If you hosted or participated in a workplace/faculty book club give me your tips! How did you choose books? How often did you meet?

What are we reading this week?

“ESSENCE, BLACK ENTERPRISE, JET, EBONY, VIBE, HONEY, HYPE HAIR, and KING magazine in your mailbox every month. These were print magazines written and distributed with the Black reader in mind and the fact that only one of these is still printing today is a loss that we can barely calculate.”

Black people do not hang themselves from trees. Again, this is NOT something we do and too many of these cases are being ruled self inflicted. Tonea Miller Juliana Nzita Kyle Bassinga Kai James This is ALL in 2026

Atlanta Science Festival has a summer book club for kids! Check it out. #booksky scienceatl.org/take-flight/

4 Black History and Non-fiction books YOU and your teen can read this summer. #booksky #summerreading

KILL BILL meets QUEEN & SLIM Female rage Vengeance Road Trip Cults And hair braiders Go see it in theatres ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:

Watch your accounts people! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

I'll be at Kindred Stories in Houston on Thursday, 7/9/26 at 7 pm. Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance, out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. RSVP & buy at Kindred Stories. kindredstorieshtx.com/products/aut... #BookSky #KindredStories

"I watched a freshman I knew sign the declaration that he’d done his homework without A.I. as #ChatGPT was still open in the next window — while on the deck of a yacht party financed by venture capitalists." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

Big thanks to everyone who donated to our Dorm Essentials giveaway! We were able to stuff bags with everything from toothpaste to personal fans. Our recipients are going to as far away as Howard University and close to home at Georgia State University.

I was lucky enough to see an advanced screening of REBEL WITH A CAUSE, the PBS doc on WEB Dubois that comes out TODAY! Check out my review here: open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

My current read #booksky. What's yours? Key takeaways: MAGA isn't the cult, Americanism is. MAGA is the girl scout troupe at the church of Americanism. It's an offshoot like the Tea Party, the Klan, the Citizen's Councils, the UDC and the Know Nothing Party. It's old.

Why are they fighting so hard for one or two seats? @thathazzleegirl on TikTok cleared it up. They're trying to get as close to a 2/3 majority as possible to change the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

If he had just murdered his wife and child he'd walk, but since he stole money he'll still spend 40 years in jail. Ain't that America.

The Supreme Court just took away key voting rights, so I'm taking it to socials! Join me for this Red Wine ＆ Blue Social Bank to share facts about the ruling and lift up important messages on Facebook and Instagram. It's an easy way to take action! social.redwine.blue/s/MZtsxBCg

4 Questions to Ask Your Kids after reading each night: 1. What do you think will happen next? 2. Why do you think they did that? 3. What would you like to know? 4. What does this remind you of?

Need a Summer Reading Log? #booksky #blackbooksky #edusky canva.link/352ktu7x1n4c...

It’s time to do some serious Summer Reading prep and while reading is its own reward it is so much fun to get a treat when you’re done. Here are some old and new programs for kids and teens that incentivize summer reading. #booksky #summerreading open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

5 things to do for literacy this week 1. Ask a kid what they're reading in school 2. Add a library card from another state tinyurl.com/ymvchw9j 3. Check out the 250 most influential books from the Brooklyn Public Library: tinyurl.com/2s44abwc 4. Subscribe to a Newspaper 5. Make a summer (TBR) list

Senior Signing Day was a success today. We’re still stuffing dorm room duffle bags! If you’d like to send some graduates off with dorm room essentials you can help here: tinyurl.com/ypr75hf3 or send items from our list here www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

"to borrow a phrase from Justice Antonin Scalia. In the court’s view, you may have the right to vote, but you do not have the right to representation, and certainly no right to representation that supports “racial classification” Gift Article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

Snapshot in the school library: 3 kids playing the NYT Spelling Bee (I put it on the board) 2 coloring and decompressing from lunch 1 scrolling in the cozy chair 4 sitting on the carpet with books checked out and chatting softly

Still going strong. Can we make the deadline?

If you're confused about Kevin Roberts, the father of Project 2025, and his PhD in History with a focus on African American history this article will help. In short...he's a grifter. He picked AA history over Civil War history bc the field was too crowded. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Donations are DOUBLED TODAY!!!! We just need $335 to stuff dorm essentials into duffle bags for students heading to #college Remember, how much stuff you needed to buy? This can be a huge help to kids who have families that may not be able to help. tinyurl.com/ypr75hf3

Happy #starwarsday here is a scholarly article on Race, Gender and Colonialism in the Star Wars Universe. Happy Reading! digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/_flysystem/f...

