https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-wk3s4-n5c4c-4k7nc-tn7ax monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/01e25bea-93f2-4822-8bf9-78a6bdfd83ed/812kODz2EsL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - LIBERATING ABORTION By Renee Bracey Sherman & Regina Mahone “A gift to future generations.”—Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble “Our storytellers meet the moment with powerful insight and testimonials.”—Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we must liberate abortion for all. People of color have been having abortions since the dawn of time, yet our access is continuously under attack. In Liberating Abortion, award-winning abortion activist Renee Bracey Sherman and journalist Regina Mahone illustrate the long racist history that brought us to this moment, uncover the hidden figures who set the foundation that activists and storytellers are building on today, and explain how abortion has been and remains essential to the health of our communities. Liberating Abortion will take you back to the basics of sex education, detailing the traditions of abortion over centuries while examining how society makes us feel about our experiences. You’ll find rigorous research, never-before-heard stories, and eye-opening interviews with more than fifty people of color who’ve had abortions, including activists, actresses, television writers, politicians, and two Black members of Jane, the Chicago feminist service that provided abortions before Roe. With poignant storytelling and precise analysis, Liberating Abortion will change how you think about abortion forever. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-wk3s4-n5c4c-4k7nc monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/0166dda8-af72-4764-8142-ceba3d49df11/81OK3umOnrL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - WRITTEN IN THE WATERS By Tara Roberts One woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean in this searing memoir for fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wildand Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped. An adventurous blend of personal and cultural history from a star National Geographic explorer and "a pioneer and an inspiration." —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History depicting the underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were Black women and men strapping on masks, fins, and tanks to explore Atlantic Ocean waters along the coastlines of Africa, North America, and Central America, seeking the wrecks of slave ships long lost in time. Inspired, Roberts joined them—and started on a path of discovery more challenging and personal than she could ever have imagined.In this lush and lyrical memoir, she tells a story of exploration and reckoning that takes her from her home in Washington, D.C., to an exotic array of locales: Thailand and Sri Lanka, Mozambique, South Africa, Senegal, Benin, Costa Rica, and St. Croix. The journey connects her with other divers, scholars, and archaeologists, offering a unique way of understanding the 12.5 million souls carried away from their African homeland to enslavement on other continents. But for Roberts, the journey is also intensely personal. Inspired by the descendants of those who lost their lives during the Middle Passage, she decides to plumb her own family history and life as a Black woman to help make sense of her own identity. Complex and unflinchingly authentic, this deeply moving narrative heralds an important new voice in literature that will open minds and hearts everywhere. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-wk3s4-n5c4c monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/8dff5a71-85e9-4101-b61e-c642e0768dbb/81h2qhF5bbL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - SEEING BAYA By Alice Kaplan The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years later, in November 1947, her paintings and fanciful clay beasts were featured in a solo show in Paris. She wasn’t yet sixteen years old. In this first biography of Baya, Alice Kaplan tells the story of a young woman seemingly trapped in subsistence who becomes a sensation in the French capital, then mysteriously fades from the history of modern art—only to reemerge after independence as an icon of Algerian artistic heritage. The toast of Paris for the 1947 season, Baya inspired colonialist fantasies about her “primitive” genius as well as genuine appreciation. She was featured in newspapers, on the radio, and in a newsreel; her art was praised by Breton and Camus, Marchand and Braque. At the dawn of Algerian liberation, her appearance in Paris was used to stage the illusion of French-Algerian friendship, while horrific French massacres in Algeria were still fresh in memory. Kaplan uncovers the central figures in Baya’s life and the role they played in her artistic career. Among the most poignant was Marguerite Caminat-McEwen-Benhoura, who took Baya from her sister’s farm to Algiers, where Baya worked as Marguerite’s maid and was given paint and brushes. A complex and endearing character, Marguerite—and her Pygmalion ambitions—was decisive in shaping Baya’s destiny. Kaplan also looks closely at Baya’s earliest paintings with an eye to their themes, their palette and design, and their enduring influence. In vivid prose that brings Baya’s story into the present, Kaplan’s book, the fruit of scrupulous research in Algiers, Blida, Paris, and Provence, allows us to see in a whole new light the beloved artist who signed her paintings simply “Baya.” https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-wk3s4 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/aa046381-cb05-424d-b464-0048e038d30e/61RFSE8pbIL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - UNASSIMILABLE By Bianca Mabute-Louie A scholar and activist’s brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions. In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca Mabute-Louie transforms the ways we understand race, class, citizenship, and the concept of assimilation and its impact on Asian American communities from the nineteenth century to present day. UNASSIMILABLE opens with a focus on the San Gabriel Valley (SGV), the first Asian ethnoburb in Los Angeles County and in the nation, where she grew up. A suburban neighborhood with a conspicuous Asian immigrant population, SGV thrives not because of its assimilation into Whiteness, but because of its unapologetic catering to its immigrant community. Mabute-Louie then examines “Predominantly White Institutions With A lot of Asians” and how these institutions shape the racial politics of Asian Americans and Asian internationals, including the fight against affirmative action and the fight for ethnic studies. She moves on to interrogate the role of the religion, showing how the immigrant church is a sanctuary even as it is an extension of colonialism and the American Empire. In the book’s conclusion, Bianca looks to the future, boldly proposing a reconsideration of the term Asian American for a new label that better clarifies who Asians in America are today. UNASSIMILABLE offers a radical vision of Asian American political identity informed by a refusal of Whiteness and collective care for each other. It is a forthright declaration against assimilation and in service of cross-racial, anti-imperialist solidarity and revolutionary politics. Scholarly yet accessible, informative and informed, this book is a major addition to Ethnic Studies and American Studies. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-prhgz-d3p37 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/d73ddeb3-97ba-41f9-97ef-43ce1b0b5d59/812oKXBWH2L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - MAKE GOOD TROUBLE By Jamia Wilson Read real stories about moments that changed history, and find out what you can do to make a difference! "Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." – John Lewis, Twitter 2018 Inspired by civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis’s call to challenge injustice, explore famous moments of global activism throughout history with more than 70 narrative stories. Featured stories include the Newsboys’ strike of 1899, the Freedom Summer Project of 1964, Greta Thunberg’s first School Strike for Climate, and students against book banning. A must-have, illustrated narrative non-fiction guide through stories of exemplary activism: Topics for every interest: Stories cover protests about climate change, racism, feminism, LGBTQIA+ pride, disability, and more from around the world. Beautifully told stories and useful resources: Alongside the moving narrative retellings of historical moments, kids can find information about how they can be activists in a safe way, alongside a glossary and key dates for annual activism moments from across the globe. Written by Jamia Wilson: The acclaimed author of Shining Bright, Shining Black, Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, and Young, Gifted and Black. Each true story in Make Good Trouble shares how activists across a variety of beliefs, ages, and backgrounds called for change, empowering young readers of all ages, abilities, and circumstances to make a difference. Brimming with illustrations and additional resources, including a timeline and information about how kids can get involved, this is essential reading for budding activists. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82-prhgz monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/d90633d0-0467-4fa1-b0ef-f91cb03d38af/71XgZNJ%2BWrL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - UNRIG THE GAME By Vanessa Priya Daniel A much-needed playbook to supporting and retaining women of color in leadership roles to create lasting change in the world, from a former labor and community organizer and founder of one of the nation’s premier funders of women of color-led organizations. “A balm and an inspiration.”—Ai-jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and director of Caring Across Generations In the U.S., many of the most significant social justice victories of our time have been spearheaded by women of color leaders. From the streets, to the ballot box, to elected office, no other demographic group stands up more consistently and unequivocally for human rights, democracy, and the planet. Remarkably, they’ve accomplished this despite conditions—in their fields and organizations—that make leadership uniquely treacherous for them. For women of color leaders, the game is rigged. How much more could humanity be winning if we unrigged it? What might be possible, in this clutch moment of history, with so much on the line, if movements stopped benching our best in ways that negatively impact the scoreboard for everybody? Unrig the Game equips us to support effective women of color leaders so we can all win. A former community and union organizer who started one of the largest foundations to resource women of color-led organizing, Vanessa Priya Daniel draws on candid interviews with forty-five prominent women of color movement leaders, along with her own experience at the helm of an organization, to offer an on-the-ground perspective of the obstacles leaders face, how they navigate them, and how allies can show up. Daniel highlights the unique strengths and “superpowers” these leaders bring to the fight for social change, while debunking the myth that identity alone makes a transformative leader. For women of color leaders, this book is a balm, a sister circle, and a master class. For everyone, it is an essential tool to realize the world we all deserve. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/594phcneawdnz82 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/9be8d824-e3f5-45b6-814c-ab03ab1b8234/81FyQnq-H3L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - KING OF THE NORTH By Jeanne Theoharis A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book Shortlisted 2025, Museum of African American History Stone Book Award From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. “Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government. In this bold retelling, King emerges as a someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war. King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands our understanding of King’s life and work—a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-x43x4-x6pnb-dak55-n34em-c9xzk monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/25a81839-f77f-48dc-a4b7-a688d2a08c2b/61wqhS4oj4L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - THAT’S HOW THEY GET YOU By Damon Young From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today A critic explores the paradox of finding community in “the dozens” while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated Green Book but for public toilets. All across the nation, “Karens” become illegal overnight. These are just a few of the hilarious worlds contained in Damon Young’s groundbreaking anthology featuring the best, funniest, and Blackest essays, short stories, letters, and rants. With words that roast, ignite, and burn while connecting to and coalescing around a singular thesis, That's How They Get You emphasizes how and why Black American humor is uniquely transfixing. This is a mixture of not just observational anxieties and stream-of-consciousness lucidities but also acute political clarity about America. Edited and with an introduction by Damon Young, the critically acclaimed author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, the collection features new material from an all-star roster of contributors, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Mahogany L. Browne, Wyatt Cenac, Kiese Laymon, Deesha Philyaw, Roy Wood Jr., and Nicola Yoon. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-x43x4-x6pnb-dak55-n34em monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/982cc369-0bb3-4b86-9240-0de546f4235e/81EFdX7hWgL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - POSITIVE OBSESSION: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF OCTAVIA E. BUTLER By Susana M. Morris A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an apt metaphor for the best and worst of humanity—our innovation and ingenuity, our naked greed and ambition, our propensity for violence and hierarchy. Her fiction charts the rise and fall of the American project—the nation’s transformation from a provincial backwater to a capitalist juggernaut—made possible by chattel slavery—to a bloated imperialist superpower on the verge of implosion. In this outstanding work, Susana M. Morris places Butler’s story firmly within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, Reaganomics. Morris reveals how these influences profoundly impacted Butler’s personal and intellectual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing. Her cautionary tales warn us about succumbing to fascism, gender-based violence, and climate chaos while offering alternate paradigms to religion, family, and understanding our relationships to ourselves. Butler envisioned futures with Black women at the center, raising our awareness of how those who are often dismissed have the knowledge to shift the landscape of our world. But her characters are no magical martyrs, they are tough, flawed, intelligent, and complicated, a reflection of Butler’s stories. Morris explains what drove Butler: She wrote because she felt she must. “Who was I anyway? Why should anyone pay attention to what I had to say? Did I have anything to say? I was writing science fiction and fantasy, for God’s sake. At that time nearly all professional science-fiction writers were white men. As much as I loved science fiction and fantasy, what was I doing? Well, whatever it was, I couldn’t stop. Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It’s about not being able to stop at all.” https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-x43x4-x6pnb-dak55 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/d13a0bfb-b943-460d-8305-6e06b1bc51b9/71kXiqrvCML._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - THE GREAT WHITE HOAX By Philip Kadish We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive―to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g-2na9s-34lm2-mkesz-lrm7g monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/a010e11e-db62-41c1-b9cc-c810b3578e34/81mm2lPgPUL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Fela Illustrated by Jibola Fagbamiye Written by Conor McCreery A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. In this bold and striking graphic novel, artist Jibola Fagbamiye and writer Conor McCreery team up to tell the remarkable origin story of one of Nigeria’s most famous sons, the King of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, who rose to superstardom with his band Africa 70 in the 1970s, during a charged political period for his nation. A once-in-a-lifetime musical talent who innovated the musical genre Afrobeat, Fela was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian military regime. Fela focuses on a pivotal moment in his life, when he and his mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the renowned Nigerian suffrage activist, were ruthlessly attacked in their own home by soldiers who suffered no repercussions for their violence. It also explores Fela’s complex relationship with women, including his mother and Sandra Izsadore, the American singer and activist who revitalize and inspired him. Over the course of his life, Fela married 27 women, fathered numerous children, and founded the Kalakuta Republic commune, where he and his band lived, declaring themselves independent from military rule. As rich and original asits subject, Fela complements the historical with the surreal, featuring parallel dream world sequences, set between this realm and the next, in which Fela receives visions about his future and the dangerous path he will have to walk. Chronicling Fela’s perilous journey to capture his destiny—to become the King of Afrobeat, and to advocate for Pan-African unity in the face of European imperialism and white supremacy—this masterful biographical graphic novel celebrates this enduring legend and his legacy, offering inspiration for our own troubled time https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g-xnp5y monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/6975f14f-7edf-42ff-962d-79ca70a35d55/91vF7i60ExL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - GO TELL IT By Quartez Harris Illustrated by Gordon C. James A USA Today Bestseller! • Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to the legendary writer and the power of the written word—with exquisite prose from acclaimed poet Quartez Harris, and breathtaking illustrations from New York Times bestselling creator and Caldecott Honoree Gordon C. James. The first time Jimmy read a book the words clung to him like glitter... Before James Baldwin was a celebrated novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and activist, he was a boy who fell in love with stories. Words opened up new worlds for young Jimmy, who read and wrote at every opportunity. He ultimately realized his dreams of becoming an author and giving voice to his community, and in doing so he showed the world the fullness of Black American life. This picture book biography of an American icon is a poetic introduction to James Baldwin and celebration of the power of language. Additional biographical information and personal notes from the author and illustrator round out this stunning celebration of Baldwin's life and work. ★ Lyrical, accessible true story of an American icon, with bonus information at the back of the book ★ Beautiful, vibrant art from Gordon C. James, two-time winner of the Kirkus Prize, a Caldecott honoree, and Coretta Scott King honoree, and Society of Illustrators Gold Medalist! ★ Celebrates the power of reading, hard work, and following your dreams https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g-2na9s-34lm2-mkesz monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/018d8e47-17f9-4973-803e-52e98b280766/91LYVP%2BMSRL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - LOKI By George O’Connor Following the smash-hit Olympians series, George O'Connor embarks on a new graphic novel saga about the Norse gods. This third volume tells the story of Loki, the trickster god! As night falls on Asgard there is one who does not dream. Loki, a trickster of epic proportions, has much to think on. He hearkens back to his challenge to the wolf Fenrir to break the strongest Dwarf-made chains. He remembers Thjazi, the jotunn in monstrous eagle form, and his pursuit of the apples of youth. And he worries he has fallen out of favor with his blood brother, Odin. Can he use his cunning and wiles to worm his way back in? Or, feeling spurned, will Loki choose to burn it all down? https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g-2na9s-34lm2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1a1f222c-b8bb-401a-8044-42a3446a160a/91SDSo1XjTL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - THOR By George O’Connor A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Following the smash-hit Olympians series, George O'Connor embarks on a new saga about the Norse gods. This second volume tells the story of Thor, god of thunder! Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson! Welcome to the Nine Worlds, home of Gods, Valkyries, Dwarves, and more! Follow the journey of the mighty Thor as he sets off into the blackest sea in search of the Midgard serpent, Jormungandr; thunders across fjords and hills in his chariot to the land of the Jotnar; and is united with his trusty hammer, Mjollnir, for the very first time. But will Thor’s tales of brawling and bravado earn him his crossing from the mysterious ferryman? https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g-2na9s monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/aa17e6b2-d3f7-48f1-bffa-24dfb51858db/91PH0RJQ2QL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - ODIN By George O’Connor Following his smash-hit the Olympians series, New York Times bestseller George O'Connor embarks on a new saga about the Norse gods. This first volume tells the story of the warrior god Odin! Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson! Welcome to the Nine Worlds, home of Gods, Valkyries, Dwarves, Jotnar, and more! Travel the burning rainbow bridge to Asgard where Odin, king of the Aesir, surveys his realm. His thirst for knowledge drives him ever onward, but nothing is learned without sacrifice... In Asgardians, George O’Connor’s highly kinetic illustrations bring these gritty and astonishing tales of war, betrayal, and the quest for enlightenment at any cost to vivid and startling life and provide the perfect companion to his Olympians series. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm-5t92g monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/4c91c92b-113b-4e51-907d-54d3ee299c1b/91UXU11%2B93L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - GREATNESS By Creative Soul Photography Take a journey through Black history and find your greatness in this stunning book from the award-winning team behind the New York Times bestsellers Crowned and Glory. When Nasir and Imani step into their Grandma’s studio, she opens their minds to the power of a photograph. From Bessie Smith to Basquiat to Beyoncé, Grandma introduces them to famous figures and what makes them special. And before long, Nasir and Imani find themselves in the images and stepping into greatness, too. True to their iconic photographic style, this picture book from Kahran and Regis Bethencourt reimagines powerful moments from Black history through the eyes of the youngest readers. With child-friendly recreations of famous figures from the past and present, this book reminds children of their own potential for greatness. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68-53esm monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/b1933095-faf6-411f-b7fa-8c6760d7216c/meena.jpg All Books Feed - MEENA’S SATURDAY By Kusum Mepani ★” This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection...An excellent pick for any day of the week. “— The Horn Book Magazine, starred review 

 ★ “Beautiful…Mepani’s writing flows...and is layered with nuance through Meena’s keen observations about the immigrant experience, the power of community, gender roles, and her own aspirations. Ismail’s mixed-media illustrations reflect these layers through vibrant images. An important book for every growing library collection." —School Library Journal, starred review A slice-of-life story with a feminist message about a young Indian girl and her sisters managing a bustling house full of boisterous guests on a busy Saturday.

Saturday mornings start early for Meena. She and her sisters watch the sun rise while drinking chai before they clean the house and then head to the grocery store . . . while their brother gets to stay in bed. As the guests arrive, including Meena's favorite cousins, the women crowd into the kitchen to cook. The doorbell rings nonstop as family, neighbors, and friends fill the bustling house. Once fresh chapatis are made, dinner begins—for the men. But Meena spots an empty seat at the table and decides today is the day she makes an important change.

Meena’s Saturday by Kusum Mepani, with exuberant illustrations by Yasmeen Ismail, is the charming story of a family’s weekend ritual, a love letter to the gatherings of community and family, and an example of how changing long-standing traditions can start with you. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-x43x4-x6pnb monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/3941e483-652c-408a-8a4d-bbeee4d055a1/81%2BPGRaHN6L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Survival is a promise: the eternal life of audre lorde By Alexis Pauline Gumbs We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive―to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/26370119-057d-439d-bde4-38521339f7e3/91JQ5SDfPuL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human By Cole Arthur Riley For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body. In this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today. For anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/2f5e7287-f653-4a1c-96ac-834f362c070d/Punished+for+Dreaming_JKT_NYTbestseller.jpg All Books Feed - punished for dreaming: how school reform harms black children and how we heal By Bettina Love In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/85be5473-5eeb-4388-89ff-23599d67c382/81cAGCCob7L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of AmericA By Michael Harriot It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written with the perspective of white men at the forefront. It could even be said that the historical devaluation and elimination of the experiences of Black people is as American as apple pie. Or rioting after football games. Or calling the cops on Black Americans for walking around their own neighborhoods, or listening to music, or bird-watching, or any other normal everyday activity. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot challenges this narrative, presenting more than thirty little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans, from the Tulsa Race Massacre to the history of policing. With sharp, incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, providing readers with a singular look at our shared history that is as comprehensive as it is utterly necessary. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/6cd4b4d3-a20f-4155-83b5-db8becfd39e7/91GsJSBNnqL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Disillusioned: Five families and the unraveling of america’s suburbs By Ben Herold Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal status quo. In Compton, California, whose suburban roots are now barely recognizable, undocumented Hispanic parents place their gifted son’s future in the hands of educators at a remarkable elementary school. And outside Pittsburgh, a Black mother moves to the same street where author Benjamin Herold grew up, then confronts the destructive legacy left behind by white families like his. Disillusioned braids these human stories together with penetrating local and national history to reveal a vicious cycle undermining the dreams upon which American suburbia was built. For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. But now, sweeping demographic shifts and the dawning realization that endless expansion is no longer feasible are disrupting this pattern, forcing everyday families to confront a truth their communities were designed to avoid: The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive? Drawing upon his decorated career as an education journalist, Herold explores these pressing debates with expertise and perspective. Then, alongside Bethany Smith—the mother from his old neighborhood, who contributes a powerful epilogue to the book—he offers a hopeful path toward renewal. The result is nothing short of a journalistic masterpiece. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-ssjbd-35kla monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/10d22e6a-dc1d-4c84-963f-6b9f3d3effea/61nw%2BEIXz7L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America By Paola Ramos An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite his vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. Now, journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to vote for and support issues that seem so at odds with their self-interest. From coast to coast, cities to rural towns, Defectors introduces readers to underdog GOP candidates, January 6th insurrectionists, Evangelical pastors and culture war crusaders, aiming to identify the influences at the heart of this rightward shift. Through their stories, Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society. We meet Monica de la Cruz, a Republican congresswoman from the Rio Grande Valley who won on a platform centered on finishing “what Donald Trump started” and pushing the Great Replacement Theory; David Ortiz, a Mexican man who refers to himself as a Spaniard and opposed the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador in New Mexico; Luis Cabrera, an evangelical pastor pushing to “Make America Godly Again;” Anthony Aguero, an independent journalist turned border vigilante; and countless other individuals and communities that make up the rising conservative Latino population. Cross-cultural and assiduously reported, Defectors highlights how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics.An award-winning journalist's deeply reported exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics Democrats have historically assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that loyalty into question. In fact, despite his vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. Now, journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to vote for and support issues that seem so at odds with their self-interest. From coast to coast, cities to rural towns, Defectors introduces readers to underdog GOP candidates, January 6th insurrectionists, Evangelical pastors and culture war crusaders, aiming to identify the influences at the heart of this rightward shift. Through their stories, Ramos shows how tribalism, traditionalism, and political trauma within the Latino community has been weaponized to radicalize and convert voters who, like many of their white counterparts, are fearful of losing their place in American society. We meet Monica de la Cruz, a Republican congresswoman from the Rio Grande Valley who won on a platform centered on finishing “what Donald Trump started” and pushing the Great Replacement Theory; David Ortiz, a Mexican man who refers to himself as a Spaniard and opposed the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador in New Mexico; Luis Cabrera, an evangelical pastor pushing to “Make America Godly Again;” Anthony Aguero, an independent journalist turned border vigilante; and countless other individuals and communities that make up the rising conservative Latino population. Cross-cultural and assiduously reported, Defectors highlights how one of America's most powerful and misunderstood electorates may come to define the future of American politics. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/4e4jayrstw2f94k-kb2kh monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/aac041e1-112f-4264-94fb-477ff8d008d0/81oHlKd07fL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - We refuse: A forceful history of black resistance By Kellie Carter Jackson A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy. Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. The dismissal of “Black violence” as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supremacy, a distraction from the insidious, unrelenting violence of structural racism. Force—from work stoppages and property destruction to armed revolt—has played a pivotal part in securing freedom and justice for Black people since the days of the American and Haitian Revolutions. But violence is only one tool among many. Carter Jackson examines other, no less vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle, from the restorative power of finding joy in the face of suffering to the quiet strength of simply walking away. Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-ssjbd-35kla-m6fg2-zx5w5-d3fg7 monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/884e87f0-0ad3-41cc-a69b-28cae2869689/71uTwG4BF2L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - The end of love: racism, sexism, and the death of romance By Sabrina Strings From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and “insufficiently white” women More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what they are looking for in a steady partner, they’ll often rely on superficial norms of attractiveness rooted in whiteness and anti-Blackness. Connecting the past to the present, sociologist Sabrina Strings argues that following the Civil Rights movement and the integration of women during the Second Wave Feminist movement, men aimed to hold on to their power by withholding love and commitment, a basic tenet of white supremacy and male domination, that served to manipulate all women. From pornography to hip hop, women—especially Black and “insufficiently white” women—were presented as gold diggers, props for masturbation, and side-pieces. Using historical research, personal stories, and critical analysis, Strings argues that the result is fuccboism, the latest incarnation of toxic masculinity. This work shows that men are not innately “toxic.” Nor do they hate love, commitment, or sex. Instead, men across race have been working a new code to effectively deny loving partnerships to women who are not pliant, slim, and white as a new mode of male domination. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-ssjbd-35kla-m6fg2-zx5w5 monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1382bf2d-414f-429b-bbe2-01f91c78b968/81tD0kS6ydL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People By Tiya Miles From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero—the woman who, despite being barely five feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-ssjbd-35kla-m6fg2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/a1e80146-9eb1-4449-adb1-80736bee3272/91454jjgQ3L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free By Tricia Rose The definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism’s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled. In Metaracism, pioneering scholar Tricia Rose cuts through the noise with a bracing and invaluable new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works, and how we can fight back. She reveals how—from housing to education to criminal justice—an array of policies and practices connect and interact to produce an even more devastating “metaracism” far worse than the sum of its parts. While these systemic connections can be difficult to see—and are often portrayed as “color-blind”—again and again they function to disproportionately contain, exploit, and punish Black people. By helping us to comprehend systemic racism’s inner workings and destructive impacts, Metaracism shows us also how to break free—and how to create a more just America for us all. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-ssjbd monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/194357f9-15eb-4921-90d8-f1992c2424ae/IMG_4145.jpeg All Books Feed - A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune By Noliwe Rooks An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation When Mary MacLeod Bethune died, many of the tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the “Mount Rushmore” of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol, and yet for most Americans, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey towards a freer and more just nation. Any serious effort to understand how the Black Civil Rights generation found role models, vision, and inspiration during their midcentury struggle for political power must place Bethune at its heart. Her success was unlikely: the 15th of 17 children and the first born into freedom, Bethune survived brutal poverty and caste subordination to become the first in her family to learn to read and to attend college. She gave that same gift to others when in 1904, at age 29, Bethune welcomed her first class of five girls to the Daytona, Florida school she herself had founded. In short order, the school enrolled hundreds of children and eventually would become the university that bears her name to this day. Bethune saw education as an essential dimension of the larger struggle for freedom, vitally connected to the vote and to economic self-sufficiency. She played a big game, and a long game, enrolling Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other powerful leaders in her cause. Rooks grew up in Florida, in Bethune's shadow: her grandparents trained to be teachers at Bethune-Cookman University, and her family vacationed at the all-Black beach that Bethune helped found in one of her many entrepreneurial projects for the community. The story of how—in a state with some of the highest lynching rates in the country—Bethune carved out so much space, and how she catapulted from there onto the national stage, is, in Rooks’ hands, a moving and astonishing example of the power of a will and a vision that had few equals. Now, when the gains and losses in the long struggle for full Black equality in this country feel particularly near—and centered on the state of Florida—it is an enormous gift to have this brilliant and lyrical reckoning with Bethune’s journey from one of our own great educators and scholars of that same struggle. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/c71f1d74-5779-490c-b1b3-aa52dbc0d9d0/61gR3ytXjiL._SL1200_.jpg All Books Feed - what we’ve become: living and dying in a country of arms By Jonathan Metzl When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a nearby Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the approach he championed have it all wrong? Long a leading expert at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Dr. Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. Increasingly, as Dr. Metzl came to understand it, public health is a harder sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free. This brilliant, piercing analysis shows mass shootings as a symptom of our most unresolved national conflicts. What We've Become ultimately sets us on the path of alliance-forging, racial-reckoning, and political power-brokering we must take to put things right. