Nov 22, 2021 | LGBTQ, Literature
“Gender Queer.” “Sex Is a Funny Word.” “The Hate U Give.” These are just a few of the hundreds of books targeted for banning amid a revived movement to limit students’ access to literature about race, sex and...
Nov 1, 2021 | Entertainment, Literature, Media
Currently, Black Sands Entertainment is the largest Black-focused comic book publisher leading the way to revolutionize comic fiction for kids. Manuel Godoy, the owner, president, and one of the authors at Black Sands Entertainment, came up with this...
Oct 25, 2021 | Journalism, Literature, Media, Women
It was 2013 when film and culture critic Zeba Blay became one of the of the first to coin the viral term, #CarefreeBlackGirls. Now, Blay is expanding on the popular hashtag with a deeper dive on what it means to be a carefree Black girl in her book of essays entitled,...
Oct 4, 2021 | Culture, Literature, Women
From landmark studies on the civil rights movement to poems from a visionary: these are the unmissable books by Black women writers, as chosen by members of the Penguin Press team. It’s fair to say books by Black female authors are underrepresented in...
Sep 13, 2021 | Events, Literature, Media
Angela Gaskins realized the challenges of getting children and teens interested in literature when she worked as a teacher and media specialist with Norfolk Public Schools. Almost two decades after she started teaching, she is still on a mission to broaden access to...
Aug 16, 2021 | Books, Literature
Charleston’s perennially creative poet laureate, Marcus Amaker, has a new project just in time for the school year. This one is meant expressly for the next generation of music enthusiasts. “Black Music Is,” a new illustrated book for children ages 8 to 12,...
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