melania-luisa marte
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August 2023: Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait To Read
A memoir from a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa massacre and a special 60th anniversary edition of the I Have a Dream speech are on our must-read list this month.
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Here's How the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is Erasing Black Latinxs
When Dominican-American poet Melania-Luisa Marte began writing a poem about what it means to be Afro-Latinx, a simple Google search led her to realize that Afro-Latinx/a/o was not in some of the most commonly used dictionaries. For her, the blatant disregard for the term itself reaffirmed the feelings of erasure that black people of Latin…