“Black Summers also became a powerful, tender, and hopeful collection about the personal and racial traumas of Black childhood.” - Desiree Cooper, Black Summers By Dr. Brenda M. Greene When Desiree Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, first conceived of Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban...

To the Ones Who Bear Witness” - Latorial Faison, Blood at the Root By Dr. Brenda M. Greene Poet laureate and scholar, Dr. Latorial Faison, expands the concept of nursery rhymes, those colorful poems and songs that use repetitive rhythmic language in the passing of cultural traditions,...