‘Girls Don’t Have Brains’: How I Combatted Inferiority and Inequality – Personal Piece
The unfairness of this two-tiered system was lost on me at the time. As a girl in Bangladesh, I understood this not as inequality, but as a convention.
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9 Holiday Gift Ideas from Black-owned Businesses
During the season of giving, why not make your shopping more intentional? We included eight Black-owned brands for a carefully crafted Christmas gift guide. Be sure to pay attention to shipping times and cutoffs to see if you’ll receive your products before Christmas.
The Reading Quilt – Alesia: The Life of a Girl in a Wheelchair
Published in 1981, Alesia, by Eloise Greenfield and Alesia Revis, details the struggles of a young African American girl who became physically disabled as the result of being hit by a car. Few fiction books include characters with disabilities and fewer include People of Color with disabilities.
The Reading Quilt: Family Values
Family is an integral part of African American culture, often celebrated in pop culture television shows and movies like “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Blackish,” and “Soul Food”. These shows epitomize the strong African American mother who is eclipsed by the stronger African American grandmother, both flanked by supportive husbands, precocious children, and nosey aunts and uncles
Celebrate Eric Garner, Catalyst for the Black Lives Matters Movement, On What Would Have Been His 51st Birthday
The video of Eric Garner’s treatment by Police and his death sparked outrage all over the country. “I can’t breathe” echoed as people marched through the streets demanding justice.
58th Anniversary of The 16th Street Church Bombing
Shortly before 11AM, the congregation was shaken by an explosion, and they knew it was no accident. The 16th Street Baptist church was a predominantly Black congregation and the space was often used as a meeting place for Civil Rights activists.
The Unseen Issue – Africa’s Massive Illiterate Youth Population
It’s 2021, and a shocking number of Africa youths can’t read and can’t write a coherent, short, simple sentence on their daily activities. With the challenges of poverty, overcrowded classrooms, and unqualified teachers, six years of primary school is not enough for many children to build literacy skills.
Add African American Dads to your Literacy Programs and Watch Magic Happen
Research shows that a boy who has a father as a reading role model during his early literacy years is more likely to develop the behaviors of a literate person. This fact creates a powerful charge for a father as a reading role model.
6 YA Novels with Disabled and Chronically Ill Characters
These six YA novels feature a diverse group of disabled or chronically ill main characters to show that representation matters, even in the book industry.
The Reading Quilt: Spreading the Word
In the effort to normalize and educate teachers about nonstandard dialects, John McWhorter, an American linguist and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, penned the book Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America (Heinemann, 2000). In doing so, “McWhorter helps us to come to view the language palette that exists in our classrooms as an asset rather than a problem.”