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A beautiful, celebratory and joyful book of bedtime stories.
Written and illustrated by creators with heritage from across the
continent of Asia, Bedtime Stories showcases a curated collection
of tales from Asian history, based on important figures and events.
Each story is the ideal length to read at bedtime as well as any
moment when young readers are looking for an inspirational read!
Features one young reader's winning entry from the First News and
Scholastic competition An empowering and celebratory gift Perfect
for any child wanting to learn more about history's untold stories.
Stories include those of: King Sejong the Great, a Korean King who
invented an alphabet Julia Domna, a Syrian princess and Roman
empress Margaret Lin Xavier, Thailand's first female doctor Sake
Deen Mohammed, the Indian man who brought shampooing and curry to
Britain. Written by: Sufiya Ahmed, Maisie Chan, Shae Davies, Saima
Mir, Bali Rai, Annabelle Sami, Rebeka Shaid, Cynthia So and Rekha
Waheed. Illustrated by: Ginnie Hsu, Aaliya Jaheel, Jocelyn Kao,
Jennifer Khatun, Hannah Li, Debby Rahmalia, Abeeha Tariq, Kubra
Teber, Tika and Tata and Amanda Yoshida.
With more than two million copies in print, "Manchild in the
Promised Land" is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our
time--the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of
the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.
Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of black
writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and
Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's
childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the
toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive
account of everyday life for the first generation of African
Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.
When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its
realistic portrayal of Harlem--the children, young people,
hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and
numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor.
The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because
of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles
of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's
time, but also because of its inspiring message. Now with an
introduction by Nathan McCall, here is the story about the one who
"made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and grew up to
become a man.
"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a
collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our
humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness.
Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black
Paper he is writing at the peak of his skill, as he models how to
be closely attentive to experience-to not just see and take in, but
to think critically about what we are seeing and not seeing.
Wide-ranging in their subject matter, the essays are connected by
ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means
to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed
by a collective past. Cole's writings in Black Paper approach the
fractured moment of our history through a constellation of
interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies
both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of
political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts,
the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature
and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of
thinking about the color black and its numerous connotations. As he
describes the carbon copy process in his epilogue: "Writing on the
top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto
the bottom white. Black transported the meaning."
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never
Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary
grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was
elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount
Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's
capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves,
including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern
ways, there was one change he couldn't abide: Pennsylvania law
required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency
in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent
the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just
as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of
relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity
presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia,
Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet
freedom would not come without its costs. At just
twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt
led by George Washington, who used his political and personal
contacts to recapture his property. "A crisp and compulsively
readable feat of research and storytelling" (USA TODAY), historian
and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a
powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one
young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous
founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the
time.
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book
that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity-and witness
the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. One of the most
celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations
on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience-not just
to take in but to think critically about what we sense and what we
don't. Wide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address
ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means
to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed
by a collective past. Cole's writings in Black Paper approach the
fractured moment of our history through a constellation of
interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies
both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of
political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts,
the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature
and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of
thinking about blackness and its numerous connotations. As he
describes the carbon-copy process in his epilogue: "Writing on the
top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto
the bottom white sheet. Black transported the meaning."
In this inspirational volume of spoken word, social commentary,
play, essay and memoir, Ros Martin peels apart the onion layers of
our deeply fragmented society. By presenting the authors personal
journey, the book throws a harrowing spotlight on issues behind
racial inequality. It achieves what so many other titles neglect or
fail to do: rendering visible the lives of the otherwise unnoticed
or stereotyped black woman, man and lowly other. Pushing out from
the margins, we find in Ros a writer who is passionate to engage
readers in issues that continue to impact those in ethnically
diverse communities and other marginalised backgrounds. Every
passage rings with the call for social justice and equal
empowerment, whilst celebrating lives of struggle in creativity,
resistance and survival.
Beginning in 1541 with Hernando De Soto's Spanish expedition for
gold, African Americans have held a prominent place in
Chattanooga's history. Author Rita Lorraine Hubbard chronicles the
ways African Americans have shaped Chattanooga, and presents
inspirational achievements that have gone largely unheralded over
the years.
'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the
history of Black radical thought' Cornel West 'Cedric Robinson's
brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and acting' Angela
Davis 'This work is about our people's struggle, the historical
Black struggle' Any struggle must be fought on a people's own
terms, argues Cedric Robinson's landmark account of Black
radicalism. Marxism is a western construction, and therefore
inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as
agents of change against 'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence
of European radicalism, the history of Black African resistance and
the influence of these on such key thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C.
L. R. James and Richard Wright, Black Marxism reclaims the story of
a movement.
