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Panafricancess @panafricancess.com · 09/12/2025

Listen here as I introduce my first book, "Beyond the Mountain: A Journey Beneath Cape Town’s Mask" Publishing with @blackzephyrpublishing.com , a cooperative, Black-led publisher & press. Now available for pre-order! panafricancess.com/books #newbook #BlackSky #BlackWriterSky #BlackBookSky

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

New Yorkers, the law is clear: if you have an EBT balance, a store that accepts SNAP must allow you to use your card. Follow these instructions and file a complaint with my office if you are denied: ag.ny.gov/consumer-complaint

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rai 🜲 (she/her) @bookish-delights.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025

It fosters creativity by enabling a reader to become completely immersed in other imaginary worlds and by giving them the ability to experience different perspectives outside of their own. It also acts as a universal space for all to see themselves reflected in characters that they identify with.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 09/10/2025

“Our school parking lots are not for ICE to load their weapons.” - @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Every mayor of a major city should follow his lead. (Looking at you Mattie Parker…)

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Mama K Speaks @mamakspeaks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

10 Book to Get to Know Me 1. The Three Musketeers 2. Assata 3. Ours 4. Aftermath 5. Woman at Point Zero 6. Sky Full of Elephants 7. Blood Slaves 8. Reel 9. We Refuse 10. Concrete Rose #BooksofBlueSky #booktok #bookstagram #booklover

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 09/10/2025

Grateful to @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social for “My Father in English.” As a Texas teacher in 2025, exposing students to stories of folks who made sacrifices that will impact generations of their family feels especially important. (Shared with permission from the student)

Now my most favorite lines are "thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense/ of
your life so that I might conjugate myself here/in the present of this country" (lines 29-31). Those
are words I wish to tell my parents one day due to them giving up their life in Mexico to be able
to create my life here in the US. They gave me more than what they ever had growing up and I
will always be forever grateful.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 08/10/2025

I feel like I’ve been drowning lately; there are fewer and fewer pockets of air. So when @msespo.bsky.social asked if she could send me this book, I was touched and grateful. Both Christine and Nikki Giovanni are pockets of air. 💛

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rai 🜲 (she/her) @bookish-delights.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024

"You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the world, but then you read." ― James Baldwin

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I would love it if I could hit my goal of 500 paid subscribers by the Rapture Tuesday. So go ahead and click the link. Come invest in REAL authors who are using their voices to challenge the way we see the world. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 22/09/2025

In the feedback on my most recent grad school assignment, my professor said, “your voice is clear; I hear your heart and passion,” and referred to me as an “emerging doctoral scholar.” Nobody can tell me anything for the next 7-10 business days. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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LONAWEEN 10/4 🎃 @lonababy.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025

My grandma and my aunt.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/07/2025

The first times I read this poem, I paid little attention to the description of Ferguson. The last few years; I’ve been thinking about planting seeds and what grows when you do. Ferguson is a space that cultivates life & growth, & also death + violence. It’s the juxtaposition, man. #PoemADayJuly

To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri
Naomi Shihab Nye
1 Fifty years before you did your homework in Ferguson
2 we did our homework in Ferguson, thinking life was fair.
3 If we didn't do our homework we might get a U— Unsatisfactory.
4 Your dad says you didn't even get to see the rest of the world yet.
5 I've seen too much of the world and don't know
6 how to absorb this-a girl shot through a wall—U! U! U!
7 I'd give you some of my years if I could-you should not
8 have died that night-there was absolutely no reason
9 for you to die. I'd like to be standing in a sprinkler with you,
10 the way we used to do, kids before air conditioning,
11 safe with our friends in the drenching of cool,
12 safe with our shrieks and summer shorts and happy hair,
13 where can we go without thinking of you now?
14 Did you know there was a time Ferguson was all a farm?
15 It fed St. Louis...giant meadows of corn, sweet potatoes, 16 laden blackberry bushes, perfect tomatoes in crates, 17 and everything was shovels and hoes, and each life,
18 even the little tendril of a vine, mattered,
19 and you did your homework and got an S for Satisfactory,
20 Super, instead of the S of Sorrow now stamped on our hands.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/07/2025

When I teach this poem, it’s always really visceral, the juxtaposition between innocence, rural ease, and carefree life and death and destruction. My students talk about how they feel like they’re always once second away from the end of their childhood. #PoemADayJuly

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angela & the Black Writers Group @befabulousyou.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We just recorded our ⁨@WritingWhileBlackPodcast⁩ chat w/author @eddiedeewrites.bsky.social / theaffinitysaga.com Can't wait to listen when it goes live. If you are not subscribe to the #WritingWhileBlack podcast on here or on Spotify, you missing out. Go on and get to listening! 😁 #blackbooks

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Eddie Dee's The Affinity Saga

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Dr. Breeze Harper @breezeharper.com · 04/07/2025

DARVO, Gaslighting, and the Queer Silence: How "Nina’s Whisper" Confronts LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence Book Review: Nina’s Whisper by @drsheenahoward.bsky.social A Decolonial Lens on Intimate Partner Violence and the DARVO Playbook breezeharper.com/darvo-gaslig... #BookSky #BlackBookSky

