You can download How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books free from Cambridge University Press through August 6. This is pretty pertinent reading given all the talk from that Atlantic article heralding the end of the age of reading. bookriot.com/listen/the-l...

The Latest Research on Gen Z's Reading Habits - BOOK RIOT

Rebecca sits down with Portland State University researchers Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda to discuss the findings in their new book, How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books.

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Thank you so much to my school supply angel! I've already gotten some books and menstrual products. The most used items are deodorant, but I'd love to giveaway school agendas and SAT prep books. If you're looking to help #clearthelist here it is: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Juliana Nzita Jarard Jackson Trey Reed Kendrick Johnson Tonea Miller This administration is asleep at every wheel and in some cases intentionally steering government offices in the wrong direction. There are lynchings happening at an alarming rate.

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Jackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...

I'd love to get my hygiene essentials list cleared for school. Please help out and share if you can. #clearthelist #backtoschool www.donorschoose.org/project/hygi...

Hygiene Help for High School, a project from Ms. Miles

Help me give my students hygeine essentials to help them maintain their dignity at school. High school is hard enough without worrying about whether you stink after gym practice or even if you'...

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Chile, Pa was a mess. Dragged his entire family to the wilderness because of a flier. #littlehouse

Sula is a sociopath. She's often upheld as a feminist icon, but Sula is twisted and it was generations of neglect and poverty and unrealized dreams that turned her into a monster. shannamilesauthor.substack.com/p/sula-the-s...

Sula the Sociopath

Feminism, body horror and generational curses

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Chronic illness really will do a number on you. Sometimes you forget it’s there if it’s something that flares. Now you’re wondering if you made it up. And one thing about getting older is realizing that so many doctors are just not curious.

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 Should be Making Zines

I took my daughter thrifting this week and inside of Junkman’s Daughter in Atlanta there is a little space for knickknacks and in the back a tiny book section.

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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/

Science ATL Takes Flight: A Family Summer Book Club - Science ATL

We’re taking to the skies with Science ATL Takes Flight, a family book club exploring flight through books and activities.

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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:

DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.

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

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

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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

AUTHOR TALK: Love Is a Contact Sport with Frederick Smith - July 9 @ 7

Celebrate the release of Love Is a Contact Sport with Frederick Smith! EVENT DEETS When: Thursday, July 9 @ 7PM Where: Kindred Stories (2310 Elgin St, Houston, TX 77004) How: RSVP ONLY to reserve your...

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"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...

Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class

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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...

Rebel With A Cause

The WEB Dubois documentary and the power of social clubs

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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...

South Carolina Governor Plans Special Session to Redraw House Maps

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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.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions and ordered a new trial in the killing of his wife and son

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

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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...

4 Summer Reading Programs for Kids & a DIY

From Bookit! to Barnes and Noble

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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

250 Influential Books For America's 250 Anniversary

Brooklyn Public Library shares 250 Influential Books for America's 250th Anniversary, plus more library news.

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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...

Opinion | John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist

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