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The First Black-Owned Bookstore In Pasadena, CA, Has Raised Nearly $70K In A Matter Of Days After Struggling To Stay Afloat

A beloved bookstore is banking on the support of its community to remain open. As AFROTECH™ previously told you, Nikki High, who had dedicated more than a decade to managing communications at Trader Joe’s, made history for opening the first Black-owned bookstore in Pasadena, CA, in 2023. High received over $22,000 in donations through GoFundMe to launch the store honoring author Octavia Butler after she shared her intentions for the business on X, formerly Twitter. The post went viral with nearly 5.1 million views and 10,000 retweets at the time, according to The Guardian. “I wanted [my bookstore] to be completely independent so that I would not have to compromise my values,” High said, per the outlet. Now, the beloved bookstore is in need of funding to stay in business. High reveals on Instagram that she has reopened the GoFundMe for the bookstore and cites lower resources as well as the complexities of the book selling industry as the reasoning. “We need a lifeline,” she wrote on...

Jul 8, 2024

7 Books By African American Authors You Should Read

Black-American books and literature are rich in history, context, life lessons, sexual distinction, humility, and presentation of racism. If you want to understand Black and American history and its relationship, there is always a book where you can pick learnings written by African-American authors. If you want to learn life lessons and struggles, books written by African-American authors are always good reads. Go Tell It On The Mountain – James Baldwin View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gabrielle (@punkygabz) James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), a semi-autobiographical novel, was ranked 39th in the Modern List’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The story centered on the hardship of its main character John Grimes -a very intelligent fourteen years old boy, the lives of his parents, aunt, and his slave grandmother. The novel is also a good read for contemplating because words from the Bible are constant in the characters’ lives. Annie...

Mar 9, 2019

Black People Shouldn't Expect the Government to Regulate Tech They're Actively Using For Surveillance

This article originally published on February 2, 2019 We are in a world where we’re living out science fiction fantasies of the past. Like Octavia Butler’s  1993 Parable of the Talents predicting President Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan , our biggest tech fears are being realized in real time. No technological advancement is more evident of this than artificial intelligence. As AI develops and becomes more prominent, so have concerns around what purposes those tools will serve. Recently, Trump signed the American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative and critics noted that it made no mention of AI’s social impact. In a 2018 report , AI Now wrote, “This year, we have seen AI amplify large-scale surveillance through techniques that analyze video, audio, images, and social media content across entire populations and identify and target individuals and groups.” It may seem strange that lawmakers would fail to mention the many social issues that come with the development of...

Feb 16, 2019

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