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The Freedom Fund is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to identifying and investing in the most effective frontline efforts to end slavery.

Reni Eddo-Lodge book breaks chart record in the midst of BLM protests

Jun 10,2020 7:33 pm

Reni Eddo-Lodge book was originally fiction

Reni Eddo-Lodge, published in the year of 2017, criticised the UK publishing industry after she became The First black British author at the top of the paperback non-chart.

in her book, Why I am no Longer went to Talk To White People About Race, the Number One on The Chart This Week .

Eddo-Lodge said she was "dismayed" that the power only came about under "tragic circumstances" - this refers to the death of George Floyd.

The author said it was a "terrible indictment of the publishing industry".

Renewed interest in the year 2017, the title was rekindled in the Wake of protests surrounding the death of Mr. Floyd in the custody of the police in Minneapolis.

This Week , Bernardine Evaristo is also The First female writer of color at the top of the mass market fiction chart, with the girl, the woman, the Other, The Book dealer said.

Evaristo's novel, together with The certificates won the Booker Prize Last Year , along with Margaret Atwood 's.

Bernardine Evaristo together

won the Booker Prize Last Year After Her book " to the top of the non-fiction chart, Eddo-Lodge said: "Can not help but be affected by this tragic circumstances, came to be under which this service.

"The fact that it is 2020 and I'm The First . Let's be honest. Reader demand aside, is that it took this long is a terrible indictment of the publishing industry. "

The Book rose 155 places in the official landing, as the most popular book overall.

Just another black author, former US First Lady , Michelle Obama , has ever been the overall best-seller in the UK achieved with your 2018 memoirs Always.

', changed My Life '

Eddo-Lodge Bestseller examines the connections between gender, class and race in the UK and around The World .

in the Last month, after the death of Mr. Floyd in police custody, The Writer had noted that a jump in sales, which she found disturbing.

"This book financially changed My Life and I don't really like the idea of personally benefit every time a video of a black person's death go viral," she wrote and urged the readers to make a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund .

last week, it was not The Press for further comments on your Social Media : "What I have to say, has not changed for The Best part of a decade. "

Fellow author Dorothy Koomson This Week , the publishing industry, in which she called it an "extremely harmful" environment for black authors.

"the Black writer does not want special attention, we do not want any Special Treatment ," she wrote.

"We want to write to the same conditions of competition, equal opportunities, and the chance books and discover how many themes and genres, such as our white counterparts. "

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