Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black ChildrenWhen happy things come to you, hold them close and never let go. From celebrated author of Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow, fine artist Patrick Dougher, and photographer Jamel Shabazz, Hold Them Close is a picture book celebration of Black past, present, and future a joyful love letter to Black children. As affirming as it is touching and warm, Hold Them Close encourages young children to hold close their joy, the words of their

and tired of being the only Black woman in the room

Until they're not

Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking

to make a better life for the family--and when she was in kindergarten

and smart debut novel

Not Quite Snow White

and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish

Brown baby

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power

and as free as they deserve to be

Most important

On her first two nights at the University of North Carolina's Early College program