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/6e867ecc-1545-45cf-8787-f080761499fe/81mJO7p5XNL.jpg All Books Feed - South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation By Imani Perry “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson A Most Anticipated Book From: The New York Times • TIME • Oprah Daily • Vulture • Essence • Esquire • W Magazine • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • PopSugar • Book Riot • Chicago Review of Books •Electric Literature • Lit Hub An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life. Weaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/4e4jayrstw2f94k-kb2kh-nbayz monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/8440bda9-ea52-45f9-97fd-ae81c5a235c5/81%2BRfC-b3iL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - VENGEANCE FEMINISM: THE POWER OF BLACK WOMEN’S FURY IN LAWLESS TIMES By Kali Nicole Gross From an award-winning historian, an alternative model of feminism driven by the legacy of Black women who took justice into their own hands. So often failed by the state, demeaned by racism and sexism, and denied respectable means of redress, Black women have nevertheless patiently resisted myriad injustices. Yet history shows an alternative path. It involved razors, pistols, hatchets, and blackjacks, and playacting for courts and reporters—whatever it took to beat the system. In a world where Black women are castigated and caricatured for being angry, Vengeance Feminism tells the story of those who leaned into their fury, crafting a different kind of ideology that scratched and stabbed and sometimes even succeeded. Vengeance Feminism is about the Black women who hit back—not always figuratively, and not necessarily nobly either. Weaving together historical narrative with Black feminist analysis, Gross illuminates the stories of Black women who fought for their dignity on their own terms, from the nineteenth-century “badger thieves” who robbed men on the streets of Philadelphia to victims of intimate partner violence who defended their honor and bodily autonomy with deadly force. Reckoning with women who lied, robbed, and cheated a racist, misogynistic world, Vengeance Feminism grapples with the volatile power of violence in pursuit of racial and gender justice. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-wm6zm monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/5881f418-79ef-44da-b21a-028160271af4/81AhMde7NBL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - CALL ME IGGY By Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito dead, but he also gives terrible love advice. The worst. And so, with his ghost abuelito's meddling, Iggy's life begins to unravel as he sets off on a journey of self-discovery. Call me Iggy tells the story of Iggy searching for his place in his family, his school, his community, and ultimately―as the political climate in America changes during the 2016 election―his country. Focusing on familial ties and budding love, Call me Iggy challenges our assumptions about Latino-American identity while reaffirming our belief in the hope that all young people represent. Perfect for lovers of multigenerational stories like Displacement and The Magic Fish. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/4e4jayrstw2f94k monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/63e2c59d-d0eb-452c-8ce1-986ec19b0da2/71FmvM8yyPL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood By Gretchen Sisson A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished features the in-depth testimonies of American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k monthly 0.5 2024-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672862954-DZJ7ZTENZKK7UMDUNKRF/1.+Adult+-+Read+Until+You+Understand.jpeg All Books Feed - Read Until You Understand By Farah Jasmine Griffin Farah Jasmine Griffin’s beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand―a line from a note he wrote to her―she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that framed the US Constitution and that inspired Malcolm X’s fervent speeches, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison, the artistry of Romare Bearden, and many others. Having taught a popular Columbia University survey course of Black literature, she explores themes such as grace, justice, rage, self-determination, beauty, and mercy to help readers grapple with the ongoing project that is American democracy. Joining her experiences in Black communities with her immersion in the glorious works of Black artists, Read Until You Understand is a powerful testament to the enduring wisdom of Black culture and history. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-x43x4 monthly 0.5 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/17b77825-3c66-4105-8210-88cbe6ffddee/71798P1KmNL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - REpresent: The unfinished fight for the vote By Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau Learn about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau. One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is an ongoing and epic quest to build the democracy sketched out in the Constitution but unfinished in the twenty-first century. With impeccable research and exhilarating prose, Represent tells the story of voting rights in the United States from the American Revolution up to the present day. Each chapter takes on a new battle between the forces of people power and forces opposed to it. Listeners will meet champions of freedom, including formerly enslaved revolutionaries, a Chinese American teenager, a Lakota Sioux activist, Black World War II veterans, a Mexican American student, and others who fought for their right to vote. Drawing clear lines from then to now, Represent weaves this important struggle into a single American drama that will help listeners understand our past, present, and future. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-j5awc-jskbe monthly 0.5 2024-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/8b3265f5-0895-47e2-b9b7-568855e85c14/61q8SmxbkVL.jpg All Books Feed - Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change By Brittney Cooper From the New York Times bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundbreaking picture book debut introducing young readers to ten revolutionary Black women -- both historical and contemporary -- who changed the world for the better, inspiring readers today to know their strength, to be brave, and to STAND UP! “A breakthrough... this force of nature is becoming one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African-American thinkers.” -- Essence Bestselling author Brittney Cooper is a leading Black feminist voice of our times. From her New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage, selected by Emma Watson as an "Our Shared Shelf Book," to her frequent guest appearances on MSNBC, to her regular features on Cosmopolitan.com and Salon.com, and her TED Talk with over 800K views, there's no question Brittney Cooper is one of the most preeminent Black influencers of today. Now, this author, professor, activist, and cultural critic brings her immense talents to the children's space with a seven-title publishing deal at Scholastic, spanning from picture books to middle grade, and launching with this momentous picture book debut: Stand Up! Stand Up! tells the story of ten historic female figures who changed the world by standing up for what's right, including legendary Civil Rights activists like Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks and spanning to contemporary role models like Bree Newsome, who removed the confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds, and Mari Copeny, a youth activist who fought for clean water in Flint, Michigan. This inspirational biographical collection will live side by side with bestselling classics like Little Leaders and She Persistedyet offers a wholly original, powerful new voice and approach that make this story so singular, personal, and groundbreaking. Cooper's enlightening text depicts both famous and unsung Black women who took a stand and made the world a better place for future generations. Each heroic figure is interconnected by a united quest for equity, and offers young readers a stirring, inspirational call to action, reminding them that they are mighty too, and can be forces for change when they stand up! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-y775h monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/a08dd938-163a-4497-80f7-51231e19ccaa/61U1n5iqgoL._SL1200_.jpg All Books Feed - black folk: the roots of the black working class By Blair Kelley An award-winning historian illuminates the adversities and joys of the Black working class in America through a stunning narrative centered on her forebears. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years―from one of Kelley’s earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic―Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn’t want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision and largely beyond white knowledge. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights. As her narrative moves from Georgia to Philadelphia, Florida to Chicago, Texas to Oakland, Kelley treats Black workers not just as laborers, or members of a class, or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered―to themselves, to their communities, and to a nation that denied that basic fact. Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather, a sharecropper named Solicitor, and her grandmother, Brunell, who worked for more than a decade as a domestic maid, Kelley captures, in intimate detail, how generation after generation of labor was required to improve, and at times maintain, her family’s status. Yet her family, like so many others, was always animated by a vision of a better future. The church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as Kelley suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes can be the same today. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/24e8961f-532b-4780-8668-9837f9b59886/91R2jb1%2BCNL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - the simple art of rice: recipes from around the world for the heart of your table By JJ Johnson and Danica Novgorodoff From award-winning author and acclaimed chef JJ Johnson comes a cookbook full of delicious recipes that celebrate the history and versatility one of the world's essential foods. The Simple Art of Rice is a celebration of rice and the many cultures in which this life-giving grain takes pride of place at the center of every table. The recipes are influenced by these global flavors from Asia to Europe, Africa to the Americas, and feature many of the world's favorite dishes. With Danica Novgorodoff, award-winning author Chef JJ Johnson takes readers on an informative and exciting culinary adventure that will help anyone master the art of cooking rice. From iconic savory dishes like Liberian Jollof and Poppy William's Red Rice and Beans to sweet finishes like Champorado, The Simple Art of Rice has a rice dish for every kind of meal and occasion, including nourishing comfort foods and dishes that can be made quickly to transform a weeknight dinner into a feast. The book also features a fool-proof method for turning out perfect rice every time, as well as fascinating information on the role that rice has played in culture and history. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8 monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/885c7654-3853-4f6a-ac64-ac73c93d5bf7/91My5RL0L9L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - our secret society: mollie moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement By Tanisha Ford An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous event rivalling today’s Met Gala, drawing America’s wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie’s larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who’s Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today’s activists can emulate. Our Secret Society includes 16 pages of never-before-seen photographs. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/99c15d1b-a142-4e71-bad1-bdcddd67c8a7/617OK8g5K3L._SL1200_.jpg All Books Feed - Wild girls: how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation By Tiya Miles An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs. This beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races―and the landscapes they loved―at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness, and vision. For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them―and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/d043ccfc-bb0a-4b06-9f98-a7c608e36065/61mwkEAuvaL._SL1200_.jpg All Books Feed - Before the movement: the hidden history of black civil rights By Dylan Penningroth The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn’t join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement. In Before the Movement, acclaimed historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. They dealt constantly with the laws of property, contract, inheritance, marriage and divorce, of associations (like churches and businesses and activist groups), and more. By exercising these “rights of everyday use,” Penningroth demonstrates, they made Black rights seem unremarkable. And in innumerable subtle ways, they helped shape the law itself―the laws all of us live under today. Penningroth’s narrative, which stretches from the last decades of slavery to the 1970s, partly traces the history of his own family. Challenging accepted understandings of Black history framed by relations with white people, he puts Black people at the center of the story―their loves and anger and loneliness, their efforts to stay afloat, their mistakes and embarrassments, their fights, their ideas, their hopes and disappointments, in all their messy humanness. Before the Movement is an account of Black legal lives that looks beyond the Constitution and the criminal justice system to recover a rich, broader vision of Black life―a vision allied with, yet distinct from, “the freedom struggle.” https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6 monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/53f45af3-c7e6-4a5f-835c-0492fbeb5be1/81nvG9m9e5L._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - ATTACked!: pearl harbor and the day war came to america By Marc Favreau The true story of Pearl Harbor as you’ve never read it before—action-packed, informative, and told through the eyes of a diverse group of people who experienced the terror of the unprecedented attack firsthand. A single day changed the course of history: December 7, 1941. Nobody in America knew Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. Nobody was prepared for the aftermath. It became a defining moment from which the country never truly recovered. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman, this unflinching narrative puts readers on the ground in Pearl Harbor through the stories of real people who experienced the attack and its aftereffects. It alternates between the sweeping views and fateful decisions of leaders such as FDR and on-the-ground accounts from soldiers and sailors of all backgrounds as well as an array of other unique participants and observers. Attacked! sheds new, compelling light onto a history we think we know, what it means to be American, and the enduring lessons from an event we never saw coming. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35-yylya-rebkp-hzxbb-9ppmh-g9gk8-tj7wk-taht6-ma5e5-78ytw monthly 0.5 2023-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/5cb235d2-c116-4921-afff-c951c6298c73/91cWjCHO9uL._SL1500_.jpg All Books Feed - CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora By Creative Soul Photography NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty, comes CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora. Filled with visual magic and storytelling wonder, these stories reimagine our favorite and most beloved childhood fairy tales and folktales to encourage creativity, empower imagination, and foster self-esteem. With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Salamishah Tillet Revisit beloved classics, but with a twist, such as The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, The Poisoned Apple, and find new favorites with stories created especially for the collection: Anansi and the Three Trials, Aku the Sun Maker, How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, The Legend of Princess Yennenga, and John Henry, the Steel-Drivin' Man. A gift that will keep giving, CROWNED is a joyous celebration of Black beauty, determination, and imagination and a must-have for children and parents everywhere. "Once again CreativeSoul Photography captures the beauty, innocence, and magic of black children. This is the book I've been waiting to give my grandchildren. It is a wonder of storytelling and imagery." ― Michael Eric Dyson https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-y3p35 monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/0ee9ea6d-f7e7-4cd3-8cdb-17f22fb1216f/9E07668D-1CD6-41EF-A376-23039C6B7289.jpeg All Books Feed - they want to kill americans By Malcolm Nance NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA TODAY AND GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author, Malcolm Nance, offers a chilling warning on a clear, present and existential threat to our democracy… our fellow Americans “Malcolm Nance is one of the great unsung national security geniuses of the modern era." ―Rachel Maddow They Want to Kill Americans is the first detailed look into the heart of the active Trump-led insurgency, setting the stage for a second nation-wide rebellion on American soil. This is a chilling and deeply researched early warning to the nation from a counterterrorism intelligence professional: America is primed for a possible explosive wave of terrorist attacks and armed confrontations that aim to bring about a Donald Trump led dictatorship. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5 monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/2c2e16c5-0214-47a8-b0cf-f5b117f94151/717X28hc9YL.jpg All Books Feed - The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide By Steven Thrasher "An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world." ―Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36 monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/d044dc01-0bcf-48a3-b350-fcf26296563e/91EGVSq5LOL.jpg All Books Feed - Accidental Czar By Andrew S. Weiss This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer to the autocratic leader of Russia and reveals the truth behind the strongman persona he has spent his career cultivating. In the West’s collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin’s tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian “Box” Brown show how Putin has successfully cast himself as a cunning, larger-than-life political mastermind―and how the rest of the world has played into the Kremlin’s hands by treating him as one. They shatter all of these myths and expose the man behind the façade. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/e064e61c-acac-4262-a6fe-769b22fe3dc2/Screen+Shot+2022-01-25+at+12.02.49+AM.png All Books Feed - entertaining race By Micheal Eric Dyson From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop "Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today." —Speaker Nancy Pelosi "To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest until all are set free." —Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson’s career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these pages, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson. Most of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America’s most important and enduring voices. