by Sophie Olejnik | May 28, 2023 | Identity
Words can pack a punch, but some can knock you out. And for people who experience racism, sometimes words can cut deeper than any action ever could. That’s why teachers have the responsibility to appropriately handle racial slurs in the books they teach. While...
by Yasmin Wakefield | May 23, 2023 | Identity
Too often black females have featured as the side characters in books. Thankfully, in recent years, there has been a wave of fiction books released with black females at their forefront from Marie Arnold’s I Rise to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Books of this kind...
by Yasmin Wakefield | May 22, 2023 | Identity, longer reads
BLOT spoke to author of I Rise Marie Arnold about why it’s important to shed a light on police brutality in fiction and why black females deserve to be more than a side character. Sometimes the topics we read about aren’t just works of fiction. They’re real, they’re...
