I must take a moment to say that I support the Black Lives Matter movement. I don’t feel qualified to speak further. I am educating myself. I am listening, reading, watching, and allowing change in my own perception. I vow to continue learning and realize this is a lifetime practice. I will seek more diverse social groups, I will search for more BIPOC artists to support through my business.
Let’s talk, let’s help each other grow, let’s be the change.
Let’s talk, let’s help each other grow, let’s be the change.
Books on my reading/listening list: (Consider ordering books from a Black owned business - here is a list from the Literary Hub)
Me and White Supremacy, by Layla F Saad
How to be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Olua
The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln - thru civil war, how profitable slavery was in both the north & south
The Second Founding - reconstruction (The Comprise of 1877)
Strange Career of Jim Crow - MLK called this the Bible of the civil rights movement
The New Jim Crow
The Color of Law - the forgotten history of how our government segregated America
Movies I am and will be watching:
13th
When They See Us
I Am Not Your Negro
Just Mercy
Podcasts I am listening to:
1619 Project
I invite you to join me, I would love to discuss if these have spoken to you. Do you have further recommendations?
With love,
Angelique Ell
Owner & designer at a.ell atelier
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