Celebrate Black August

When Amanda Gorman took the podium to read her powerful poem during the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, we were inspired. When they pulled her book from a public school library shelf, we were enraged. And then they pulled more and more books and stories written by Black authors and other people of color.

Banning books is certainly not new. The racist campaign of repression against Black authors has never really stopped — only ebbed from time to time. Today, however, this campaign has roared back into life with a relentless effort to remove Black-authored books from schools and libraries, race-conscious subjects from curricula, and any mention of racism from our collective history. They want to erase our culture and history by pulling our narratives off the shelves.

Can you help us lift up Black stories in honor of Black August? 

We are asking for donations to help support the build out of the Girls For A Change (GFAC) library. As you know, we’re currently raising money to “Raise the Roof” on a brand new building. Your donation will help us reclaim our time and our literature, starting with some essential reading that conservatives on the far right want to keep from us. 

GFAC will not stand for this dangerous campaign to ban studies of Black History and Culture. Today you can support the beautiful library full of creators and authors that tell stories of perseverance - of people standing up to make a difference and inspire the world. So many of those stories shared are the experiences of Black people: stories of pioneers who have broken down barriers and fought against a system that didn’t want to see them succeed.