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Wade Hudson, President and CEO of Just of Books
Wade Hudson, President and CEO of Just of Books Book Spotlights
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson MULTIPLE Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, parents based in Northern NJ, founded Just Us Books in 1988 to address a lack of quality Black-interest children's ...
Wade Hudson
Wade Hudson 0000000067647969 Why I Publish Children’s Books Wade Hudson, born in 1946, is an author, journalist, and civil rights activist. Known for his children's books promoting positive Afri...
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Cheryl Willis Hudson 0000000037209335 Cheryl Willis Hudson, editorial director of Just Us Books, focuses on publishing Black interest books for children. Co-founder of the company in 1988, she's a re...
Katura J. Hudson
Katura J. Hudson NONE Katura J. Hudson, a marketing professional and editor from New Jersey, is known for leading marketing campaigns for numerous children's books. A Rutgers University graduate and ...
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593381595 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In the stunning follow-up to T...
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South Wade Hudson 9780593126356 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House As the fight for equal rights continues ,Defiant takes a critical look...
What Shall We Tell You?
What Shall We Tell You? Wade Hudson 9781662621109 Fiction Astra Young Readers Astra Publishing House A much-needed poem of hope and love for children facing adversity due to bigotry, bullying, violenc...
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593121610 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Perfect for readers of Flying Lessons ...
The Talk (paperback): Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
The Talk (paperback): Conversations about Race, Love & Truth Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593121641 Nonfiction Yearling Penguin Random House Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illus...
Journey: Poems
Journey: Poems Wade Hudson 9780883784174 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Journey is a collection of poems that offers a reflective look at various periods and experiences of Wade Hudson’s l...
Just Us Books, Inc.
Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books Marimba Books Sankofa Books http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books th...
Just Us Books
Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books that reflected the diversity o...
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade MULTIPLE Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade are a renowned celebrity couple. Union is a successful actress and author while Wade is a decorated retired professional baske...
Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America
Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America Wade Hudson 9781635925098 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press This lyrical picture book explores the birth of Black America, focusing on the lit...
Wade Nobles
Wade Nobles 0000000082420463 Dr. Wade W. Nobles is a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University and founder of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family, Life and Culture, Inc. A...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...
The Reckoning
The Reckoning Wade Hudson 9780593647776 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside do...
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780940975590 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. For...
Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition
Kids Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780940975613 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Your grandmother’s words. Your mom and dad’...
Afro-Bets 1-2-3 Book
Afro-Bets 1-2-3 Book Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780940975019 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. “The Afro-Bets series by Cheryl Willis Hudson and husband Wade Hudson. This series is educational and ...
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical Nell Irvin Painter 9780393310153 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “Among the many exemplary qualities...
Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade 0000000040514234 Dwyane Wade, a three-time NBA champion and NY Times bestselling author, is also a businessman, TV analyst, producer, activist, and philanthropist. Renowned for his NBA ca...
The Day Madear Voted
The Day Madear Voted Wade Hudson 9780593615744 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Inspired by the author’s mother voting for the first time as a Black American in 1969. A moving look at...
I’m So (Not) Over You
I’m So (Not) Over You Kosoko Jackson 9780593334447 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… Essence’s New Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2022 Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romance Novels of...
Recognize! (paperback): An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Recognize! (paperback): An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593381625 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED. In...
My Holy Bible For African-American Children, Kjv
My Holy Bible For African-American Children, Kjv Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780310719878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins "African-American parents long for a Bible that can help them expla...
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford MULTIPLE Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford are renowned authors with a wealth of experience in children's literature and publishing. They are committed to ...
Jennifer Hudson - The "Dreamgirls" Interview
Jennifer Hudson - The "Dreamgirls" Interview Kam Williams Interview Hudson Has Arrived! Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls (2006) Born in Chicago on September 12, 1981, Jennifer Hudson began singi...
SKH, From Black Psychology to the Science of Being
SKH, From Black Psychology to the Science of Being Wade Nobles 9781942774891 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications "SKH is a luminous compendium of wisdom from the sh...
Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers
Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers Wade Hudson 9780940975026 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. NEW EDITION From science to p...
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer MULTIPLE "N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer are prominent...
Forest Wade Press
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Gloria Wade-Gayles
Gloria Wade-Gayles 0000000080941716 Gloria Wade Gayles, Ph.D., is an esteemed scholar, literary critic, and essayist. She was honored as the Eminent Scholar's Chair at Spelman College in 2000 for Ind...
Thames & Hudson
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Thames & Hudson
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Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer Troy Johnson Article by Wade Hudson I was stunned when I heard that Walter Dean Myers had made his transition. During the 25 plus years that my w...
