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NPR Covers Taylor Swift's Silence on White Supremacy

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This story was introduced with these quotes:

"They [white supremacists] think that, hey, you know, she's blonde, she's white, and she secretly hates the Jews."

The founder of the Daily Stormer said: "The entire alt right patiently awaits the day when we can lay down our swords and kneel before her throne as she commands us the go forth and slaughter the subhuman enemies of the Aryan race." He also said, "It's an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Tr**p makes it safe for her to come out an announce her Aryan agenda to the world."

Brooke Gladstone interviews Mitch Sunderland who broke the story last year after interviewing M*lo Yiannopolous at The Grove mall when they ran into an alt-right girl at Neiman Marcus, "Shake It Off" came on, and that girl started singing and dancing and singing along. He saw the same thing at CPAC, a conservative convention, where young Republican girls were also singing to "Shake It Off."

Mainstream conservatives think she's a Republican because of her silence. She has the potential to lose out on a lot of money if she comes out against Tr**p -- not unlike the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines said she was ashamed Dubya is from Texas -- because her 1989 tour mostly played in suburban towns and the south which mostly went for Tr**p in the general election.

Mitch Sunderland notes that her response to attention from Nazis is complete silence, and Nazis view silence as approval. Host Brooke Gladstone notes it's not controversial to condemn white supremacy. And yet...

They also discuss how her music video "Wildest Dreams" hearkens back to colonial white dominance in Africa and how "Shake It Off" appropriates from Black culture.

So Taylor Swift's people have known about the Nazi obsession with Taylor Swift since last year, Taylor hasn't said anything to condemn anti-Semitism and white supremacy, and Nazis assume this means she approves of their agenda. This story is getting attention from the mainstream media and Swifties can no longer say she can't be aware of it because she's not on social media anymore.

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BBC To Air Documentary 'Harry Potter: A History of Magic'

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- to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, BBC will air a new documentary with an exclusive JK Rowling interview titled 'Harry Potter: A History of Magic'
- additionally, the British Library will run an exhibition with the same title which will be open from 20 October to 28 February
- this exhibition will include ancient texts and art which form an aspect of Harry Potter mythology as well as manuscripts and other items of Rowling's


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Reporter Tweets from the Juggalo March on Washington

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The Juggalos are marching on Washington for legitimate reasons today. The FBI classifies them as a gang, so any juggalo arrested for nonviolent misdemeanors is likely to get a much harsher sentence. The gang classification also means they can be discriminated against in housing and employment. Washington DC correspondent for the Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale interviewed one woman who was fired from her probation officer job because of her clown status.



DC Democratic Socialists showed up in solidarity:





Unlike Tr**p and his supporters, juggalos are pro-journalism:










Dale notes that the rally has a few hundred people and is very calm and peaceful. There is also a so-called "mother of all rallies" pro-Tr**p demonstration that is "tiny." No confrontation so likely.

ONTD, are you down with the clown?

Edit: I think I'm down w/ the clown:



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Lea Michele Stans Women on Television

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Lists Ellen Pompeo, Mindy Kaling, and Lena Dunham for creating Girls, as women in television she looked up to when starting Glee.







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Harry Styles performs+answers questions at the Grammy museum; is shoe in for AOTY nom

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He performed his new sindle "Two Ghosts" then was joined by producer Jeff Bhasker for a q&a session chaired by Cameron Crowe discuss making his debut album, Dunkirk and his views on the music industry.







Harry talked about how making his debut album because he started without a label so could make the music he wanted rather than thinking about what the label wanted. But added in the 1D he didn't feel suppressed and could write what he wanted then too.


He said the most personal song on his album was "From the dining table" and personal songs are his favorite to listen too but he didn't think a song had to be personal to be good. He also said "From the dining table" was his favorite and most honest song on the album.


Harry said his musical influences came from his parents, that his father listened to “a lot of Queen and Pink Floyd,” and his mother loved Norah Jones and Shania Twain, who Harry is also a "huge fan of". Producer Jeff Bhasker said though that any homage seen was not intentional take is that if any “homage” is sensed, it was not intentional “We were not thinking about [influences] at all,” he said, and said they recorded the album in a very "punk rock" way, the way "classic rock acts did".

