Luke Cage · Season 1, Episode 1, "Moment of Truth"
The Julius Lester book in Luke's pile
Luke Cage (Mike Colter) · Luke's room
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What it tells you
Same bed, same episode, and one spine in the pile belongs to Julius Lester. Book Riot read it as Black Folktales, his 1969 collection. Black Nerd Problems' Luke Cage Syllabus puts a Lester book on that bed too.
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The book
Black Folktales
Julius Lester · 1969 · folktales
Julius Lester's 1969 collection of African and African American folktales, illustrated by Tom Feelings. Before he wrote it, Lester recorded folk albums and photographed the civil rights movement for SNCC.
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