Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
presentiments
Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
Without Hamer’s knowledge or consent, the white doctor conducting what was supposed to be a minor procedure decided to remove Hamer’s uterus, rendering the activist infertile.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
amazon.com