‘Semicolon’ is the name. Cool name for the only Black woman-owned bookstore in Chicago. It does more than sell books. Here’s a Q&A with the owner DL Mullen: 

https://bookmarks.reviews/meet-the-bookstore-owner-behind-national-black-literacy-day/

In the early part of the 20th century when schooling for Black kids was shamefully handled, Booker T. Washington got together with Julius Rosenwald, a Sears owner. Rosenwald helped pay for almost 6,000 schools to be built in the South for Black students. Here’s a video about the Rosenwald Schools:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kfxfxSgSlGM&feature=share

The New Yorker talks with Marty Baron who is leaving as editor of the Washington Post at the end of the month. If you don’t know him from the Post, you know him as the editor of the Boston Globe in the movie  ‘Spotlight’. This is a good conversation: 

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/marty-baron-considers-his-time-at-the-washington-post

‘There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.’

-Coretta Scott King

I read this when it came out in 2004. I read it again maybe 10 years ago. It’s Volume One. Where’s Volume Two the world wonders. He likes the world wondering that way probably. I picked the book off a little table by my bed last night. I’d put it there not long ago to remind me to look at it again. I just read the first page. Here it is: 

A longer story than the one we know. Rosa Parks before and after the bus:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/rosa-parks.html?referringSource=articleShare

IT’S SOMETIMES TOO WARM IN HERE

Civilization must come

from the walls

we made against 

the wind and the animals.

It’s been cozy in my apartment 

since I got up.

I can see outside through a window 

in a wall

in each room.

I open both windows twice

each day to

let fresh air blow

in

and push out what’s stale on 

this side of the wall. 

I want to photograph 

the snow.

I’ll go outside to do that.