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Making Our Own Market @ The Brown Bookshelf
For Children’s Book Week (May 12-18) The Brown Bookshelf is featuring different Black authors as…
no equity, no justice
I haven’t said much publicly about the #weneeddiversebooks campaign but I took a moment last…
Does Canada damage Black children?
At the start of this year my friend and fellow blogger Edith Campbell told me…
Discussing the Diversity Gap on The Debrief with David Ushery
I had a surreal experience today: I went to WNBC’s studio and saw the newscasters…
2013 Golden Baobab Prize
When I attended the Yari Yari Ntoaso conference in Accra last spring, I met Deborah…
a door in the wall
After I finished blogging this morning I emailed a friend from the 5th grade to…
cupcakes & books in Brooklyn!
Author/activist Ibi Zoboi has launched the Brooklyn Blossoms Book Club and today’s event features NY…
from Ghana, with love
GIVE BOOKS! One book can change a child’s life, but too many children don’t have…
waiting in vain
Every time the crises facing our youth make the news, I wait (in vain) for…