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Ta-Nehisi Coates is Writing a New Superman Film for DC and Warner Bros

Ta-Nehisi Coates—acclaimed best-selling author of Between the World and Me, The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer—will write a new Superman film for DC and Warner Bros. This is not the author’s first time writing superheroes. Coates has also written for Marvel comics series Black Panther and Captain America. When asked about writing the script for a new Superman movie, Coates said, “I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America’s most iconic mythic hero.” The Superman project is in early development, but it will be produced by Hannah Minghella and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot.

Fifty Shades Author E.L. James Starts New Imprint

Sourcebooks has announced that they’re launching a new imprint with E.L. James, the author of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. James will be bringing her entire catalogue with her to this new imprint. James said, “I’m thrilled to be joining the Sourcebooks family. It feels like I’m coming home.”

Amanda Gorman’s Dutch Translator Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Quits

Acclaimed author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld—whom Dutch publisher Meulenhoff had chosen as the translator for US youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s forthcoming poetry collection—has chosen to resign from the project. After it was announced that Rijneveld would translate Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, critics questioned why Meulenhoff would have chosen a white translator over someone who was a “spoken-word artist, young, female and unapologetically Black.” Rijneveld wrote, “I am shocked by the uproar surrounding my involvement in the spread of Amanda Gorman’s message and I understand the people who feel hurt by Meulenhoff’s choice to ask me.” While she is stepping away from the project, Rijneveld wrote that she hopes Gorman’s words “reach as many readers as possible and open hearts.”

10 Books About Black Women Activists of the Civil Rights Movement

These Black women activists dedicated their lives to changing the world. These books tell their stories.