Fighting White Supremacy with a Celebration of Blackness

People around the world are grappling with the rise of white-supremacist fueled attacks and white nationalist rhetoric, which often leaves more questions than answers on how to move forward. According to authors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin, if you are black in America, the answer is to celebrate it in a wide range of ways, collected in their new book, How We Fight White Supremacy.    

"One of the things that sits at the core of white supremacy is anti-blackness," Rankin told WNYC's cultural critic Rebecca Carroll. "So what's the opposite of that? Loving on ourselves."

Solomon also pointed out how central platforms like Twitter are. "We would not be having this conversation and we would not have done this book without social media, because I think social media has sped up some of the process around understanding."  

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