Fans are hoping the former first lady will go on to become an EGOT. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Michelle Obama is now a Grammy winner. The former first lady took home the trophy in the Spoken Word Album category for the audio recording of her bestselling 2018 memoir “Becoming.” The Grammys’ Best Spoken Word Album award honors […]
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The Snowy Day is Amazon’s beautiful, hopeful addition to television Christmas specials | The Verge
On Thanksgiving, Amazon quietly published its contribution to the Christmas canon. The Snowy Day is an adaptation of the award-winning 1962 children’s picture book of the same name, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Odds are you’ve seen the book, or had it read to you. Its cover art, with a tiny […]
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Help combat racism. This holiday season, give the gift of a black children’s or young adult book | Daily Kos
In a time fraught with Trump- and Republican-fomented racial hate and vituperation, we move into a holiday season celebrated by 90% of the people in this divided nation. Over the years, many readers have asked for my thoughts on what can be done to change and eliminate the racial hate exhibited by a large, and […]
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Remembering James Baldwin: Here are Five Works by the American Author | News18
On the author’s death anniversary, here’s looking at 5 works by him one must read.
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Sweetness | The New Yorker
It’s not my fault. So you can’t blame me. I didn’t do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn’t take more than an hour after they pulled her out from between my legs for me to realize something was wrong. Really wrong. She was so black she scared me. Midnight black, Sudanese […]
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The Color Fetish | The New Yorker
Of constant fascination for me are the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative—especially if the fictional main character is white (which is almost always the case). Whether it is the horror of one drop of the mystical “black” blood, or signs of innate white superiority, or of deranged […]
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Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story? | Vulture
Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.
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20 Southern Women Changing the World | Garden & Gun
These powerhouses from across the region are making a difference
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Lupita Nyong’o Wrote a Book For Girls of Color to “See More Dark Skin in a Beautiful Light” | POPSUGAR
Chanel-Vargas, POPSUGAR Image Source: Amazon. Featured Image Lupita Nyong’o is now a published author, and her children’s picture book Sulwe — which means star in her native language Luo — sends a powerful and much-needed message to girls of color.
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The Changing Image of the Black in Children’s Literature | The Horn Book, Inc.
By Augusta Baker, The Horn Book, Inc. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, children’s books seemed to foster prejudice by planting false images in the minds of children. Most authors were white, with little knowledge about black life, and yet they wrote as if they were authorities. No wonder it was an accepted fact in children’s […]
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