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#BlackOutTuesday

I’d like to take a moment to share my post from instagram on Wednesday and to honour the events of the last 10 days.

Adding to the great suggestions by ElleUSA, I’d like to share the author I have always loved reading ‘James Baldwin’. I started about 20 years ago with Giovanni’s Room and my addiction to his writing went from there. He is an incredible writer and there is also a film ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ which he started before his passing + is described as

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. This became I Am Not Your Negro.

Also a favourite of mine on instagram is @AlexElle who always brightens my feed with inspiring quotes and posts and if you missed the news interview with Spike Lee earlier in the week see it here

If you have suggestions you’d like to share too, please let me know x