FLOTUS: Bookstore Surprise!

Spending time at a local indie bookstore ✅
Surprising unexpecting fans with @JimmyFallon ✅
Seeing the looks on their faces ✅
That’s a wrap. Thank you, @FallonTonight! https://t.co/8u1tKbPh3r

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 20, 2023

📚 Bookstore Surprise w/ @MichelleObama 📚 #FallonTonight #TheLightWeCarry pic.twitter.com/eWK4xkI2Rc

— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) April 20, 2023

Your Education Begins Now

I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections: pic.twitter.com/gj5uko69OY

— Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) May 30, 2020

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— Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) May 30, 2020

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While you’re expanding your anti-racist knowledge and book collection please also support Black Owned Bookstores! Many of them will ship your new literary treasures to you right now! https://t.co/PxwED5BNbq

— Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) June 2, 2020

Thanks so much to everyone who has engaged with the Anti-Racist Reading List! To support folks in further engaging anti-racism, I have put together an Anti-Racist Resource Guide: https://t.co/8Cb7t7oPp8

— Victoria Alexander (@victoriaalxndr) June 2, 2020

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Teacher in me had to do this..

CHILDREN’S BOOKS THAT DISCUSS RACE & RACISM THREAD:

— Brittany, M. Ed (@wanderingbritt_) June 2, 2020

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— Brittany, M. Ed (@wanderingbritt_) June 2, 2020

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We believe in the power of story. #JustMercy is one resource we can offer to those who are interested in learning more about the systemic racism that plagues our society. For the month of June, #JustMercy will be available to rent for free on digital platforms in the US. @eji_org pic.twitter.com/3B2IHMNk7E

— Just Mercy (@JustMercyFilm) June 2, 2020

Please read happy Black books too. We don't just write about slavery and colonialism. Consume Black history and art about anything. It all helps to decenter whiteness

— Athena Kugblenu (@athenakugblenu) June 1, 2020

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https://twitter.com/felixevraftr/status/1267234409603895296

Here are some black YA authors who just released books:@byleahjohnson (You Should See Me In A Crown)... @BCMorrow (A Song Below Water).....@rosiesrambles (A Song of Wraiths And Ruin)...#BlackOutTuesday pic.twitter.com/cnoSmOfN5A

— Bookishness (@Khrysweetie) June 2, 2020

Supporting The Community

@PeteSouza

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President Barack Obama shops with daughters Sasha and Malia at Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Washington

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AG Holder makes one more purchase @UnionMarketDC before heading home. Support local merchants on #SmallBizSat pic.twitter.com/PZQOHCNcUl

— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) November 30, 2013

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WJLA: President Obama Visits Politics And Prose On Small Business Saturday

President Barack Obama is doing his part to support small businesses. Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha dropped in Saturday at Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore and purchased what he said was a “long list” of books that included “The Kite Runner,” ”Harold and the Purple Crayon,” and “The Sports Gene”. The president said he bought a reader for every age, from 5 to 52 – his age. Obama sent a tweet earlier Saturday about the importance of supporting small businesses.

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The wonderful Lene and Abeba Tsegaye, owners of Kefa Cafe and neighborhood stalwarts #SmallBusinessSaturday pic.twitter.com/9l0E6eQeaV

— Cecilia Muñoz NARA (@Cecilia44) November 30, 2013

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.@CommerceSec supporting small businesses by shopping on Small Business Saturday #SmallBizSat pic.twitter.com/t8MjVvjOFZ

— U.S. Commerce Dept. (@CommerceGov) November 30, 2013

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When our small businesses do well, our communities do well. Join me and visit a small business near you today to celebrate #SmallBizSat. –bo

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 30, 2013

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Ashley Killough: Obama Does Some ‘Small Business Saturday’ Shopping

President Barack Obama continued what’s become an annual post-Thanksgiving tradition by stopping at a bookstore for Small Business Saturday. With his two daughters alongside, the President went to Politics and Prose in Washington to pick up a few books, telling reporters he bought a “long list” of titles for every age group, including his own. List of books purchased by Obama, according to the White House: 

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Keeping my spending local this #SmallBizSat pic.twitter.com/MoMEAMVQh5

— Sec. Anthony Foxx (@SecretaryFoxx) November 30, 2013

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one for the books

President Obama and his daughters Malia and Sasha visit bookstore Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 20. The president was given the store’s advance copy of the Jonathan Franzen book, Freedom, as a gift and bought Tinkers by Paul Harding and A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser

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A young woman reacts after seeing President Barack Obama, during his visit to Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa, March 25, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)