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Which Jeff Bhasker produced song is your fave ontd? Mine is All of the Lights

21 Books Goodreads Users Are Most Excited To Read This Fall

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Sing Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Synopsis: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.



La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust) - Philip Pullman

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them, a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua


We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Synopsis: Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president."


Bonfire - Krysten Ritter

Synposis:
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.

But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.

Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as Abby tries to find out what really happened to Kaycee, she unearths an even more disturbing secret—a ritual called “The Game,” which will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.


The Last Ballad - Wiley Cash

Synopsis: Twelve times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill’s owners—the newly arrived Goldberg brothers—white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and others workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May’s best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for seventy-two hours of work each week, it’s the only opportunity she has. Her no-good husband John has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with whatever she can find.


The Black Tides of Heaven - Ji Yang

Synopsis: Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother's Protectorate.

A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from his sister Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond he shares with his twin sister?


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Lethal Bizzle teaches Dame Judi Dench how to rap

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Which national treasures would you like to see release a grime record ONTD?

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5H Post: Down Goes Gold + Sets Record & Guess which Mega Popstar is a Harmonizer

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Fifth Harmony has officially been certificated Gold by the RIAA for their hit single, Down. In addition to the achievement, Down has crossed over the 100 million mark in Spotify plays making it their 5th single to do so. This makes makes Fifth Harmony the FIRST and ONLY girl group in history to achieve this feat. Fifth Harmony now has a record 8 consecutive certified records under their belt.

List | Receipts (Update)
(new) - The First and Only girl group to have 5 songs with 100 million spotify plays | check
(new) - All 8 of Fifth Harmony official singles has been certified | check
- ONLY girl group to have their first three albums debut in the top 5! | check
- Ties Destiny's Child and Dixie Chicks with the most top 10 albums | check
- Most awarded group of 2017 | check
- Most Talked about Musical Group | check

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During an recent interview, Sam Smith talks about his love for the girls and his life as a harmonizer.



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The Fab Four!
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In Real Life of the TV Series Boyband premiere debut music video "Eyes Closed"

Athena Incarnate Carly Rae Jepsen Confirms 2018 Release of New Record

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Liberative auteur Carly Rae Jepsen has revealed that she is in the "polishing" stages of her untitled new album, tentatively proclaimed as the second Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Making the rounds for her latest release Cut to the Feeling: Emotion Side B+, a Japanese exclusive, the LGBT-icon laureate paid a visit to radio station J-Wave during its Step One entertainment program and conveyed her artistic process in the conception of Emotion, her involvement in Leap! and the surprising success of "Cut to the Feeling". (Listen to the broadcast here!)

"I wasn't expecting it to have any reaction. I was on holiday by myself in Italy and I was getting phone calls and hit up by my team being like, 'I think it's starting to get it's own little life, so like, maybe come back?'"

The IRL Makoto Konno was prodded at for her affinity of the 80s, iterating her love for its emotional intesity that appealed to her "drammatic side", yet expressing that [Emotion]'s sound seemed "really fresh" in "taking retro things and figuring out how to make it seem new".

Speaking of her new album, Jepsen further disclosed that she was attracted to a 70s, disco sound: "I dyed my hair blonde with this idea that it would [be like] the Farrah Fawcett video. But then, when you go from black to blonde real quick and your hair falls out real quick."

Host: "Well will we hear [the new album], maybe, the beginning of next year?"
Jepsen: "I think–it's–yes. Yes. I'm hesitant to say a date, 'cause I don't know for sure. [...] I have a baby plan for it, and it would be great to get it here as soon as possible but it's also more important to get it right. So I'm in the cleaning up phases right now, just making sure it's all polished. I'm polishing! Yeah, and growing my hair out."

"I have a couple of different collaborations that I have in mind but they're–it's a secret still. I think that's the gift of what keeps [it] so fresh is just, when you are writing with somebody from a different world of music than you, you get to make something that on your own you couldn't have done. [...] I'm hoping to have a couple."



The underground tastemaker ends the interview with a selection of songs from her playlist, revealing that despite "happiness" being the predominant theme of her work, she mostly enjoyed listening to sad music.

Carly's playlist:

1. Ariel Pink - "Baby"

"It takes me away to a place of just, relaxation and romance and a night in. And, I don't know, a good fire, maybe a little whiskey to share."

