The weapon of applied knowledge, there's a reason why they killed my ancestors for knowing how to read. Nana said, read everything I could get my hands on, what's in my head they have to pay me or kill me to get at. Seeing your own in the pages of a book, as main characters sparks that hunger further. ------------------------------------------------------ Reposted from @buhbleblack (@get_regrann) - "Liberation Station was birthed out of an act of rebellion -- and the act of having a lack of diversity in children's literature," Miller said. Miller, a homeschool mother, searched for children's stories with uplifting portrayals of growing up with brown or black skin. She found books like "King of Kindergarten," which tells the story of a child waking up in the morning on his first day of kindergarten and believing that he is royalty. . . #liberationstation#blackexcellence#blackandproud#positiveblackimages#goodblacknews#melaninpoppin (at Urban Shaman Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5BZYwThWMx/?igshid=1c0aaovnlldu1
