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Just finished Zora Neale Hurston's The Gilded Six-Bits, and Ted Poston's The Revolt of the Evil Fairies.

Neale Hurston's short story I have read before, and each time I read her work it leaves an impression. It is heart-warming and heart-breaking and relates the complicity and reality of life and humanness.

Ida B. Weld Barnett is a brave woman and righteous journalist. I most likely will have nightmares having read the accounts of lynchings and burning of black citizens - the barbarism is unthinkable- this was within the years my great-grandparents were alive....not thousands of years ago when Romans were crusifying people. Anyone who doubts the legitimate concerns of black lives matter needs to read this collection.

I can hardly get through a page without stopping to add notes about the thoughts and actions of deep seeded racism, and the evidence of how it functions.