Antonio Michael Downing

Books, Blackness & Bacchanal 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇺🇸 Black Cherokee (2025), Saga Boy (2021). Host of @cbcbooks The Next Chapter. Music Guy: John Orpheus🏆 @SimonSchusterCA

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Canada is different from America but how exactly?

https://t.co/E4XzMlkkjO

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"The titan-to-be had a keen and smug appreciation for the emerging city..."

Ernest Hemingway's Toronto years 🙌🏾

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[Cornel West @CornelWest]

Cornel West in conversation with Tavis Smiley on why Mississippi has produced so much Black greatness—and why attempts to erase Black history cannot erase the truth. From the Delta blues to writers, musicians, and cultural icons, West reflects on how struggle, resilience, and creativity have shaped Black excellence, while emphasizing why preserving African American Studies and confronting America’s full history is essential to understanding the nation itself! #TruthJusticeLove @tavissmiley @kbla1580 #Mississippi #BlackHistory

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"We must continue getting it perfectly right on a global scale forever."

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My favorite political writer decided to publish! ✨️🙌🏾✨️

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@AyobamiWorld @utdreport @FabrizioRomano 30 goal involvements. Champions League football. That's better than ever United player did last year except for Bruno. That says a lot.

[Audric Moses 🍁 @audricmoses]

WOW, absolute 🔥 from @canmnt's coach, US citizen Jesse Marsch.

Americans who think like this: we still love you guys ♥️!

#uspoli

[Windham-Campbell Prizes @WindhamCampbell]

“I’ve written five or six novels… They seem to take longer, and the writing doesn’t get easier. But, that’s good. You want the challenge to be commensurate to your abilities.” —Gwendoline Riley

#WindhamCampbellPrizes

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

Despite Barriers, Black-Owned Bookstores Continue Their Legacy of Educating Communities
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@VassB Gee...your deadpan is on-point maam!

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@SaleemaNawaz Focus group driven rather than artist driven? What's your hypothesis?

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

📚 Meet the 2026 shortlist: @John_Orpheus's Black Cherokee, from @SimonSchusterCA, follows Ophelia Blue Rivers, raised by her grandmother until her world is upended, sending her on a journey through family, faith, and identity. Learn more: https://t.co/qvPvh6Unjc
#AmazonFNA50

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Proud to announce that BLACK CHEROKEE is a finalists for the 2026 Amazon First Novel Prize ✨️🙌🏾🏆

https://t.co/AefflbSyD5

@WCA_LitAgency @SimonSchusterCA @thewalrus

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Episode 103 -Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy and Black Cherokee https://t.co/wSiY9trqnL via @embedly

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Listening to "Black Cherokee (2025)" at https://t.co/TTRtnfrJz8

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@SCanada2025 @nationalpost Why are blaming the Post for reporting on something the U.S. State Department is doing? Interesting approach.

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

"The college gender gap, for instance, could be evidence of a rudderless, demoralized generation of young men, but it might also be the product of differing economic incentives."
https://t.co/HECq7evQcs | @NewYorker

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

Why are Canadian made weapons being used to commit massacres and genocide in Sudan @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney @GAC_Corporate @MSidhuLiberal @melaniejoly @Rob_Oliphant @MonaFortier?

Again @GAC_Corporateis is not answering journalists’ questions.

Criminal and shameful.

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@Malala dropped by The Next Chapter last month...

https://t.co/goThms7dxB