Blackbookstore.com (Photo by Tigner for Steed Media)
With several states going on lockdown and the end of a long year creeping closer, reading a good book may be the perfect, relaxing past time this holiday season. In terms of representation, however, it can be very hard to find a place where one can actually find Black authors, Black books and artists that look like them. Or at least, it was hard. Munson Steed, founder and publisher of rolling out is introducing Blackbookstore.com an online shopping database that compiles and organizes Black literature for public consumption. Ever ambitious, Steed sees the launch of the website as an opportunity to celebrate the literary achievements of Black authors and to garner community.”
Trump may pardon Lil Wayne and Kodak Black
Kodak Black at WGCI’s Big Jam in Chicago – (Photo by Eddy “Precise” Lamarre for Steed Media)
Lil Wayne may have faced an impossible choice in the fall of 2020: incur the wrath of millions by publicly supporting Donald Trump’s reelection, or quietly vote for Joe Biden and serve 10 years in prison.
We know what decision 38-year-old New Orleans-born Dwayne Carter Jr. made.
Wayne is among a handful of people, that includes fellow rapper Kodak Black, who is reportedly on the shortlist to be pardoned before the president leaves the White House on Jan. 19.