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This can save lives of many Black people who were wrongly convicted and arrested on drug possession charges. Please spread!

Marpessa Dawn in Black Orpheus (1959) dir. Marcel Camus

Books for Black Women of All Ages to Read

Marita Golden Don’t Play in the Sun

Coffee will make you black- April sinclair

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith

Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Middle school)

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, by Meg Cabot

The Mighty Miss Malone, by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna And Still Peace Did Not Come A Memoir of Reconciliation

Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Place

Alaya Dawn Johnson Love is the Drug

Alice Walker Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

Alice Walker In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Alice Walker Meridian

Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved

Alice Walker By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Angela Y Davis Blues Legacies & Black Feminism

Anne Moody Coming of age in Misssissi

Anne Schraff The One for Me

Antoinette Tuff Prepared for a Purpose

Antoinette Tuff Prepared For a Purpose

April Sinclair Coffee Will Make You Black

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel

Babygirl Daniels 16 ½ on the Block A Babygirl Drama Vol. 2

Barbara Smith Home Girls

Bebe Moore Campbell Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad

Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters

Bell Hooks Bone Black Memories of Girlhood

Belle Antoinette Remains

Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?

Brandon Montclare Halloween Eve

Brian K. Vaughn Saga Volume One

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All be Feminists

Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees

Chris Cleave Little Bee

Cleste O. Norfleet Download Drama

Coe Booth Kendra

Danielle L. McGuire At the Dark End of the Street

Dasha Kelly Almost Crimson

Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height

Dorthy Spruill Redford Somerset Homecoming

Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Freddie Mae Baxter The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life

Gloria Naylor Mama Day

Grace F. Edwards No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery

Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Iyanla Vanzant Faith in the Valley

Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place

Janet Jackson True You

Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Jaquelin Thomas Divine Match-up

Jeremy Zimmerman Kensei

Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones

Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau

Justina Ireland Promise of Shadows

Karen Gibson Roc she & i Poems

Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds

Karen Tanabe The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe Gilded Years

Kathryn Talalay Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

Kia Dupree Silenced

Kimberla Lawson Roby Casting The First Stone

Kymberla Lawson Roby Casting the First Stone

Kyoko M. The Black Parade

Laura Resau The Queen of Water

Linda Joyce The Second Room on The Right

Lola Jaye Being Lara: A Novel

Lorene Cary The Price of a Child

Lynn Austin A Light to My Path

Marian Wright Edelman Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors

Bless her!….NOBODY ever says this part

Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

from here

Ladies, please normalize being high maintenance. Keep your standards high, expect people to climb to reach them. Tell them that yes, you do plan on spending your money, your time, and your energy on yourself first. Unabashedly tell people “no” with no explanation. When they ask you “who do you think you are” tell them that you’re you. And that is enough. 

I’m going to point out some weird things about @projecttrinity‘s upcoming visual novel “Women of Xal” in relation to this site.

1) It’s an upcoming Kickstarter bound otome game that very obviously is PoC / People of Color & WoC/ Women of Color centric. We’ve got a bi female lead with several romancable women. And it’s in a harsh matriarchal society ready to give some brutal parallels to our own. Being helmed by a very capable and snarky Black writer. The two programmers are women. The artists are women. The singers are women. One of the animators is a woman. AND THERE’S TANGIBLE QUALITY TO IT! I thought we’ve been asking for more projects like this for years now. But Tumblr has been the most quiet of the four sites it’s updating on??? (Youtube, Facebook, LemmSoftForums, Tumblr) 

2) How are hateful anons finding this project before everyone else? Why are we letting Black creatives feel like the anon has a point about Tumblr not caring? Isn’t this site notorious for propping up content like this? Where are my feminists at?!

Like, I truly get it: Most of you will have only just heard of this. And Tumblr didn’t make it easy in the first place. Tags and timing are madly important. But so are reblogs and follows! You’re reading this now - there’s nothing truly stopping you from showing that anon the middle finger. For every time WE DON’T JUST ‘HEART’ A CREATIVE’S POST and reblog/follow their content, we prove hateful anons like this wrong. And every time we prove them wrong, we send an encouraging message to other minorities who want to share their passions with the world, but face that uphill battle.

And hey, the writer clearly has faith in this site still:

You can find out more about the project here.

Or, better yet, follow, and support the team here!

(Bonus Note: If you’re someone who has been reblogging a lot of content from this team as well, cheers, fellow sisters! <3)