KRLemmons African American Artists, African American Authors, Latin American Authors, Latin American Illustrators, Multicultural literature

12 Afro-Latinx Kid Lit Creators You Can Support Right Now — Latinxs in Kid Lit

Today, we would like to spotlight 12 Afro-Latinx creators in Kid Lit because: the Kid Lit publishing world is overwhelmingly white, the Latinx creators who do get published are largely white or white-passing, racism, anti-blackness, and colorism are systemic plagues in Latinx communities, in addition to our communities at large, and, as a result […]

12 Afro-Latinx Kid Lit Creators You Can Support Right Now — Latinxs in Kid Lit
KRLemmons African American Authors, African Americans, Booklist, Classic Literature, Multicultural Poetry

The African American Experience: Well Read Black Girl Reading List at JMRL — grow. learn. connect.

Well Read Black Girl is “an inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl.” Below is a list of titles recommended in the book by Black authors that you can check out from JMRL. Non-Fiction I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by […]

The African American Experience: Well Read Black Girl Reading List at JMRL — grow. learn. connect.
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The African American Experience: Booklist for Teens Inspired by the 2018 Charlottesville Community Civil Rights Pilgrimage — grow. learn. connect.

In July 2018, roughly 100 members of the Charlottesville and Albemarle community participated in a community civil rights pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama. The group visited numerous museums and historic sites of critical importance to the Civil Rights Movement before reaching the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery. There, a collection of soil from the July 12, […]

The African American Experience: Booklist for Teens Inspired by the 2018 Charlottesville Community Civil Rights Pilgrimage — grow. learn. connect.
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The African American Experience: The Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List — grow. learn. connect.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library compiled a Black Liberation Reading List in response to the current uprisings around the world. You can find the majority of the items from their list through the following links to the JMRL catalog. American Sonnets for My Past and Future […]

The African American Experience: The Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List — grow. learn. connect.
KRLemmons African American Authors, African American Literature, Book Reviews, Children's literature

review: The Last Day of Summer — CrazyQuiltEdi

title: The Last Day of Summer author: Lamar Giles illustrator: Dapo Adeola date: Versify; April 2019 main characters: Otto Alston and Sheed Alston SFF Review based on an advanced copy Otto and Sheed are young Black boys, cousins actually who live with their grandmother in Logan County, Virginia. The two couldn’t be more different. Otto […]

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KRLemmons African American Young Adult Literature, Book Reviews, Multicultural literature

review: The Poet X — CrazyQuiltEdi

title: The Poet X author: Elizabeth Acevedo date: HarperTeen; 2018 main character: Xiomara Batista YA fiction in verse Like Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of The Poet X, Xiomara Batista is Dominican American. I don’t know what other similarities exist between the two. I do know that The Poet X was Acevedo’s debut novel that has […]

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KRLemmons African American Middle Grades Literature, Multicultural literature

interview: Padma Venkatraman — CrazyQuiltEdi

I recently reviewed The Bridge Home and today, I have a wonderful interview with the author, Padma Venkatraman. “THE BRIDGE HOME is that long overdue promise. It was, indeed a very hard story to write, because in writing it I had to revisit some very painful times in my childhood and adolescence and that’s always a bit […]

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