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Each year I'm grateful. This year, despite all the adversity around us, I stand especially grateful. Accepted awards + started projects alongside people I admire. Essayed to grave moments and enduring histories. Finished #HowtoRaiseanAntiracist. Here are 21 highlights from 2021. 
1) Jan. 11. After attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats commonly proclaimed “this is not who we are,” which was a bald-faced denial. I wrote about the normality of this denial. “When have Americans commonly admitted who we are?”
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2) Jan. 15. Announced 3 projects @netflix. Working w/ director @RogerRossWill + executive producer @MaraBrockAkil to adapt #StampedfromtheBeginning + #Stamped—and w/ @chrisdocnee, creator of Doc McStuffins (my daughter’s fav show) to adapt #AntiracistBaby
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#StampedBook comes out in one week on Tuesday, March 10th! ONE WEEK! Here’s the tour schedule for DC, NYC, Philly, Austin, Houston, and Chicago. #StampedBookTour 1/
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Grab your tickets for our #StampedBook event hosted by @eastcitybooks on March 8th at 7 p.m. in Washington, DC. 2/
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Grab your tickets for our #StampedBook event hosted @booksaremagicbk on March 10th at 8 p.m. in Brooklyn, NY. 3/
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Only 2 weeks until #StampedBook drops + drops hard on Tuesday, March 10th! @JasonReynolds83 + I will be hitting the road to talk about #StampedBook on March 8th. We’ll be in DC, NYC, Philly, Austin, Houston, Chicago + LA! #StampedBookTour #PreOrder 1/ lbyr.com/titles/jason-r…
Here’s the ticket link for our #StampedBook event hosted by @eastcitybooks on March 8th in Washington, DC. 2/
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Here’s the ticket link for our #StampedBook event hosted by @booksaremagicbk on March 10th in Brooklyn, NY. 3/ eventbrite.com/e/jason-reynol…
Last day of the #AntiracistSpeakerReveal! Here are 8 more authors from our incredible speaker lineup for the 2nd National #AntiracistBookfest on April 25th in Washington, D.C. 🙌🏾🙌🏾Stay tuned for our program announcement to learn who else will be at the fest! 🔥
National Book Award longlister and Princeton professor Keeanga Yamhatta-Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta; and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award winner and Princeton professor Imani Perry @imaniperry
The Nation sports editor Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports; and National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine
#AntiracistSpeakerReveal: I’m excited to reveal 9 more authors from our incredible speaker lineup for the 2nd National #AntiracistBookfest on April 25th in Washington, D.C. 🙌🏾🙌🏾
New York Times bestselling author & Yale law lecturer Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon; and ESPN senior writer & NPR correspondent Howard Bryant @hbryant42
Acclaimed political theorist & Linfield professor Nicholas Buccola @buccola_nick; and NYU law professor & Immigrant Rights Clinic co-director Alina Das @Das_Alina
Day 3 of #AntiracistSpeakerReveal: I’m excited to reveal 8 more authors from our incredible speaker lineup for the 2nd National #AntiracistBookfest. Will you join us on April 25th in Washington, D.C.? Save the date! 🔥
Provost’s Distinguished professor at Georgetown Marcia Chatelain @DrMChatelain; and Whiting Award winner & University of Chicago professor Mitchell S. Jackson @MitchSJackson
MSNBC political analyst & MoveOn officer Karine Jean-Pierre @K_JeanPierre; and
Award-winning blogger & writer Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
Award-winning blogger & writer Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
#AntiracistSpeakerReveal: I’m excited to reveal 8 more authors from our incredible speaker lineup for the 2nd National #AntiracistBookfest 🙌🏾🙌🏾 Will you join us on April 25th in Washington, D.C.? Save the date! 🔥
Civil rights activist and Women’s March co-organizer Linda Sarsour @lsarsour; and New York Times bestselling author and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Chanel Miller
National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds @JasonReynolds83; and Celebrated novelist and University of Pittsburgh professor Angie Cruz @acruzwriter
I’m excited to begin revealing our incredible lineup of authors for the 2nd National #AntiracistBookfest on April 25th in DC! We will have an #AntiracistSpeakerReveal each day this week. Are you ready?! 🔥
National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Sarah Broom @sarahmbroom; and National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson @JackieWoodson
New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11; and Critically acclaimed cultural critic and Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper @ProfessorCrunk
Listening to @dwatkinsworld and @DamonYoungVSB speak on the lives of urban low-income Black people, moderated by @fivefifths. #AntiracistBookFest
“You will wear the t-shirt and use the hashtag for Freddie Gray (and many others), but could they come to you for a job reference? Or would you cross the street if you saw them approaching you?” ~Poverty discussion at #AntiracistBookFest
“I am here (on a prestigious campus) and feel that I belong, but I also recognize that I’m not the same as people who use ‘summer’ as a verb.” ~@DamonYoungVSB at #AntiracistBookFest
There’s a difference between being free and being never caught. #AntiracistBookfest
Dunbar: Networking among black women was a critical part of the abolition of slavery. Black women have always been at the center, even if it’s not part of how the narratives have been shaped. This continues through the Civil Rights Movement through today. #AntiracistBookfest
Writing history can be a project of justice when we tell stories from the viewpoint of those whose stories are less told. We have to also acknowledge how there are voices we no longer have access to in written words. #AntiracistBookfest
.@sejr_historian is discussing how white women, who were up to 40% of slave owners, received enslaved people as gifts (weddings, birthdays, holidays, etc.) & were in some ways more invested in the promise of the institution than white men. #AntiracistBookFest
.@sejr_historian then powerfully argues that for these white women “slave ownership became a pathway to freedom” as in their economic power became intimately tied to the bodies of enslaved people.
And she further notes that white women would receive enslaved peoples as gifts and white men would receive land. So, marriages would be labor + land in ways that encouraged a deep investment in white supremacy and the institution of slavery.
