![]() ![]() In January 2017, she was awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. The Coretta Scott King Award is "given to African-American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions." Her novel Bronx Masquerade was named the Coretta Scott King Award book in 2002. Her work has earned her honors and recognition from a number of prestigious organizations. ![]() She is on the board of directors for the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. Grimes currently resides in Corona, California, and continues to write poetry and books for children and young adults. Her interests and talents are diverse and include photography, fiber art, and beading. She has written articles for magazines such as Today's Christian Woman and Essence. She has been a guest lecturer at international schools in Sweden, Tanzania, China, and Russia. They were how I got by, and how I coped with things. In a conversation with a Reading Is Fundamental interviewer, she stated: "Books were my survival tools. 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. ![]() Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Kephart gets under the reader’s skin, raising questions and leaving us unsettled, unsure. Inspired by a trip the author took to Berlin in 2011, Going Over is told in alternating chapters by Ada and Stefan, giving us a glimpse of life on both sides of the Wall. Then he meets Lucas, and his plans start to become reality. He knows full well the consequences of a failed escape attempt, and so he makes lists of all the tiny things that could go wrong. But perhaps Ada’s greatest secret is Stefan, the boy on the other side of the Berlin Wall whom she loves and begs to cross over, and to do it now.įor his part, Stefan must balance his desire for freedom and to be with Ada with his responsibilities to his grandmother. Her best friend is hiding a pregnancy, and a little boy in her care is also harboring a secret, a dangerous and terrible one. Her world is full of secrets: A childcare worker by day, she spends her nights roaming the city armed with a can of spray paint. It’s 1983, and Ada scrapes out an existence in West Berlin. ![]() In her searing new novel, National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart paints a vivid picture of a divided Berlin and the wall that separates friends, lovers and families. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sir, you and I must part, but that’s not it. Take the partying words of Antony and Cleopatra in the play: Dalloway is haunted by memories of Peter Walsh, a scene reminiscent of Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare’s shadow also extends beyond this passage.įor instance, Clarissa Dalloway clings to Shakespeare’s words and draws her strongest motivation from them. In fact, we are told that the war was in part fought in the name of Shakespeare. Rezia even wonders if she will ever have a son like Septimus- in this case, Septimus is elevated to legend, just as Shakespeare had been. Ultimately, Septimus and Shakespeare become inseparable, veteran and soldier intertwined. Shakespeare also draws the curtain between husband and wife: Rezia’s inability to read Shakespeare defines her as a stranger, at least in the eyes of Septimus. In the passage I selected, Septimus finds a justification for his attitude about life in the work of Shakespeare, even when this is only fiction that he has concocted himself. Shakespeare looms large over Mrs Dalloway. ![]() ![]() Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments recovers these women’s radical aspirations and insurgent desires. Here, for the first time, these women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. "Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history." -Parul Sehgal, New York Timesīeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. ![]() Winner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfictionįinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism ![]() ![]() Michael Aciman, a YouTube spokesman, said in a statement that the company allowed “policy debate or discussions of climate-related initiatives, but when content crosses the line to climate change denial, we remove ads from serving on those videos.” A Grubhub spokeswoman said that the company was working with YouTube and other partners to “prevent Grubhub ads from appearing alongside content that promotes misinformation.” Fonda said.Īds for Grubhub, the food-delivery service, appeared before climate-denial videos numerous times, The New York Times found. ![]() ![]() “I am appalled that an ad for one of my movies appears on one of those videos, and hope YouTube stops this practice immediately,” Ms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ashanti and the white men shackle Amari and the remaining villagers, all young people, and force them to march. Amari and Kwasi try to run, but an Ashanti spears Kwasi. Then, disaster strikes: the white men begin shooting and Ashanti warriors club down women and children. Amari thinks that they look dangerous, but she throws herself into preparations, listens happily to Father’s ceremonial story, and enjoys the drumming. The village prepares for a celebration as the white men and Ashanti warriors arrive. Mother scolds