Reading For Black Children
As a Professor at Bowie State University, one of the great fringe benefits of my job is the ability to poll my students. At 39, though I still think I am hip-I am about a […]
Month: February 2017
Black History Makers: Eugene Bullard
Eugene Jacques Bullard (1895 – 1961) was born October 9, 1895, in Columbus, GA as the seventh out of ten total children born to William Octave Bullard and Josephine “Yokalee” Thomas. Eugene’s father was originally […]
Literary Exploration Inspired by Black History Month: MahoganyBooks Recommendations – Maryland Humanities
I was honored when the team over at the Maryland Humanities Council asked me to pen a piece about #Books and #BlackHistoryMonth. I was a little nervous that my old school radical ‘Adwin-self’ (for those […]
Press Release: Victor LaValle’s Destroyer brings a new horror to BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios is proud to announce VICTOR LAVALLE’S DESTROYER, an all-new monthly comic book series debuting in May 2017 from best-selling horror novelist Victor LaValle (The Ecstatic, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine) and artist […]
Black History Makers: Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa (D. 1337) In the thirteenth century, the Mandinka people of the state of Kangaba in Western Sudan emerged as the most powerful group in Africa. The rise of the Mandinka was due largely to […]
Scholastic to Publish Activism Book by Marley Dias, 12-Year-Old #1000BlackGirlBooks Founder
New York, NY—February 2, 2017—Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, has acquired world rights to an activism book written by Marley Dias, the 12 year-old social activist behind #1000BlackGirlBooks—an international […]
NAACP Image Awards Literary Winners
Congratulations to the eight (8) books who won their respective categories for literary excellence at the 48th NAACP Image Awards, as well as, those books and authors nominated for literary excellence. #BlackBooksMatter. Outstanding Literary Work […]
Black History Makers: Ona Judge
Ona Judge (c.1773—February 25, 1848), known as Ona Judge Staines after marriage, was a light-skinned, heavily freckled and slight of build slave on George Washington’s plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Her mother, Betty, was an enslaved […]
Black Love Day Celebrated
February 13th is recognized as Black Love Day (BLD) in America. Founded in 1993, Black Love Day is the 3rd nationally, commemorated African-American “wholyday.” It is an observance of atonement, reconciliation, celebration and 24-hour demonstration […]
There is No Technology Greater Than The Book
Black Literature is the documentation of Black consciousness. It is the quest to communicate what it means to experience life from this vantage point. There seems to be a division within African American Literature and […]