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Ms Sapph
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Author. Poet.
• Push • The Kid • Black Wings & Blind Angels • American Dreams

https://linktr.ee/sapphiretheauthor
What a way to end 2025 and start 2026...always in good company...

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January 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Available Nightboat Press
August 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Featuring poetry by Goretti Pina, Luedji Luna, Luz Ribeiro, Marta Quiñónez, Mel Adún, Mel Matsinhe, Odete Costa Semedo, Rita Santana, Sapphire, Shirley Campbell Barr, and Tâ nia oré. Translated Denise Carrascosa. Edited by Mel Adún.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
#RobinCosteLewis
“When you fell, it was the first day of spring/March thirteenth. That day, I climbed up in the air/and could not climb back down until just now.
#SealeyChallenge #SealeyChallenge2025
August 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
start — the sealey challenge
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August 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
July 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Fighting Words with George M. Johnson. “Choosing to Remember” (w/ Sapphire)

Listen in on George M. Jonhson, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue, interview with Sapphire, discussing banned books, authors who inspired them, and how art can heal trauma.
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"Choosing to Remember" (w/ Sapphire) - Fighting Words with George M. Johnson
George is joined by the legendary author Sapphire. Her 1996 novel Push was adapted into the 2009 movie Precious, which won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Sapphire talk...
omny.fm
April 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Blackstone Library has a limited no. of copies of these titles available for book club participants. If interested in obtaining a library copy, please call (203) 488-1441 ext. 318 or email reference@blackstonelibrary.org. Copies are first come, first served.
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Local Event: Banned Book Club: Push
Check out the latest community post from one of your neighbors. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
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April 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women
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March 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women

“Ruth Wilson Gilmore is one of the most impactful thinkers of our time…” Barbara Ransby author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.

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March 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In good company...
10 Banned Books by Black Authors to Read for Black History Month By Monique Snyman

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March 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Augusta Savage, sculptor, was born on February 29, 1892 (d. March 29, 1962).

AugustaSavage Renaissance Woman by Jeffreen M. Hayes, Bridget R. Cooks, Kirsten Pai Buck

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March 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Film Forum: TALES FROM THE NEW YORKER

Thursday, February 27, 8:20pm
Wednesday, March 5, 3:30pm

PRECIOUS 
Introduced by New Yorker staff writer Kelefa Sanneh

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February 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women (a little late)
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February 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division debuting Sapphire’s PUSH.
February 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women
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February 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women
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February 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#TakeitFromMeTuesdays Great Books By and About Black Women
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February 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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