Pen N. Black
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Mother | Teacher | Writer | Creative | Book Lover | Literacy Advocate 💙🐩💛 SPR ‘13 ❤️🤍🖤Bearcat❤️🤍🖤
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
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Seeing so many women in their late 20, early, mid, late 30s and up heal their inner little girls by falling in love all over again with American Girl dolls is doing something doing something to my spirit! I went and found mine and fixed her leg. Next her wig
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Writing is kicking my ass!!!
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The school year is right around the corner and I want to help my students start the school year off right. Please check out my Donors Choose campaign: Successfully Organized to donate to my incoming 4th graders Planner and communication folder fund!
www.donorschoose.org/project/succ...
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Successfully Organized!, a project from Ms. Shakir
Help me give my students the tools they need to be organized and successful for this upcoming school year. Organization is crucial for a student's academic success and personal growth. In our c...
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/successfully-organized/9519741/?utm_source=dc&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=tpc_complete&utm_term=teacher_10008414&rf=directlink-dc-2025-07-tpc_complete-teacher_10008414&challengeid=22481197
5 months ago
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Sheryl Swoops is now my Soror!!!
6 months ago
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Why did no one tell me that The Hunger Hames series was going to GUT me the way that it did! Like I need a day or two before I begin The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
6 months ago
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Ironheart!!! ❤️💛❤️💛🫶🏾
7 months ago
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So they dismissed the first African American and woman to hold the position of librarian of Congress…in an e-mail.
8 months ago
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I had ordered my book in advance because I didn’t wanna miss out and imagine my surprise when I walked into the store on pick up day and saw little to no push for
#Oathbound
. No poster, no table, no nothing but you know what had a full table? OnyxStorm…
10 months ago
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The fact that people are having to go on journeys to find Oathbound in B&N is not sitting right with my spirit
10 months ago
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YA ALLAH NOT ANGIE STONE!!!
10 months ago
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If you get an early release of Oathbound please PLEASE do not ruin it for the rest of us! ❤️⚔️💙⚔️💜
11 months ago
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I hope you all have been buying physical books…
11 months ago
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Completed my first 1 hour writing sprint: 1,200/3000 Going into my second sprint after this 25 min Power Nap.
11 months ago
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If White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson taught me anything it was the importance of apologizing to children. Adults may think children are resilient (which they are) but admitting your faults and apologizing for your wrong doing to them goes a long way. It shows that you value them. It matters!
11 months ago
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It should not be that damn cold outside unacceptable!
11 months ago
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Man life is lifing right now. a psycho is in the damn White House! and eggs are 6 freaking dollars!!!
11 months ago
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Diversity isn’t just for February. You can read diversely all 12 months of the year!
11 months ago
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Btw: I’m 3/75 in my 2025 reading goal!
12 months ago
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So…what was the purpose of the ban?
12 months ago
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Where are yall going to be tomorrow when TT goes dark?
12 months ago
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If y’all not doing nothin y’all should follow me on my bookstagram same @ (pennblackwrites) I’m consistent there since I like posting pictures 🤣🤣
12 months ago
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Why is it so hard to break through on bookstagram!!!
12 months ago
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It’s been a minute, what yall doin’?What yall readin’?
12 months ago
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What book made you fall in love with reading?
12 months ago
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Watching Gleipnir…and yall thought Dandadan was bad?!?
about 1 year ago
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Tomi Adeyemi liked, commented (twice), and reposted one of my TikToks!
about 1 year ago
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Happy new year! What’s your reading goal?!?
about 1 year ago
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Did you hit your reading goal?
about 1 year ago
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Habari Gani?!? Kujichagulia (self-determination) To defend ourselves, to name ourselves, to create for ourselves, and most importantly to speak for ourselves!
about 1 year ago
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Habari Gani! I’m late here but joyous Kwanzaa everyone! Today’s principal is you Umoja (unity)! Umoja is the heartbeat of connection, the foundation of community, and the spirit of togetherness that strengthens us all. How did you strengthen your connections with your community today?
about 1 year ago
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Happy holidays to you all!!!
about 1 year ago
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I can’t breathe. 🤣😭🤣😭🤣
about 1 year ago
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F—k you epilepsy!
about 1 year ago
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I need to be more consistent with my book journaling in 2025
about 1 year ago
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I’m officially on winter break prepare to be sick of me!!!
about 1 year ago
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One more day of this madness!!!
about 1 year ago
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I’m writing a new adult fantasy novel based in Cincinnati. A high school senior learns that she comes from a family of conjurers and in the midst of learning how to hone her abilities, she uncovers family secrets that threaten to break the foundations of her own identity.
about 1 year ago
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I’m thinking about starting an underground banned book ring for my students, where they can bring and trade books and we’d have secret Socratic seminars where we discuss whether or not the books should be banned or not
about 1 year ago
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Tis the Monday before winter break…and the children are acting like it’s Friday already!
about 1 year ago
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Nothing like a child having a melt down during your observations and then screaming “SHES A TEACHER WITH A TIKTOK THAT WRITES ANOUT WITCHES!”
about 1 year ago
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“I hope the people that I hate…always know that I hate them. Because I want the people that I love to know that I love them. And you can’t have it both ways.” -Nikki Giovanni
about 1 year ago
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“this decade will be known for there is no doubt it is loneliness” - Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. Rest In Eternal Power
about 1 year ago
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I’m so thankful for my husband who is always willing to be my sounding board when I working through difficulties of my novel!
about 1 year ago
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Half way through chapter six of draft one part one should be completed by the end of the month.
#Progress
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about 1 year ago
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Finish the lyrics: Read a book! Read a book! Read a…
about 1 year ago
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It’s something about the way Toni Morrison reads her works that just makes me smile 😊
about 1 year ago
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I have to survive three weeks until winter break…. Today alone felt like those three weeks!
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Pen N. Black
Kenza Ashley
about 1 year ago
I really couldn't listen to the Black Panther soundtrack for almost to years after Chadwick died. Whew 🥺 Still puts me in my feelings, but it's easier now.
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When your kids literally ignore you until you try to write!!! YES THE ORANGE BANANA YOU DREW IS COOL BUDDY NOW MOVE IT!
about 1 year ago
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The way my students were screaming mustard today… we had to have crump battle brain breaks 🤣🤣🤣
about 1 year ago
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