Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - African American & Black

HIstory Is A Part Of Me (A Hip Hop Poem of African American Inventors)'s edutaining voice, is sure to help children understand the importance of seeing a need and filling a void. The highlighted inventions were created out of necessity by African Americans who figured out a more convenient way to live. With an activity page, crossword puzzle, and quiz to add to the poem of African American Inventors and their inventions, this lesson is not only a great tool for teaching Black History but it is also inclusive of the Common Core standards of comprehension/recall and creative...

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto... blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Michelle Alexander, Roxane Gay, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. In her...

Award winning author Dr Kathryn Waddell Takara provides a compelling and intimate traveling stage through her pictorial poems that witness her impressions of the waking of a sleeping dragon - the New China, including the startling successes and disquieting obstacles and corruption. She likewise illuminates the reader of Chinese spiritual qualities, history, and their continuing reverence for knowledge, ancestors, and nature. Most strikingly, Takara experienced the historically raicially unfamiliar climate for many Black people who have sojoured in China.

In her debut poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, Amber Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder, mentor, mother in the face of losing those figures, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems exuberantly rejoice in the brown skin of the female body, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body's processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we...

Witness the power of God in one woman's life. Begin to experience that same power of God in your own. Your Savior is for you. Let it be a constant reminder that God is always with you, no matter where you are. Monique McGilberry is a writer and intercessor. Her mission is to spread the love of Jesus Christ to all people. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. In loving memory of my father, Alfred D. McGilberry, who told me I was God's own.