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I just published our bestsellers list for the period ending April 30th. I actually did not have a chance to really analyze the list, so I did not notice that Brown Girl Books published the top three books on the fiction side! I usually analyze the list for trends right before i publish the information in my newsletter. However, the news became quite evident after posting the information on Twitter. I have to congratulate both the authors and the publisher, they are one of the great stories in Black books today--look out for great things from Brown Girls Books.

When I went to the U. of Illinois back in 1951, the tuition was $40 a semester which was about the average cost for all the members of the Big !0 midwestern college conference. Tuition stayed low for about the next 25 years. No entrance exams were required. Every resident of the state of Illinois with a HS diploma was eligible to enroll there, but you had to maintain at least a 3.0 average or you'd "flunk out".