Barnes And Noble Black History Month Book Covers

Barnes noble stores nationally will continue to highlight a wide selection of books to.
Barnes and noble black history month book covers. The bookseller planned to promote classic novels with covers featuring people of color for black history month. Following a backlash barnes noble said it s suspending a diversity effort to reissue 12 classic books with new covers depicting main characters as black. The bookstore had teamed up with penguin random house. Barnes and noble has canceled plans to launch a series of classic books with diverse covers for black history month after an online backlash.
In a black history month signal effort barnes noble decided to tokenize their covers of classic books. Barnes and noble has pulled a set of reimagined classic book covers featuring diverse protagonists after the project prompted an online backlash with critics calling it a superficial stunt. Barnes and noble scrapped a plan to put diverse faces on the cover of classic books after backlash sections. Barnes noble criticized for book covers pulls plug on diverse editions project.
Basically they just created black versions of characters and didn t change what s going. Barnes noble still plans to honor and participate in black history month this year. A barnes noble in new york city found an unsubstantial way to celebrate black history month and twitter was not happy. Barnes noble is being criticized online after the bookstore s attempt to celebrate black history month left many calling the move racist and misguided.