessity. Their journeys reshaped families, cities, culture, and the nation itself.
Movement was not just escape.
It was resistance. It was survival.
#BlackHistoryMonth
📘 Black History Month — Day 7
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
This book asks feminism to confront reality—not theory.
Food, housing, safety, healthcare, and access are feminist issues.
When movements ignore survival, they fail the people who need them most.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
This collection refuses the idea that liberation can be partial. Lorde challenges us to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism not as separate struggles—but as connected systems that demand collective truth and accountability.
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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
This book challenges the comfort of neutrality and asks for something more demanding: responsibility. Antiracism isn’t a belief or a label—it’s a practice, shaped by the choices we make and the systems we support.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Day 4
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Written decades ago, yet still speaking directly to the present, this book is both a warning and a challenge. Baldwin calls for honesty over comfort—and reminds us that refusing to face injustice does not free us from its consequences.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Written as a letter to his son, this book asks what it means to live in a body shaped by history, fear, love, and survival. It moves the conversation from systems and policy to something deeply personal.
Come back tomorrow for Day 4.
#BlackHistoryMonth
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
This book challenges the idea that racial inequality ended with the Civil Rights Movement. It argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system—reshaped, renamed, and justified as “colorblind.”Save this series.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Day 1 of a month-long reading series honoring Black voices, history, and truth.
Today’s book sets the foundation and we’re just getting started.
➡️ Come back tomorrow for Day 2’s book. This month is about learning, remembering, and staying curious — together. #BlackHistoryMonth #ReadBlackAuthors
Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
Trump's FBI raided an election office in Georgia, a state central to his baseless 2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, he's continuing to let actual fraudsters and politically-connected crooks off the hook.
This is what weaponizing government looks like.
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.
Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.
And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.
The system is rigged.
Straight talk from the front lines: care over cages, healing over punishment. Nurses see the harm—and we say abolish ICE.
#NursesSayAbolishICE #HealthcareNotHandcuffs #CareNotCages #HumanRights #Solidarity
