Dr. Tara Betts
@tarabetts
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Author of REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR. @DePaulPAX Professor of Practice. https://t.co/tMIyyov0o4. On ig and TikTok as @tarabettschitown.
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Joined August 2008
I keep recommending this book to people.
Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading. https://t.co/1F9kcXUvWb
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Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading. https://t.co/1F9kcXUvWb
Just when they thought they’d be hurting “the Blacks” by removing DEI. DEI includes veterans, people from rural areas, white women, first-generation students, all categories that include white men. 😆😆😆
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DePaul’s own Mark Turcotte and Tara Betts will be part of the all-star reading lineup—alongside New York Times Bestselling Author Erika L. Sánchez, National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award finalist Robyn Schiff, and many others. https://t.co/usL8Vtr3xm
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clipping it monday nite @ the clipper for Luya Poetry poetry show :) last show of da year!!! special guest co-host Amanda Payne sibling co-host Czaerra featured artist Tara Betts
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In the McCarthy Era, to Be Black Was to Be Red The Marxist sympathies of Black radical leaders like Paul Robeson, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry made them targets for the FBI. https://t.co/4atq4ZV5ix
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The Marxist sympathies of Black radical leaders like Paul Robeson, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry made them targets for the FBI.
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“These are poems that make the reader weep in the same way a great jazz singer does by touching the very core of what it means to be human” -- Maria Gillan Pick up your copy of Break the Habit by @tarabetts for 25% off until 2/28. https://t.co/X65KQQMlXq
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Individual titles by @tarabetts, Artress Bethany White, Tamara J Madison, and @martheaus are 25% off during Black History Month — or buy all four and get 30% off! Discount is automatic at checkout. https://t.co/MGvB8368Bv
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Writing is about persistence. You will get rejected. Some people will not like your writing: even you will not like your writing sometimes. The best writers are not the most talented but the most determined: those individuals who can keep writing even in the face of rejection.
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Free PDF 📚: Some of Us Did NOT Die: New & Selected Essays by June Jordan Link 🔗: https://t.co/4wS2waZifw Click (alt) for alt text + Book Summary 📖
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“I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent, instead of constantly being the object of other peoples' exploitation and ferocity, would themselves be taking action on a grand scale and shaping other people to their own needs." ♥️🇭🇹🌺
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How to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
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Just sharing my birthday celebration at Semicolon Books w/ Call & Response Books on Saturday, 1/4, 2-6PM.
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Free shipping and buy two get one on titles by @susanlleary @ChrisGullette_ @LSevick @DebKossmann @CarolynHembree @SandyLonghorn @tarabetts and many more! This weekend only. #supportindiepresses
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I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting here in the future and other platforms, and I might post on my new account at https://t.co/JyPQxj7Abh .
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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
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Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. Tubman was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war.
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The same forces that have been banning books and attacking libraries and librarians will now be in charge of our entire education system. Take heed!
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“If you are a party to the immiseration and the evisceration of life in Palestine, people in this country cannot be free, because this is part of creating a new baseline for human suffering.” @KeeangaYamahtta at @PalFest today.
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just realized that someone has uploaded 18 issues of Free Palestine, an english language newspaper published out of DC throughout the 70s. you can find full pdfs on internet archive: https://t.co/3VJBEt2v6K
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