Staff Recommendations | March 2020
March 2020 Derrick’s Pick: A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown Ten books of all-time. As a college student I romanticized the Black Panther Party and this book helped me to become a more objective […]
Book Review
Reviews From a Young Reader’s Perspective: Boy21
Boy21 is a young adult novel written by author Matthew Quick. It takes place in Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries and centers around the main character, […]
Quick Review: Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Unfortunately, for most students, the curriculum on pre-colonial Africa and their contributions to world history is extremely poor, if not non-existent. Additionally, the “facts” taught to school age children about the conditions that led to […]
Reviews From a Young Reader’s Perspective: Akata Witch
Akata Witch is by Nnedi Okorafor. It’s the first book of the Akata Witch series. The main character is Sunny Nwazue. Sunny doesn’t seem to fit in. She is the youngest sibling in a Nigerian family but […]
Quick Review: The Name Negro It’s origin and Evil Use
There are a number of books that, though aren’t considered classic literature, still qualify as ‘Essential Reads.’ A MahoganyBooks Essential Read is a book that we believe is integral to the process of developing: a strong respect […]
Reviews From a Young Reader’s Perspective: Counting by 7s
The book that I’m about to tell you about is called Counting By 7s written by Holly Goldberg Sloan. The main character of Counting by 7’s is Willow Chance who was adopted by a really nice […]
Remember PYM: A Review of Mat Johnson’s Pym by Dr. Valerie Prince
Mat Johnson successfully renders in just the first twenty pages of his third novel Pym many of the fractures and splinters of academic life. The novel begins with an unceremonious denial of Chris Jaynes’s tenure […]
Reviews from a Young Readers’ Perspective: BOOKED
Nicholas Hall lives and breathes soccer. It’s all he ever dreams about: in class, on the field, and at home. He shares this dream with his best friend Coby, who is Singaporean and Ghanaian and […]
Review from a Young Reader’s Perspective: Ghost
The book Ghost is written by Jason Reynolds. The main character is Castle Cranshaw (he calls himself Ghost). When Castle was a kid he had a great father (although he would get drunk sometimes); but one […]
VIDEO BOOK REVIEW: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The BOOK Yaa Gyasi [debut author of Homegoing] takes readers on a journey through three centuries that explores the effects slavery had, not just on our sociopolitical history but, on the human lives changed forever […]