African American Lit and Name That Book!

Welcome to our second episode!!!

In this episode we discuss facts about African/African American Literature and play a game called Name That Book! We also explain our new teams and how you can join a team by becoming a patron at patreon.com/damnyoubook

The game idea in this episode came from Jenna and Julien's podcast (Jenna&Julien). You guys should totally listen to them. They are hilarious and fun!

We are still testing different equipment so bare with us!

Thank you to Mitch Meadows for creating the intro and continuing to help us with editing and all the tech stuffs! (we attempted to edit this episode ourselves lol)

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Here are the links to all of the facts from this episode:

https://www.biography.com/people/groups/black-writers

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/17/515792141/authors-and-illustrators-of-color-accounted-for-22-percent-of-children-s-books

https://thecaribbeancurrent.com/octavia-estelle-butler-first-science-fiction-writer-receive-macarthur-foundation-genius-grant/

https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2012/why-88-of-books-reviewed-by-the-new-york-times-are-written-by-white-authors/

http://www.ala.org/rt/emiert/cskbookawards/about

https://blog.leeandlow.com/2016/01/26/where-is-the-diversity-in-publishing-the-2015-diversity-baseline-survey-results/

BONUS: https://www.ancient.eu/Enheduanna/

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