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We are proud to call @JohnJLennon1 one of our literary ambassadors. John is the author of a new intro to the forthcoming Freedom Edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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Hear from the brilliant @MarlonJames5 TODAY at 4 PM (ET) with our own @DwayneBetts (who talks about BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF most days anyway). It's not too late to register for this event - see you there! https://t.co/K92smnno3z https://t.co/l5BgECjPky

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This week, we sent out 500 copies of @cherie_dimaline’s THE MARROW THIEVES (@dcbyoungreaders)(@orcabook). In partnership with @BreakFree_Ed, these books will make their way to 50 educators at youth detention facilities across the US

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In partnership with @nationalbook & with support from @Art4JusticeFund, Freedom Reads just sent 480 copies of Gloria Naylor’s THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE to 28 prisons. Put another way, that’s 360lbs of paper and prose making its way to incarcerated readers this week.

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In partnership with @nationalbook, Freedom Reads is sending 600 copies of THE YELLOW HOUSE by @sarahmbroom to incarcerated readers across the US today! https://t.co/aO5lKdOv55

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@dwaynebetts No one took you up on Wideman yet but as Reed said: "Brothers & Keepers" has "the impact of reading Claude Brown's powerful ''Manchild in the Promised Land'' and James Weldon Johnson's elegant ''The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man'' in alternating paragraphs."

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We are proud to call @JohnJLennon1 one of our literary ambassadors. John is the author of a new intro to the forthcoming Freedom Edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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@dwaynebetts No one took you up on Wideman yet but as Reed said: "Brothers & Keepers" has "the impact of reading Claude Brown's powerful ''Manchild in the Promised Land'' and James Weldon Johnson's elegant ''The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man'' in alternating paragraphs."

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Watch Freedom Reads Founder and Director @dwaynebetts speak on his new book, REDACTION, with artist Titus Kaphar. https://t.co/rgIzh2RHML

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@dwaynebetts No one took you up on Wideman yet but as Reed said: "Brothers & Keepers" has "the impact of reading Claude Brown's powerful ''Manchild in the Promised Land'' and James Weldon Johnson's elegant ''The Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man'' in alternating paragraphs."

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