2. Vulfpeck - "Back Pocket"

"It's just so good. It's really funky, it's the type of song that I wish I had written. So it kinda makes me a little angry. I mean, I like how nursey rhymeish that chorus is, but without getting too young; it's just like guiltlessly–argh–yeah, so angry!"

3. Big Thief - "Paul"

"The lyrics to this song–beautiful–very much about a woman who realizes that she's not worthy enough to love the man who loves her. And it's just–ugh–gut-wrenching."

4. Soft Hair - "Lying Has to Stop"

"You're gonna have to check out their music videos. It's just so absurd, but funny and awesome."

5. Valerie June - "Wanna Be on Your Mind"

"When I was in Italy I was constantly listening to this song, on repeat, over and over again. It's just so... [mimicking hook] da da da da–It's perfect for walking, chilling, travelling, [unintelligible]."

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Carleviticus Ray of Light giving the other pop girlies leeway this Christmas season and avoiding a Q4 release. A true philanthropist.

Adam Beach on the Whitewashing of Native Roles

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  • talks about how Native Americans have had to fight for the right to hold onto their culture - how for hundreds of years, Natives have had to endure everything from forced assimilation to genocide for practicing any forms of their culture (speaking their languages, performing spiritual practices, existing in general) and that whitewashing Native roles is a continuation of the erasure of the Native identity.

  • explains that Native American identity is more than just having a great-great-grandmother who is Cherokee or "looking Native" for having high cheek bones. Likely a reference to the casting of Kelsey Chow in the role of a Native woman in Wind River and the upcoming show Yellowstone.

  • audiences are given inauthentic stories about Natives, or are presented stories where Natives live in extreme poverty and must rely on White Saviours to help them.

  • notes that this erasure also glosses over the extreme violence Native women endure, both from within their communities and from non-natives. He mentions the murder of a First Nations woman that reminded him of the death of his mother and unborn sister.

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Michelle Rounds, Ex-Wife of Rosie O'Donnell, Dies of Suspected Suicide

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-Michelle Rounds, 46, was found dead in her home. The OC Sheriff says, “They are not calling this a suicide at this time," adding, "they are calling it a death investigation. We are waiting for the autopsy to come back.”
-Rounds met Rosie O'Donnell in 2011, they married the following year and adopted a baby girl in 2013.
-O'Donnell's statement: “I am saddened to hear about this terrible tragedy. Mental illness is a very serious issue affecting many families. My thoughts and prayers go out to Michelle’s family, her wife Krista, and their child.”

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Patty Jenkins hires Expendables writer to co-write WW sequel

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-David Callaham has been brought in to write the WW2 screenplay based off of Patty Jenkins and Geoff John's treatment.

-Writing credits include:
Doom
The Expendables 1/2/3
Godzilla

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New Canadian Music Post

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It's been 84 years!!






Pierre Kwenders playing his new album for CBC Music









What are you listening to, ONTD?
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NPR Covers Taylor Swift's Silence on White Supremacy

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This story was introduced with these quotes:

"They [white supremacists] think that, hey, you know, she's blonde, she's white, and she secretly hates the Jews."

The founder of the Daily Stormer said: "The entire alt right patiently awaits the day when we can lay down our swords and kneel before her throne as she commands us the go forth and slaughter the subhuman enemies of the Aryan race." He also said, "It's an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Tr**p makes it safe for her to come out an announce her Aryan agenda to the world."

Brooke Gladstone interviews Mitch Sunderland who broke the story last year after interviewing M*lo Yiannopolous at The Grove mall when they ran into an alt-right girl at Neiman Marcus, "Shake It Off" came on, and that girl started singing and dancing and singing along. He saw the same thing at CPAC, a conservative convention, where young Republican girls were also singing to "Shake It Off."

Mainstream conservatives think she's a Republican because of her silence. She has the potential to lose out on a lot of money if she comes out against Tr**p -- not unlike the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines said she was ashamed Dubya is from Texas -- because her 1989 tour mostly played in suburban towns and the south which mostly went for Tr**p in the general election.

Mitch Sunderland notes that her response to attention from Nazis is complete silence, and Nazis view silence as approval. Host Brooke Gladstone notes it's not controversial to condemn white supremacy. And yet...

