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Two years before she died, artist Vivian Maier's life’s work was liquidated because she couldn't afford to pay the fees on her storage units of photos. The men who bought her work profited through their "discovery" of a great "unknown" street photographer. https://t.co/uOLt2RdSNL

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RIP to Albert Woodfox, a member of The Angola Three who was wrongfully convicted of murder. While in solitary confinement for 43 years, he organized for The Black Panther Party. "My greatest achievement was to teach a guy how to read and write," he said. https://t.co/MB7BjV9m1y

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From last year: Read Scalawag editor-at-large and author of ‘Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness,’ @DaShaunLH in conversation about “the Black fat” and the nonbinary, trans-masculine experience. https://t.co/DRSpBRUgFM

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NEW ON THE SITE: A review of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, 'motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life' https://t.co/9Yy7ZufRds

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Incarcerated author Lyle May adds: The "opinions" in question are mundane, easily-researched facts about prison enterprise often covered in @prisonlegalnews—which, by the way, is suing Central Prison for exactly this kind of censorship. Read the story: https://t.co/C83XX2XMC1 https://t.co/Ha1CNSVRhL

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As a white Southerner with Confederate great grandfathers, @mabsegrest, author of "Memoir of a Race Traitor" knew all about the white supremacist groups behind the January 6th riots. Their hate hasn't changed since the '80s—their tactics, however, have. https://t.co/v53dHla6q3

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Friday reads: Poet, essayist, and winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Aurielle Marie sits down with Alysia Nicole Harris to discuss their debut collection, ‘Gumbo Ya Ya.’ https://t.co/8vvbPqKd45

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For press around their memoir, "Dear Senthuran," Akwaeke Emezi set the requirement to speak with only nonwhite journalists. They are not in the mood to explain this book to white people, and they do not care whether they understand it or not. https://t.co/O5lt6l4LtM

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Neema Avashia's memoir, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, begins, like many Appalachian stories do, with the chemical industry. https://t.co/V01EgGbKr7

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"This holiday of flags puts me in mind of a passage from Proud Shoes, Murray's history of her "American family" and her most-read book. In it, she recalls that, sometime around the fourth grade, she came to hate the American flag." https://t.co/tKn7GCpt3Z