Celebrating the Best in Black Literature (May 31, 2016 Newsletter)
Subscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Books to be Published in June Summer will heat up with some great new titles. Walter
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Read MoreKarin Tanabe’s gripping new historical novel, The Gilded Years (Washington Square Press, June 7, 2016) is based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar College. With “spot on” dialogue and “narration reminiscent of novels of the 1890s” (Anna Jean Mayhew, author of The Dry Grass of August), Tanabe has crafted a tonally masterful yet supremely relevant narrative on race, women’s rights, and the challenges of finding one’s place in the world.
Read MoreTen Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature by Wade Hudson This Diversity Books Pledge was developed after attending Day
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