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DARVO, Gaslighting, and the Queer Silence: How "Nina’s Whisper" Confronts LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence

Book Review: Nina’s Whisper by Sheena C. Howard A Decolonial Lens on Intimate Partner Violence and the DARVO Playbook

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

✊Happy Juneteenth, everyone! We’re celebrating by spotlighting incredible Black authors 📚 Wake by Rebecca Hall 📚 Blood At the Root by @itsladarrion.bsky.social 📚 The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social 📚 Kindred Graphic Novel by @abramscomicarts.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

To enter this giveaway, I asked people to drop their favorite Black FMC. YALL!!! The book Recs 😍 Go check them out. And lemme tell you, the breehive showed up for sure 🤣🤣

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Bindery Books | GIVEAWAY: Signed copies of The Blood Gi...

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

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Black Zephyr Publishing @blackzephyrpublishing.com · 19/05/2025

Life tip: plot twists have *nothing* on time-travelers. Or is it …everything? 🤔 #BookSky #plottwist

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Black Zephyr Publishing @blackzephyrpublishing.com · 19/05/2025

🖤✏️ 💙📚 "Black indie authors and publishers to pay attention to - Amanda Weaver -- www.amandaweavernovels.com - Antoine Bandele -- www.antoinebandele.com - Deston Munden -- linktr.ee/AuthorDJMunden - Row House Publishing -- www.rowhousepublishing.com - E.A. Noble -- eanoble.substack.com ..."

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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

#Bookstagram #BookSky #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #STEMBooks #EngineeringBooks #RobotBooks #RepresentationMatters #DiversifySTEM #BookTok #BlackBookTok #BlackBookSky 🖤✏👩🏾‍🎓👩🏾‍🔬👩🏾‍🏫👷🏾‍♀️👩🏾‍🔧👩🏾‍💻🤖

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Tia Williams spoke with PW about her first YA romance, ‘Audre & Bash Are Just Friends,’ the importance of writing about mental health for young audiences, and if readers can catch her back on the YA scene again anytime soon

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Four Questions for Tia Williams

We spoke with Tia Williams about her first YA romance, 'Audre & Bash Are Just Friends,' and writing across genres and age ranges.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It’s National Black Author’s Day and I’m so blessed to be doing this for four years and counting! I write ✍️ books set in the South that look like me and talk like me and give kids a glimpse of hoodoo, magic and possibility. #booksky #blackbooksky linktr.ee/srmilesauthor

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@Brioxy | Sistah Scifi Book Club: A People's Future of the United States.. Calling all BIPOC lovers of speculative fiction! 🗓️ Wednesday, April 30, 2025 🕕 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM PDT 🌐 Online (link at www.sistahscifi.com) @JohnJosephAdams @OneWorld #sistahscifi

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

gonna definitely tell my kids this is Sinners.

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KQED Arts & Culture @kqedarts.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

LaTajh Simmons-Weaver's new short film 'Budget Paradise' follows a Black nonbinary painter as they roam through Oakland, facing rejection after rejection as they look for a quiet place to paint. It screens this weekend at Marina Theatre:

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Oakland Is the Heartbeat of LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s Cinematic Universe

At SFFILM, the rising director premieres ‘Budget Paradise,’ about an artist navigating their gentrifying hometown.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 29/04/2025

Smith was one of the four founders of Essence Communications, launched four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed segregation and banned discrimination in public spaces. www.instagram.com/p/DJCnXPWvqzt/

Image of Clarence O. Smith with a purple color overlay. Below the image text reads: 1933-2025 Clarence O. Smith, co-founder of Essence magazine, dies at 92 Essence launched in 1970 and became one of the most influential magazines for Black women.

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MenoFantasy World™ | Empowerment through Menopause @menofantasy.com · 24/04/2025

The Dragon Comes at Night is our first #MenoFantasy novella. From author Breeze Harper: “…menopause isn’t just about hormones—it’s about power…unfortunately for Auré, she’s about to get a crash course in both…” #fantasy #menopause #perimenopause #preorder #BlackSky #BlackBookSky #BookSky

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20/11/2024

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

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Steven Underwood @blaqueword.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025

So, there's something I'm getting ready to write on in regards to Sinners and the use of Black Southern Gothic in Fantasy being largely ignored or neglected. Thankfully, South of Midnight and Sinners are bringing it back. But D&D/ @nirele.bsky.social made a Southern Black setting called Godsbreath

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angela & the Black Writers Group @befabulousyou.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Matters of #blacklove are super important imho. These essays affirm many of my takes + caused pause a few times. Variety of perspectives, esp from/about some authors whose work I have tried/want to try. #2025books #blacknonfiction #blackbooks #Blackbooksky #blackskybooks #blacklovematters

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It’s been SUCH a whirlwind few months. I cannot believe I did it, but I DID- I served as a guest editor for an anthology. First (and probably last...editing is not my cup of tea, 😆) time ever. Another milestone. Due out in October. You can find it here: www.harpercollins.com./products/the...

THE •BEST•AMERICAN
Science Fiction and Fantasy

Edited by Nnedi Okorafor

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