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-25p82 monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/54de7695-d52b-4f63-bb2e-24ce7156c9a2/Screen+Shot+2022-01-25+at+12.38.46+AM.png All Books Feed - All That she Carrie: The journey of Ashley’s Sack, a black family keepsake By Tiya Miles NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives. KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist “Deeply layered and insightful . . . [a] bold reflection on American history, African American resilience, and the human capacity for love and perseverance in the face of soul-crushing madness.”—The Washington Post “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley’s survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language—including Rose’s wish that “It be filled with my Love always.” Ruth’s sewn words, the reason we remember Ashley’s sack today, evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. Now, in this illuminating, deeply moving book inspired by Rose’s gift to Ashley, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women’s faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives—and the lives of so many women like them—to write a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. The search to uncover this history is part of the story itself. For where the historical record falls short of capturing Rose’s, Ashley’s, and Ruth’s full lives, Miles turns to objects and to art as equally important sources, assembling a chorus of women’s and families’ stories and critiquing the scant archives that for decades have overlooked so many. The contents of Ashley’s sack—a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, “my Love always”—are eloquent evidence of the lives these women lived. As she follows Ashley’s journey, Miles metaphorically unpacks the bag, deepening its emotional resonance and exploring the meanings and significance of everything it contained. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and of love passed down through generations of women against steep odds. It honors the creativity and fierce resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties even when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma monthly 0.5 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1630542490933-E4S6KSWF7K6HFDPSWOXH/71zOs87BdCL.jpg All Books Feed - Manu By Kelly Fernández Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu and her best friend, Josefina, live at a magical school for girls, and Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress believes that Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fall in line. One day, a prank goes seriously wrong, and Josefina gets angry and wishes for Manu's magic to disappear... and it does. Manu uses a dangerous spell to restore it, but it makes her magic too powerful and nearly impossible to control. Great power comes at a cost, and it may be a price that Manu isn't able to pay! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2 monthly 0.5 2023-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629327702279-WGTHAHUSUM7EZKXH2BTK/71J5jEkpQbL.jpg All Books Feed - Out of my heart By Sharon Draper Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind. Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps for differently-abled kids like her, and she’s going to sleuth one out. A place where she can trek through a forest, fly on a zip line, and even ride on a horse! A place where maybe she really can finally make a real friend, make her own decisions, and even do things on her own—the dream! By the light of flickering campfires and the power of thunderstorms, through the terror of unexpected creatures in cabins and the first sparkle of a crush, Melody’s about to discover how brave and strong she really is. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8 monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629253779929-XF6LV3Y4U64ZW94SP6W6/91k1tSAS7uL.jpg All Books Feed - the me i choose to be By Creative Soul Photography What will you choose to be? A free spirit? A weaver of words? A star dancing across the night sky? A limitless galaxy? The possibilities are endless in this uplifting ode to the power of potential. With lyrical text by bestselling author Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and images by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt—the team behind CreativeSoul Photography—each page of The Me I Choose To Be is an immersive call for self-love and highlights the inherent beauty of all Black and brown children. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629255569020-CQGGUHHJY3NU1H4UPTBD/71bohzshkuL.jpg All Books Feed - Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood By Brittney Cooper Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world better: Feminist AF uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today’s young womxn. What do you do when you feel like your natural hair is ugly, or when classmates keep touching it? How do you handle your self-confidence if your family or culture prizes fair-skinned womxn over darker-skinned ones? How do you balance your identities if you’re an immigrant or the child of immigrants? How do you dress and present yourself in ways that feel good when society condemns anything outside of the norm? Covering colorism and politics, romance and pleasure, code switching, and sexual violence, Feminist AF is the empowering guide to living your feminism out loud. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-75wnk-6hw36-jjx7w-68nk5-xchhb monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/b9ff9adf-31d5-4fe7-85f0-dbfe841ee143/m7bf.jpeg All Books Feed - My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole By Will Jawando "Will Jawando's account of mentorship, service, and healing lays waste to the racist stereotype of the absent Black father. By arguing that Black fathers are not just found in individual families, but are indeed the treasure of entire Black communities, Will makes the case for a bold idea: that Black men can counter racist ideas and policies by virtue of their presence in the lives of Black boys and young men. This is a story we need to hear." ―Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Eventually, he became close to Kalfani, a kid he looked up to on the basketball court. Years after he got the call telling him that Kalfani was dead, another sickening casualty of gun violence, Will looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive. Among them were Mr. Williams, the rare Black male grade school teacher, who found a way to bolster Will’s self-esteem when he discovered he was being bullied; Jay Fletcher, the openly gay colleague of his mother who got him off junk food and took him to his first play; Mr. Holmes, the high school coach and chorus director who saw him through a crushing disappointment; Deen Sanwoola, the businessman who helped him bridge the gap between his American upbringing and his Nigerian heritage, eventually leading to a dramatic reconciliation with his biological father; and President Barack Obama, who made Will his associate director of public engagement at the White House―and who invited him to play basketball on more than one occasion. Without the influence of these men, Will knows he would not be who he is today: a civil rights and education policy attorney, a civic leader, a husband, and a father. Drawing on Will’s inspiring personal story and involvement in My Brother’s Keeper, President Obama’s national initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color, My Seven Black Fathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2-9d8tp-xwhxm-lnya8-aezm5 monthly 0.5 2022-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672282428-GARCFTG94G0W0WP1ZTXD/6.+Adult+-+Promise+That+You+Will+Sing+About+Me.jpg All Books Feed - Promise That You Will Sing About ME By Miles Marshall Lewis Kendrick Lamar is one of the most influential rappers, songwriters and record producers of his generation. Widely known for his incredible lyrics and powerful music, he is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Promise That You Will Sing About Me explores Kendrick Lamar's life, his roots, his music, his lyrics, and how he has shaped the musical landscape of this generation. With incredible graphic design, quotes, lyrics and commentary from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza and more, this book provides an in-depth look at how Kendrick came to be who he is today, his world, how he creates his lyrics and music, and how he revolutionizes the music industry from the inside. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/what-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-blacker monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627671889777-QAGYGVT6ZYIEURWUCYCX/10.+Adult+-+What+Doesn%27t+Kill+You.jpeg All Books Feed - What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in essays By Damon Young From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It’s a condition that’s sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the “being straight” thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to “Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies.” And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el-ymrma-btt68 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1630544133729-EDBS7XBBBBA1JHF9W5T3/81KK7YFbJNL.jpg All Books Feed - Tiny Dancer By Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark Siegel A teenage ballet dancer struggles to find her next step, and her place in the world, in this exquisite graphic memoir—a follow-up to the Sibert Honor–winning To Dance. All her life, Siena has dreamed of being a ballerina. Her love of movement and dedication to the craft earned her a spot at the School of American Ballet, with hopes of becoming a member of George Balanchine’s world-famous New York City Ballet company. Siena has worked hard for many years to be a professional ballet dancer, but injury and doubt are starting to take their toll. Maybe it’s time to look beyond the world of dance—but Siena’s whole identity has been shaped by ballet. When you have spent your entire life working toward something, how do you figure out what comes next? And how do you figure out who you are without the thing that defined you? This is a moving and beautifully drawn memoir of a dancer struggling to find her next step—and a young woman finding her true footing in the world. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-gj7el monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1630541111228-Z44ZJ6OSQWMNJS59N0F3/91XsvnOCvoS.jpg All Books Feed - The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth By Ian Lendler The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo... until the gates shut at night. That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart. Also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails, in The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth. Ian Lendler's hilarious tale of after-hours animal stagecraft is perfectly paired with the adorable, accessible artwork of Zack Giallongo (Broxo, Ewoks). And with Romeo and Juliet coming in book two, this is a promising new series of graphic novels for young readers. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2-9d8tp monthly 0.5 2022-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672580687-JI15KUS1GMGB4CASRDUA/3.+Adult+-+The+Were+Her+Property.jpg All Books Feed - They Were Her Property By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Published by Yale University Press A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2-9d8tp-xwhxm-lnya8 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672368027-66BS1GNTIGA5JIEIUV2M/5.+Adult+-+Eloquent+Rage.jpeg All Books Feed - Eloquent Rage By Brittney Cooper Published by St. Martin's Press An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Mashable • The Atlantic •Bustle • The Root • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility." America Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.” Michael Eric Dyson: “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today...and she will make you laugh out loud.” So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. But homegirls emerge as heroes. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour • Chicago Reader • Bustle • Autostraddle https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/the-rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672191693-IHVWDMGGETISZOJU2HYL/7.+Adult+-+The+Rage+of+Innocence.jpeg All Books Feed - The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth By Kristin Henning A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse by police Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism and trauma that they experience at the hands of police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/the-rage-of-innocence-how-america-criminalizes-black-youth-sz97j monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672160766-92LTCLPHSZC7FFTOG5UK/8.+Children%27s+-+Dad+Bakes.jpeg All Books Feed - Dad Bakes By Katie Yamasaki Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book is an intimate and tender story of the love between a father and a daughter. Dad wakes early every morning before the sun, heading off to work at the bakery. He kneads, rolls, and bakes, and as the sun rises and the world starts its day, Dad heads home to his young daughter. Together they play, read, garden, and―most importantly―they bake. This lovely, resonant picture book was inspired by muralist Katie Yamasaki’s work with formerly incarcerated people. With subtle, uncluttered storytelling amplified by her monumental and heartfelt paintings, she has created a powerful story of love, of family, and of reclaiming a life with joy. Full color throughout. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627675840165-KPJP9CSY590HESE1H4DJ/15.+Adult+-+Long+Time+Coming.jpeg All Books Feed - Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America By Michael Eric Dyson https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/yowk8qfjv1b9lpw5y5riq25hdc3sog monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627673386150-03P2YQUIV1RFKN7GDKPM/11.+Adult+-+Looking+for+Lorraine.jpg All Books Feed - Looking for Lorraine By Imani Perry Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627674885585-NQN573VUYZGK65CR3PQK/12.+Adult+-Glory.jpg All Books Feed - GLORY By Kahran and Regis Bethencourt Published by St. Martin's Press From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about the children. At its heart, it is a recognition and celebration of the versatility and innate beauty of black hair, and black beauty. The glorious coffee-table book pays homage to the story of our royal past, celebrates the glory of the here and now, and even dares to forecast the future. It brings to life past, present, and future visions of black culture and showcases the power and beauty of recognizing and celebrating oneself. Beauty as an expression of who you are is power. When we define our own standards of beauty, we take back that power. GLORY encourages children around the world to feel that power and harness it. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627675082106-BW6P7GBYRQMHZOD7N2I5/13.+Adult+-+Christians+Against+Christianity.jpg All Books Feed - CHRISTIANS AGAINST CHRISTIANITY: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith By Obery M. Hendricks Jr. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627675223329-45R5XY1KJXFETTGEGP9V/14.+Adult+-+One+Drop.jpeg All Books Feed - One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race By Yaba Blay Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is Black and who is not? Who’s Black, who’s not, and who cares? In the United States, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as “the rule of hypodescent,” this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the “one-drop rule,” meaning that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law in almost all southern states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. Has the social and political landscape changed one hundred years later? One Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They have all had their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical “Black box”—dark skin, “kinky” hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked “What are you?” or the more politically correct “Where are you from?” throughout their lives. It is through contributors’ lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627675950651-ETGL8PEED4DYN68LZEYR/16.+Adult+-+Syllabus.jpg All Books Feed - Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything By William Germano and Kat Nicholls How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn Generations of teachers have built their classes around the course syllabus, a semester-long contract that spells out what each class meeting will focus on (readings, problem sets, case studies, experiments), and what the student has to turn in by a given date. But what does that way of thinking about the syllabus leave out―about our teaching and, more importantly, about our students’ learning? In Syllabus, William Germano and Kit Nicholls take a fresh look at this essential but almost invisible bureaucratic document and use it as a starting point for rethinking what students―and teachers―do. What if a teacher built a semester’s worth of teaching and learning backward―starting from what students need to learn to do by the end of the term, and only then selecting and arranging the material students need to study? Thinking through the lived moments of classroom engagement―what the authors call “coursetime”―becomes a way of striking a balance between improv and order. With fresh insights and concrete suggestions, Syllabus shifts the focus away from the teacher to the work and growth of students, moving the classroom closer to the genuinely collaborative learning community we all want to create. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627677260491-WXWA35XM3FRTU1J7J2P6/25.+Adult+-+What+Truth+Sounds+Like.png All Books Feed - What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America By Michael Eric Dyson Published by St. Martin's Press NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune • Time •Publisher's Weekly A stunning follow up to New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop The Washington Post: "Passionately written." Chris Matthews, MSNBC: "A beautifully written book." Shaun King: “I kid you not–I think it’s the most important book I’ve read all year...” Harry Belafonte: “Dyson has finally written the book I always wanted to read...a tour de force.” Joy-Ann Reid: A work of searing prose and seminal brilliance... Dyson takes that once in a lifetime conversation between black excellence and pain and the white heroic narrative, and drives it right into the heart of our current politics and culture, leaving the reader reeling and reckoning." Robin D. G. Kelley: “Dyson masterfully refracts our present racial conflagration... he reminds us that Black artists and intellectuals bear an awesome responsibility to speak truth to power." President Barack Obama: "Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.” In 2015 BLM activist Julius Jones confronted Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an urgent query: “What in your heart has changed that’s going to change the direction of this country?” “I don’t believe you just change hearts,” she protested. “I believe you change laws.” The fraught conflict between conscience and politics – between morality and power – in addressing race hardly began with Clinton. An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized these furious disputes. