They don’t, because several friends have gifted me articles and when I’ve said “I still can’t read it” they’ve tried to protest. “But it’s a gift article!” Nope. It’s been like this for several months.

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Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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I’ve been wondering where our Woodward & Bernstein are. Looks like WIRED is trying. Please connect if you can and have info.

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A woodpecker with a bright red cap and black and white mottling on its wings and breast clings to a tree it’s been pecking at looking for bugs. In the background is a Christmas wreath with a bright red bow.

Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Virginia for the Christmas bird count #birdsky

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Spotify Wrapped screenshot that suggests my music vibe is Coastal Grandmother Slow Dance Soul

“I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.” #SpotifyWrapped

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