Black lives matter

People of Color in Publishing and Latinx in Publishing collaborated on an online survey in summer and fall 2018, reaching out to current and former BIPOC industry members about the extent to which they've experienced racism on the job. The results of the survey are now being released in a report, "Workplace Racism Survey," that documents the ways racism manifests itself at publishing houses.  Read more

It has taken nearly a decade to research and write, and runs to more than 750 pages. But The History Makers, described as "an epic exploration of those who write about the past", has itself been rewritten after its author failed to take into account enough black historians, academics and writers.  Read more

On March 1, The Guardian reported that Amanda Gorman's Dutch translator, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, had quit. Amanda Gorman, the poet who catapulted onto the world stage after an astounding performance at U.S.  Read more

In 2016, we had been open for one intense and educational year as the only romance-focused bookstore in the country. After one year of building a community of romance-loving customers, it became abundantly clear to us that readers were looking for more racial diversity in their romance novels.  Read more

A few years ago at a Radcliffe Institute exhibit, I came across photos of a draft of what would become Angela Davis' autobiography. A foundational Black literary text, bare-boned and vulnerable, is not something you often get to see. The manuscript bloomed with the strokes of a blue pen, notes from the editor on what needed to be changed.  Read more