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith’s relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry – that the black folk assembled didn’t understand politics, and that they weren’t as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King. But especially that they were more interested in witness than policy. But Kennedy’s anger quickly gave way to empathy, especially for Smith. “I guess if I were in his shoes…I might feel differently about this country.” Kennedy set about changing policy – the meeting having transformed his thinking in fundamental ways. There was more: every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. Smith declaring that he’d never fight for his country given its racist tendencies, and Kennedy being appalled at such lack of patriotism, tracks the disdain for black dissent in our own time. His belief that black folk were ungrateful for the Kennedys’ efforts to make things better shows up in our day as the charge that black folk wallow in the politics of ingratitude and victimhood. The contributions of black queer folk to racial progress still cause a stir. BLM has been accused of harboring a covert queer agenda. The immigrant experience, like that of Kennedy – versus the racial experience of Baldwin – is a cudgel to excoriate black folk for lacking hustle and ingenuity. The questioning of whether folk who are interracially partnered can authentically communicate black interests persists. And we grapple still with the responsibility of black intellectuals and artists to bring about social change. What Truth Sounds Like exists at the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and prophecy – of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to fix our fractured racial landscape. The future of race and democracy hang in the balance. Reviews “Passionately written...Dyson's larger purpose is to reflect on the relevance of the dynamic it represented ― speaking truth to power ― in the current racial and political climate. Singling out the cultural types represented in Baldwin’s delegation ― artists, intellectuals and activists ― Dyson devotes individual chapters to how examples of each bear witness to black struggle today. When it comes to artists (and athletes), Dyson invokes a sometimes dizzying array of pop-culture stars and phenomena, from Jay-Z and Beyoncé, to LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick, to “Hamilton” and “Black Panther.” ―The Washington Post "[An] exploration of persistent questions about race that appear today, starting with a 1963 meeting between Attorney General Robert Kennedy and black activists, including James Baldwin." ―Texarkana Gazette "Dyson’s much-recommended work puts forth the artists and activists who continue to celebrate blackness, offering a welcome reminder of the power of art to maintain dialog with and within America." ―Library Journal “Dyson delivers a piercing and wide-ranging analysis of American race relations. … a poignant take on still-festering racial tensions in the United States.” ―Publisher's Weekly "A moving ode to the potentiality of American social progress.” ―Booklist, starred review “[A]n incisive look at the roles of politicians, artists, intellectuals, and activists in confronting racial injustice and effecting change. An eloquent response to an urgent―and still-unresolved―dilemma.“ ―Kirkus Reviews “Michael Eric Dyson has finally written the book I always wanted to read. I had the privilege of attending the meeting he has insightfully written about, and it’s as if he were a fly on the wall. Not only does he capture the spirit and substance of our gathering, but he brilliantly teases out the implications of that historic encounter for us today. What Truth Sounds Like is a tour de force of intellectual history and cultural analysis, a poetically written work that calls on all of us to get back in that room and to resolve the racial crises we confronted more than fifty years ago.” ―Harry Belafonte "Dyson has produced a work of searing prose and seminal brilliance; a conversation that starts in a tony Manhattan apartment in 1963, where legendary black thinkers and performers confront race in the rawest terms with Bobby Kennedy, who stands in for a white America forced to lose its innocence and confront its demons. Dyson takes that once in a lifetime conversation between black excellence and pain and the white heroic narrative, and drives it right into the heart of our current politics and culture, leaving the reader reeling and reckoning. An essential book for anyone who cares about racial redemption in America." ―Joy-Ann Reid, MSNBC anchor and author of Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide “Dyson masterfully refracts our present racial conflagration through a subtle reading of one of the most consequential meetings about race to ever take place. In so doing, he reminds us that Black artists and intellectuals bear an awesome responsibility to speak truth to power." ―Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Anguish and hurt throb in every word of Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop...It is eloquent, righteous, and inspired...Often lyrical, Tears is not...without indignation...brilliance and rectitude." ―The Philadelphia Inquirer "Dyson...creates a sermon unlike any we've heard or read, and it's right on time...an unapologetically bold plea for America to own up to its inexplicable identity anxiety." ―Essence "[Dyson's] narrative voice carries a deeper and more intimate authority, as it grows from his own experience as a black man in America ― from being beaten by his father to being profiled by the police to dealing with his brother's long-term incarceration...Dyson's raw honesty and self-revelation enables him to confront his white audience and reach out to them." ―The Chicago Tribune "Be ready to pause nearly every other sentence, absorb what is said, and prepare for action. Tears We Cannot Stop is meant to change your thinking." ―The Miami Times "[Tears We Cannot Stop] talks directly to you, about issues deep, disturbing, and urgently in need of being faced." ―Philly.com “One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait. ―The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) "Impassioned." ―Library Journal "Readers will find searing moments in Tears We Cannot Stop, when Dyson's words proves unforgettable...But more than education, Dyson wants a reckoning." ―The Washington Post “Dyson lays bare our conscience, then offers redemption through our potential change.” ―Booklist "If you read Michael Eric Dyson’s New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," then you know what a powerful work of cultural analysis his book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is going to be. At a time when everyone needs to speak more openly, honestly, and critically about the racial divisions that have been allowed to grow in the United States, Dyson’s book ― available in January ― could not be a more welcome read." ―Bustle "A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide... The readership Dyson addresses may not fully be convinced, but it can hardly remain unmoved." ―Kirkus Reviews (Starred) "Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." ―Toni Morrison "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in a good way. This is how it works if you’re black in America, this is what happens, and this is how it feels. If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen." ―Stephen King "Michael Eric Dyson is alive to the fierce urgency of now and yet he's full of felicitous contradictions: an intellectual who won't talk down to anyone; a man of God who eschews piousness; a truth-teller who is not afraid of doubt or nuance; a fighter whose arguments, though always to the point, are never ad hominem. We can and should be thankful we have a writer like Michael Eric Dyson is our midst." ―Dave Eggers, from the preface of Can You Hear Me Now? https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676064898-5GE2IPRR13YAWLVPUQ1X/17.+Adult+-+From+Slave+Cabins+to+the+White+House.jpg All Books Feed - From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture By Koritha Mitchell https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676169341-WSIAROYJ09FN3XIID4TH/18.+Adult+-Breathe.jpg All Books Feed - Breathe: A Letter To My Sons By Imani Perry Published by Beacon Press Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love--finding beauty and possibility in life--and she exhorts her children and their peers to find the courage to chart their own paths and find steady footing and inspiration in Black tradition. Perry draws upon the ideas of figures such as James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Ida B. Wells. She shares vulnerabilities and insight from her own life and from encounters in places as varied as the West Side of Chicago; Birmingham, Alabama; and New England prep schools. With original art for the cover by Ekua Holmes, Breathe offers a broader meditation on race, gender, and the meaning of a life well lived and is also an unforgettable lesson in Black resistance and resilience. “Deeply cathartic and resonant for parents attempting to raise their children with intention and integrity. Imani Perry shows deep compassion for both parents and children . . . while incisively underlining the realities of raising Black boys in a country that will inherently betray them. It is a book filled with love and insight for difficult times.” —Tarana Burke “There are moments when a piece of writing is so honest, so personal, that it crawls into us . . . . Breathe is that. Perry gives us a look into what it means to love her children—her Black sons—in a world that may not. What it means to arm them with information, history, culture, spirit, pride, and joy. What it means to celebrate with them the vastness of their lineage and the tight network of community, which affords them an impenetrable freedom to be. To just . . . be. And as Perry gives this to her sons—her family—with such candor and respect, I couldn’t help but hear my own mother speaking her truth, our truth, to me.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the Track series: Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu “Perry urges her sons to hold history but not be hindered by it. She is determined that the dissonance that accompanies growing up young and black in this country is not destiny. This book is an honest examination of the contradictions that make us whole and human. Breathe is a love letter to and about us all.” —Phillip Agnew, codirector of the Dream Defenders “Imani Perry wants her young sons ‘to make beauty and love in a genocidal time.’ Bless them! And bless her, for this book is a wonderful model for doing just that! So much joy and caring and pain and rage distilled into soaring, striking sentences.” —Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana “Before reading Breathe, I knew that Imani Perry was the most important cultural worker in my professional life. But I had no idea that Imani Perry, or any writer in this country, could pull off what she pulls off in Breathe. More than any book I’ve read in the last twenty years, Breathe boldly reminds us that artful intentionality is not nearly as important as artful effectiveness, and artful effectiveness is shaped by the love a writer has for her intended audience. Somehow, Perry manages to mourn, celebrate, theorize, and welcome us into the space between, and around, this Black mother and her Black sons. Though the language here is different from all of Perry’s other work, the attentiveness to sustained analysis is even more apparent. One feels that Perry had to write her other five books to write this one, the smallest and ironically the most rigorous, personal, and soulful of all of her genius work. Breathe is the first book I’ve ever needed to read out loud with my mother.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: Am American Memoir “In Breathe, Perry offers a lyrical meditation that connects a painful, proud history of African American struggle with a clarion call for present-day action to protect, defend, and celebrate the promise of the next generation.” —Stacey Abrams, founder and chair of Fair Fight Action, Inc. “Breathe is at once a resplendent meditation on the labor and art of parenting and on the ‘special calling’ of mothering Black boys in America. By turns fierce and loving, intimate and erudite, and drawing with deep complexity on her Catholic theology and spirituality, Imani Perry interweaves the most universal of dreams and desires with the particular traumas of our world of ‘wild-eyed’ whiteness. In so doing she offers her sons—and all the rest of us, and our sons and daughters—a vision of human resilience and wholeness that could reframe and redeem this young century’s painful reckonings.” —Krista Tippett, founder and CEO, The On Being Project, and curator, The Civil Conversations Project “Beautifully written with brilliant insights that leap off the page, Breathe announces the arrival of Imani Perry as a literary force. With each sentence, Perry reveals her mastery of the genre of the essay and her vast knowledge of the tradition of African American letters. From that deep well, she offers her wisdom not only to her sons but for all of us. This is a must-read—especially in these dark times.” —Eddie S. Glaude Jr. “Breathe is what is says it is, a letter from a mother to her sons, but it is more than that. It’s a meditation on child-rearing, world-building, fire-starting, and peace-building. Imani Perry combines rigor and heart, and the result is a magic mirror showing us who we are, how we got here, and who we may become.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “Breathe is a masterpiece. With an approach that is at once vulnerable and brave, scholarly and artistic, critical and hopeful, Imani Perry has written the book that we desperately need. Breathe arms us with the wisdom, courage, and hope necessary to parent Black children within a White supremacist world. Breathe not only demonstrates Perry’s deep love of her sons but also her profound and abiding faith in the rich traditions, ambitious freedom dreams, and boundless possibilities of Black people. This is an offering of profound beauty and brilliance that marks Imani Perry’s emergence as the leading writer and thinker of this generation.” —Marc Lamont Hill https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6 monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629254142959-MHYWA4ZWEFRKSCPW35X9/91E4bwk1KaS.jpg All Books Feed - Heirs Wall Calendar 2022: Connecting a Vibrant Past to a Brilliant Future By Creative Soul Photography An empowering and timely tribute to Black children and creativity. Heirs is a collection of gorgeous images of Black children wearing clothing designs from Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, South Africa, and the United States. The looks are inspired by Maasai, Zulu, Ndebele, and Saburu traditions, and play with notions of royalty and power. Each month is an affirmation, deepened by quotes from modern-day heroes like Ella Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Maya Angelou. Heirs is a work of art for both children and adults that celebrates a vibrant past, and a brilliant future. Featuring the signature whimsy and style of photographers Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the husband-and-wife team behind Atlanta’s trailblazing CreativeSoul Photography, and authors of the recently published Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676402915-X4324G5MK92WOTKOM0UX/19.+Children%27s+-The+First+Dinosaur.jpeg All Books Feed - The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth By Ian Lendler Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books Join early scientists as they piece together one of humanity’s greatest puzzles—the fossilized bones of the first dinosaur! Dinosaurs existed. That’s a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before humans was unfathomable. People thought what we know as dinosaur bones were the bones of giant humans. Of large elephants. Of angels, even. So, how did we get from angel wings to the T-Rex? The First Dinosaur tells the story of the idea of dinosaurs, and the chain of fossil discoveries and advances in science that led to that idea. Be prepared to meet eccentric men and overlooked women who uncovered the pieces to a puzzle so much bigger than themselves, a puzzle far stranger and more spectacular than they could have ever imagined. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676566772-DF6VHJ5O5Q1V8CZ2R5C6/20.+Adult+-+How+We+Fight+White+Supremacy.jpeg All Books Feed - How We Fight White SupremacY: A Field guide to black resistance By Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin Published by Bold Type Books This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As Colorlines editors Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin show, Black Americans subvert and resist life-threatening forces as a matter of course. In these pages, leading organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers offer wisdom on how they fight White supremacy. It's a must-read for anyone new to resistance work, and for the next generation of leaders building a better future. Featuring contributions from: Ta-Nehisi Coates Tarana Burke Harry Belafonte adrienne maree brown Alicia Garza Patrisse Khan-Cullors Reverend Dr. Valerie Bridgeman Kiese Laymon Jamilah Lemieux Robin DG Kelley Damon Young Michael Arceneaux Hanif Abdurraqib Dr. Yaba Blay Diamond Stingily Amanda Seales Imani Perry Denene Millner Kierna Mayo John Jennings Dr. Joy Harden Bradford Tongo Eisen-Martin https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676715816-UM6M66CDLHVPBXGYJQ7S/21.+Children%27s+-+Everything+Naomi+Loved.jpg All Books Feed - Everything Naomi Loved By Katie Yamasaki & Ian Lendler https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676908465-OPY359TTMWECGXOUKFC7/22.+Adult+-+Anti-Racism.jpg All Books Feed - Anti-Racism (Words of Change series): Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas By Kenrya Rankin https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627676977797-VZKY24XD30278JDZGFG4/23.+Adult+-+A+More+Perfect+Union.jpg All Books Feed - A More Perfect Reunion By Calvin Baker Published by Bold Type Books A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves by incremental progress instead of by how far we have to go. But fifty years after the last meaningful effort toward civil rights, the US remains overwhelmingly segregated and unjust. Our current solutions-diversity, representation, and desegregation-are not enough. As acclaimed writer Calvin Baker argues in this bracing, necessary book, we first need to envision a society no longer defined by the structures of race in order to create one. The only meaningful remedy is integration: the full self-determination and participation of all African-Americans, and all other oppressed groups, in every facet of national life. This is the deepest threat to the racial order and the real goal of civil rights. At once a profound, masterful reading of US history from the colonial era forward and a trenchant critique of the obstacles in our current political and cultural moment, A More Perfect Reunion is also a call to action. As Baker reminds us, we live in a revolutionary democracy. We are one of the best-positioned generations in history to finish that revolution. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627677112291-Y2EIM1T8VMLB23JJQFS9/24.