This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African
women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can
trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern
religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's
world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold
and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the
Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were
enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women
liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African
coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of
captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual
violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women
of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of
Graca, Monica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves
and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective
story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked
colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to
grasp the complexities of modernity's gestation.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this
groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the
radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view
of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined
histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis
examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of
white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering
heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and
refused to accept the lives into which they were born. 'The power
of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be
denied' The New York Times
Black Radical reclaims William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934) as a
seminal figure whose prophetic yet ultimately tragic-and all too
often forgotten-life offers a link from Frederick Douglass to Black
Lives Matter. Kerri K. Greenidge renders the drama of
turn-of-the-century America, showing how Trotter, a Harvard
graduate, a newspaperman and an activist, galvanized black
working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the
virulent racism of post-Reconstruction America. Situating his story
in the broader history of liberal New England to "satisfying"
(Casey Cep, The New Yorker) effect, this magnificent biography will
endure as the definitive account of Trotter's life, without which
we cannot begin to understand the trajectory of black radicalism in
America.
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several
homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The
company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew
nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme
of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive
phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking
the resources and the interest to compete for top talent,
Paramount's earliest recordings gained little foothold with the
listening public. On the threshold of bankruptcy, the label
embarked on a new business plan: selling the music of Black artists
to Black audiences. It was a wildly successful move, with Paramount
eventually garnering many of the biggest-selling titles in the
"race records" era. Inadvertently, the label accomplished what
others could not, making blues, jazz, and folk music performed by
Black artists a popular and profitable genre. Paramount featured a
deep roster of legendary performers, including Louis Armstrong,
Charley Patton, Ethel Waters, Son House, Fletcher Henderson, Skip
James, Alberta Hunter, Blind Blake, King Oliver, Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Johnny Dodds, Papa Charlie Jackson, and Jelly
Roll Morton. Scott Blackwood's The Rise and Fall of Paramount
Records is the story of happenstance. But it is also a tale about
the sheer force of the Great Migration and the legacy of the music
etched into the shellacked grooves of a 78 rpm record. With
Paramount Records, Black America found its voice. Through creative
nonfiction, Blackwood brings to life the gifted artists and record
producers who used Paramount to revolutionize American music.
Felled by the Great Depression, the label stopped recording in
1932, leaving a legacy of sound pressed into cheap 78s that is
among the most treasured and influential in American history.
Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft."
Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian.
Throughout American history, Black people were not given the
freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes
that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to
name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, and seek
healing. While many saw a confident, six-foot-five Black man, A. D.
"Lumkile" Thomason lived most of his life in fear and anguish,
deeply wounded by encounters with violence, abandonment, and family
tragedy. Hiding behind a tough exterior, Adam earned his "Black
card" but felt joyless inside. Even traveling around the globe to
play professional basketball could not resolve his despair. But in
the art of Jay-Z, A. D. discovered stirring honesty that gave voice
to his own expressions of longing. And in the gospel of Jesus, he
experienced the healing and salvation that had long evaded him. Now
through what he calls "kingdom therapy," he's figuring out how to
redefine the Jay-Z and Jesus that make up his blackness. A. D. uses
his artistry as a poet and storyteller to share how he confessed
his internalized pain and embraced the liberating joy of Christ. He
writes for millennials, emerging adults, and anyone else who's
ready to acknowledge the reality of racial trauma and our need to
confront it. A. D.'s powerful story gives you permission to be
Black, to be Christian, and to be the person God has made you to
be.
A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration,
and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the
poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important
light on the failures of the American justice system at every
levelIn June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C. named
Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison
for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper.
Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his
release even as subsequent trials and appeals reinforced his
sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney
combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick
in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that
exonerated Hunt. Three years later, the acclaimed documentary, The
Trials of Darryl Hunt, made him known across the country and
brought his story to audiences around the world.But Hunt's story
was far from over. As Zerwick poignantly reveals, it is singularly
significant in the annals of the miscarriage of justice and for the
legacy Hunt ultimately bequeathed. Part true crime drama, part
chronicle of a life cut short by systemic racism, Beyond Innocence
powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an
innocent person in prison and the civil death nearly everyone who
has been incarcerated experiences attempting to restart their
lives. Freed after nineteen years behind bars, Darryl Hunt became a
national advocate for social justice, and his case inspired lasting
reforms, among them a law that allows those on death row to appeal
their sentence with evidence of racial bias. He was a beacon of
hope for so many--until he could no longer bear the burden of what
he had endured and took his own life.Fluidly crafted by a master
journalist, Beyond Innocence makes an urgent moral call for an
American reckoning with the legacies of racism in the criminal
justice system and the human toll of the carceral state.
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