These books feature/highlight on African American teachers, children, and education.
Book 1: The Dream-Keepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings. A classic and excellent read!
Book 2: Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks. Another classic and excellent read on education as liberation.
Book 3: Teaching for Black Lives edited by Dyan Watson. Another excellent read.
Tasteful Tuesday is about culinary books from African and Ethiopian/Swedish chefs.
Book 1: Sankofa A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging by Eric Adjepong
Book 2: My America Recipes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
Book 3: The Rise by Marcus Samuelsson
Three books about our magic!
Book 1: The Breakbeat Poets, Vol. 2 Black Girl Magic
Book 2: Black Boy Magic by Tex Stanly
Book 3: Black Magic by Langston Hughes
Sundays are for family, food, fun, and, of course church. These three books explore the traditions, food, fun, and church on Sundays.
Book 1: Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham
Book 2: Sunday Dinner by Angela Shanté
Book 3: Second Sunday by Michele Andrea Bowen. I have read two of her books, Church Folks and Second Sunday. Both are humorous, delightful, and honest!
On this partly cloudy day in some cities, I am choosing sun over the clouds. The three books below have the word “sun” in the title to also be the light in our reading.
Book 1: Hello There, Sunshine by Tabitha Brown
Book 2: The award winning The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Book 3: Those Who Saw the Sun by Jaha Nailah Avery
Today’s book is about everyday Black folks told with humor and truth. It is Langston Hughes’s stories about Jesse B. Semple–first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim–have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers.
Throwback Thursday features earlier works. I know of these titles, but have yet read them.
Book 1: Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps
Book 2: Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Book 3: Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois
It’s all about the “we” in these Wednesday’s titles.
Book 1: The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
Book 2: We Are Here by Tami Charles
Book 3: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banyo
Book 4: We Speak for Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Book 5: We Refuse A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
Today’s books focus on African Americans and technology. I confess I have not read either books. However, I am interested in reading them.
Book 1: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Black Tech Leaders in Technology by Theresa Merritt-Watson
Book 2: A Black Journey in Tech by Dwight D. Jones, Sr.
I will feature three books on spirituals.
Book 1: All time classic. All Night, All Day by the late Ashley Bryan Just a beautiful book!
Book 2: When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Hudson
Book 3: Wade in the Water by Arthur C. Jones. A scholarly book on the wisdom of spirituals
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