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Monday MorningReads
I’ve created a Literary Gomoku for the AAPI Book Challenge by adapting a traditional game board. Your goal is to read five books in a row – horizontally, vertically, or diagonally or you could choose to complete the five corners.
Closing Down Poetry Month
We always need a good poem, I think now we can use one that reminds us that what seems like a social and political setback isn’t new; progress always seems to be one step forward and two steps back.
Monday Morning
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.
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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 […]
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Quite simply, books are instruments of liberation.
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What makes you believe that Black lives matter?
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Diversity and inclusion in books is critical because it opens young peoples minds not only to realities, but to possibilities.
2025 Rubies
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Rubies, precious descendant stones set for the future with books that debut in 2025. For years, we’ve relied upon numbers from the Children’s Cooperative Book Center (CCBC) at UW-Madison to quantify representation in youth literature. […]
A Day of Service
On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed H.R. 3706, officially creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday. The federal holiday established that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day would be nationally commemorated and observed as a holiday for federal employees. Almost a decade later, on August 23, 1994 the holiday was transformed […]
2024 Pearls
Here are some of the BIPOC Pearls who have contributed to youth literature and have gone on to the ancestors.
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