Andrea Davis Pinkney is a children's author and Coretta Scott King Award winner who writes about African-American culture. She is the author of more than 20 books and founder of the "first African American children's book imprint at a major publishing company": Jump at the Sun at Hyperion Books for Children, the Disney Book Group (now Disney Publishing Worldwide). She is also … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
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Wednesday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an author, poet, playwright, associate professor of writing, literature and publishing atEmerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and since August 2007, has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910. … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Tuesday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Nikki Grimes (born October 20, 1950) is an American author of books written for children and young adults, as well as a poet and journalist. Grimes was born in Harlem, New York. In a conversation with a Reading Is Fundamental interviewer, she stated: "Books were my survival tools. They were how I got by, and how I coped with things. Books carried me away." … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Monday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
This week's threads will highlight the works of black children's authors and illustrators that you should know. Kadir Nelson (born May 15, 1974) is an African-American artist, illustrator and author. His work is focused on African-American culture and history. Nelson graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators
Saturday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance
Good Morning POU! We continue to look at the impact of black writers, artists and publications during the period between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, particularly the Chicago influence. Created in 1942 by Chicago-based publisher John H. Johnson, who went on to create Ebony, Tan, and Jet magazines, the original series of Negro Digest … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Indignant Generation – The Chicago Black Renaissance