+Adult+-+Dressed+in+Dreams.jpeg All Books Feed - Dressed in Dreams": A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion By Tanisha C. Ford Published by St. Martin's Press From sneakers to leather jackets, a bold, witty, and deeply personal dive into Black America's closet In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. The history of these garments is deeply intertwined with Ford’s story as a black girl coming of age in a Midwestern rust belt city. She experimented with the Jheri curl; discovered how wearing the wrong color tennis shoes at the roller rink during the drug and gang wars of the 1980s could get you beaten; and rocked oversized, brightly colored jeans and Timberlands at an elite boarding school where the white upper crust wore conservative wool shift dresses. Dressed in Dreams is a story of desire, access, conformity, and black innovation that explains things like the importance of knockoff culture; the role of “ghetto fabulous” full-length furs and colorful leather in the 1990s; how black girls make magic out of a dollar store t-shirt, rhinestones, and airbrushed paint; and black parents' emphasis on dressing nice. Ford talks about the pain of seeing black style appropriated by the mainstream fashion industry and fashion’s power, especially in middle America. In this richly evocative narrative, she shares her lifelong fashion revolution―from figuring out her own personal style to discovering what makes Midwestern fashion a real thing too. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627677974376-GUEE07MB3SZDYKP14UNM/26.+Adult+-+Jay-Z.jpeg All Books Feed - Jay Z: Made in America By Michael Eric Dyson Published by St. Martin's Press JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he’s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he’s been for so long. This book wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z's career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth and social injustice. As he enters his fifties, and to mark his thirty years as a recording artist, this is the perfect time to take a look at JAY-Z’s career and his role in making this nation what it is today. In many ways, this is JAY-Z’s America as much as it’s Pelosi’s America, or Trump’s America, or Martin Luther King’s America. JAY-Z has given this country a language to think with and words to live by. Featuring a Foreword by Pharrell. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627678107353-UGNK224IRE1DEI46NYX9/27.+Graphic+-+5+Worlds.jpeg All Books Feed - 5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem By Mark Siegel, Alexis Siegel, Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boya Sun Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! Kazu Kibuishi (AMULET) says this graphic novel adventure is "a magical journey, as fun as it is beautiful!" In book 4, Oona Lee arrives on Salassandra determined to light the yellow beacon and continue her quest to save the Five Worlds from the evil Mimic's influence. But the beacon is encased in amber! An ancient clue says that Oona and her friends must seek out the Amber Anthem to succeed. Meanwhile, Stan Moon sends an evil Jax robot to assassinate Oona and hunts down An Tzu himself. Turns out, as An Tzu fades away from his Vanishing Illness, he's becoming someone else--someone who could tip the scales in the battle for the Five Worlds! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627678669769-TA3J1VJS1XMJ7YI75SQ2/28.+Adult+-+The+Shadow+System.jpg All Books Feed - The Shadow System By Sylvia A. Harvey Published by Bold Type Books A searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter despite a sentence of life without parole. In Kentucky, where the opioid epidemic has led to the increased incarceration of women, many of whom are white, one mother fights for custody of her children. In Mississippi, a wife steels herself for her husband's thirty-ninth year in prison and does her best to keep their sons close. Through these stories, Harvey reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families -- from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to astronomical charges for brief phone calls. The Shadow System is an eye-opening account of the way incarceration has impacted generations of American families; it delivers a galvanizing clarion call to fix this broken system. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627679279814-R6G8XNKS4IVDOR4LFKRX/29.+Children%27s+-+Spies.jpeg All Books Feed - Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia By Marc Favreau Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers A thrilling account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for readers of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler. The Cold War spanned five decades as America and the USSR engaged in a battle of ideologies with global ramifications. Over the course of the war, with the threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction looming, billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were devoted to the art and practice of spying, ensuring that the world would never be the same. Rife with intrigue and filled with fascinating historical figures whose actions shine light on both the past and present, this timely work of narrative nonfiction explores the turbulence of the Cold War through the lens of the men and women who waged it behind closed doors, and helps explain the role secret and clandestine operations have played in America's history and its national security. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627679342641-9RVH3K4ML5DAUD0S2PNZ/30.+Graphic+-+Sailor+Twain.jpg All Books Feed - Sailor Twain Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson By Mark Siegel Published by First Second One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular―and notoriously reclusive―author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together and race to an unexpected collision, the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson. A beguiling love story with elements of Melville, Conrad, Twain, and ancient myths, drawn in moody black-and-white charcoal, this new paperback edition of the New York Times Best-Selling graphic novel by author/illustrator Mark Siegel is a study in romance, atmosphere, and suspense. Don't miss Sailor Twain. “A gripping novel with compelling characters, enhanced by haunting, erotically charged drawings.” ―John Irving A New York Times Bestseller “Absolutely not to be missed.” ―Booklist, starred review California Library Association—Best Graphic Novel San Diego Comic Con—Eisner Award Nominee Washington Post Best Books of the Year https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627679782207-BI68LRZ0FL58RNIC1I50/31.+Adult+-+When+They+Call+You+a+Terrorist.jpeg All Books Feed - When They Call You a TerrorisT: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor’s Pick. TIME Magazine's "Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far." O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” "This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation. This book is a must-read for all of us." —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America―and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country―and the world―that Black Lives Matter. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2-9d8tp-xwhxm monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672517528-0A7T0E1OFJKLKFDOBGRV/4.+Adult+-+In+Search+of+the+Color+Purple.jpg All Books Feed - In Search of the Color Purple By Salamishah Tillet Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical. Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her—as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker’s seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627679931812-29KIS5R795ZZDQ800V9G/32.+Adult+-+Tears+We+Cannot+Stop.jpeg All Books Feed - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America By Michael Eric Dyson Published by St. Martin's Press NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE,AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men's Journal • The Chicago Reader • StarTribune • Blavity • The Guardian • NBC New York's Bill's Books • Kirkus • Essence “One of the frankest and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait." ―The New York Times Book Review Toni Morrison hails Tears We Cannot Stop as "Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish." Stephen King says: "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said Amen." Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read. As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop―a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. "The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future." https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627680067600-A8XRNALNRC0PYBSG6FUJ/33.+Adult+-+On+Intersectionality.jpeg All Books Feed - On Intersectionality: Essential Writings By Kimberlé Crenshaw Published by The New Press A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who “first coined intersectionality as a political framework” (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers—inside and outside of the United States—have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, “the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations.” Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw’s work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627680833533-VYV81J1D1C3DVOV5VV8G/34.+Graphic+-+Olympians.jpeg All Books Feed - Olympians Boxed Set: Zeus, Athena, Hera, Hades, Poseidon & Aphrodite By George O’Connor Published by First Second By Zeus, it's Athena, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Aphrodite! This sturdy boxed set includes paperback editions of the first six Olympians books by multiple New York Times–bestselling author/illustrator George O'Connor. Holy Hera, it's got a free poster! Collectors will adore this package, with lots of new artwork and the complete Olympians family tree on the free poster. Plus, the boxed set is also a great way for classrooms to get all six books at once. Aphrodite Almighty, what a value! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627680967956-VC3HE7QC62MPPZBN7FQ2/35.+Adult+-+The+Black+Presidency.jpg All Books Feed - The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America By Michael Eric Dyson Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” (Vanity Fair). Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from Obama's major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes? Dyson explores whether Obama’s use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president’s desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling the fascinating story of how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage. President Obama’s own voice—from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for this book—along with those of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Maxine Waters, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation’s first black presidency. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k-x38sf monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681152320-WCGD9J3YXRVQF4ZO2UYZ/36.+Adult+-+Unapologetic.jpeg All Books Feed - Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements By Charlene A. Carruthers Published by Beacon Press A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k-x38sf-78dkd monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681319312-UO5L7TFAWDL144TSJM3X/37+-+Graphic+-+Grimoire+Noir.jpeg All Books Feed - Grimoire Noir By Vera Greentea & Yana Bogatch Published by First Second Beautiful, spooky, and utterly enchanting, Vera Greentea and Yana Bogatch's Grimoire Noir is a charming graphic novel about coming to terms with your own flaws and working past them to protect those dear to you. Bucky Orson is a bit gloomy, but who isn’t at fifteen? His best friend left him to hang out with way cooler friends, his dad is the town sheriff, and wait for it―he lives in Blackwell, a town where all the girls are witches. But when his little sister is kidnapped because of her extraordinary power, Bucky has to get out of his own head and go on a strange journey to investigate the small town that gives him so much grief. And in the process he uncovers the town’s painful history and a conspiracy that will change it forever. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k-x38sf-78dkd-4jgr9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681423440-V25VGZOJJFQA3F5LXWUH/38.+Adult+-+From+Dissertation+to+Book.jpeg All Books Feed - From Dissertation to Book: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing By William Germano Published by University of Chicago Press When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. “You know something!” I would say if it could hear me. “Now tell it to us in language we can understand!” Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who must create work that meets the broader expectations of readers rather than the narrow requirements of academic committees. At the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the dissertation is fundamentally a process of shifting its focus from the concerns of a narrow audience—a committee or advisors—to those of a broader scholarly audience that wants writing to be both informative and engaging. William Germano offers clear guidance on how to do this, with advice on such topics as rethinking the table of contents, taming runaway footnotes, shaping chapter length, and confronting the limitations of jargon, alongside helpful timetables for light or heavy revision. Germano draws on his years of experience in both academia and publishing to show writers how to turn a dissertation into a book that an audience will actually enjoy, whether reading on a page or a screen. Germano also acknowledges that not all dissertations can or even should become books and explores other, often overlooked, options, such as turning them into journal articles or chapters in an edited work. With clear directions, engaging examples, and an eye for the idiosyncrasies of academic writing, From Dissertation to Book reveals to recent PhDs the secrets of careful and thoughtful revision—a skill that will be truly invaluable as they add “author” to their curriculum vitae. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k-x38sf-78dkd-4jgr9-xlr83 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681540900-424AXWTJ3VEDRPS3J5F8/39.+Adult+-+Beyond+Respectability.jpeg All Books Feed - Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women By Brittney C. Cooper Published by University of Illinois Press Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/x69xaizu53txuc63rddtipxlrb6hkr-b7xba-8ckjz-498dk-4kgpy-d274s-6hha9-9c5tl-lwekl-d7lcp-wmpcr-jf8j6-d9ln7-k4kjk-384hb-nwz6m-jdbrg-snyya-55dfr-cxyy4-7dp9a-4z4yp-etz7x-jpe3k-x38sf-78dkd-4jgr9-xlr83-x5byw monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681656460-FWD7YR8DWZMD4P1UDXGG/40.+Adult+-+We+Live+for+the+We.jpeg All Books Feed - We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood By Dani McClain Published by Bold Type Books A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust--even hostile--society. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or birth than any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras telling the world that their slain children were human beings. What, then, is the best way to keep fear at bay and raise a child so she lives with dignity and joy? McClain spoke with mothers on the frontlines of movements for social, political, and cultural change who are grappling with the same questions. Following a child's development from infancy to the teenage years, We Live for the We touches on everything from the importance of creativity to building a mutually supportive community to navigating one's relationship with power and authority. It is an essential handbook to help us imagine the society we build for the next generation. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627681793272-ETJ5TW6YKLTO3MBVIZHO/41.+Graphic+-+No+Ivy+League.jpeg All Books Feed - No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant Published by Lion Forge When 17-year-old Hazel takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in Portland, Oregon, the only plan is to earn some extra cash to put toward concert tickets. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds that working side by side with at-risk teens leaves no room for comforting illusions of equality and understanding. This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a teen's awakening to the racial insularity of the upper class, the power of white privilege, and the hidden history of segregation in Portland. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627836228103-30ZRSEC5A46EO2KWQ3GN/42.+Children%27s+-+Hold+Hands.jpeg All Books Feed - Hold hands by Sara Varon Published by First Second In Hold Hands, beloved graphic novelist and children's book author Sara Varon offers a sweet rhyming story about friendship and connection. Hold hands each time you cross the street. Hold hands on the bus if you don’t have a seat. Hold hands when you say goodbye. And also when you’re jumping high. Everybody holds hands. You can hold hands with your little brother or your best friend. You can hold hands with your classmate or even your favorite doll! Gather up your little ones, hold their hands, and share this heartwarming book. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627836455778-GQDB6PDV6JTYDRU5CWOV/43.+Adult+-+Getting+It+Published.jpeg All Books Feed - Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books By William Germano Published by First Second In Hold Hands, beloved graphic novelist and children's book author Sara Varon offers a sweet rhyming story about friendship and connection. Hold hands each time you cross the street. Hold hands on the bus if you don’t have a seat. Hold hands when you say goodbye. And also when you’re jumping high. Everybody holds hands. You can hold hands with your little brother or your best friend. You can hold hands with your classmate or even your favorite doll! Gather up your little ones, hold their hands, and share this heartwarming book. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627836618542-7HMO1GSD3Z202060229R/44.+Children%27s+-+Crash.jpeg All Books Feed - Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America By Marc Favreau Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers The incredible true story of how Americans from all walks of life weathered one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--and emerged triumphant. Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath. Packed with photographs, primary documents, and firsthand accounts, Crash shines a spotlight on pivotal moments and figures across ethnic, gender, racial, social, and geographic divides, reflecting many different experiences of one of the most turbulent decades in American history. Marc Favreau's meticulous research, vivid prose, and extensive back matter paints a thorough picture of how the country we live in today was built in response to the widespread poverty, insecurity, and fear of the 1930s. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627836777082-D6GZ8UYM05KE1Z0LIYPC/45.+Adult+-+Same+Family%2C+Different+Colors.jpeg All Books Feed - Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families By Lori L. Tharps Published by Beacon Press Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld monthly 0.5 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627836913698-CLR3AWLZ00IT6PSFG8BZ/46.+Children%27s+-+Giants+Beware.jpeg All Books Feed - Giants Beware!: The Chronicles of Claudette By Jorge Aguirre, Illustrated by Rafael Rosado Published by First Second Make way for Claudette the giant slayer in this delightful, fantastical adventure! Claudette's fondest wish is to slay a giant. But her village is so safe and quiet! What's a future giant slayer to do? With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess), and her brother Gaston (a pastry-chef-to-be), Claudette embarks on a super-secret quest to find a giant-without parental permission. Can they find and defeat the giant before their parents find them and drag them back home? Giants Beware! offers up a wondrous, self-contained world in the tradition of the very best of Pixar. Claudette and her friends will have you laughing out loud from page one. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837146459-3FY35X4Z0GKBW0P69MS1/47.+Graphic+-+5+World+Sand+Warrior.jpeg All Books Feed - 5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior By Mark Siegel R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WONDER, hails this adventure series as “Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read.” Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there’s more to themselves—and to their worlds—than meets the eye. . . . Oona Lee, the clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine. An Tzu, a boy from the poorest slums, has a surprising gift and a knack for getting out of sticky situations. Jax Amboy is the star athlete who is beloved by an entire galaxy, but what good is that when he has no real friends? When these three kids are forced to team up on an epic quest, it will take not one, not two, but 5 WORLDS to contain all the magic and adventure! "A magical journey, as fun as it is beautiful!” —Kazu Kibuishi, #1 New York Times bestselling creator of AMULET "Bang-zoom . . . a series that promises to be epic." —The New York Times https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837370533-DBT3I7UEQG3HBYC232MS/48.+Graphic+-+5+Worlds+Red+Maze.jpeg All Books Feed - 5 Worlds: The Red Maze By Mark Siegel Published by Random House Books for Young Readers R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WONDER, hails this adventure series as "Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read." Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn. Luckily, her friend Jax Amboy has returned from his adventures transformed! Now he must confront the owner of his former starball team, a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing to get his best player back on the field . . . and who can grant them access to the beacon. Meanwhile, Oona and An Tzu find a mysterious rebel leader and release a surprising power within Oona's magic. Will they make it in time to stop the evil force seeking to rule the 5 Worlds? Praise for 5 Worlds: A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library's Top Ten Best Book for Kids 2017 Included in NPR's Guide to 2017's Great Reads A Nerdy Book Club Award Winner for Best Graphic Novel A Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novel Selection A Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nominee "Bang-zoom . . . a series that promises to be epic." --The New York Times Book Review "Sensitive writing, gorgeous artwork, and riveting plot." --Booklist, Starred Revew "A dazzling interplanetary fantasy . . . that will easily appeal to fans of Naruto or Avatar: The Last Airbender." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837532182-D5SD8A8W7BLS9I0JWML4/49.+Adult+-+Proud.jpeg All Books Feed - PROUD: MY fight for an unlikely american dream By Ibtihaj Muhammad Published by Hachette Books THE FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM AMERICAN TO MEDAL AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES NAMED ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE Growing up in New Jersey as the only African American Muslim at school, Ibtihaj Muhammad always had to find her own way. When she discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy, she had to defy expectations and make a place for herself in a sport she grew to love. From winning state championships to three-time All-America selections at Duke University, Ibtihaj was poised for success, but the fencing community wasn't ready to welcome her with open arms just yet. As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on Team USA's saber fencing squad, Ibtihaj had to chart her own path to success and Olympic glory. Proud is a moving coming-of-age story from one of the nation's most influential athletes and illustrates how she rose above it all. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837754119-5TQGFXNYUR0U27QCSJSV/50.+Children%27s+-+If+I+Had+a+Raptor.jpeg All Books Feed - If I had a raptor By George O’Connor Published by Candlewick A spunky and imaginative little girl dreams of the best pet ever — a fuzzy baby raptor to snuggle. Our heroine can’t think of anything better than bringing home a baby raptor — all teensy and tiny, fluffy and funny. It would cuddle and play, stalk birds and dust bunnies, and curl up on laps. In short, it would be the perfect pet! Readers may notice striking similarities between the raptor’s behavior and that of a more common house pet. But whether their first love is dinosaurs or kittens, little people with big imaginations will definitely warm to this perfect picture book. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837858875-GGYI0KUH27M01PYWOGBA/51.+Children%27s+-+If+I+Had+a+Triceratops.jpeg All Books Feed - If I had a Triceratops By George O’Connor Published by Candlewick With deft visual humor, a New York Times best-selling author-illustrator imagines how awesome it would be to have a pet triceratops living in your backyard. Wouldn’t it be great to have a triceratops for a pet? If you had one, it would probably be your best friend. It would always want to play with you, and it would always know how you’re feeling. On dark and stormy nights, if your triceratops got scared, you could let it sleep in your room. True, a triceratops is a little on the huge side, but that just means more pet to love, and more pet to love you right back! Just imagine your very own pet triceratops running out to greet you at the end of the day. Ooof! Wouldn’t that be the best thing ever? https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627837975725-QAT3YH1T6GUC8TTEL0P6/52.+Adult+-+The+Crunk+Feminist+Collective.jpeg All Books Feed - The Crunk Feminist Collection Edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn Published by Feminist Press at CUNY For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted—relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore "Sex and Power in the Black Church," discuss how "Clair Huxtable is Dead," list "Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop," and dwell on "Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?)." Self-described as "critical homegirls," the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. Brittney Cooper is an assistant professor at Rutgers University. In addition to a weekly column in Salon.com, her words have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cosmo.com, and many others. In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of Top Black Influencers. Susana M. Morris received her Ph.D. from Emory University and is currently an associate professor of English at Auburn University. Robin M. Boylorn is assistant professor at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience (Peter Lang, 2013). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps-jdy6x-mwwd2-zgyzy monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629330389203-CUXD0REL6TWI0DNASY0V/81lkkuwWWEL.jpg All Books Feed - The Last Witch: Fear & Fire By Conor McCreery It's the one time of the year when the witch known as Cailleach hunts the children of the village - so Saoirse, a brave and reckless young girl, decides this is the perfect opportunity to defy her father and discover the secrets of the witch’s tower! But when the Cailleach captures Saoirse and her brother Brahm, their lives are forever changed in ways they never expected. Now, Saoirse will have to save everyone she loves by discovering the truth about the mysterious mark on her shoulder - and embracing her secret magical powers! Conor McCreery (Adventure Time/Regular Show) and V.V. Glass (Doctor Who) kick off a new young adult fantasy trilogy that shows the greatest magic of all lies inside of us! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838160471-KCR8UAWBX7K00D5NM618/53.+Graphic+-+To+Dance.jpeg All Books Feed - To Dance By Siena Cherson Siegel, Artwork by Mark Siegel Published by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet. To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama, here is an original, firsthand book about a young dancer's beginnings -- and beyond. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838301691-8X3SD1M40YXMGFUVOCOX/54.+Graphic+-+The+Stratford+Zoo+Romeo+and+Juliet.jpeg All Books Feed - The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Romeo and Juliet By Ian Lendler, Illustrated by Zack Giallongo Published by First Second The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo . . . until the gates shut at night. That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart. Also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails. Ian Lendler's hilarious tale of after-hours animal stagecraft is perfectly paired with the adorable, accessible artwork of Zack Giallongo (Broxo, Ewoks) in this side-splitting companion to their graphic novel The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838455564-95SQIY4STC1IUFK2F9EA/55.+Children%27s+-+Robot+Dreams.jpeg All Books Feed - Robot Dreams By Sara Varon Published by Square Fish In this universal story of friendship, loss, and redemption, a dog and a robot become friends. But their days of friendship are numbered. This moving, charming graphic novel about a dog and a robot shows us in poignant detail how powerful and fragile relationships are. After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves the robot rusted, immobilized in the sand, the dog must return alone to the life they shared. But the memory of their friendship lingers, and as the seasons pass, the dog tries to fill the emotional void left by the loss of his closest friend, making and losing a series of friends, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. But for the robot, lying rusting on the beach, the only relief from loneliness is in dreams. This new paperback edition of Robot Dreams by Sara Varon includes new backmatter, including a Q&A with the author, behind-the-scenes sketches, and more. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A PW Best Book of the Year An ALSC Notable Children’s Book A YALSA Great Graphic Novel “Tender, funny and wise.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Invested with true emotion.” ―Booklist, starred review “By turns funny and poignant . . . it will stay with readers long after they put it down.” ―School Library Journal, starred review “Sophisticatedly understated, with subtle gestural cues and colors in a minor key, yet the blossoming friendship between the dog and the robot is unmistakably joyful.” ―Kirkus Reviews https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838601165-86AJ2ZRKZHVAEATGP18S/56.+Children%27s+-+One+Day+a+Dot.jpeg All Books Feed - One Day a Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything By Ian Lendler, Illustrated by Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb Published by First Second One Day a Dot explores the age-old question: Where did we come from? Where did everything come from? Starting with one tiny dot and continuing through the Big Bang to the rise of human societies, the story of our universe is told in simple and vivid terms. But the biggest question of all cannot be answered: Where did that one dot come from? One Day a Dot is a beautiful and vibrant picture book that uses the visual motif of circles as to guide young readers through the stages of life on Earth. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838742525-46Z8U8Z0RB0XPSFOUGQV/57.+Children%27s+-+New+Shoes.jpeg All Books Feed - New shoes By Sara Varon Published by First Second From Sara Varon (Robot Dreams, Bake Sale) comes New Shoes, a heartwarming graphic novel about a donkey on a quest to make the perfect pair of shoes. Francis the donkey is the best shoemaker in the village. He uses only the finest materials: coconut wood for the soles, goat’s wool for the insoles, and wild tiger grass for the uppers. One day he receives a special order from his favorite singer: Miss Manatee, the queen of calypso. But he’s all out of tiger grass! To make the perfect pair of shoes, Francis must journey deep into the jungle . . . and that means leaving his village for the first time. In New Shoes, Sara Varon takes us on a vivid journey into the jungles of South America. From the capybara to the jaguar to the three-toed sloth, Francis meets a variety of animals outside his neighborhood. They’re not so scary when you get to know them! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838854735-GIF2J0K38UER7CGSYV6I/58.+Children%27s+-+Dragons+Beware.jpeg All Books Feed - Dragon's Beware: The Chronicles of Claudette By Jorge Aguirre, Illustrated by Rafael Rosado Published by First Second Scrappy Claudette sets out once again with her pal Marie and her little brother Gaston to right wrongs and fight evil. And this time, it's personal. Claudette is out to get the dragon who ate her father's legs...and his legendary sword. But as usual, nothing is as simple as it seems, and Claudette is going to need Marie and Gaston's help more than ever. Funny, fast, high-energy storytelling in an inventive and perilous fantasy landscape makes Dragons Beware! a fantastic follow-up to 2012's middle-grade hit Giants Beware! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627838995452-M2VHTEOMTTF3R5LV7XA8/59.+Adult+-The+Tales+of+Hoffman.jpeg All Books Feed - The Tales of Hoffmann: BFI Film Classics By William Germano Published by British Film Institute The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and failure, more danced than sung. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627839128175-IVXKEE582ZVRJF7F9J09/60.+Adult+-+My+Racing+Heart.jpeg All Books Feed - My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track By Nan Mooney Published by Harper When Nan Mooney was seven years old, she sat down in her grandmother May-May's living room to watch her first ever horse race. In that single afternoon, she launched what would become a turbulent romance between a woman and a sport. My Racing Heart is part memoir, part journey into the compelling world of Thoroughbred horse racing. At its heart is Nan's relationship with her grandmother, an adventurer, racing connoisseur, and woman of courage and compassion. May-May fostered in Nan a love of Thoroughbreds and the track, ushering her into a rare corner of the world where risk taking is daily currency. Nan thought her emotional link to the races died with May-May, only to have it roar back to life a decade later at New York's Belmont Park. This renewed relationship culminates in a grown-up appreciation for a universe where expectations are constantly defied, and in the realization of a longtime dream -- a trip to the Kentucky Derby. Far more than just a personal tale, My Racing Heart lets readers in on the wild culture and fabulous creatures that rise up around the racetrack. Nan Mooney probes every aspect of the sport: the horses, jockeys, and trainers, the gambling and corruption, its ages-old history, and its forever offbeat society. She takes readers from the backstretch of a small-town track to the stands at Churchill Downs, from the mind of an intrepid gambler to the soul of a Thoroughbred. She explores how the sport itself, and the men and women who participate in it, flourish upon the principle that there are no sure things. My Racing Heart will speak to every horse lover, to every sports nut, and to everyone who cherishes the thrill of possibility or has ever craved a place to run wild. This unique and exquisite memoir perfectly captures the lure, the glory, and the heartbeat of the track. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627839270275-Y5Q05LXF2SQVO55F6MVR/61.+Adult+-+Not+Keeping+Up+With+Our+Parents.jpeg All Books Feed - (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class By Nan Mooney Published by Beacon Press The first book to exclusively target the struggles of the professional middle class-educated individuals who purposely choose humanistic, intellectual, or creative pursuits-Nan Mooney's (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents is a simultaneously sobering and proactive work that captures a diversity of voices. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with people all across America, (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents explores how stagnant wages, debt, and escalating costs for tuition, health care, and home ownership are jeopardizing today's educated middle class. Teachers, counselors, nonprofit employees, environmentalists, journalists, and the author speak candidly about their sense of economic-and hence emotional-security, and their plans and fears about what's to come. With up-to-date and accessible research, including a short history of the middle class, Mooney explains what it has meant historically to be middle class and how these definitions have changed so dramatically over the decades. She shows that social programs once aided the growth of this class but shifts in policies and labor practices-and increases in fixed costs, such as health care, housing, education, childcare, and household debt-are making it increasingly difficult for families to retain their middle-class status. Throughout the book, Mooney uses real people's stories and an analysis of the new economic reality to put middle-class struggles in perspective: College tuition has increased 35 percent in the past five years, and while the average college undergraduate's debt is $20,000, earnings for graduates have remained stagnant since 2000. In addition, only 18 percent of middle-class families have three months' income saved, and 90 percent of those filing for bankruptcy are middle class. Finally, raising one child through age eighteen costs a middle-income family around $237,000, while the costs of housing, health care, and education are all rising faster than inflation. Despite this difficult reality, Mooney offers concrete ideas on how individuals and society can arrest this downward spiral. Reigniting a sense of social responsibility is crucial-this ranges from improving government-backed education, health care, and childcare programs to drawing on successful models from individual states and other countries. Intimate personal accounts combined with Mooney's incisive analysis will make (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents resonate deeply for America's professional middle class. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627839499964-CQJ8A2P456VMBDWXI2NM/62.+Children%27s+-+Alcoholica+Esoterica.jpeg All Books Feed - Alcholica esoterica By Ian Lendler Published by Penguin Books Finally, there’s a book that’s almost as much fun as having a couple of drinks. Alcoholica Esoterica presents the history and culture of booze as told by a writer with a knack for distilling all the boring bits into the most interesting facts and hilarious tales. It’s almost like pulling up a stool next to the smartest and funniest guy in the bar. Divided into chapters covering the basic booze groups—including beer, wine, Champagne, whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, and tequila—Alcoholica Esoterica charts the origin and rise of each alcohol’s particular charms and influence. Other sections chronicle “Great Moments in Hic-story,” “Great Country Drinking Songs,” “10 Odd Laws,” and “Mt. Lushmore, Parts I–V.” Additionally, famous quotes on the joys and sorrows of liquor offer useful shots of advice and intoxicating whimsy. Did you know... that the word bar is short for barrier? Yes, that’s right—to keep the customers from getting at all the booze. that Winston Churchill’s mother supposedly invented the Manhattan? that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because the sailors on the Mayflower were running low on beer and were tired of sharing? that you have a higher chance of being killed by a flying Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? that the Code of Hammurabi mandated that brewers of low-quality beer be drowned in it? that beer was so popular with medieval priests and monks that in the thirteenth century they stopped baptizing babies with holy water and started using beer? https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627839635952-X7FTXZEV8ERKJVQAB7ZH/63.