Ursula M. Burns
Ursula M. Burns 0000000445332455 Ursula M. Burns is a pioneering American businesswoman, the first black woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO at Xerox, where she served from 2009-2016. She was also Chai...
Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Volume 3)
Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Volume 3) Wade Hudson 9780940975972 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. In this volume of the popular Book of Black Heroes series, re...
AFRO-BETS Kids I’m Going to Be
AFRO-BETS Kids I’m Going to Be Wade Hudson 9781933491493 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. There are so many exciting careers: astronaut, athlete, educator, film director, architect. And there...
The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters)
The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters) Wade Hudson 9780940975965 Poetry Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Surveying more than 200 years of poetic creativity in Black America, Poetry from the Masters: ...
Robo’s Favorite Places (Afro-Bets Kids)
Robo’s Favorite Places (Afro-Bets Kids) Wade Hudson 9780940975859 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. When Robo is asked to name his favorite place, he can’t decide. There is school, where he le...
Anthony’s Big Surprise (NEATE 3)
Anthony’s Big Surprise (NEATE 3) Wade Hudson 9780940975736 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Someone is sending Anthony expensive gifts. When Anthony figures out who it is, he discovers that h...
Jamal’s Busy Day
Jamal’s Busy Day Wade Hudson 9780940975248 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Jamal, a handsome, energetic African-American boy, is shown making all the necessary preparations for school that h...
Friends I Love to Keep
Friends I Love to Keep Wade Hudson 9781603490122 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. In this engaging, multicultural series, see, feel and explore the world Illustrated by Laura Freeman of irres...
Places I Love To Go (I Love To…)
Places I Love To Go (I Love To…) Wade Hudson 9781603490085 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Marimba Books
Feelings I Love to Share
Feelings I Love to Share Wade Hudson 9781603490115 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. In this engaging multicultural series, see, feel, and explore the world of irresistible youngsters from dif...
It’s Church Going Time
It’s Church Going Time Wade Hudson 9781603490054 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. As they get ready for church, Taj’s grandmother explains that she is so happy on Sunday mornings because that...
Puddin’ Jeffrey and Leah: Best Friends
Puddin’ Jeffrey and Leah: Best Friends Wade Hudson 9781603490061 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. African America author, illustrator. Board Book. Suitable for pre-schoolers.
A Love Tap
A Love Tap Bernardo Wade 9781940596587 Poetry Lookout Books Lookout Books Bernardo Wade’s A Love Tap—introduced by award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay—reckons with complexities of racial identity...
Destiny’s Gift
Destiny’s Gift Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9781600606441 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Destiny loves words, and her favorite place in the world is Mrs. Wade’s bookstore, where words abound. On...
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change Cleo Wade 9781982152796 Poetry Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Author and poet Cleo Wade will make your day with her inspiring an...
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life Cleo Wade 9781501177347 Poetry Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A beautifully illustrated book from Cleo Wade—the artist, poet, and speaker who has been c...
Bernardo Wade
Bernardo Wade NONE Born & raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, wanders around the Bay—occasionally on Stanford’s campus as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. ...
May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes for Your Life
May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes for Your Life Cleo Wade 9781250873958 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 (So Far). ...
Remember Love: Words for Tender Times
Remember Love: Words for Tender Times Cleo Wade 9780593581360 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, a collection of prose and poetr...
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade 9780063054042 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Learn about feelings and emotions with Shady Baby in this board book create...
What the Road Said
What the Road Said Cleo Wade 9781250269492 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers What the Road Said is the New York Times-bestselling comforting and uplifting picture book from bestselling poe...
Wade in the Water: Poems
Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555978136 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men...
A Father First
A Father First Dwyane Wade 9780062136169 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Dwyane Wade, the superstar of the Miami Heat and Gold Medal winner at the Beijing Olympics, shares his inspir...
Cleo Wade
Cleo Wade NONE Cleo Wade is a writer and poet whose work explores love, freedom, healing, and the power of community. She is the New York Times-bestselling author of What the Road Said, Heart Talk: ...
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature Troy Johnson Article Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature by Wade Hudson This Diversity Books Pledge was developed after a...
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin - Why This Book is Important
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin - Why This Book is Important Kam Williams Interview Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Click to order via Amazon Written by Cheryl Willis Hudson & Bernette Ford &a...
Black Boys, I See You
Black Boys, I See You Wade Hudson 9798217002160 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House “What a beautiful gift of a narrative this is. So much love on every page. A fabulous celebration of th...
How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children
How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children Wade Hudson 9780590480307 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. A glorious collection of traditional and contemporary songs that follows th...
Wade Hudson discusses his children’s book The Day Madear Voted
Wade Hudson discusses his children’s book The Day Madear Voted Book Spotlights
Invincible Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade Hudson
Invincible Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade Hudson Author Interviews
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...
