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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement | Suzanne Cope

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This is probably the best nonfiction I've read this year. This speaks to my soul.

#readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

And since it's #tuesdaytunes, I'll also say I now have a whole new understanding of Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam: https://youtu.be/teqWnF-HD1M?si=oyZLcasQnplxmX-2

@TieDyeDude

lil1inblue Interview with Suzanne Cope: https://linewaitersgazette.com/2021/12/20/suzanne-copes-book-spotlights-the-unsu... 6d

lil1inblue Suzanne Cope presents Power Hungry with Cleo Silvers: https://youtu.be/9G5tKTZgfOs?si=R2DLB8EKTHXDDahB 6d

AmyG You don‘t need it to be Tuesday to listen to Nina Simone. (edited) 6d

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lil1inblue @AmyG So true! The song just fits with the book so well - I figured it would be a good Tuesday tunes share. 🙂 6d

TieDyeDude Thanks for all these resources! It is crazy the work the Black Panthers put back into their communities, and how the gov't worked to stop it and suppress people's awareness of their good deeds. 6d

TheBookHippie @AmyG 💯💯💯 6d

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude you would really like this book. It‘s probably my number one for the year. 6d

TheBookHippie I think of this book every single day. 6d

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude https://open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazzled/p/the-black-panthers-free-breakfast?r=... 6d

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie It's so good. I want to give it to everyone I know. P.S. You put this on my radar, so thank you! 🥰 6d

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 6d

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AnnCrystal

Harvest House | Cynthia Leitich Smith

Was perplexed and devastated when I read this last night.

I LOVE the Wizard of OZ. Grew up loving the OZ. My mom (where my Indigenous American blood comes from) LOVES OZ!

How did we not know about this?!?

This morning I did some research. And this is based on truth...but I kept researching.

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AnnCrystal It seems like OZ may have been an unofficial apology from the author, Baum??? OR at least a showing of how Baum had a change of opinion, possibly due to his mother-in-law who is said to have been a Native American advocate.

The family of the author has since made an official, public apology.

👇🏼 2mo

AnnCrystal 👇🏼

After puzzling through this issue, my personal feeling is...

While Baum's early articles can never be justified. The fact that he showed a possible change of mind to his prejudice, is an importance that shouldn't be ignored.

In our current, political climate, this history is hopeful. This shows that there is a true possibility of changing the prejudicial hatred of the people who seem hopelessly lost in their viewpoints.

🤨📚🤔✊🏼🥺👠💝.
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AnnCrystal #HarvestHousereviewedbyanncrystal

#WizardofOZreviewedbyanncrystal

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

#realhistory
#honesthistory

@Chrissyreadit
#antifabookclub
#overcomingevilempires (edited) 2mo

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JenlovesJT47 How interesting, I‘ve never heard about this! 2mo

dabbe #gobsmackedbythis Thanks for posting. 🧡💜💛 2mo

AnnCrystal @JenlovesJT47 I'm glad I now know about this 📚👠💝💝💝. 2mo

AnnCrystal @dabbe it totally surprised me too 📚👠💖💖💖. 2mo

Bookwomble ❤️‍🩹 2mo

lil1inblue 💔💔💔 2mo

AnnCrystal @Bookwomble 📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💝. 2mo

AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💖. 2mo

Butterfinger Oh, this hurts. I'm so sorry. I knew it, and I remember hurting, too. I can't remember how, but it may have been Dee Brown.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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AnnCrystal 🫂 @Butterfinger I feel that encountering facts like this shouldn't surprise me anymore, then I run across “new-to-me“ information and I'm surprised shocked that it's true 🥺📚👠😘💝💝💝. 2mo

mcctrish 😳 omg I hope his mind was changed 2mo

AnnCrystal @mcctrish I truly hope 😘📚👠💔❤️‍🩹💖. 2mo

SamAnne Loved the series growing up. But such a bummer learn about this backstory. (edited) 2mo

AnnCrystal @SamAnne it was indeed disappointing to learn this 🥺📚👠💕💕💕. 2mo

Doll8455 So surprised to learn things like this and disappointed as well. 2mo

AnnCrystal @Doll8455 absolutely, especially something I grew up being such a fan of 🥺📚👠💔❤️‍🩹❣️. 2mo

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AnnCrystal

7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga | David Robertson, Scott B. Henderson

I know this history. I am familiar with the tragedies and struggles highlighted in this book...yet, it was still a difficult read.

Read this last night, during a rainstorm. I fell right into the beautifully drawn pages. Nearly cried twice, but took brief pauses from the book to calm myself.

This is to the point. Nothing over done. No unnecessary details.

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AnnCrystal
I love multi-generation stories. When it comes to stories from my own Native Country, I often hesitate with such stories because they usually have difficult topics weaved into the storyline.

This covered a whole bundle of difficult topics, especially involving suicide.

Yet I'm glad that I took a chance with this one. It was respectful to the characters and to the readers.

Very well done.

