Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise-The Beatles, 1968 Welcome to Blackbird's Flight! Please, make yourself at home. Here you will find a space that is aiming to amplify marginalized, and often ignored & unheard, voices. Whether that... Continue Reading →
2026 Reading Challenges!
Welcome to 2026! We're already almost two weeks into the year, if you can believe that. It's the time of year that I like to think about setting some reading goals and challenging myself. The one thing that always hangs me up is trying to decide what to read. Do I go get something new?... Continue Reading →
Goodbye 2025 ~ Hello 2026
For those of us who have been staring at the state of things in the United States with a sense of dread, a feeling of hopelessness, and more than a little bit of suspicion as to why Ashton Kutcher has yet to jump out from behind the curtain and proclaim us all to have been... Continue Reading →
Book of the Day: The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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Book of the Day: The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
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Book of the Day: White Fragility: Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults)
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Book of the Day: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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Book of the Day: Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
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Book of the Day: The Catcher in the Rye
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Book of the Day: This is Where It Ends
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Book of the Day: The Untold History of the United States
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