“The social change that happened was the result of courage on the part of everyday people, the result of terror being set aside in favor of a thirst for justice, the result of literal blood in the streets. Millions of people overcame fear and oppression and stood up. Isn’t that a legacy to be proud of? As much or more so than the words of one exceptionally eloquent leader?”
Though ALL of the Summer Blog Blast Tour interviews this week are noteworthy, the one that caught my opinion today was the interview with Kekla Magoon at the School Library Journal blog, Fuse#8. Betsy does an excellent interview with the author of The Rock and the River, which is a YA fiction novel about the Black Panthers. People — have you read any YA fiction on the Black Panthers at ALL!? Me, neither. There’s a book for the list.
More goodness is going out into the world with in the form of theGuys Lit Wire Book Fair for Boys project to provide books for guys in the L.A. County juvenile system. In partnership with InsideOut, we are building a library where there once was none — !
Yes. Let the words give you goosebumps. Visit the Powell’s wish list page, type in guyslitwire_at_gmail.com (with a real at sign, of course) and see what you want to share. The Book Fair runs all this week.
The other stops on the Summer Blog Blast Tour, Monday:
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Andrew Mueller at Chasing Ray
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The modest yet awesome Carrie Jones at Writing & Ruminating
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Ms. Amber Benson at Bildungsroman
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Greg Van Eekhout at Shaken & Stirred