Education

ABOVE PHOTO:  Students of Frederick Douglass Mastery Charter Elementary School greeting members of Temple University’s Football Team Group of over 100 professional men of color, including doctors, lawyers, politicians and many more, participate in a program designed to inspire students during Black History Month The 100th day of school at Frederick Douglass Mastery Charter Elementary…

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  The 24th Annual African American Children’s Book Fair will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2016, from 1-3 PM, at Community College of Philadelphia, 17th and Spring Garden streets, Philadelphia, Pa. The event is free and open to the public. The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day…

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Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) is just two years old, but founders Mia Wenjen and Valerie Budayr have achieved tremendous success and online support for diversity awareness. They’ve put thousands of free books into kids’ hands and they’re changing lives with their message. Last year on January 27th, Multicultural Children’s Book Day, they — along…

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By Kam Williams 1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2. Black Male Frames African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003 by Roland Leander Williams, Jr. 3. The Face That Changed It All A Memoir by Beverly Johnson 4. America The Black Point of View by Tony Rose 5. After the Dance…

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By Kendall Alexander Philadelphia authors Allison Hobbs and Karen E. Quinones Miller teamed up to pen the smoldering new novel “Hittin’ It Out the Park,” through the imprint of erotica author Zane.  This novel focuses on love, lust, and deception in the backdrop of a baseball diamond. Fashion model Cheryl does her best to stay…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The author Jennifer Teege with a mugshot of her grandfather Amon Goeth. by Jennifer Teege with Nikola Sellmair The Experiment Publishing Hardcover, $24.95 230 pages, Illustrated Book Review by Kam Williams “When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf…she discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Sonia Sanchez By Karen E. Quinones Miller I recently asked a college student who were his favorite Harlem Renaissance writers. The young man thought for a moment, and then answered Langston Hughes. When I prompted him to name another writer from the era, he screwed up his face and said, in a questioning…

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What does Civil Rights leadership look like in the 21st Century? That depends on whom you ask. By Denise Clay In the 1950s and 60s, picking out the leaders of the fight for Civil Rights was pretty easy, and, at least from a media perspective, centered on one man, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King…

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By Karen E. Quinones Miller Okay, folks… it’s time to exercise your right to vote! Not for some politician who you can only hope will actually fulfill promises made on the campaign trail, but for a book you’ve read and loved this past year. A book you think deserves an award.  But there’s a catch. You…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Philadelphia attorney, Theresa Brunson, member of the Eveningstar Writer’s Group (L) and Diane McKinney-Whetstone (R.) By Karen E. Quinones-Miller One of the questions I’m asked most often when out on the lecture circuit or out on a book tour is: What advice would you give for aspiring authors?  My answer is always the same….

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