Me and My Afro

Me and My Afro
Author: Aiden M Taylor
Publisher: Taylormade Publishing, Incorporated
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2021-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735408521

Aiden is back, and he needs your help! He is full of ideas on what to be when he grows up. He could be a veterinarian who helps our furry friends, or a bus driver who gets people to where they need to go, or a scientist who invents cool and exciting new things. He can be anything he wants! Can you help Aiden decide? What do you want to be when you grow up? Families will love this rollicking read-aloud filled with fun and vibrant illustrations, perfect for inquisitive preschool and elementary school students.

My Hair is a Garden

My Hair is a Garden
Author: Cozbi A. Cabrera
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807509248

NEA'S READ ACROSS AMERICA 2019-2020 CALENDAR Like every good garden, my hair must be cared for and nourished, tilled, and weeded. After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can't take any more and she seeks guidance from her wise and comforting neighbor, Miss Tillie. Using the beautiful garden in the backyard as a metaphor, Miss Tillie shows Mackenzie that maintaining healthy hair is not a chore nor is it something to fear. Most importantly, Mackenzie learns that natural black hair is beautiful.

Help Me to Find My People

Help Me to Find My People
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807882658

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.

My Hair is Magic!

My Hair is Magic!
Author: M. L. Marroquin
Publisher: Page Street Kids
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781624149818

This little girl knows her hair is great just as it is. When people ask, “Why is your hair so BIG?” she answers, “Why isn’t yours?” Her hair is soft, it protects her, it’s both gentle and fierce. While some might worry about how it’s different and try to contain it, she gives it the freedom to be so extraordinary it almost has a life of its own. Told in bold verse and vivid, fantastical illustrations, these critical questions will ring familiar, and the proud, confident answers show that what really matters is how readers see themselves.

THE SYNERMERGENCY

THE SYNERMERGENCY
Author: James Pacifico
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685171486

Is there a super-crisis? " The problems of the world total something greater than their sum" (Juan Fuentes 1992) THE SYNERMERGENCY, a state of supercriticality, or "synergistic emergency" existing between all crises on Earth, known and unknown. In response to this potential of total global super-crisis, this clarion call to anything but arms is the first to discuss the problems of totally interrelated crises, and sound a call to harmony for the Rainbow Warriors everywhere. Global citizen Juan Fuentes creates a new philosophical system that inspires the twentysomething generation into world-saving global evolution, moving dramatically beyond all previous ideologies and into the cyber age of holistic ecology. A paradigm for the 1990s, and for futurity, this brilliant novel's very positive message of rational understanding succeeds in bridging technology and nature, competition and cooperation, rights, and human responsibilities. Not merely concerned with environmental crises, THE SYNERMERGENCY focuses on eight global problem areas called holons, which include basic survival; economics; politics; education, technology, and nature; religion; spirituality and metaphysics; style, the arts, and aesthetics. ese holons, systems within systems, combine in synergy, building toward the collapse of systems, as people are forced to respond by literally making everything better everywhere for everyone in a total planet-healing process. All things considered, James Pacifico presents a new worldview unlike any suggested before. We are quite fortunate to have THE SYNERMERGENCY, the ultimate in utopian thought. ***** An Ecotopian Philosophical Novel by James Pacifico Because you accept the truth, others shall lie about you and slander your reputation. Because you seek light, others shall keep you in the darkness and hide what little truth they have from you. Because you love life and live love, others shall hate you and try to hurt you. You are Rainbow Warriors. You shall conquer the foe, Babylon, and your children shall solve all the problems of the Earth. You are glorious brothers and sisters in your battle with death and evil. You all shall be victorious!

Afropean

Afropean
Author: Johny Pitts
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0141984732

Winner of the Jhalak Prize 'A revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.' Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.

The Dreamer

The Dreamer
Author: Eric Overton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1984541323

The Dreamer Trilogy series is based on five different styles of writing. Being a new author, I wanted to test my writing abilities by creating five creative stories. The most important is to give the readers something outside the box. Characters are fictional, but each book has its deeper-than-life written message. The Dreamer is the first book of The Dreamer Trilogy series. In the book called The Dreamer, a teenager is able to transfer into the flesh of any human being he desires, but the consequence is greater than the gift. This is one dream the world will never awake from until the nightmares become reality. Mystery and spirituality are written in the ink of a gift and a curse. American Made is on street life and growing up in poor conditions of the ghettos, where making fatal decisions can end your life quicker than the eye can blink or will determine how long this youth will live under the blue skies by being the product that is American made. The Mirror begins with a thriller, gore, and suspense written in the darkest form of life. Bloody Mary reveals the untold truth behind the bloodstained glass made alive by a reflected soul made weary, only to seek endless revenge. The Dead Girl short story is based on the forgotten, missing, and lost girls walking the streets at night as the human vultures fly above their heads, ready to pluck their souls to death under nakedness but not so pure to bewildered dead girls in the hands of a psychopathic killer with his own underground prison. Some things are worse than death when the steel doors close from the world. The last and final short story is based on slaverybut reversed. The blacks are the slave masters, and the Caucasians are the white slaves. Two best friends will have to endure mental and physical ordeal during slavery by being human properties to black slavers, but survival might not be an option for them. After reading The Dreamer Trilogy Series, readers will witness the birth of endless ink. Each short story has its own meaning, knowledge, and definition about existence or nonexistence of worldly life. Enter The Dreamer . . . King Poetic is a street book, the poems are raw and 90 percent real. My book of poems deal with worldly issues. My life is filled within the pages of life. I have been through a lot in my life, so I want to share my knowledge to the entire world. This book is not like other poetry books out! Each page will open your eyes and educate as well.

Follow the Model

Follow the Model
Author: J. Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009
Genre: Fashion
ISBN: 1439149909

Natural

Natural
Author: Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 147981475X

How Black women celebrate their natural hair and uproot racialized beauty standards Hair is not simply a biological feature; it’s a canvas for expression. Hair can be cut, colored, dyed, covered, gelled, waxed, plucked, lasered, dreadlocked, braided, and relaxed. Yet, its significance extends beyond mere aesthetics. Hair can carry profound moral, spiritual, and cultural connotations, serving as a reflection of one’s beliefs, heritage, and even political stance. In Natural, Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson delves into the complex world surrounding Black women’s hair, and offers a firsthand look into the kitchens, beauty shops, conventions, and blogs that make up the twenty-first century natural hair movement, the latest evolution in Black beauty politics. Johnson shares her own hair story and amplifies the voices of women across the globe who, after years of chemically relaxing their hair, return to a “natural” style. Johnson describes how many women initially transition to natural hair out of curiosity or as a wellness practice but come to view their choice as political upon confronting personal insecurities and social stigma, both within and outside of the Black community. She also investigates “natural hair entrepreneurs,” who use their knowledge to create lucrative and socially transformative haircare ventures. Distinct from a politics of respectability or Afrocentricity, Johnson’s argument is that today’s natural hair movement advances a politics of authenticity. She offers “going natural” as a practice of self-love and acceptance; a critique of exclusionary economic arrangements and an exploitative beauty industry; and an act of anti-racist political resistance. Natural powerfully illustrates how the natural hair movement is part of a larger social change among Black women to assert their own purchasing power, standards of beauty, and bodily autonomy.

Finding Your Leadership Soul

Finding Your Leadership Soul
Author: Carlos R. Moreno
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2023
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416632646

"A personal, poignant, and powerful exploration of how educators can learn to lead with love, care, and vulnerability when working with marginalized youths"--