In her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, (read the excerpt from Vogue’s April issue here) Clemantine Wamariya, with coauthor Elizabeth Weil, describes a childhood brutally disrupted by the Rwandan genocide in 1994. At age 6, she fled on foot with her sister Claire, nine years her senior, into Burundi. The pair moved through southern Africa, staying in refugee camps or scratching out a living, before being granted asylum in the United States in 2000. Painted in vivid scenes and flashbacks, the
Here’s a lovely b&w mega-photo post of Kate Bush as a charming and spunky young lady. It’s pretty evident that she was a fairly fully-formed version, even then, of who the world would come to know. I simply adore every photo posted. What a face! Photos are by Kate’s eldest brother, photographer and author John Carder Bush. Also, see photos of Kate Bush when she was a teenager here.
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'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.' This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by her own father for the second time, she is kicked out of school and placed in an alternative teaching programme. Through learning to read and write, Precious begins to find her voice, and fight back. Push is the unflinching diary of a girl whose strength and kindness shines amidst extraordinary adversity. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, featuring bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
Joy Reid will take over the empty nightly news spot on MSNBC starting July 20.
New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon on why she's committed to writing Black joy and love.
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[caption id=attachment_35758 align=alignleft width=367] MSNBC ANCHORS -- Season: 2016 -- Pictured: Joy Reid -- (Photo by: Art Streiber/MSNBC)[/caption] Joy-Ann (“Joy”) Reid is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com and host of the AM Joy show on MSNBC. She is also a political columnist for the Miami Herald and editor of the political blog The Reid Report and is known for her very insightful and liberal political views. Joy was born to an African father from the Congo, and her late mother was from Guyana. Joy has also worked as an Internet news editor for NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miami (from 2000 to 2004) and hosted a talk radio show for Radio One. In 2004, she took a break from media to serve as state deputy communications director for America Coming Together, which registered 50,000 voters in Florida, and in 2008, she worked on South Florida urban media outreach for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Joy has worked in television and radio news since 1998, including for WTVJ and Fox station WSVN. In addition to the Herald, her columns have appeared on Salon.com, TheGrio.com, CommonDreams.org, in the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and the South Florida Times. From 2006-2007 she produced and co-hosted “Wake Up South Florida,” the morning show for Radio One’s then-Miami affiliate WTPS, alongside 30-year radio veteran James T. From 2008-2009 she co-hosted the weekly talk radio program “Elevating the Dialogue” on WNN-AM Fort Lauderdale. As a radio personality, Ms. Reid has interviewed national media and political figures including Bill Cosby, O.J. Simpson, Russell Simmons, and then-Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama. Joy is the managing partner of IMAGELAB, LLC, a video production and communications firm. Through IMAGELAB Films, she is currently producing a television documentary, “The Fight Years,” which chronicles the history of boxing in Miami. Joy is a 1991 graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in visual and environmental studies with a concentration in film and a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She has appeared as a political commentator on national and local television and radio, including MSNBC, CNBC, Miami PBS affiliate WPBT Channel 2 (where she was a frequent panelist on the weekly public affairs program “Issues,” hosted by Miami journalist Helen Ferre,) on WTVJ/NBC 6, Britain’s Sky News and Miami radio stations WLRN (the PBS station in Miami) Hot 105 and 103.5 The Beat. For more information on Joy's work, check out www.joyanreid.com, or follow her on Twitter. http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/02/joy_reid_on_msnbc_network_s_new_host_will_have_no_problem_discussing_race/2/
An unforgettable debut about a young British Ghanaian woman as she navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world, for readers of Queenie and The Other Black Girl.\nAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! - A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick \"Sparkling.\" --The New York Times \"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life.\" --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts \"Lively, funny, poignant . . . Prepare to fall in love with Maddie. I did!\" --Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson's. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of always being the only Black person in every meeting. When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie leaps at the chance to get out of the family home and finally start living. A self-acknowledged late bloomer, she's ready to experience some important \"firsts\" She finds a flat share, says yes to after-work drinks, pushes for more recognition in her career, and throws herself into the bewildering world of internet dating. But it's not long before tragedy strikes, forcing Maddie to face the true nature of her unconventional family, and the perils--and rewards--of putting her heart on the line. Smart, funny, and deeply affecting, Jessica George's Maame deals with the themes of our time with humor and poignancy: from familial duty and racism, to female pleasure, the complexity of love, and the life-saving power of friendship. Most important, it explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures―and it celebrates finally being able to find where you belong. \"Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable.\" --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming
[This is a letter that I penned for a fictional character. I composed it in my journal way back. This quality is a main character from a TV show “Recovery Road”. It’s based off a …
Performing double Dutch jump rope on Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C.; dining at a table spanning the iconic Charles Bridge in the Czech Republic; a couple draws firearms on protesters marching in a well-to-do St. Louis neighborhood. Here’s a look at 15 of the best photos of the week, selected by photo editors at The Washington Post.
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The pioneering AI researcher and activist shares her personal journey in a new book, and explains her concerns about today’s AI systems.
Buchi Emecheta was an Igbo writer whose novels deal largely with the difficult and unequal role of women in both immigrant and African societies.
