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                                               Applause for the Spring 2025 Literary Award-Winning Beacon Authors and Finalists!
                                            
                                                May 15, 2025

By Bev Rivero | Beacon has a lot of reasons to celebrate this spring! Several authors received awards recognition for their books, so let’s recap. Last week, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Gayl Jones’s “The Unicorn Woman” was a finalist for Fiction in a livestreamed ceremony. Readers were quick to note that there were four finalists this year. Read more →

Posted at 12:47 PM in Beacon Press News, Bev Rivero, On Gold Hill, Revolution by Fire, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, The New Science of Social Change, The Unicorn Woman, The White Peril | Permalink | Comments (0)

                                            
                                               We’re Celebrating Black History Month Without You, Google Calendar!
                                            
                                                February 13, 2025

By Christian Coleman | Did you check your phones? Is it any shock that Google Calendar genuflected to the current scorched-earth administration’s anti-DEI tour and removed Black History Month from its holiday list during Black History Month? Is it a shock that they claimed their holiday list wasn’t “globally scalable or sustainable?” Talk about Big Tech being an avowed fascist’s pick me. Doublespeak and all. Well, guess what, Google Calendar? We don’t need you to recognize Black History Month. Read more →

Posted at 12:30 PM in A Black Women’s History of the United States, A Worthy Piece of Work, All Labor Has Dignity, American Society, And the Category Is..., Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, History, Kindred, Literature and the Arts, Progressive Education, Race and Ethnicity in America, Science and Medicine, Slavery After Slavery, Storming Caesars Palace: New and Revised Edition, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: 10th-Anniversary Edition, The White Peril, Three Leaves, Three Roots, Twice As Hard | Permalink | Comments (0)