Author L.L. McKinney: Barnes & Noble 'Diverse Editions' Are 'Literary Blackface'. (NPR, 2/6/2020)
The bookselling chain announced this month that they were going to release classic books with new covers that reimagined protagonists as characters of color. These included Frankenstein, Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde among others — almost all books by white authors, about characters presumed to be white.
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Origins of Black History Month. (Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
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