SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
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Aggregator of Black Culture. Boosting Blackademia since '99. Feminist. BX-born. Chair, @DukeU's Academic Council. Author #SaveASeatForMe# (2026) @BullCitySigmas
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Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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"Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, 'Expecting Inequity' reveals that not only are Black people three to four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause, but racial disparities in maternal mortality persist across income levels."--@mitpress
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An unaired ABC 20/20 profile on James Baldwin from 1979
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