3 Decades of My Black Revolutionary Bookshelf

We thought we could save people’s lives with the manna to be found in books — and they only got better over time

Scott Woods
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9 min readMar 23, 2021

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A black history book display at a library.
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Scott Woods
LEVEL
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Writer and poet holding down Columbus, Ohio