Kai, C.J. Hudson, Brandie Davis, and N’Tyse
Kai, C.J. Hudson, Brandie Davis, and N’Tyse MULTIPLE Kai, C.J. Hudson, Brandie Davis, and N’Tyse
Jennifer Hudson - Interview
Jennifer Hudson - Interview Kam Williams Interview Jennifer Kate Hudson was born in Chicago on September 12, 1981 to Darnell Hudson and Samuel Simpson. At the age of seven, she st...
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin
Bright Eyes, Brown Skin Cheryl Willis Hudson and Bernette Ford 9780940975231 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The 1st book to win a major award (The Benjamin Franklin Award) that was written ...
Cynt Marshall
Cynt Marshall NONE Cynt Marshall is the first Black female CEO of an NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks. She's also a former SVP of human resources and chief diversity officer for AT&T, a cancer survivor...
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. NONE Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an activist, author, and journalist, currently the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Previously, he s...
Winnie Mandela
Winnie Mandela Kam Williams nelsonandwinnie.jpg Film Review Jennifer Hudson Portrays Infamous Icon in Warts-and-All Biopic Winnie Mandela In Theaters: Sep 6, 2013 Limited On DVD: Dec 17,...
Heart Talk: The Journal: 52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery
Heart Talk: The Journal: 52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery Cleo Wade 9781982140793 Poetry Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Based on Cleo Wade’s bestselling book, Heart Talk, these...
H. Beecher Hicks III
H. Beecher Hicks III NONE H. Beecher Hicks III is an accomplished executive and an inspiring public speaker with a background as an investment banker, management consultant, private equity investor,...
Katrina M. Adams
Katrina M. Adams NONE Katrina M. Adams has been re-elected as USTA Chairman, CEO and President, making history as the first individual to serve a second two-year term in these roles in the associatio...
Wes Moore
Wes Moore 0000000071753983 Wes Moore is an author, TV producer, and political analyst born in 1978. He's the CEO of BridgeEdU and Robin Hood Foundation, focusing on education and poverty relief. A mi...
Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black
Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black D.T. Pollard 9780982460627 Fiction Book Express Book Express OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK examines how the shadows of oppressive Jim Crow law...
Barack Obama
Barack Obama 0000000121331026 Barack Obama, born in Hawaii in 1961, was the 44th President of the United States. Raised in a middle-class family, he worked his way through college and became the firs...
From Where I Stand
From Where I Stand Cheryl Willis Hudson 9781603490023 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. From Where I Stand by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water Nyaneba Nkrumah 9780063226616 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secre...
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback)
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback) Tracy K. Smith 9781555978365 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The ...
Clarkesworld Issue 94
Clarkesworld Issue 94 N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer 9780692248263 Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine Wyrm Publishing Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-w...
Deliver Me From Evil
Deliver Me From Evil Mary Monroe 9780758212177 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The New York Times bestselling author of God Don’t Like Ugly and God Still Don’t Like Ugly, Mary Monroe has be...
Liberty and Sexuality, the Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
Liberty and Sexuality, the Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade David J. Garrow 9780025427556 Nonfiction Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Employs material taken from hundreds of interviews and...
Great Moments in Black History: Wade in the Water
Great Moments in Black History: Wade in the Water Lerone Bennett 9780874850789 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Featuring a 15 dramatic episodes in black hi...
Micah Hudson: Football Fumble
Micah Hudson: Football Fumble Tanisia Moore 9781478879138 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Future football star Micah Hudson’s most prized possession is a football signed by THE Jackson Vick. But...
Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson NONE Jeff Johnson is a decorated journalist and communication specialist, now President of JIJ Communications. Co-founder and CEO of Elite Voices Speakers, he's a regular on TheRoot.com ...
Gutta Mamis
Gutta Mamis Kai, C.J. Hudson, Brandie Davis, and N’Tyse 9781593095246 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In classic street grit of profane tales, disloyalties, and vendettas, are four novell...
Janae Marie
Janae Marie NONE Krystle Hudson, also known as Janae Marie, is an award-winning author and filmmaker from Detroit. Known for her creativity and passion, she started writing poetry at 13 and novels at...
My Friend Maya Loves To Dance
My Friend Maya Loves To Dance Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780810983281 Fiction Abrams Books Abrams A young narrator tells readers about her friend Maya, who absolutely loves to dance. In this rhyming pictur...
When I Hear Spirituals
When I Hear Spirituals Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780823453801 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Your spirit will soar! A girl connects with heritage, history, and a higher power through the lyrics of tw...
Stacy Hawkins Adams, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, and Linda Hudson-Smith
Stacy Hawkins Adams, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, and Linda Hudson-Smith MULTIPLE