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AnnCrystal @7Generationsreviewedbyanncrystal

@Chrissyreadit
#antifabookclub
#overcomingevilempires

#TroublingTimesinOurUSA

#realhistory
#honesthistory 2mo

Chrissyreadit 🙌 2mo

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AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit ☺️📚💝. 2mo

Chrissyreadit Wow! Huge topics- and am very impressed that such depth is contained in graphic novel. 2mo

AnnCrystal @Chrissyreadit it is very well done. Very powerful, with some haunting images, yet hopeful endurance highlighted ✊🏼🥲🦅💝. 2mo

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ncsufoxes

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them | Jason Stanley

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This book is more relevant than ever. Reading this is like reliving every day of the current administration. It‘s horrifying to know we‘re watching Facism unfold in real time. This is the book for you if you want to learn how to combat against Facism, know what we‘re up against, & continue to push back on this new unsettling reality. “Facist politics preys on the human fragility that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we

ncsufoxes look down upon are being made to suffer more.” “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary.” “The charge of facism will always seem extreme: normalization means that the goalposts for the legitimate use of “extreme” terminology continually move.” #Ffacism #realhistory #honesthistory #antifabookclub (edited) 2mo

AnnCrystal 😢✊🏼🥺📚💝. 2mo

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lil1inblue

Snowbound Books | Marquette, MI (Bookstore)

#bookhaul #indiebookstore

📚 Seven Social Movements That Changed America by Linda Gordon - Impulse Buy
📚 Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi - on #mounttbr
📚 Women Who Run With Wolves - an easier to read used copy for $10
📚 The Shadow of Quetzalcoatl by Merilee Grindle - Impulse Buy
📚 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - because 3 copies is not enough and it's pretty
📚 We'moon 2026 calendar - because I get it every year

lil1inblue #readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingisresistance #bannedbooksweek #letfreedomread 2mo

AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🥳💝. 2mo

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💖 💖 💖 2mo

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CBee

James: A Novel | Percival Everett

I 💚 Percival Everett. #readingispolitical #readingisresistance #antifabookclub

CBee @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @Amiable @AmyG @dabbe @ncsufoxes @TheLudicReader @Suet624 2mo

lil1inblue 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I'm admittedly hormonal this morning, but this brought a tear to my eye. 2mo

Amiable Percival Everett is the best. 😍 2mo

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Suet624 💕💕💕 2mo

AmyG I found him a little late. The man is a gem. 2mo

CBee @lil1inblue oh honey. Solidarity 💚💚😘😘 2mo

Deblovestoread 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 2mo

TheBookHippie I love his writing. 2mo

CBee @TheBookHippie same! Love everything I‘ve read by him. 2mo

Chrissyreadit 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌💙💙💙💙💙 2mo

dabbe This. 💙✊🏻💙 2mo

AnnCrystal
👏🏼🥲✊🏼📚💝💝💝. 2mo

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Amiable

Maus: A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed | Art Spiegelman

Marking #bannedbooksweek by sharing my copies of “Maus” and “Maus II” with a coworker who plans to read and discuss them with his 14-year-old daughter.

#bannedbooks
#readingispolitical
#antifabookclub

TheBookHippie Yay!!!! 2mo

AmyG Wonderful! 2mo

dabbe These books. 💔✊🏻💔 2mo

Clare-Dragonfly That‘s wonderful. I should reread these; they‘re so good. 2mo

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lil1inblue

On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems | Jayne Cortez

News of the possible lynching in Mississippi has sent me over the edge today.

Excerpts from There It Is by Jayne Cortez
Full poem: https://spare.poems.com/poem/there-it-is/

#poemadayish #poetrypals #overcomingevilempires #readingispolitical #antifabookclub
@dabbe @Cuilin

Cuilin And there it is!!! I‘m so tired today, so sad, resting to fight another day. 😞 3mo

dabbe I. Can't. Even. P😢WERFUL. 💛💜🧡 3mo

lil1inblue @Cuilin #ditto 😓 3mo

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lil1inblue @dabbe 💔 💔 💔 3mo

AnnCrystal 😢 this just can't be happening again...✊🏼🥺. 3mo

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💔😓 💔 3mo

Reggie Also because I‘ve been on YouTube rabbit holes. There‘s been Black truckers who have gone missing near West Virginia and North Carolina. One was found hanging and same thing. It was ruled a suicide. 3mo

lil1inblue @Reggie 💔💔💔 3mo

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ncsufoxes

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

A page on Threads, Whiteness Studies, has listed several important books that are very relevant to our current timeline. I have a few & read a few but found many new ones to read. Linking list if anyone is interested. It links to a Black owned bookstore. https://shop.mrwelltravelled.com/collections/whiteness-studies #antifabookclub

Cuilin Thank you 🙏 3mo

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Chrissyreadit

Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence | Gabrielle Giffords

NPR had a 2022 article and because Children in Evergreen Colorado had to face the horror of a school shooting yesterday i am sharing some books related to ending gun violence.
#overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

AmyG “Gun deaths are the cost of Liberty” - Charlie Kirk 3mo

ImperfectCJ I asked my 16yo how he was doing in the wake of yesterday's violence in Utah and Colorado, and he said, "It's just the same old, same old, you know?" It about broke my heart. 3mo

DinoMom @ImperfectCJ what a horrible feeling it is as a parent to hear how today‘s children and youth recognize this as just “same old , same old”. My heart goes out to all the families but also to just all the youth that this has become the state of the world they live in 3mo

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AnnCrystal Thank You for sharing this post 👏🏼🫂💝.

None of this craziness should be understood as normal, we have to work to correct this 😢🇺🇲🫂🇺🇸✌🏼. (edited) 3mo

kspenmoll Thank you.💔❤️ 3mo

Bookperson96 😔🥺💔 Have to agree with you. @ImperfectCJ and @DinoMom So true @AnnCrystal 3mo

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