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Solange launches digital community library of BIPOC literature https://library.saintheron.com/

Literacy Day is everyday. Hope you are cultivating young readers ☺️

QUALITY LEADERSHIP is neither the product of one great individual nor the result of odd historical accidents.
Rather, it comes from deeply bred traditions and communities that shape and mold talented and gifted persons. Without a vibrant tradition of resistance passed on to new generations, there can be no nurturing of a collective and critical consciousness—only professional conscientiousness survives. Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—onlypersonal accomplishment is applauded. Without a credible sense of political struggle, there can be no shouldering of a courageous engagement—only cautious adjustment is undertaken. If you stop to think in this way about the source of leadership, it becomes clear why there is such a lack of quality leadership in black America today. This absence is primarily a symptom of black distance from a vibrant tradition of resistance, from a vital community bonded by its ethical ideals, and from a credible sense of political struggle. Presently, black middle-class life is principally a matter of professional conscientiousness, personal accomplishment, and cautious adjustment.

Page 56-57, Race Matters, Dr Cornel West

hope you're reading there, don't be caught without a book.

We support the brave south african comrades who are on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Anyone with a basic grasp of history and reality know that Apartheid in SA would not have ended were it not for a global solidarity movement led by activists from all parts of the world, from all walks of life.

It's not human to neglect the moral responsibility of reciprocating and the lesson that our struggles are intertwined, there is no real liberation or sovereignty for anyone until there is justice and liberation everywhere.

This is not just about delivering aid to Palestine. This is about delivering humanity, it is about restoring international law, about stopping white supremacist capitalist heteronormative systems that harm all of us.

Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day. If it was any African, Arab or Native-led state guilty of even half the crimes there'd be massive outrage driven by their media. Their silence has been loud...

Joburg Libraries is doing the work. Our role as communities to engage & extend these public resources ...

Well done Joburg Libraries this is great! Information literacy is vital in the age of Ai and fake news.

eLearning Unit doing the work!

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Rootbound is a captivating collection that follows a young woman as she finds her place between the blossoming South Africa of her past and the blustery South Korea of her present.

Join us at Bridge Books Barbican on August 31st as uHlanga Press launches the debut poetry collection from Johannesburg-born, Seoul-based poet, .

Manthipe will be in conversation with writer and performance artist, .maroga.

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