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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…

06/01/2024

Enjoy Episode 3 of Black Market Reads with Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman.

“They’re not going to come for you unless you’re on to something.” – Dr. Rachel Hardeman In this episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa and Bukata talk with Dr. Rachel Ha…

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

03/12/2024

"Repositioning ourselves to stories provides encouragement, it fortifies us, it edifies us, and it compels us to live out the resilience, the excellence of a people." Bukata Hayes LISTEN In this episode Lissa welcomes co-host Bukata Hayes as they explore the power of storytelling and the nourishment of soulful food with author Rose McGee. ROSE MCGEE, founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie, travels…...

“Repositioning ourselves to storiesprovides encouragement, it fortifies us, it edifies us, and it compels us to live out the resilience, the excellence of a people.”Bukata Hayes LISTEN …

03/12/2024

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 82 - Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a SweetPotato Pie Like Our Mama

In this episode Lissa welcomes co-host Bukata Hayes as they explore the power of storytelling and the nourishment of soulful food with author Rose McGee. ROSE MCGEE, founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie, travels across the United States to deliver pies and nurture relationships. She was featured in t...

02/28/2024

“If we are not maladjusted to this situation, something is wrong with us.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Unteachables (University of Minnesota Press 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, Mayes explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline....

“If we are not maladjusted to this situation, something is wrong with us.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Unteachables (University of Minnesota Press 2023) examines the overrepresentation of …

02/28/2024

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables

How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system ...

02/13/2024

Every month is Black History Month at Black Market Reads. Aluta continua - the struggle continues.

” Invisibility is one of racism’s strongest tools. Racism is most powerful when we don’t see it.” Dr. Rob Eschmann From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people t…

12/04/2023

I loved this book!

“Fiction is all conflict and tension and making your characters uncomfortable and seeing what they do with that uncomfortableness. I can’t imagine writing a police procedural set in Chi…

10/20/2023

"“It's important to be your authentic self. If you're not you, the world doesn't know who to love." Jody Lulich LISTEN Rising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulich wondered what to say. Explain how he’d been attracted to veterinary medicine? Describe how caring for helpless, voiceless animals in his own shame and pain provided a lifeline, a chance to heal himself as well?...

““It’s important to be your authentic self. If you’re not you, the world doesn’t know who to love.” Jody Lulich LISTEN Rising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulic…

09/22/2023

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 75 - Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Goddess of the Whole Self

02/21/2023

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 69 - Pearl Cleage, Blues for an Alabama Sky

In this episode Lissa talks with playwright and author Pearl Cleage about Blues for an Alabama Sky, her current work and references to inspirations and influencers including Langston Hughes, Stacey Abrams, Ntozake Shange, Viola Davis, audience development and more. Blues for an Alabama Sky is playin...

11/25/2022

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 69 - Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run

Dripping with Southern atmosphere and blistering suspense, Wanda M. Morris’ sophomore outing proves she is a “writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly).  About ANYWHERE YOU RUN: It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure th...

10/11/2022

09/24/2022

One of our early livestreams featured the Su***de Commandos at the 331 Club.

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This plastic "Su***de Commandos" guitar pick was used by Chris Osgood between 1974 and 1979.

Osgood co-founded the band The Su***de Commandos in Minneapolis with himself as guitarist, Steve Almaas as bassist, and Dave Ahl as drummer. The band produced two albums in its short history (1975-1980), but helped establish a punk and alternative rock music scene in Minneapolis that would influence many other bands, such as the Suburbs, the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Soul Asylum. Learn more about Osgood here: https://hubs.la/Q01mCG-Y0

03/21/2022

Everyone is talking about ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS! In this episode (63) host talks without Author about her crime thriller, debut novel, “All Her Little Secrets.” Morris is a corporate attorney has worked in the legal departments for several Fortune 100 companies. She is an accomplished presenter and leader. She has previously served as a President of the Georgia chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and is the founder of it’s women’s initiative she’s also an alumna of Yale writers workshop with Robert McKee’s story seminar.
Listen in the bio to episode 63 on www.blackmarketreads.com or where you listen to your podcasts.

03/14/2022

Get to know Dr 📚 Educator, author, speaker & advocate, who speaks with host about her career fighting for justice on the Black Market Reads podcast.
She shares with us why she focused her efforts on children, writing the book Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire.

Dr. Tyner serves as the associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at the University of St. Thomas and is the author of several books for adults including The Leader’s Journey. To learn more about Dr. Tyner’s work, visit her website www.artikatyner.com

Listen on BlackMarketReads.com, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. (Link in bio) Episode #33.

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