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📚 Pusher’s Delight This Week 📚 (copy 03)

📚 Pusher’s Delight This Week 📚 (copy 03)

📚 Pusher’s Delight This Week

August 01, 2023 • Est Reading Time: 1 minute

8/1/23

Hey Good Humans!

We’re back with another week of bookish things, and other happenings around our way. So let’s talk about this week and next at BLK + BRWN.!

Indie Author Spotlight:

We will be dropping an episode of Allegory, as we chat with Author of, The Enchanted Garden Affirmation Coloring Book, Mercedes Osakwe.

There are two copies of the coloring book is availabe in-store and online.

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Indie Poet + Author Spotlight:

Earlier last month we hosted a poet talk + book signing with Shundilyn Smith, of Poetically Alive.

We will be celebrating and featuring her poetry collection for a limited time including all four of her books — Letters to You, A Peace of Me, Things Left Unsaid, and Their White Truths My Black Truth.

Every purchase of her book from our store contributes to our efforts to directly support the author and also helps support our programming.

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i’ll name this blog later…

i’ve been kicking around the idea of getting back to writing again. my blog days were pretty good, you kind of just had to be there. so bear with me as i try to navigate what it looks like to blog again 5ish years, new and old apartment journeys, one business and a couple relationships later.

This week I’m reading, Blue Rage, Black Redemption by Stanley “Tookie” Williams. A truly honest and gripping personal account of the life of the man who would become co-founder of the Crips and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and anti-gang activist.

But what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence--and Tookie's reputation--began to spread across L.A. Read More