Pushing the date back on this so that we can give away stuffed bags during graduation practice. We didn't meet the Signing Day deadline. BUT ALL IS NOT LOST! $700 away from full funding on Donor's Choose: tinyurl.com/ypr75hf3 You can also ship by Amazon here: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Y'all, my primary election ballot is three pages long. My usual 20 minutes of research time has ballooned! I did find out one of the candidate's husband punched a dude at a public event soooo she's out.

Here are 10 ways to make SURE your kid isn’t featured in a viral video stumbling over ‘extraordinary’ for views and ridicule.

Need a frothy escape? Kristina Forest's THE PARTNER PLOT is on sale for $1.99 #booksky #blackbooksky 2nd chance romance. Celebrity stylist x Teacher. Ex- high school sweethearts Amazon: tinyurl.com/2rxjmn4y Bookshop.org (support an indie bookstore. Read ebooks using the app): tinyurl.com/4bhy9j36

5 things to do for self-care and resistance this week: 1.Check your voter registration status 2. Buy a pot and some seeds. Grow something 3. Listen to a new artist. The people are still creating 4. Put some Vaseline on those heels and then some socks. It’s sandal season 5. Give someone a compliment

I'm gearing up for the summer with research topics. As a writer who HEAVILY pulls from Black history it's necessary to dig into those stacks. open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Any ideas from the #teachers and #librarians on no cost activities for Star Wars day?

Since Summer is coming up? The Pizza 🍕 Hut Book It program still exists, you just download an app now. I mean the Land Before stone puppets don’t exist anymore, but I am definitely gonna get that pan pizza with my kindergartner because I will always, always compete in the sports of books and pizza.

We're trying to send off students to college with the essentials you need for the dorm that are not covered by scholarships. 🎓Shampoo 🎓Sheets 🎓Detergent 🎓Sanitary napkins, etc. We'll give them out on Signing Day in a week! Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Donor's Choose: tinyurl.com/ypr75hf3

Atlanta Book Lovers Unite! www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

We're trying to send off students to college with the essentials you need for the dorm that are not covered by scholarships. 🎓Shampoo 🎓Sheets 🎓Detergent 🎓Sanitary napkins, etc. We'll give them out on Signing Day in a week! Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Donor's Choose: tinyurl.com/ypr75hf3

Today & every day, Lee & Low Books supports & fights for the right to read! This #RighttoReadDay, we encourage you to join the fight by taking action in your community. The American Library Association has made it easy by providing ways you can do just that: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

10 Days Left!! We're trying to send off students to college with the essentials you need for the dorm that are not covered by scholarships. Things like: 🎓Shampoo 🎓Sheets 🎓Detergent 🎓Sanitary napkins, etc. Amazon: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Donor's Choose: tinyurl.com/mtjxp9xp

The push to have teenagers have more babies is about keeping House seats. Red states are bleeding their young couples who leave and get jobs in big cities. Population dips alone will have the GOP at a disadvantage without Dems having to raise a single dollar.

Three substacks to read this weekend

"...who he used to be doesn’t really matter. Who he became when he was frustrated, angry, and sad is the crux of the matter because girls and women are just as angry, oppressed, lonely AND mentally ill, but they don’t kill because of it." #justinfairfax tinyurl.com/5fhzt628

Men should read romance novels. A lot of them are dual perspective and have a lot of comedic appeal.

@bookshop.org we need online book fairs that support our favorite indies. Scholastic doesn't serve high schools and sometimes you need a little quick fundraiser.

Read any Black Feminist theory lately? THICK by is essential reading and it's on sale #booksky #blackbooksky Amazon: tinyurl.com/4wd52cmf Bookshop (via an indie bookstore): shorturl.at/wozGR

"All you have is a horde of boys online like the Lord of the Flies on a virtual island w/Clavicular as tribal leader. $35k jaw surgery. Breaking your bones w/ a hammer. Meth for weight loss. It all comes down to who looks better (leaner, sharper, whiter), even if it kills you." tinyurl.com/f8wd45m7

'Wellness' is the new religion and it has it's child preachers just like any other backwoods Baptist church. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...