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Black Women Writers at Bookchella: A Celebration of Black Girl Magic
By via http://www.laweekly.com
When Glory Edim stepped up to the podium to receive her Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Innovator’s Award, on Friday, April 20, at the kickoff event for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held at USC, a clip of Beyoncé’s “Formation” rang out, “I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making.” Clad in a cropped black leather jacket and long red skirt with hair in full springy afro exuding #BlackGirlMagic, Edim bounced with the beat, then leaned into the mic: “I was expecting a Cardi B song, but I love Beyoncé.”
A Cardi B song, one filled with the braggadociousness of creating something out of nothing, makes perfect sense.
Edim, the Nigerian-American daughter of books, started Well-Read Black Girl three years ago in Brooklyn out of thin air. If not for the loving gesture of her partner, Opiyo Okeyo, who made Edim a T-shirt with the “Well-Read Black Girl” moniker, the book club might not have gotten off the ground. But everywhere Edim wore the tee — in bookstores, the..
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