Books, Blackness & Bacchanal 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇺🇸 Black Cherokee (2025), Saga Boy (2021). Host of @cbcbooks The Next Chapter. Music Guy: John Orpheus🏆 @SimonSchusterCA
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Cornel West in conversation with Tavis Smiley on why Mississippi has produced so much Black greatness—and why attempts to erase Black history cannot erase the truth. From the Delta blues to writers, musicians, and cultural icons, West reflects on how struggle, resilience, and creativity have shaped Black excellence, while emphasizing why preserving African American Studies and confronting America’s full history is essential to understanding the nation itself! #TruthJusticeLove @tavissmiley @kbla1580 #Mississippi #BlackHistory
"We must continue getting it perfectly right on a global scale forever."
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My favorite political writer decided to publish! ✨️🙌🏾✨️
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“I’ve written five or six novels… They seem to take longer, and the writing doesn’t get easier. But, that’s good. You want the challenge to be commensurate to your abilities.” —Gwendoline Riley
#WindhamCampbellPrizes
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Despite Barriers, Black-Owned Bookstores Continue Their Legacy of Educating Communities
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📚 Meet the 2026 shortlist: @John_Orpheus's Black Cherokee, from @SimonSchusterCA, follows Ophelia Blue Rivers, raised by her grandmother until her world is upended, sending her on a journey through family, faith, and identity. Learn more: thewalrus.ca/afna
#AmazonFNA50
Proud to announce that BLACK CHEROKEE is a finalists for the 2026 Amazon First Novel Prize ✨️🙌🏾🏆
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Episode 103 -Antonio Michael Downing, Saga Boy and Black Cherokee blackmarketreads.com/2026/03… via @embedly
Listening to "Black Cherokee (2025)" at buzzsprout.com/1775161/episo…
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"The college gender gap, for instance, could be evidence of a rudderless, demoralized generation of young men, but it might also be the product of differing economic incentives."
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Antonio Michael Downing retweeted
Why are Canadian made weapons being used to commit massacres and genocide in Sudan @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney @GAC_Corporate @MSidhuLiberal @melaniejoly @Rob_Oliphant @MonaFortier?
Again @GAC_Corporateis is not answering journalists’ questions.
Criminal and shameful.
My report for @CBCNews visual investigations team in collaboration with @Ivan_Angelovski and Jordan Pearson:
Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-rsf-…
Phew! Returned from 21 days of Canadian West Coast book touring. Things I learned:
1. Lovely closeness of authors
2. Toxic closeness of authors
3. Immense euphoria of Canada's book festivals!
4. All these things may be related
BIGUPS to @blgtylr on his Pub Day! Check out MINOR BLACK FIGURES 🔥
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Antonio Michael Downing retweeted
NEW: ESPN's Stephen A. Smith says the NBA game-rigging mafia-linked scandal uncovered by the FBI is President Trump's revenge, says this is only the beginning.
"Don't be surprised that the WNBA is next on his list."
"Because when you've got all of these protests that have been going on out there and people that have been protesting against him and what have you, this man is coming. He’s coming."
What a horrible take.
19 days in Western Canada toasting my novel BLACK CHEROKEE and meeting so many lovely writers and readers. Bigups to the Storytellers! 🙌🏾
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Meet Ophelia Blue Rivers: a mixed-race half-Black half-Cherokee girl growing up in 1990s South Carolina in a community that refuses to claim her. From Grandma Blue’s cabin to church pews, high school halls, and Southern dance floors, Ophelia’s search for home and identity is as courageous as it is heartbreaking.
Queenie meets Frying Plantain in BLACK CHEROKEE, an unforgettable coming-of-age novel by Antonio Michael Downing. @John_Orpheus bit.ly/4mdt7NE