Black People Read

We support literacy & reading as a hobby in the African American community. Dispel the myth! Yes, #blackpeopleread & they have the audacity to write, too.

[Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks @CornellWBrooks]

Any parents pinning & punching their 14 year old daughter for being disobedient would be arrested by these SAME officers.

The issue isn’t the noncompliance of the child, it is the non-judgement of the police officer.

Are punches to the kidney tools of police de-escalation?@AP

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

You are a terrible authority figure @realDonaldTrump. I am disgusted by your entire presidency and all who follow you.

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

Go home and read a #book. Yes, #blackpeopleread https://t.co/cZLcXjtJG0

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

RT @Tamjam13: @realDonaldTrump Don’t you seriously have better things to worry about? Get to work.

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

RT @sharons53508873: @realDonaldTrump Your tweets make me feel like we are all on an episode of punked. No one can be this incredibly stupid & self centered, and somehow is our president? 😂🤯ok sure

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

@realDonaldTrump Nobody wants to apologize to you. Get over yourself. You created America's current state of hostility. Save the country further embarrassment & #RESIGN.

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

I've been gone for a minute. Currently binging on novels by Pamela Samuels Young (Dre Thomas Series). Then, gonna start on novels by Portia A. Cosby. #FIRE
What y'all reading? Yes, #blackpeopleread

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

RT @stevesilberman: Miami-Dade attorney declines to prosecute prison guards who literally boiled a (cont) https://t.co/3PUZ0w978Y

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

👀 RT @nakiaRL: What you tolerate and what your hosts do are 2 different things. I've never been denied a hotel or VRBO. @AirbnbHelp

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

RT @WritingFestival: Happy Birthday: LeVar Burton https://t.co/HEG5UHEKv1

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

RT @blackenterprise: Inequality in Tech May be Worse Than We Thought https://t.co/eW75VOe21c

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

Build your own wealth, home, business, everything. #blackpeopleread

[malanda. @overlyxclusive]

u can re-imagine yourself. reinvention is a choice. your choices don’t make life a contract, u have a tongue for a reason. use it to change.

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

Frank Ocean Tried to Warn Us About the Grammys’ Unwillingness to Recognize Black Genius https://t.co/cikAN2qegS

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

Your Petty pres-elect, Trump w/nothing better to do blasts Meryl Streep in tweets after Golden Globes speech - https://t.co/jqKmN0e6Pw

[Black People Read @BlackPeopleRead]

Meryl Streep Calls Out Donald Trump in Her Golden Globes Speech - https://t.co/0gUMtbhuV9

[Beverly Jenkins @authorMsBev]

One of the best gifts you can give a child? A library card. It can change a life. It certainly did mine. Happy Sunday.

[The Root @TheRoot]

#SarahButler's death has now been ruled a homicide: https://t.co/bHAdrlNEFu