third-hand books that had been used at the white school,” Moore said. Moore, 74, is a graduate of the Hooper-Renwick school, the only high school in Gwinnett County for Black students until ...

Jenisha Watts: The book that impacted me the most in high school was The Color of Water, by James McBride. It is a memoir of a young Black man from Brooklyn trying to come to terms with who he is ...

“I write my books so when Black children pick ... Teachers within the school district also took a stance, with 140 educators across Hoover elementary and high schools signing a letter to ...

“Like the bird, I’m here to fly and soar high over everything ... the experience of being a Black man in America. The book caused controversy in a Washington school district in 1994 ...

Johnson, centers on Johnson's experiences growing up as a queer Black person and has been a part of a national debate on banning books from high school libraries. People calling for the book's ...

Juneteenth commemorates the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people ... Sings in high school, grab a copy ...

Nearly every page of Martin’s book brings to life the atrocities ... to travel miles away to a sorely underfunded all-Black high school. When the students were refused, McSwain took their ...

Wynn, in his HBCU series, provides a playbook for identifying HBCU-specific scholarships and career pathways for high school students ... and his series of books containing playbooks for students ...

MONTH. OH, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT TO ME TO NOT BE PUT IN A BOX, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY FACETS TO WHO I AM, AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT I WANT TO DO, MANY THINGS THAT I HAVE ...

Before moving to Florida for high school, Pache was born and ... This is the foundation of Black Crossword. The 100 Mini Puzzles book started from a place of feeling unseen. It was October 2022 ...