Third World Press pipes burst

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

Back around the holiday season the pipes burst at Third World Press in chicago. If you didn't know, Third World Press is one of the few, and one of the more prominent black publishing houses we have left. In the spoiler are some pics that were included out in the fundraising email, and below is the text with the gofundme link. They lost a lot of inventory unfortunately at a time where they should have also made a lot of sales. An old kikongo proverb goes, "the life of a palm nut, a stone above it and below it."

Dear Friends,

Last year marked our 55th anniversary in the publishing business. We are very proud to have built the oldest, independent, continuously operating Black publishing company in the nation. In October, we celebrated with gusto and invited our supporters, friends, authors and family to our headquarters to commemorate with us.

The winter season is traditionally busy for us as we fill holiday orders for the Kwanzaa and Christmas gift giving season. This year however, our efforts were dampened when a water pipe burst beneath our building on a Friday night and quickly flooded the entire basement. Unfortunately, the flooded area housed the major portion of Third World Press’ backlist as well as front-listed books. Our loss has been overwhelming and financially crippling.

Our lost inventory consisted of many of our best sellers and included books by Gwendolyn Brooks, Chancellor Williams, Adelaide Sanford, Fred Hord, Diane Turner, Thabiti Lewis, John Henrik Clarke, Herb Boyd, Edmund W. Gordon, Angela Jackson, Useni Eugene Perkins, Jacqueline Bryant, Keith Gilyard, Jacob H. Carruthers, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Christine List, Haki R. Madhubuti and many others.

To say that we are devastated is an understatement. We desperately need your help. The considerable dollar amount of our loss is approximately $95,000 based upon damaged books, furniture, computers, bookshelves, workers’ regular and overtime pay for clean-up and the relocation of salvageable books to the first floor. We were forced to close the last two weeks of December and the first week of January, thereby losing sales for the year-end holidays and fundraising. These activities make up over one quarter of our annual revenue.

If we are to survive this catastrophe, we earnestly need your help. We have a 501C3 status and your donations are tax deductible within the full extent of the law. No contribution is too small.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity during this trying time.

Sincerely,
Haki R. Madhubuti on behalf of the Third World Press Foundation Staff and Volunteers

FLOOD FUND FOR THIRD WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION, organized by Antoine Lindsey

@bnew @Get These Giants @IllmaticDelta @Supper @Wiseborn @Theraflu @DEAD7

Spoiler

 

[DEAD7]

Damn, that hurts...

Good looking with the post and tag

edit:

FLOOD FUND FOR THIRD WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION, organized by Antoine Lindsey

Dear Friends, Last year marked our 55th anniversary in the publishing… Antoine Lindsey needs your support for FLOOD FUND FOR THIRD WORLD PRESS FOUNDATION

www.gofundme.com

Pay Third World Press Foundation using PayPal.Me

Go to PayPal.Me/thirdwordpressorg and enter the amount. It's safer and more secure. Don't have a PayPal account? No problem.

www.paypal.com

For anyone interested.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

damn

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I know Baba Haki, great elder and poet, I hope things work out.

 

[get these nets]

@WTFisWallace? just told me of an update to the story.
Kyrie Irving's donation put the total over the target.

 

[WTFisWallace?]

Hope they recover and things work out for them. Can’t lie, I was surprised they reached their target so (relatively) quickly….that was dope of Kyrie to do.

 

[F*ckthemkids]

Lmao I thought this thread was gonna be about Texas

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

Wow. Amazing. This is wonderful and has made my day!