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    The Founders Of The Black Girls’ Book Club On Staging Their First Literary Festival

    profeminist:

    “In 2014, the Pew Research Centre released data that revealed the person most likely to read a book was a black woman with a degree. For diasporic proof of this we need look no further than London’s very own Black Girl’s Book Club, founded in 2016 by friends Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie Carter, who came up with the idea over dinner. 

    “We were discussing ways we could strengthen our friendship and what we could do together,” Cummings-Quarry explains. “We both had the thought that we should start a book club. We thought it was just going be our mums, aunties and a few mates. But our first event, a ‘Black Girls are Magic Brunch’ was such a success, it completely sold out. Since then it’s just been an absolute whirlwind.” 

    Read the full piece here

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