Derecka Purnell

2 months ago | prh.org | Octavia E. Butler |Joy Harjo |Derecka Purnell |Sonya Taylor

With the new year in full swing, PRH is thinking about the texts that build our foundations and sustain our spirit as we do this work at this time under increasing political duress. Reading keeps us grounded in what people before us and around us know to be true and know to be possible. Please find a few books that are currently on our shelves across the PRH Staff and Board of Directors.

Dec 11, 2024 | adastrastories.substack.com | Angela Davis |Derecka Purnell |Siddharth Kara |Weike Wang

[Dear readers: This issue contains discussions of white supremacy, police brutality, racism, ableism, and sexism.] “Hope isn’t an emotion…hope [is] a discipline…In the world we live in, it’s easy to feel a sense of hopelessness, that everything is all bad all the time, that nothing is going to change ever, that people are evil and bad at the bottom…I choose to think a different way, and I choose to act in a different way.” Throughout We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba uses the lens of...

May 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Derecka Purnell

Beyoncé is coupling her album, Cowboy Carter, with Americana-themed images. She straddles a white horse and holds the US flag in the album’s cover art. In other photos, the flag is everything, everywhere, all at once – capes, boots, bomber jackets with leather frills, durags, sashes, scarves and hair beads. Unlike white artists who drape themselves in red, white and blue, Mrs Carter becomes a billionaire cultural astronaut, and drives the flag pole down into the ground as a stake for Black America.

Apr 17, 2023 | resilience.org | Derecka Purnell |Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Apr 17, 2023 | resilience.org | Derecka Purnell |Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor