D a n y e l 🔆 S m i t h Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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⬇️ this is Roy Ayers’ son 🔆 and i cannot wait to read his My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family 🔆 https://t.co/9fKgUlGAMR

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there's a chapter about Holiday's complex life and relationships, and #DianaRoss' post-Supremes career, in my recent "Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop" ( @OneWorldLit / @penguinrandom ) https://t.co/zelPjwXUL5 https://t.co/zS5NROvME6

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en vogue. tlc. color me badd. mary j. boyz ii men. cece's 'keep on walkin.' p.m. dawn's 'set adrift on memory bliss.' mint condition. 'tennessee.' 'come and talk to me.' 'diamonds and pearls.' 'november rain.' shanice. mix-a-lot. vanessa williams. i see why i'm on this guest list https://t.co/5WPDWgL8Qi

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i pay attention to histories of songs. this is an important one — Emily Bingham on the Material Culture of White America’s Song to Itself: “My Old Kentucky Home” https://t.co/saU5nQyLre via @lithub

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easy to forget Jackie Robinson died so young. 'I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.'

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in the excerpt: how voices becomes vocals, mother-daughter-relationships, theft of work-put-in, and a history of black creative lives lived in segregated New Orleans — and the Dixie Cups' perfect 1964 "Chapel of Love" https://twitter.com/randomhouse/status/1530185077358874627

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thank you! and i can’t wait to read your Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America from @BeaconPressBks 🙏🏽 https://t.co/RxPgBwCEQj

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dawnie! i’m so glad you have it. i’m wowed tbh that SHINE BRIGHT is like… in the world 🙏🏽 i cannot wait to read this essay from Ann! and: everyone should read Dawnie Walton’s brilliant novel, THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV https://t.co/A9IpX5s06n

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The author, Karen Valby, skillfully maps the ugliness of a segregated art form in which too recently, blackface was still defended… All of this is absorbing. Yet it’s the odd details that shine brightest…

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April 28: I'm doing an @Keplers talk w @lynellgeorge — author of the @TheHugoAwards-nominated 'A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.' topics? writing women's lives, and Black California 🔆 join us! it's virtual https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/danyel-smith https://t.co/taDlpYY8qL

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