Solange’s Saint Heron Debuts Online Library of Rare Books by Black Authors, Article by Smithsonian Magazine

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Readers in the U.S. can borrow 50 titles, including collections of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes and a sci-fi novel by Octavia Butler

Since its founding in 2013, Saint Heron, the creative studio run by musical and visual artist Solange, has produced otherworldly performance art, podcastsand video installations. But its latest project might be its most ambitious: Beginning this month, the studio’s website will act as a free library stocked with rare and out-of-print books by Black historians, writers, poets and artists.

The Saint Heron Community Library debuted Monday, reports the Black Information Network (BIN). Through the online portal, anyone in the United States can borrow a selection of 50 art anthologies, poem collections, zines, novels, history books and other titles curated by Rosa Duffy, founder of Atlanta bookstore For Keeps Books.

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