Disclaimer: I have not read all the books on this list (though all are on my tbr!), but I can confidently recommend The Theonite Series, Children of Blood and Bone, and anything by Octavia Butler or Nnedi Okorafor.
[tweet from Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII: One of the best things a teacher ever did for me was say “I don’t know the answer to that but I’ll do some research.” It modeled a more honest intellectual discourse. You don’t have to pretend like you know everything & you don’t always need to have or share an immediate opinion.]
This LIBERATED ME so much when I figured out I could say this while teaching high school. But because my brain, I always had to write it down in order to follow up.
As the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris became engulfed in fire on Monday, conspiracy theorists quickly got to work - blaming the blaze on Jews.
French police quickly said they were treating the fire as an accident, possibly linked to the church’s renovation work. But despite - or perhaps because of - that statement, online bigots quickly got to work. Many pointed a finger at the Rothschilds, the banking dynasty of Jewish heritage who have been central to anti-Semitic conspiracies for century. French President Emanuel Macron once worked at a Rothschild-owned bank. Others tried to link the incident to other church fires that had occurred throughout the country in recent weeks.
