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Black Opals: How a rare Black Philly literary journal is finding new life

Black Opals, published four times between 1927 and 1928, is finding new readers after nearly 100 years in obscurity.

Black Opals, a Black literary journal that published four issues between 1927 and 1928, shown here in the rare books room at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Friday, February 4, 2022.
Black Opals, a Black literary journal that published four issues between 1927 and 1928, shown here in the rare books room at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Friday, February 4, 2022.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer