Ray Anthony Shepard’s Now or Never-Fifty-Fourth Massachsetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery has earned two starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. His meticulously researched book is riveting and lands you squarely on the battlefield. The Journey I was born in Missouri, a state that benchmarked the path to Civil War, in […]
Review by Mark Oshiro DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Set against a future of marauding space scavengers and deadly aliens who kill with sound, here is a frightening, fast-paced YA adventure from the author of the acclaimed horror novel, Shutter. Tuck has been in stasis on the USS John Muir, a ship that houses Earth’s […]
via Book Review: Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda — Latinxs in Kid Lit
Today we honor new author Baptiste Paul and his forthcoming picture book, The Field, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara, to be released by NorthSouth Books/S&S on March 6, 2018. In his debut title, Paul pays homage to his childhood home (the beautiful island of St. Lucia), his native language (Creole), and the internationally-beloved game of soccer. […]
American Panda by Gloria Chao (Simon Pulse) ages 12-18 Debut Author A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents’ expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths–that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to […]
Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s stunning YA debut HOW DARE THE SUN RISE begins with a massacre in a Burundi refugee camp where she lost her sister. It goes on to detail not only the horrors of her experience as a refugee, but more importantly, the beauty and joy that she has grown up with. This #ownvoices story […]
Louis Lomax, African American journalist: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/lomax-louis-emanuel-1922-1970
Famous African Americans born on August 15:
Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer:
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/oscar-peterson-mn0000489316
http://www.npr.org/2008/05/16/17622315/oscar-peterson-on-piano-jazz
http://jazz-piano.org/pianists/oscar-peterson/
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oscar-peterson/
Vernon Jordan, lawyer and civil rights leader: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/jordan-vernon-e-1935
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/vernon-e-jordan-jr
Maxine Waters, Congresswoman:
https://waters.house.gov/about-maxine/biography
African Americans born on August 14:
Ernest Everett Just, African American scientist: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/just-ernest-everett-1883-1941
https://www.biography.com/people/ernest-everett-just-9359195
http://blackinventor.com/ernest-just/
http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday.aspx?id=5878
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/ernest-everett-just-1883-1941
Niara Sudarkarsa, African American scholar and anthropologist: http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/niara-sudarkasa-40
https://www.c-span.org/person/?niarasudarkasa
James B. Parsons, African American attorney and judge: http://aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/james-parsons-influential-judge
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/parsons-james-benton
Kathleen Battle, African American opera singer: http://www.kathleenbattle.com
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kathleen-battle-mn0000538723/biography
Claudia McNeil, African American actress: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/true-acting-talent-claudia-mcneil
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/mcneil-claudia-1917-1993
The following African Americans were born on August 12. Here is some information about them:
Annie Wilson Lillian Evans (later Tibbs):
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2010/02/biography-of-opera-singer-lillian-evans.html
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/lillian-evanti
http://aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/lillian-e-evanti-magnificent-voice
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/evans-annie-evanti-lillian-1891-1967
http://www.operndance.com/2014/04/black-opera-singer-series-lillian-evanti.html
Emma Ophelia DeVore (later Mitchell):
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/ophelia-devore-41
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/mitchell-ophelia-devore-1922-2014
Camille Billops:
http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/camille-billops-41
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/camille-billops-1933
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/camille-billops-artist-born
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