- First Lady Michelle Obama continues to be an excellent graduation speaker, speaking frankly about the pressure to challenge racial stereotypes.
- The American Black Film Festival is thriving in its nineteenth year.
- Kendrick Lamar visited a ninth-grade English classroom that was using his album To Pimp a Butterfly as a way to help students understand Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez spoke to NPR about her new Chicago-set novel, Balm, and her interest in exploring the effects of the Civil War on places that were "peripheral" to traditional narratives about that war.
- This post at Book Riot mulls over books that challenge the idea of "black cool" and the way that idea relates to structural inequality.
- Also on Book Riot, a post about giving voice to black youth in YA and why it's important to do so.
- The bizarre, infuriating saga of Rachel Dolezal, with links to excellent think-pieces - and links to the #AskRachel Twitter hashtag, which Black Twitter used to challenge Rachel to prove her blackness bona fides.
The NPR piece covering Kendrick's visit to the high school is AMAZING.
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