They also discuss how her music video "Wildest Dreams" hearkens back to colonial white dominance in Africa and how "Shake It Off" appropriates from Black culture.

So Taylor Swift's people have known about the Nazi obsession with Taylor Swift since last year, Taylor hasn't said anything to condemn anti-Semitism and white supremacy, and Nazis assume this means she approves of their agenda. This story is getting attention from the mainstream media and Swifties can no longer say she can't be aware of it because she's not on social media anymore.

Source

BBC To Air Documentary 'Harry Potter: A History of Magic'

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- to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, BBC will air a new documentary with an exclusive JK Rowling interview titled 'Harry Potter: A History of Magic'
- additionally, the British Library will run an exhibition with the same title which will be open from 20 October to 28 February
- this exhibition will include ancient texts and art which form an aspect of Harry Potter mythology as well as manuscripts and other items of Rowling's


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Reporter Tweets from the Juggalo March on Washington

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The Juggalos are marching on Washington for legitimate reasons today. The FBI classifies them as a gang, so any juggalo arrested for nonviolent misdemeanors is likely to get a much harsher sentence. The gang classification also means they can be discriminated against in housing and employment. Washington DC correspondent for the Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale interviewed one woman who was fired from her probation officer job because of her clown status.



DC Democratic Socialists showed up in solidarity:





Unlike Tr**p and his supporters, juggalos are pro-journalism:










Dale notes that the rally has a few hundred people and is very calm and peaceful. There is also a so-called "mother of all rallies" pro-Tr**p demonstration that is "tiny." No confrontation so likely.

ONTD, are you down with the clown?

Edit: I think I'm down w/ the clown:



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Lea Michele Stans Women on Television

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Lists Ellen Pompeo, Mindy Kaling, and Lena Dunham for creating Girls, as women in television she looked up to when starting Glee.







Sources: 1, 2, 3

Harry Styles performs+answers questions at the Grammy museum; is shoe in for AOTY nom

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0




He performed his new sindle "Two Ghosts" then was joined by producer Jeff Bhasker for a q&a session chaired by Cameron Crowe discuss making his debut album, Dunkirk and his views on the music industry.







Harry talked about how making his debut album because he started without a label so could make the music he wanted rather than thinking about what the label wanted. But added in the 1D he didn't feel suppressed and could write what he wanted then too.


He said the most personal song on his album was "From the dining table" and personal songs are his favorite to listen too but he didn't think a song had to be personal to be good. He also said "From the dining table" was his favorite and most honest song on the album.


Harry said his musical influences came from his parents, that his father listened to “a lot of Queen and Pink Floyd,” and his mother loved Norah Jones and Shania Twain, who Harry is also a "huge fan of". Producer Jeff Bhasker said though that any homage seen was not intentional take is that if any “homage” is sensed, it was not intentional “We were not thinking about [influences] at all,” he said, and said they recorded the album in a very "punk rock" way, the way "classic rock acts did".

Source 12345678
Which Jeff Bhasker produced song is your fave ontd? Mine is All of the Lights

21 Books Goodreads Users Are Most Excited To Read This Fall

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0





Sing Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

Synopsis: Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.



La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust) - Philip Pullman

Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them, a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua


We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Synopsis: Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president."


Bonfire - Krysten Ritter

Synposis:
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.

But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.

Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as Abby tries to find out what really happened to Kaycee, she unearths an even more disturbing secret—a ritual called “The Game,” which will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.


The Last Ballad - Wiley Cash

Synopsis: Twelve times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, North Carolina. The insular community considers the mill’s owners—the newly arrived Goldberg brothers—white but not American and expects them to pay Ella May and others workers less because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet, Ella May’s best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for seventy-two hours of work each week, it’s the only opportunity she has. Her no-good husband John has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with whatever she can find.


The Black Tides of Heaven - Ji Yang

Synopsis: Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed her strange prophetic gift, Akeha was always the one who could see the strings that moved adults to action. While his sister received visions of what would be, Akeha realized what could be. What's more, he saw the sickness at the heart of his mother's Protectorate.

A rebellion is growing. The Machinists discover new levers to move the world every day, while the Tensors fight to put them down and preserve the power of the state. Unwilling to continue to play a pawn in his mother's twisted schemes, Akeha leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from his sister Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the bond he shares with his twin sister?


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