RECOMMENDATION // BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered!
by Lauren Earline Leonard
EXCERPT //
When we fail to know our history, how can we create a better future? Enter BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered! Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century, a graphic nonfiction project profiling fourteen notable African American Philadelphians. Diane D. Turner, project director and curator of Temple University’s Blockson Collection, says the project is important in part because it makes real the “men and women who overcame racial barriers to contribute to Philadelphia and the nation.” The profiles range from such icons as Marian Anderson and W.E.B. Du Bois to “hidden heroes”—including politician and civil rights activist Crystal Bird Fauset and Philadelphia Tribune founder Christopher J. Perry—whose contributions helped build our country.
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