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Millicent Graham, Tanya Shirley, and Margaret Lim
Millicent Graham, Tanya Shirley, and Margaret Lim Author Interviews
Ann-Margaret Lim
Ann-Margaret Lim NONE Ann-Margaret Lim, a renowned Jamaican author, is celebrated for her work in literature, published in major newspapers, journals, and anthologies. She is a BA in English Literatu...
Millicent Graham
Millicent Graham NONE Millicent A. A. Graham, born in 1974, is a Jamaican poet known for her collections 'The Damp In Things' (2009) and 'The Way Home' (2014). She was a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writ...
Tanya Shirley
Tanya Shirley NONE Jamaican author and lecturer Tanya Shirley is a graduate from the University of Maryland with an MFA in Creative Writing. Her work is featured in various publications and anthologi...
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois 0000000080402579 Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977) was an African Methodist Episcopal minister's daughter from Indianapolis. In 1951, she married W.E.B. Du Bois in their secon...
Kingston Buttercup
Kingston Buttercup Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845233303 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaican poet, Ann Margaret Lim, follows her crit...
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 9780593123683 Nonfiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House Discover the inspiring story of Shirley Chis...
Tanya Wright
Tanya Wright 0000000395292597 Tanya Wright, a Bronx native, is an acclaimed actor known for roles in HBO's True Blood and Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. A Vassar graduate and former New York Time...
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Pamela Thomas-Graham 0000000120062776 Pamela Thomas-Graham, a Harvard graduate, is currently the president and CEO of CNBC Television, and founder of luxury blog Dandelion Chandelier. She has extensi...
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham 0000000057795378 Stedman Graham, an educator, author, businessman, and speaker, is known for his successful career in management consulting, his NY Times bestselling books, and his com...
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm 0000000021812965 Shirley Anita Chisholm January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981 was the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1969 and was re-elected six times until she...
Tanya Batson-Savage
Tanya Batson-Savage NONE Tanya Batson-Savage is a versatile writer with a passion for storytelling. She has authored works for page, stage, and screen, and her writings have been featured in various ...
Tanya Lee Stone
Tanya Lee Stone 0000000383229865 Tanya Lee Stone is a former editor and the Robert F. Sibert Award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone is a former editor and the Robert F. Sibert Award-winning author of A...
Tanya Smith
Tanya Smith NONE “What Does It Take to Become a Prodigy Scam Artist?” — The New York Times (Aug. 28, 2024) Tanya Smith, a Minneapolis native, grew up in a theater that fostered Princ...
Stella Lim
Stella Lim NONE Stella Lim is a Korean illustrator based in Seoul. She studied fine art at the Seoul Women's University and illustration at Kingston University in London. She draws inspiration from ...
Butterfly Rising
Butterfly Rising Troy Johnson images/tanya_wright.jpg Film Review A Letter from Tanya Wright Tanya Wright author/writer/director, BUTTERFLY RISING My name is Tanya Wright. I am an actress...
Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781534463523 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three starred reviews! “History shines” (School...
A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World Lawrence Otis Graham 9780060984304 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-midd...
Shirley Neal
Shirley Neal NONE Shirley Neal is a renowned journalist, author, and documentarian specializing in Pop Culture, Africa, and Black Identity. Noted for her Forbes Africa cover story on Oprah Winfrey, s...
Kiyah Wright and Shirley Neal
Kiyah Wright and Shirley Neal MULTIPLE Kiyah Wright, a two-time Emmy Award-winning hairstylist and entrepreneur, has over 20 years of experience in hair care. Shirley Neal is a renowned journalist an...
Lawrence Otis Graham
Lawrence Otis Graham 0000000117846836 Lawrence Otis Graham, born 1961, was a prolific author of 14 books, including the New York Times bestseller “Our Kind of People.” A Princeton and Harvard Law Sch...
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy Shirley Strawberry 9780345525505 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Listen up, ladies! Shirley Strawberry...
