If you haven’t been follow Amy Bowllan’s SLJ series on Writers and Racism, you really should. It had been quite interesting to read how so many people have experience racism, yet still kept on doing what they needed/wanted to do. Today, it was almost painful to read how Ari (our favorite teenage blogger at Reading… Read More Why can’t we…
I had to stop at a bookseller’s today to pick up a gift for a friend. She’s expecting her second child and to me, the best gift is a book for the newborn as well as one for big sis! I was so excited to go looking for picture books, something I rarely enjoy anymore.… Read More Children’s Books
A few days ago when posting Twitter Finds, I linked to an article about the Puerto Rican woman who could be the next Supreme Court nominee. Well, that she is! Today, Pres. Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to become a Supreme Court justice. The article is still available for free, but it will be necessary to… Read More Teaching the Times
Not just any Monday, but the fourth Monday in May. Memorial Day. Afrobella has a great tribute to African Americans who served in the war. It can be so easy to forget the fights within the fight that people of color faced during every war beginning with the French and Indian. People of color were… Read More UnderCoverMonday
Susan over at Color Online is asking folks to fill out this brief questionnaire to determine how widely you read… 1. Name the last book by a female author that you’ve read: Fly Girl Sherri L. Smith 2. Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you’ve read: Kinky Gazpacho by Lori… Read More Reading without Borders
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