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04/23/2025

"People don't tend to just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, with no one receiving it. I mean, sometimes they do, but you know, they're obnoxious. They don't get invited back to the party." - Pearl Cleage The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years by Pearl Cleage directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton…...

Join Pearl Cleage at the Guthrie Theater for 'The Nacirema Society'—a captivating comedy of love and scandal, running April 19-May 25, 2025.

04/02/2025

“We must remember that racism is not just an ideology; it is a disease. And racial healing is the medicine.”
OR "community healing".
Besides being a beautiful read this book provides a course of action, for leaders who want to make a difference. The conversation does not disappoint.

https://blackmarketreads.com/2025/04/02/dr-gail-c-christophers-guide-to-racial-healing/

03/21/2025

It's a great weekend for listening and reading!
Join us as we kick-off our 10th Season of Black Market Reads. An intriguing conversation with Lissa Jones and Lisa Williamson Rosenberg.

https://blackmarketreads.com/2025/03/21/lisa-williamson-rosenberg-explores-race-and-family-in-mirror-me/

11/20/2024

"Papyrus came out of a conscious community trying to transform themselves with the new knowledge of history and culture that has been hidden, or discredited, or just plain old missing from our experience here in the United States. We wanted to make sure our children had the knowledge of where we come from, and our history of culture. And so from there was a need saying, well, what kind of materials are we going to use to teach our children?"...

“Papyrus came out of a conscious community trying to transform themselves with the new knowledge of history and culture that has been hidden, or discredited, or just plain old missing from ou…

10/18/2024

Today was the day! TCFF! Red carpet! Such fun.

10/08/2024

Twin Cities Film Festival alert! I want to personally invite you to the premier of Separate Not Equal: Minnesota’s Integration Story. The documentary was produced by MPS Equity and School Climate in partnership with idream.tv. The film has been selected for the Twin Cities Film

Thanks to sponsorships, tickets for the film are FREE of charge, but reservations are needed! There will be a Q+A following the film and photo opportunity for attendees to meet the cast.

Ticket Reservation: The Minnesota Integration Story Tickets, Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

09/20/2024

"What I want people, maybe beyond anything, to understand is that we, like poems, are capable of such complex juxtaposition and complication in our feelings towards things... And I know in an anti-Black world that is so good at hating us that there is a Black-loving world out there ... and in that Black-loving world that we can manifest everywhere will be a world of great, great hope and possibility where tomorrow is nourished."...

This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.

09/10/2024

Actors?

08/08/2024

This just in ...

Taiyon J. Coleman, Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman in America

07/05/2024

Sarai Johnson's debut novel, Grown Women, hits the stands on Tuesday. Great Summer read!

“What I want readers to think of when they see grown women is a process of achieving, it’s never really achieved.” -Sarai Johnson Tracing four generations of remarkable Black wome…

05/25/2024

Ethel Ray Nance was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lived a life filled with marginalization, prejudice, and racism. She experienced constant comparison to whiteness—a place that held no space for her Black Southern father, William Henry Ray, or her white Swedish mother, Inga Ray. Ethel Ray: Living in the White, Gray, and Black is a biography and coming-of-age story of Ethel and of her family’s life before, during, and after the horrific lynching of three young Black circus workers—Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie—on June 15, 1920....

Ethel Ray Nance was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lived a life filled with marginalization, prejudice, and racism. She experienced constant comparison to whiteness—a place …

05/15/2024

Calling all TALENT! Hey friends, iDream.tv is filming a training series for WIC. We need a few diverse families with child(ren) ages 0-5. Especially needing Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese or Afgan moms with cute babies or toddlers. We're filming Friday afternoon May 17 and Sunday May 19 at a grocery store in St Paul. Generous stipend for a couple hours of "shopping" fun. Please contact me asap if you or friends are interested.

05/05/2024

"If we didn't have health inequities any longer, if everybody were getting the same amount of care, we'd still need to know this history, but it wouldn't be as urgent. I think the fact that Black women still experience disproportionately higher rates of maternal morbidity is relevant. We need to know why that is. We need to know why Black folks have higher incidence of heart disease, why Black people don't get good health care, even when they have health insurance, even when they are prosperous people."...

“If we didn’t have health inequities any longer, if everybody were getting the same amount of care, we’d still need to know this history, but it wouldn’t be as urgent. I thi…

03/26/2024

"This has to be an all hands on deck situation where we say, we are going to, together, as a country, solve this problem. I think that might be magical thinking in this world we're in right now, but I do see some steps ahead.." Linda Villarosa In this inaugural episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa introduces her series co-host Bukata Hayes, Vice President and Chief Equity Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota....

In this Episode of Black MarketReads podcast Lissa Jones andBukata Hayes talk with Pulitzer Prize Finalist author Linda Villarosa about her book Under The Skin The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America