Black Girl With Books ⚡️

Passionate about reading and lifting up Black books, authors, and independent bookstores. Join the #10AfricanBooks Challenge!

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

I started the #10AfricanBooks Challenge last year to encourage us all to read more books by African authors. I hope you'll join me in reading at least 10 books written by African authors this year.

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

What are you reading this weekend? 📚

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@DJSUCHNSUCK Truly!! 😭

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This is the blackest #Emmys and I love this for us. Ayo and Quinta winning the first two awards is everything. 🥹💕

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Make sure to use the hashtag #10AfricanBooks in your posts!

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

I started the #10AfricanBooks Challenge last year to encourage us all to read more books by African authors. I hope you'll join me in reading at least 10 books written by African authors this year.

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

What are you currently reading?

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” ―Mary McLeod Bethune

[Unite Against Book Bans @UABookBans]

The freedom to read is under attack. Let’s do something about it.

We’re taking action to defend the right to read on #LetFreedomReadDay. Whether you have 5 minutes or all day, take at least one action today & beyond: https://t.co/6ZryQ0lva1 #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

@Animal_Fort Yes! There are great options for vegan and vegetarian Ethiopian dishes 😊

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

A great night with the one and only @kerrywashington and @tonygoldwyn — filled with honest conversations, nostalgic #Scandal references, family truths, and an audience filled with people hanging on to every word. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Kerry! #ThickerThanWater

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“September is Library Card Sign Up Month. It is not widely known or celebrated, but it should be. The tenor of our times requires those of us who understand the power of books to get involved. The children of today need our help.”

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[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“Write anyway. Write for yourself. Write for the possibility of spreading light and helping someone.” -Etaf Rum

[Angie Thomas @angiecthomas]

The Angie Thomas Writers scholarship is a full ride scholarship at my alma mater @BelhavenU for an aspiring young writer. Educators, please pass this along.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Marsha P. Johnson, a central figure in the Stonewall Uprising, was born August 24, 1945. She would have been 78 today.

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

@Animal_Fort @TwitchPBG @ClintSmithIII Thank you!! 😄

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.” ―Naomi Shihab Nye

[American Library Association @ALALibrary]

We condemn—in the strongest terms possible—the violence, threats of violence and other acts of intimidation that are increasingly taking place in America’s libraries, including these recent threats directed at suburban Chicago/Lake County libraries. 1/2 https://t.co/rjWNcQXZoS

[Black Girl With Books ⚡️ @BlkGirlWithBook]

“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”
―Jesmyn Ward, The Fire this Time

[We Need Diverse Books @diversebooks]

#BooksForMaui is now live! It is a bookish auction to raise funds for the Maui wildfire relief efforts. With the full impact, devastation, and loss of life of the wildfire yet to be understood, we encourage everyone to bid and/or signal boost: https://t.co/Z8HYt34Co3