"Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade" by Irene Smalls
The two hundred-year-old first African-American Christmas celebration of the Johnkankus/Jonkonnu is chronicled in Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade published by Little Brown. The Christmas Ma…
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"The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson
"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Thus begins the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. These words greete…
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"Risen: From Jamestown to the White House" by Anthony M. McDonald
I recently meet an author at a book signing at Afro World in St. Louis, Missouri. "Risen: From Jamestown to the White House" by Anthony M. McDonald, Sr. It is the most wonderful compilation of contri…
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"American History in Black and White" by David Barton
I have too many favorite African-American history books to pick just one, but the one that I am re-reading is American History in Black and White by David Barton, which gives the history of the Repub…
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"Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern" by Irene Smalls
Jenny Reen and the Jack Muh Lantern by Irene Smalls is a perfect African-American History book for October. A beautifully illustrated hard cover picture book, this story according to a review in Book…
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"Ebony Sea" by Irene Smalls
The book, Ebony Sea, is a Black history love story. In mid-May 1803, a group of Nigerian Ebos from the slave schooner York reached its landing place on the bluff of Dunbar Creek on St. Simon's Island…
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