1 Million Black Readers

I’ve always loved to read, and it was magnified in High School, when my auntie would make us check out no less than two books from the local library every two weeks, or however long we had before we had to return them.

And she wasn’t done there.

She also brought ALDI bags to fill with books, checking out tens of books at a time.

We were the only kids who looked like we had just gone grocery shopping as we came out of the library.

This is why I will always be an advocate for reading. In the words of Malcolm X:

“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

Which is why I teamed up for an amazing challenge.

The 1 Million Reading Black Books Summer Reading Club aims to encourage a million Black people to read at least one book this summer!

Joining is easy.

Pledge to read and finish reading a book by a Black author by the end of the summer.

Repost the graphic and tag a friend.

Follow the host @melanatedreader on Instagram for the next steps.

If you are not on Instagram, I still encourage you to participate just by reading at least one book by a Black author this summer.

Let’s read something other than captions and comments!

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What I’m currently reading: 
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines.