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Tag: Slavery
Book Review: Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)
It is hard to understand how hope could endure in conditions like those the enslaved lived under, yet the author shows the love, connection, resilience, and reclamation of a people whose voices are essential to the narrative of slavery and of our country.
Restoring What Slavery Took Away: Ten Take-aways from Kin: Rooted in Hope, a guest post by Carole Boston Weatherford
In multi-voiced, first-person poems and dramatic scratchboard illustrations created by my son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, Kin conjures the voices and stories of our ancestors and their contemporaries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Q&A with Kelly McWilliams, author of Your Planation Prom Is Not Okay
When someone pretends that a plantation is about love and good old-fashioned family values, it keeps us on very different wavelengths.
More Recent Posts
Why Teens Should Read Hard History, a guest post by Lesley Younge
Reading hard history builds empathy and intercultural competence. It allows young people to understand new and different perspectives.
Why I Wrote About Slavery in my New Middle Grade Novel, a guest post by Greg Howard
I believe exposing young readers to characters such as these and sharing their heartrending stories is not only appropriate but necessary to effect positive change in our society.
Book Review: Dream Country by Shannon Gibney
Publisher’s description The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom. Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee. He’s exhausted by being at once too black […]
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