Celebrate This Juneteenth By Supporting Black-Owned Businesses

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Black-owned Bookstores, Juneteenth

Are you out of reading material and itching to get your hands on a new book? Well, here’s how you can stock up and support black-owned bookstores around the country! Please visit:

Medu Bookstore – Atlanta, Georgia  ~ https://www.medubookstore.com

Revolution Books – Berkley, California ~

https://www.revolutionbooks.org

Frugal Bookstore – Roxbury, Massachusetts ~

https://frugalbookstore.net

Fulton Street Books & Coffee – Tulsa, Oklahoma ~

https://www.fultonstreet918.com

Black Stone Bookstore & Cultural Center – Ypsilanti, Michigan ~

https://www.blackstonebookstore.com

These are just a few of many black-owned bookstores you can visit online and in person. If you’d like to discover more, you can do what I did and simply Google “black owned bookstores.” Here’s a couple of more links that offer extensive lists as well.

 

Riveted, by Simon Teen ~

Black-Owned Bookstores to Buy From and Follow on Social Media

Harper Collins ~

Black-Owned Bookstores to Support

HAPPY SHOPPING EVERYONE!

 

 

 

Juneteenth 2020

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Emancipation Day, Harriet Tubman, Inspirational quotes, Juneteenth 2020, Juneteenth Google Doodle, LeVar Burton, Loveis Wise

God’s time [Emancipation] is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.

~ Harriet Tubman ~

 

 

 

Family Fridays #13

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Family Fridays

I hope this Friday finds you all safe and well. Here’s the latest from Alabama. As of Thursday, June 18th, there are 27,796 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 801 people have sadly passed away. From last week that’s an increase of 5,322 people who have tested positive, and 50 more deaths. Three AL counties: Montgomery, Jefferson, and Tuscaloosa are seeing the largest increase in weekly cases, and ICUs in Montgomery and Tuscaloosa are almost at full capacity. AL is one of 23 states reporting sharp increases, and while these numbers are awful, we’re not quite as bad as states like Florida. It does beg the question as to why Mr. Trump thinks COVID-19 is “dying out.”

Our pool reopened Monday, and we’ve been happily using it every morning. Our apartment’s management is strictly following CDC guidelines so we’ve felt pretty safe. It’s great timing because my fibromyalgia and migraines have been acting up and swimming really helps me.

For this week’s positivity I’m sharing this wonderful video, Time from musicians Hans Zimmer and Alan Walker. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Please let me know how all of you are doing!