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News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

LeSean Thomas On ‘Cannon Busters’ And Black Fantasy Characters

LINK: Representing In The Genre Universe

Understanding Arab Comics – Los Angeles Review of Books

LINK: Muqtatafat: A Comics Anthology Featuring Artists from the Middle East Region

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Ditching the Revisionist History Behind That ‘White Inventions’ Hashtag

LINK: The White Inventor Argument

PLUS: Some Science, Facts and History To Counter That Hilarious #WhiteInventions Tag That We Woke Up To…

10 Mexican Inventors Everyone Should Know

Japanese Inventions and Discoveries

16 African Inventions That Changed The World As We Know It Today!

Native American Inventions In Medicine

Muslim Inventions That Shaped the Modern World

The Most Important Inventions Created by Hispanic Americans

25 Amazing Ancient Indian Inventions That Changed The World Today

You Probably Didn’t Know These 8 Inventions Came From Hawaii

10 Awesome Latino Inventions

22 Chinese Inventions That Changed the World

Aztec Inventions – Aztec History

World Patent Marketing Presents the Greatest Arabian Inventions

Famous Black Inventors

Native Inventions and Innovations That Changed the World

15 Famous Arab & Persian Scientists and Their Inventions

8 World-Changing Inventions By Women Of Color

Black Scientists and Inventors

OBVIOUSLY this list is far from complete…

George Takei On Gay Sulu: “I Think It’s Really Unfortunate”

LINK: LGBT activist unexpectedly disapproves of tribute

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Black Canadian children’s literature ~ the stats

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Math is not my favorite subject, so compiling statistics is not going to be fun…and it’s going to take a long time, I think, because right now I’m going by books that have been reviewed in Canada’s leading children’s literature journal, CM.  But I know from experience that not all books GET reviewed.  So that means contacting Canadian publishers directly and asking them to submit data on their books by and about black people.  This morning I made a list of books (published in Canada since 2000) that were reviewed in CM.  Here are the trends I’m finding so far:

  1. There are lots of picture books about African or Caribbean folktales.
  2. There are lots of picture books about African safari animals.
  3. There are many more non-fiction books than fiction at the MG/YA level.

Since I’m interested in stories by and about black people, I’m not including the animal/endangered…

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Hello Bigot: Exposing Hate On the Internet

LINK: With an assist from Hello Racist Facebook community, Hello Bigot shines a light on the racists among us

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Google’s diversity efforts show scant progress

LINK: Alphabet’s Google released data on its two-year-old initiative

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Did Some White Guy Steal “Oh No They Didn’t” from Three Black Teenagers?

LINK: It was started, in 2004, by Erin Lang, Bri Draffen, and Breniecia Reuben

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Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future

LINK: Review: Graphic Borders (Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González)

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EBONY: Ariella Johnson’s Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse in Philadelphia

LINK: More Than a Comic Shop: An Oasis

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