W.D. Foster-Graham
W.D. Foster-Graham NONE W.D. Foster-Graham, a Minneapolis native and multi-Grammy Award-winning ensemble member, is a distinguished author and poet. He's a psychology graduate, guest writer, and book...
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm’s Fight for Change Tameka Fryer Brown 9781728420080 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Shirley Chisholm was a natural-born fighter. She didn’t like to be bossed and ...
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm Katheryn Russell-Brown 9781620143469 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisho...
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois Gerald Horne 9780814736487 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twenti...
You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success
You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success Stedman Graham 9780684838663 Nonfiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. For the people who know Stedman Graham as one of the nation’s most qu...
Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward
Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward MULTIPLE Dr. Maryemma Graham is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, while Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. is a renowned professor of English and African Am...
Stedman Graham: The “Athletes Against Drugs”
Stedman Graham: The “Athletes Against Drugs” Kam Williams Interview Stedman Graham was born on March 6, 1951 in Whitesboro, NJ, a community founded in 1901 by a group of prominent African...
Shirley Sherrod: The “Martin Luther King Awards Dinner” Interview with Kam Williams
Shirley Sherrod: The “Martin Luther King Awards Dinner” Interview with Kam Williams Kam Williams Interview Shirley Sherrod is best known as the African-American government official fired in ...
Margaret A. Donaldson Cobb
Margaret A. Donaldson Cobb NONE Margaret A. Donaldson Cobb, author of “Are You Mrs. Or Mis(s)understood?”, emphasizes community values and Bible study in her work. Her book incites laughter, contempl...
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million Tanya Smith 9780316569163 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group “What Does It Ta...
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) Tanya Lee Stone 9780763651176 Nonfiction Candlewick Press C...
The Festival of Wild Orchid
The Festival of Wild Orchid Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845232016 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Alert to all the contradictions of contemporary Jamaica, these lyric and delicate poems find fresh...
Tumbled: Part Three of the True Lies Trilogy
Tumbled: Part Three of the True Lies Trilogy Margaret Johnson-Hodge 9780975402672 Fiction Margaret Johnson-Hodge Margaret Johnson-Hodge In Margaret Johnson-Hodge’s 2002 National Bestselling Novel "Tru...
Divas, Inc.
Divas, Inc. Donna Hill 9780312316518 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Diva (n.): an extremely arrogant or temperamental woman.Delicious Diva Tip #13: When in doubt, just do it anyway....
Margaret Peters
Margaret Peters 0000000371031456 Margaret Peters, a distinguished educator and African American history specialist, has an impressive academic background with degrees from the University of Dayton. B...
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker 0000000120999163 Margaret Walker was a renowned American poet and writer, known for her works “For My People” and “Jubilee.” She was a key figure in the African-American literary move...
Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby 0000000384780261 Margaret Busby, UK's youngest and first black female publisher, co-founded Allison & Busby Ltd and was a director at Earthscan Publications. An award-winning writer, e...
Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy B. McCann, Brandon Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, and Maxine Thompson
Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy B. McCann, Brandon Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, and Maxine Thompson MULTIPLE "Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timm...
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Margaret Cezair-Thompson 0000000444583770 Margaret Cezair-Thompson, a Jamaican-born author and professor, is known for her novels “The True History of Paradise” and “The Pirate’s Daughter” which won ...
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 0000000475938968 Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, a New Orleans native, is a Dartmouth and UC Berkeley School of Law graduate. She's a Lombard fellowship recipient and author whos...
Unbought and Unbossed
Unbought and Unbossed Shirley Chisholm 9780063160873 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbossed and Unbought—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and m...
Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps For Success
Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps For Success Stedman Graham 9780684870823 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of emotional and intellectual success and phy...
Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Shirley Chisholm 9780980059021 Nonfiction Take Root Media Take Root Media Unbought and Unbossed is Shirley Chisholm’s account of her remarkable...
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for a the 21st Century
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for a the 21st Century Stedman Graham 9780743234375 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Stedman Graham, bestselling author of You Can Make It Happen, teaches tha...
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class Lawrence Otis Graham 9780060183523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. A...
Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown
Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown MULTIPLE "Graham Russell Gao Hodges is a History, Africana and Latin American Studies Professor at Colgate University. Alan Edward Brown is a Minneapol...
Shirley Perry-Church
Shirley Perry-Church NONE Shirley Perry-Church, an educator, author, and artist, has written her debut book, The Hunt for the Magic Pearl, to inspire struggling young readers. With degrees in Psychol...
Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford
Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford MULTIPLE Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford are active North Carolina residents involved in anti-prison initiatives, publishing projects, and advocating for street or...
Jasmin Graham
Jasmin Graham NONE Jasmin Graham, a renowned marine biologist specializing in elasmobranch ecology, focuses on smalltooth sawfish and hammerhead sharks. She co-founded Minorities in Shark Sciences (M...
Who Was Shirley Chisholm?
Who Was Shirley Chisholm? Crystal Hubbard 9780593750261 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Read all about the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in this empowering addition to t...
Maryemma Graham
Maryemma Graham 0000000117495503 Maryemma Graham is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Maryemma Graham is Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
On Being Female Black Free: Margaret Walker 1932-1992
On Being Female Black Free: Margaret Walker 1932-1992 Maryemma Graham 9780870499814 Nonfiction Univ Tennessee Press Univ Tennessee Press These highly personal essays, written over the course of six de...
Casting the First Stone (Special Edition, 1st Curtis Black Novel)
Casting the First Stone (Special Edition, 1st Curtis Black Novel) Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781496716392 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kimberla Lawson Roby’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Revere...
Casting the First Stone (Reverend Curtis Black #1)
Casting the First Stone (Reverend Curtis Black #1) Kimberla Lawson Roby 9780758201799 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kimberla Lawson Roby’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Reverend Curtis Black...
The Watcher
The Watcher Nikki Grimes 9780802854452 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company A poetic story inspired by Psalm 121 Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. ...
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair!
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair! Tanya Wright 9781493582211 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Actress Tanya Wright (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, TRUE...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers Tanya Lee Stone 9780763665487 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press World War II is raging, a...
Tanya’s Reunion: Sequel to the Patchwork Quilt
Tanya’s Reunion: Sequel to the Patchwork Quilt Valerie Flournoy 9780803716056 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion...
The Mystery of Margaret Booker: One Woman’s Triumph Over Enslavement
The Mystery of Margaret Booker: One Woman’s Triumph Over Enslavement Kathy Lynne Marshall 9781737573340 Nonfiction Kanika Marshall Art & Books Kanika Marshall Art & Books Margaret Booker, an enslaved ...
A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (Revised)
A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (Revised) Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker 9780882580036 Nonfiction Howard University Press Howard University Press First ...
Margaret Brownley, Raine Cantrell, Nadine Crenshaw, and Sandra Kitt
Margaret Brownley, Raine Cantrell, Nadine Crenshaw, and Sandra Kitt MULTIPLE "Margaret Brownley, Raine Cantrell, Nadine Crenshaw, and Sandra Kitt are renowned authors known for their significant cont...
Margaret Garner
Margaret Garner NONE Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave from Kentucky, killed one of her children rather than permit her to be returned to slavery. She drowned in a shipwreck as she was being ...
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Margaret Johnson-Hodge NONE Margaret Johnson-Hodge is the author of eleven published novels, contributor to three anthologies, including the highly successful Proverbs of the People, and author of a...
Margaret A. Burnham
Margaret A. Burnham NONE Margaret A. Burnham, a notable law professor and the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, has had a diverse caree...
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
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Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Margaret Johnson-Hodge Margaret Johnson-Hodge Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Margaret H. Mason
Margaret H. Mason NONE Margaret Harriet Mason, a resident of Ferndale, Michigan, is known for shedding light on the discriminatory policies of the Detroit Wonder Bread factory in the 50s and 60s, as ...
Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker MULTIPLE Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
Margaret Musgrove
Margaret Musgrove NONE Dr. Margaret Musgrove, born in 1943, has been a professor at Loyola University since 1991, previously teaching in various community colleges. She earned tenure in 1996 and rece...
Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic to Work for You
Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic to Work for You Stedman Graham 9780743234405 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Athletics is a metaphor for life; that’s why Move ...
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics
A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics Juanita Tolliver 9781538770221 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outs...
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm J. P. Miller 9781731638038 Nonfiction Discovery Library Discovery Library LEADERS LIKE US: In this illustrated biography, elementary-aged readers will learn about the early life and ...
You Never Know: A Christopher Family Novel
You Never Know: A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9781546257547 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Christopher Saga Continues This sequel to “Mark My Words” tells the story of Elija...
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents)
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593094324 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Graham Peters’s wife of forty years suddenly dies, he finds himself unable to cope with h...
Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy To Maximize Your Potential And Enhance Your Value For Ultimate Achievement
Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy To Maximize Your Potential And Enhance Your Value For Ultimate Achievement Stedman Graham 9780684856988 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Let bestselling...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845272 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder returns to the Ivy League in this second book in Pamela Thomas-Graham’s cri...
Proversity: Getting Past Face Value and Finding the Soul of People — A Manager’s Journey
Proversity: Getting Past Face Value and Finding the Soul of People — A Manager’s Journey Lawrence Otis Graham 9780471178187 Fiction Wiley Wiley "Lawrence Otis Graham is totally original and always def...
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk Kam Williams Book Review "I’ve been Shirley’s partner in radio for over ten years now… I am amazed by how she manages to balance her personal and...
Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Fighting Shirley Chisholm James Haskins 9781944455309 Nonfiction LibraryPress@UF UF Press and George A. Smathers Libraries Shirley Chisholm’s dynamism, intellect, and devotion led her to become the fi...
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist Jasmin Graham 9780593685259 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey...
Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman Catherine Scheader 9780894902857 Nonfiction Enslow Publishing Enslow Publishing LLC A biography of, Shirley Chisholm the first black woman to run for presi...
Story of Phyllis Wheatley: The Poetess of the American Revolution
Story of Phyllis Wheatley: The Poetess of the American Revolution Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671297626 Nonfiction Pocket Books Pocket Books
Du Bois: Pictoral Biography
Du Bois: Pictoral Biography Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780874850765 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa
Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671327163 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner A biography of the African nationalist who led Tanganyika to independence, united tha...
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893880484 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893881566 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World,
Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World, Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671324643 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780671325626 Nonfiction Julian Messner Julian Messner
Excerpt: Afrocentric Style
Excerpt: Afrocentric Style Shirley Neal Excerpt From the “Hair” Chapter From the “Fashion” Chapter
Heaven Right Here
Heaven Right Here Lutishia Lovely 9780758229441 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. When it comes to being fruitful and multiplying, the members of Kingdom Citizens Christian Center are on ...
June Jordan
June Jordan 0000000114793687 June Millicent Jordan (1936-2002) was a renowned poet, activist, teacher, and essayist, known for her influential voice in liberation. A professor at UC Berkeley, she dir...
Getting To The Good Part
Getting To The Good Part Thumper Book Review Hello. It only took me a few hours to read this bad boy. I guess I can qualify it as one of those books that can make you lose sleep. So, if some words ...
Bronx Witches: The Awakening
Bronx Witches: The Awakening Carrie Abron 9798183523881 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Sixteen-year-old Camille Rose Milner knows the Bronx has secrets. She just never imagine...
Conversations with Margaret Walker
Conversations with Margaret Walker Maryemma Graham 9781578065110 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss Leon E. Pettiway 9798989182053 Fiction Meishin Press Meishin Press New Harmony finds its soulfulness in the struggles and victories woven into Southern l...
Cubicles: A Novel
Cubicles: A Novel camika c. spencer 9780345506436 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House New from the Blackboard-bestselling author of When All Hell Breaks Loose: When some old secrets make...
This Time
This Time Margaret Johnson-Hodge 9780975402603 Fiction Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Dajah Moore gave everything she had to save her relationship between herself and Rick...