Children’s Christmas Book Review: Lullaby for the King
In the children's Christmas book, Lullaby for the King, all the creatures of the land are bringing gifts to the newborn King.
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Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19 in the Black community. It is a special day to honor freedom, both the history of those who suffered and the future of those who are free.
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MacNolia Cox earned her way to the National Spelling Bee but was met with unfair treatment and racism in 1936.
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Polly holds a peach pit parade to help the soldiers fight the chemical weapons during WWI.
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Liberty's family and friends take a bus trip to visit all the important places during the civil rights movement.
Read More Children’s Book Review: Shackles from the Deep By Michael Cottman
SHACKLES FROM THE DEEP Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, A Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy By: Michael Cottman Published: January 3, 2017 Publisher: National Geographic Non-Fiction Avid scuba diver and journalist, Michael Cottman is sharing the remarkable discovery of a sunken ship that carried slaves to Europe and North/South America during…
Read More Book Review: The Kitchen House By Kathleen Grissom
THE KITCHEN HOUSE By: Kathleen Grissom Published: February 2, 2010 ***** When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while on board a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the…
Read More Book Review: Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
YELLOW CROCUS: A NOVEL By: Laila Ibrahim Published: December 17, 2010 ***** Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk from her breasts. Although my family ‘owned’ her, although she occupied the center of my universe, her deepest affections lay elsewhere. So along with…
Read More Book Review: THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS By: Rebecca Skloot Published: February 2, 2010 Non-Fiction Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.…
Read More Book Review: Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME By: Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent Published: June 15, 2006 Non-Fiction From the back of the book: A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a…
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