Go Wahoos! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

I'm THRILLED to reveal the cover to my forthcoming anthology. What do you think? For more information about the 28 contributors to this evocative collection, go here: www.descooper.com/black-summer... #booksky #blacksky

See you in Northern Michigan on August 27! #booksky

HELP! I'm speaking to the Children's Defense Fund's Freedom School in Hampton (VA) and want to give the 50 little scholars free copies of "Nothing Special." Will you help me raise $1000 for the books? Tag your tax-deductible gift "Nothing Special." Books are $20 ea. THANK YOU! tinyurl.com/2kpjxkar

This Juneteenth, I hope that people of color and their allies join in passing on the beautiful breadth of our history and culture. Nothing Special in on sale now at the link below. Use the coupon code: RYAY40 #BookSky #BlackSky #Juneteenth wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349731/

#MothersDay, #Blacksky

Get the mother in your life what she really wants for Mother's Day... wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341490/ #BookSky #BlackSky #MothersDay

substack.com/profile/8916... During this podcast, I got to read three of my flash fictions from Know the Mother, and then we did a group “story autopsy.” It was so fun. I hope you enjoy this and every episode of Let's Deconstruct a Story! Thanks Kelly! #booksky #blacksky

This story started in my head the first time I visited a plantation while pregnant --37 years ago. We revisited the site last summer with my grandchildren, and finally, the story came together for me. Thx @fracturedlit.bsky.social! #booksky fracturedlit.com/marked/

Resist, writers. Resist. #booksky

Write right now...especially now. "Marilyn Nelson wrote in an email, 'current events seem to cry out to be written about in poetry and fiction as well as journalism, because people have to understand them in order to stop them.'” #booksky

Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions #Booksky

When in the Dr. Seuss have children's books NOT been about uniqueness and being "different?" Listen, my friends. If they came come after white women and freckles, they can come for you.

This is wonderful.

I just read Remains of the Day almost in one sitting. I was left in tears. It hit different in this moment when I am searching so hard for the answer to the question about how so many good people can be caught up and complicit with today's horrors. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Black history is American history. www.descooper.com/nothing-spec...

The worst thing that happened to me yesterday (MLK Day, Inauguration Day) was finding out that my friend who is a Mexican immigrant with mixed race Black children and grandchildren was unaware of both. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary how in the world????????

We have lost a great warrior. What a day for her to leave us. www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/u...

He’s moving the inauguration indoors bc it’s too cold and he wants to invade Greenland? It’s a damn ice sheet!

I guess it's good they didn't burn it down a year ago.

Here's my question: how many times can we build intricate, meaningful communities on volatile, privately-owned platforms? It's like you build a world and then it disappears (or you're forced to flee).

I guess hell is freezing over. www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

Tonight's waxing gibbous. How small our planetary chaos must look from there.

The truth of her words makes this all the more traumatizing. annawharton.substack.com/p/what-would...

This is much to ponder. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

A must read The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

A new theory? Hmmm www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/c...

It's come to this....

Breakfast with the ancestors first. Happy Thanksgiving!

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