Amari for being concerned about the visitors she says it’s uncivilized to judge people on looks. Amari relays this to Mother and her friend Esi. Besa approaches and greets Amari warmly but says he’s concerned-he saw men with light skin coming to the village. Kwasi teases Amari that her fiancé, Besa, is coming, and then he runs back to their village. Fifteen-year-old Amari laughs as her little brother, Kwasi, plays in a coconut tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() Monday (doors open 6:45 p.m.), Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas. Poets Kevin Young and Mary Szybist will read, discuss and sign their works as part of Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, 7:30 p.m. In anticipation of that visit, I asked him to walk me through a short poem, "Bereavement Fare," from the recent collection. Young appears in Houston on Monday as part of the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series offered by Inprint, the city's leading literary nonprofit. "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels," Young's 2011 poetry collection, won a 2012 American Book Award. "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness" (2012), a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Book of Hours" (2014) is a finalist for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In nine books of poetry and prose, many of them grounded in African-American culture and history, Young casts a wide net over a range of subjects - from race to blues to film noir to the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young, 44, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory University. We remember the way words can make us feel and transport us." "That's why we read poems at weddings and funerals. "Poems speak to grief and even joy better than most anything else," Young tells me, during a recent morning phone call. ![]() ![]() ![]() Member, Mayor's Task Force on Human Relations, 1987–88, Jewish Fund for Justice Rabbinic advisory committee, 1995, and Women's Fund of Indiana advisory board, 2000–02. Gleaners Food Bank, president, 1992–93 Butler University, Indianapolis, adjunct professor beginning 1996 Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, lecturer, 1995- director of POLIS project "Urban Tapestry," 1998–2000. Manhattan Reconstructionist Havurah, New York, NY, rabbi, 1974–77 Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, IN, rabbi, beginning 1977. Office-Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, 600 West 70th St., Indianapolis, IN 46260. ![]() Born 1947 Education: Temple University, B.A., 1969, M.A., 1972 Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, ordained rabbi, 1974 Christian Theological Seminary, Doctor of Ministry, 1996. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem is, other people feel the same.Įspecially the men who slaughtered her brother.Īnd they’re coming back to finish the job they started seven years ago.īecause if those sick sons of b!tches think they can take Ruby from me, they’ve got another thing coming.įrom the second I saw her, I knew one thing: this girl was mine now.Īnd there’s not a single man, dead or alive, who gets to lay a damn finger on what’s mine. Like it happened overnight, she went from being my best friend’s kid sister… Hair like a sunlit waterfall, skin pure and flawless, curves that test the strength of my zipper. Not just any woman – she’s a motherf**king beauty. ![]() Keeping her safe meant keeping her far the hell away from the Steel Jockeys MC.Ī little girl like Ruby had no business getting mixed up with a clubhouse full of cold-blooded killers, hitmen, outlaws, and bikers.Īnd I upheld my oath to my fallen brother-in-arms.īut all of a sudden, Ruby isn’t a little girl anymore. That’s the last thing I said to him – her brother, my best friend – before he died in my arms. ![]() Tonight, she’ll learn the truth: she belongs to me now. I claimed my best friend’s little sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also must help our children learn to “stand up, speak up, speak out,” and take action for peace. We create welcoming circles, so children have a sense of belonging. ![]() We encourage kindness, empathy, compassion. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself. ![]() When you see something that is not right, you must say something. In it, John Lewis challenged each generation to fulfill its moral and democratic obligations to speak out against injustice: On the day of his funeral, July 30, 2020, the New York Times published a letter written by Lewis before his death. John Lewis, the late Civil Rights leader and Congressman, can guide us. With the school year beginning, in-person or online, what is our responsibility to help children process these historic times and participate in peaceful change? John Lewis, Civil Rights leader and Congressman, – Jul 17, 2020 Ellie Roscher and I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, not far from where George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer and close to the epicenter of marches and protests. No peace.” This summer, millions of people – young, old and from all backgrounds - protested police brutality and systemic racism, all during an historic pandemic. ![]() |