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    “We Refuse to Be Silent”

    Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black MenEdited by Angela P. DodsonBroadleaf Books, 33 pages. 2024 “When I think about my son sometimes, I can’t breathe. I can’t allow myself to even visualize him out...

    “When We Trouble the Waters…”

    "Something in the Water" by Phyllis R. Dixon - Review by Dr. Brenda M. Greene Phyllis Dixon’s novel, Something in the Water (Kensington, 2025), based on a compendium of facts in our environment, portrays the underlying reasons for troubled waters in a family and community....

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    They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

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    Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

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    Faith, Politics, and the Illusion of Post-Racial America

    Everybody talks about how he’ll change race in America. Erase it or whatever. By...

    The Power of Stories

    “Families, as my suddenly silenced uncle used to say, expand like ripples in a...

    Poets Speak of Impact of War on the Youth

    For Gaza’s Children: Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak OutMarc Lamont Hill,...

    Culturally Responsive Education for Black Youth

    Remembering Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, national educational consultant, publisher, and the author of...

    Remembering Malcolm X On the Centennial of His Birthday

    “My alma mater was books, a good library. . . I could spend the...

    “Journalism Is Not a Luxury”

    In his most recent book The Message (One World, 2024), National Book Award winner...

    Black Girl Stories

    Rita Williams-Garcia, Best-Selling Middle School and Young Adult Author Award-winning writer Rita Williams-Garcia captures the...

    When I Hear Spirituals& The Reckoning

    By Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson(A Power Team in Black Writing and Publishing) The...

    Young, Black and Finding One’s Gifts

    Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi and Punching the Airby Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam Nigeria...

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