The Unspoken Rule: A Cover Artist's Reckoning with Race in Publishing

> There’s an unspoken rule that artists are not to put Black people as the lead character on their covers.

Oh, it goes much deeper than that: 1) Not to do business with or buy from. 2) Not to rent to. 3) Not to date or marry.

The list will keep going and get ever narrower, depending on how deep into the insanity people will allow themselves to fall, until marrying their own first cousin or even their sister appears to be a brilliant idea.