Authors are speaking up. Amid worldwide protests over the death of George Floyd and reignited momentum in the Black Lives Matter movement, various industries are facing a reckoning over their alleged discriminatory practices and inequality.
Now, the literary world has joined in the public conversation to expose pay disparities between white authors and black authors.
The public Twitter discussion initially sparked over the weekend after Beasts Made of Night author Tochi Onyebuchi tweeted, "Publishing houses, y'all BLM statements are cute but I'ma need that SAME energy when we start talking Black writers and book advances.
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