{"id":17234,"date":"2020-07-07T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisatener.local\/?p=17234"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:56:26","slug":"amplify-black-voices-in-publishing-day-2-dr-froswa-booker-drew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2020\/07\/amplify-black-voices-in-publishing-day-2-dr-froswa-booker-drew\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplify Black Voices in Publishing Day 2: Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to Day 2 of Amplify Black Voices in Publishing!<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I sent out the invitation to subscribe to the “Amplify Black Voices in Publishing” <\/strong>series<\/a>, I was short one interviewee. When a reader of my newsletter responded, our back and forth emails led me to realize, she would be a wonderful person to interview for the series. Before this, I had not known her or known she was on my email list, nor did I know about her groundbreaking work. The author of three books, a TEDx presenter and educator. Dr Booker-Drew has deep insights into this issue of how to amplify Black voices in publishing.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.And, as a side note, from my experience, perhaps your personal and professional circles are also more diverse than you realize! Reach out to your readers and get to know them. Our readers have as much to teach us as we have to teach them.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here is my interview with Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew<\/a>, three time author, TedX speaker and activist.<\/p>\n

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Lisa:<\/strong> When it comes to understanding racism: history\/how we got here, uncovering our own unconscious biases, learning what we can do in terms of our own behaviors as well as contributing to societal, legal and institutional change, what books or blogs do you recommend reading?<\/p>\n

Dr. Booker-Drew:<\/strong> I recently wrote a Facebook post that was published<\/a> in a blog that offers some insight not only on my personal experience but offers suggestions.<\/p>\n

Dr. Booker-Drew: <\/strong>I would also encourage folks to read the work of Ibram X. Kendi,\u00a0Layla F. Saad, Tim Wise, and books like Black Fatigue<\/em> which has been recently released.<\/p>\n

And tap into resources such as What Can White People Do<\/a> and Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisa:<\/strong> Your 7 tips are excellent and I encourage readers to read them<\/a>! As well as the additional free downloads you mention from Network Weaver, the latter being an excellent list of books and resources to dismantle racism and White supremacy.<\/p>\n

A note about links to buy books<\/h3>\n

Note: Rather link to books on Amazon, here is a link to a recent list of Black-owned bookstores that ship nationally.<\/a> You can use the stores on this list to order the books mentioned in this post.<\/p>\n

Doing Our Part to Amplify Black Voices<\/h3>\n

Lisa: <\/strong>As writers, how can we best use our voice and platform to Amplify voices of African Americans and other Black people?<\/p>\n

Dr. Booker-Drew:<\/strong> In order to amplify, it’s important to understand what you are providing voice to.\u00a0 Reading the work of Black authors is critical in order to share and highlight our voices.<\/p>\n