In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, here’s a great article about #SojournorTruth’s famous #AintIAWoman speech. The version many of us read in school was actually written by a white woman nearly *twelve years* after Truth’s speech. Frances Dana Gage took Truth’s words and rewrote them in a clunky Black slave dialect that undermined the perception of Sojournor’s intellect and played into the folksy (and deeply racist) Mammy trope.
https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches

#7Books

A few of my favourites, in no particular order. These are some great books about the black experience and history.

#Natives by Akala

#BlackAndBritish by David Olusoga

#AintIAWoman By Bell Hooks

#TheAutobiographyOfMalcolmX by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

#BlackLikeMe by John Howard Griffin

I’ve also put two of my fictional favourites (I don’t have many, but I’m reading more fiction)

#TheCountOfMonteCristo by Alexander Dumas

#TheDivineComedy by Dante Alighieri