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09-29-2024 12:53 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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“I didn’t want to have a documentary book. I wanted to have a book that celebrated the lifestyle of Black people who share this Western heritage. Just, for lack of a better word, beautiful images of this lifestyle and people enjoying the culture,” explained Tarver.
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Harold of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ (Harper & Brothers, 1955)
As Johnson’s biographer and a scholar of children’s literature, I started to wonder about Harold’s race while researching “How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic,” which will be published in November 2024. I discovered that not everyone has seen Harold as white – possibly, not even Johnson himself. When cartoonist Chris Ware, who’s also white, was a little boy, he read Harold as Black. When picture book creator Bryan Collier, who’s Black, was a boy, he both read Harold as Black and “imagined himself as Harold.”
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Photo: Press L. Robinson, LSU Press
This candid memoir details Robinson's journey through a challenging upbringing in South Carolina, academic success in earning a doctorate and an extensive career in education and social justice.
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“When You Wonder, You’re Learning Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids” by Gregg Behr & Ryan Rydzewski
Modern science backs Mister Rogers up. Young people with families and caregivers who are actively engaged in their learning tend to do better in school, and not by a little: Students with engaged families are up to 81 percent more likely to graduate from high school and 95 percent more likely to report physical and mental well-being.
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Jamaica Kincaid (Photo credit: Harper’s Bazaar)
Jamaica Kincaid is a world-renowned writer, a Harvard professor, and an avid gardener who’s passing on her plant expertise to Black youth in her new children’s book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening For Colored Children, the first children’s book Kincaid has published in almost 40 years.
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Family portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois, his wife, Nina, and their son, Burghardt, in 1898. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, 1803-1999, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
The book examines in meticulous detail the social conditions of thousands of Black Philadelphians living in what was then called the Seventh Ward, a neighborhood that overlaps present-day Society Hill.
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Viola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon (Photo: ELLE)
New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award-winning actor Viola Davis is getting into the book publishing industry!
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"All About Love: New Visions" by bell hooks. (William Morrow via AP)
The late bell hooks' “All About Love" was published nearly a quarter century ago. But it's found a new generations of readers who respond to its message of empathy and community. Scholars of hooks welcome her ongoing popularity but also worry that readers may miss her political message.
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Black author Michael Thurmond says Georgia's white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery. His new book - “James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia” --focuses on Oglethorpe's failed attempt to ban slavery after starting Britain's 13th American colony in 1733. Georgia's early prohibition on slavery ended and Oglethorpe returned to England where he inspired activists who would become Britain's first abolitionists
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Detail from the cover of Peponi, the Kiswahili translation of Tanzanian Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel Paradise. Mkuki Na Nyota
Highlights of 2023 range from the masterful Gurnah to stunning newcomers, a bold biography to a pacy memoir.
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