
A Fuse #8 Production
March 17, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Young people don’t need to settle into feelings of doom, despondency, or powerlessness, and they don’t need to settle for anything less that what they believe in for this country.
March 14, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Right to Read Day offers fun and engaging ways to connect with freedom fighters in our libraries who have had to endure all the stress brought on by challenges in their workplace.
March 3, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Black history centers the Black experience, highlighting the contributions of Black Americans which are either provoked by, aligned with or supported by members of other racial and ethnic groups.
February 28, 2025 by Edith Campbell
The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad Black voices writing for young readers. Their flagship initiative is 28 Days Later, a month-long showcase of the best in Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by Black creators. In 2021, the Highlights Foundation, in partnership with The Brown […]
February 26, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Learning to navigate these corners of the world are an important part of personal liberation.
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February 25, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Blog: http://tanitasdavis.com/tanita.shtmlIG: https://www.instagram.com/tanita_writes/Blog: http://tanitasdavis.com/wp/BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tanitawrites.bsky.social Watch for: Berry Parker Doesn’t Catch Crushes (HarperCollins Sept 2025)Tanita S. Davis is the award-winning author of six novels for middle grade and young adult readers, including Serena Says, Peas and Carrots, Happy Families, and Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and earned her a nomination […]
February 24, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Quite simply, books are instruments of liberation.
February 22, 2025 by Edith Campbell
We need more books for that center Black teens and Black girls that mare readers chuckle, laugh out loud, or even groan at the corniness.
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Edith Campbell is Librarian in the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University. She is a member of WeAreKidlit Collective, and Black Cotton Reviewers. Edith has served on selection committees for the YALSA Printz Award, ALSC Sibert Informational Text Award, ALAN Walden Book Award, the Walter Award, ALSC Legacy Award, and ALAN Nielsen Donelson Award. She is currently a member of ALA, BCALA, NCTE NCTE/ALAN, REFORMA, YALSA and ALSC. Edith has blogged to promote literacy and social justice in young adult literature at Cotton Quilt Edi since 2006. She is a mother, grandmother, gardener and quilter.