+Children%27s+-+Odd+Duck.jpeg All Books Feed - Odd Duck By Sara Varon & Cecil Castellucci Published by First Second Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is the odd duck here? Theodora may not like the answer. Sara Varon (Robot Dreams) teams up with Cecil Castellucci (Grandma's Gloves) for a gorgeous, funny, and heartwarming examination of the perils and pleasures of friendship. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840023523-GW9G1UV9UDMFKK73EVSJ/64.+Children%27s+-+Bake+Sale.jpeg All Books Feed - Bake sale By Sara Varon Cupcake's life is pretty good. He's got his bakery, and his band, and his best friend, Eggplant. His days are full of cooking, socializing, and playing music. But lately, Cupcake has been struggling in the kitchen. He's sure the solution to all his problems is out there somewhere. But maybe that solution is hiding closer to home. Sara Varon returns with an ageless tale as dreamy and evocative as her break-out hit graphic novel Robot Dreams. At once deeply metaphorical and hilariously literal, Bake Sale is a story for anyone who's ever looked for an easy answer to life's intractable difficulties. It's also a cookbook: Varon includes seven delicious recipes, from classic cupcakes to sugared flower petals to marzipan. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-k7sx2-9d8tp-xwhxm-lnya8-aezm5-fshd8 monthly 0.5 2022-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627672081757-ZNK9D0OXF022QVVRBBAK/9.+Adult+-+The+Purpose+of+Power.jpg All Books Feed - The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart By Alicia Garza https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6 monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840199746-WMT9FWB4QCW086CJN2M6/65.+Children%27s+-+An+Undone+Fairy+Tale.jpeg All Books Feed - An Undone Fairy Tale By Ian Lendler, Illustrated by Whitney Martin Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Now, Ned and I admire how well you read. But the story will be ruined if you turn the page right now. So please don't. A beautiful pie-making princess is trapped in a tower. Can Sir Wilbur rescue her? And more importantly, can he do it while wearing a tutu? He's going to try! But if you read the story too quickly, Ned won't be able to make the pictures or costumes in time. And happily-ever-after may start to go a bit haywire. Join Ian Lendler and Whitney Martin for a fairy tale that takes off into hilarious uncharted territory -- all because you won't slow down! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6-3tekx monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840345921-CUEO9CYBKX1P7G96KUYI/66.+Graphic+-+5+Worlds+Cobalt+Prince.jpeg All Books Feed - 5 Worlds: The cobalt Prince By Mark Siegel Published by Random House Books for Young Readers R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WONDER, hails this adventure series as "Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read." Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! 5 Worlds. 3 Unlikely Heroes. 1 Epic Battle for the Galaxy! Oona Lee surprised everyone--including herself--when she lit the first beacon to save the Five Worlds from extinction. Can she light the other four beacons in time? Next stop, Toki! On the blue planet, Oona must face the sister who left her, and bring to light the Cobalt Prince's dark secrets. Meanwhile, An Tzu is fading away as his mysterious illness gets worse. Will it stop him from joining the fight? Or will his unique magic be just what the team needs?And Jax Amboy is a hero on the starball field, but in a moment of real danger, will he risk everything to save his friends? Oona must rely on some surprising new allies in order to stop a terrible plot from unfolding and continue her quest across the 5 WORLDS! Praise for 5 Worlds Book 1: A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library's Top Ten Best Book for Kids 2017 Included in NPR's Guide to 2017's Great Reads 2017 Nerdy Book Club Award Winners for Best Graphic Novel "Bang-zoom . . . epic." --The New York Times Book Review "Sensitive writing, gorgeous artwork, and riveting plot." --Booklist, Starred Revew "A dazzling interplanetary fantasy . . . that will easily appeal to fans of Naruto or Avatar: The Last Airbender." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6-3tekx-yh9dp monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840473324-W9XHIR69874GAQXVCTGH/67.+Children%27s+-+Little+Sid.jpeg All Books Feed - Little Sid: The Tiny Prince Who Became Buddha By Ian Lendler, Illustrated by Xanthe Bouma Published by First Second In this charming and accessible picture book, Ian Lendler and Xanthe Bouma offer a heart-warming account of the childhood of the Buddha. A spoiled young prince, Siddhartha got everything he ever asked for, until he asked for what couldn’t be given­―happiness. Join Little Sid as he sets off on a journey of discovery and encounters mysterious wise-folk, terrifying tigers, and one very annoying mouse. With Lendler’s delightful prose and Bouma’s lyrical artwork, Little Sid weaves traditional Buddhist fables into a classic new tale of mindfulness, the meaning of life, and an awakening that is as profound today as it was 2,500 years ago. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6-3tekx-yh9dp-dt4sl monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840745698-MGYLIGMH0PTHWY0LKWZJ/68.+Children%27s+-+The+Absolutely+Positively+No+Princesses.jpeg All Books Feed - The Absolutely, Positively No Princesses Book By Ian Lendler, Illustrated by Deborah Zemke Published by Creston Books Some kids like frills and sparkles and bows and lots of pink. And some don't. The girl who started "The Absolutely, Positively No Princess Book" is sure that she wants a story full of nature and adventure. But when a princess barges into the pages with her own opinions about what makes for a good story, the two learn that they each have something to offer. Together they make the best story of all. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6-3tekx-yh9dp-dt4sl-ly6fe monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840866910-GRC3ETOKBD3ENDQ5RAKX/69.+Children%27s+-+Sweaterweather.jpeg All Books Feed - Sweaterweather By Sara Varon Published by First Second Back before Odd Duck, before Robot Dreams, Sara Varon created Sweaterweather. This endearing, quirky volume is a captivating look into Varon's creative process. It combines short comics stories, essays, and journal entries, and invites the reader into the world of Sara Varon: where adorable, awkward anthropomorphic animals walk the streets of Brooklyn and a surprising, sideways revelation is waiting around every corner. First Second is proud to introduce Sweaterweather to a new generation of readers in this gorgeous jacketed hardcover, with a new cover and plenty of new content. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/h545ffpdwf3k8sp-y5ejc-f3bjn-b5f9y-k439w-x9mld-p5ca3-j89h4-25ngh-3gzrm-9slcl-w4cm8-ald7b-5629b-nkwfe-yhmnj-ns4ak-xyrjr-trslr-hpt8t-246sz-fn65n-ftfmh-ehypg-egdg6-3tekx-yh9dp-dt4sl-ly6fe-98g86 monthly 0.5 2021-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627840972444-GFJY9O9TMCO1K3C6KFQA/70.+Adult+-+Eye+Chart.jpeg All Books Feed - Eye Chart: Object Lessons By William Germano Published by Bloomsbury Academic Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. 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When the day ends, it leads into Sundays, and you get to have fun all over again! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-ct9h4-e6xxb monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1628293776596-5O06QSD21RZ8WVFY9ROD/81To7ENmbJL.jpg All Books Feed - My pencil and me By Sara Varon Sara Varon's My Pencil and Me is a playful picture book that’s perfect for young artists, writers, and makers―especially if they struggle with confidence or writer's block. Sara loves to draw and tell stories, but sometimes it can be difficult to get started. What if she doesn't have any good ideas or her drawings turn out terrible?! Lucky for Sara, she has a friend who is always by her side―her pencil. 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From choosing an idea, to creating a problem for their character to resolve, to coming to The End, this empowering picture book breaks down the writing process in a dynamic and accessible way, encouraging kids to explore their own creativity—and share their stories with others! https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629254552444-DYNEJ0B3TDE31631QB5B/91Sd9bbCwpL.jpg All Books Feed - how to read a story By Mark Siegel Step One: Find a story. (A good one.) Step Two: Find a reading buddy. (Someone nice.) Step Three: Find a reading spot. (Couches are cozy.) Now: Begin. Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel chronicle the process of becoming a reader: from pulling a book off the shelf and finding someone with whom to share a story, to reading aloud, predicting what will happen, and—finally—coming to The End. This picture book playfully and movingly illustrates the idea that the reader who discovers the love of reading finds, at the end, the beginning. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/books-feed/blog-post-title-one-npy4k-5y55x-w4hd8-j8dw6-pldhm-xb9t4-zcpps monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629255148397-313AEDKT9E3ZQQJOF36E/816l17S-j9L.jpg All Books Feed - Oskar and the Eight Blessings By Mark Siegel Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home in the north of the city, he passes experiences the city's many holiday sights, and encounters it various residents. 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She now works to diversify the journalism industry through mentorship, editing and recruiting. Sonali was part of the L.A. Times staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting, and in 2020 she was named the best education journalist in the U.S. by the Education Writers Association. From 2020-21 Sonali was a Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting at Columbia University, working on her young adult nonfiction book about teen activists. When she isn't interviewing youths you'll find her baking or in a pottery studio. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm-598ke-8wsas-eg85s-jnmfk-snrcx monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629177688336-DGDK2Q8E7SHAXQNQLOJJ/shin.jpg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Shinyeon Moon ShinYeon Moon (Shin) is a Korean-American illustrator and educator based in New York. She holds an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and several awards and accolades from various illustration publications. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including a solo show in Itoshima, Japan. Shin taught Figure Communication and Figure Painting at the School of Design, University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Design Foundations at Queens College in New York. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm-598ke-8wsas-eg85s-jnmfk monthly 0.5 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627875437416-XWMP5JNBNMZXJBXGYZVH/1.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Jorge+Aguirre+.jpeg+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Jorge Aguirre Jorge is an animation writer, producer, and book author. He wrote the graphic novel series The Chronicles of Claudette, which he co-created with artist Rafael Rosado (First Second Books/Macmillan). The first book, Giants Beware was called a “Rollicking fun story” by the New York Times; it received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and was a nominee for a Texas Bluebonnet Award. The sequel was Dragons Beware and the third book, Monsters Beware was published in March, 2018. He recently collaborated with Rosado and wrote a story for the anthology, Comics Squad: Detention. He also wrote a graphic book review for the New York Times, which Rosado illustrated. He is working on a new graphic novel for First Second Books, Call Me Iggy. As an animation writer, he created, co-developed, and co-produced Disney Junior's, Goldie & Bear. He was a Story Editor for Nick, Jr., Blues Clues and Sprout's Nina's World. He's written on animated series for Amazon, Nick, Jr, PBS, and Netflix. His television producing credits include History Detectives, and non-fiction work for Discovery and TLC. A Colombian-American born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Aguirre calls the great state of New Jersey home. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm-598ke-8wsas-eg85s monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627875162066-EULIDISN2ZT5BQY0KV5G/2.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Sharon+M.+Draper.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Sharon M. Draper Sharon M. Draper is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. She has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year, is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Awards, and her novel Out of my Mind stayed on the NYT list for almost two years. Blended, her latest novel, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks. She was selected as Ohio’s Outstanding High School Language Arts Educator, Ohio Teacher of the Year, and was chosen as a NCNW Excellence in Teaching Award winner. She is a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner, and was the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence for the Taft Museum. She has been honored at the White House six times, and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington, D.C, and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival. Her book Copper Sun has been selected by the US State Department and the International Reading Association as the United States novel for the international reading project called Reading Across Continents. She is a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, and is the recipient of the Dean’s Award from Howard University School of Education, the Pepperdine University Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Marva Collins Education Excellence Award, and the Governor’s Educational Leadership Award. In 2018 she was named Ohio Pioneer in Education by the Ohio State Department of Education, and in 2008 she received the Beacon of Light Humanitarian award. In 2009 she received the Doctor of Laws Degree from Pepperdine University. In 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the field of adolescent literature by The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as the 33rd Annual Jeremiah Luddington Award by the Educational Book and Media Association, also for lifetime achievement. In 2015 she was honored by the American Library Association as the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime literary achievement. In 2015 she was honored with the Anne V. Zarrow Award by the Tulsa Library Trust., as well as the 2016 Upstander Award by Antioch College. Blended (2018) New York Times Bestseller Starred Publisher’s Weekly review Starred School Library Journal review Starred Kirkus Review Stella by Starlight (2015) Charlotte Huck award from the National Council of Teachers of English Starred Kirkus Review Starred Publisher’s Weekly Review Starred The Horn Book review Starred School Library Journal review Starred Shelf Awareness review Starred BookPage Review Best Middle Grade Books of 2015 by Kirkus, Notable Children’s Books of 2015 by the New York Times Parents' Choice Award Winner for 2015 Horace Mann Upstander Award 2016 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People IRA 2016 Notable Books for Global Society Best Multicultural Books of 2015 by Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Chosen for NYC Reads 365 ALSC Notable Children's Books for 2016 2015 Books by the Banks Author Award /Best Children’s Book It has been nominated for: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award for 2017 NAACP Outstanding Literacy Work for Youth/Teen Georgia Children's Book Awards Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program Nebraska Golden Sower Intermediate Award for 2016-2017 Panic (2013) YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Translated into German and Chinese Out of my Mind (2010) Read by over 1.5 million young people New York Times Bestselling for two years Indie National Bestseller Josette Frank Award by the Children's Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education IRA Teachers' Choice Book IRA Young Adult's Choice Best Book of the Year from KIRKUS. Outstanding Children's book of 2011 by Bank Street College Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Buckeye Children's Book Award Sunshine State Young Reader's Award in both the middle school and elementary categories Black-Eyed Susan Book Award from Maryland, Beehive Book Award from Utah Virginia Reader's Choice Award Featured in Time Magazine and Ladies' Home Journal. Selected to 32 state reading lists and has won the following state awards: California Young Reader Middle School/Junior High medal Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (elementary) Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (middle grades) Illinois Bluestem Award Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Minnesota Maud Hrt Lovelace Award Nevada Young Readers’ Award New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award Texas Lamplighter Award Utah Beehive Book Award Virginia Readers' Choice Award Washington Sasquatch Award Translated into Italian, Catalan, Chinese Complex, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Russian, Korean, German, Hebrew, and Brazilian Portuguese. Sassy: Little Sister is Not my Name! (2009) Parent’s Choice Award. November Blues (2007) Coretta Scott King Honor Book New York Public Library Best Books for the Teens Copper Sun (2006) New York Times bestseller Coretta Scott King Literature Award Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction Books for Youth Nominated NAACP Image Award for Literature Ohioana Award for Young Adult Literature CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Literature IRA Notable Book for a Global Society Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal We Beat the Street (2005) New York Times Bestseller VOYA's Non-Fiction Honor List New York Public Library Best Books for Teens Fire from the Rock (2007) NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People New York Public Library Best Books for Teens. The Battle of Jericho (2003) Coretta Scott King Honor Book New York Public Library's Book for the Teens International Reading Association Young Adult Choice Book Darkness Before Dawn (2001) ALA Top Ten Quick Pick International Reading Association Children's Choice Award Buckeye Book Award IRA Young Adult Choice Double Dutch (2002) Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People ALA Top Ten Sports Books for Young Adults Best of the Best by VOYA Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Romiette and Julio (1999) ALA Best Book International Reading Association Notable Book for a Global Society New York Public Library Best for Teens Darkness Before Dawn (2001) ALA Top Ten Quick Pick Children's Choice Award from the International Reading Association Buckeye Book Award IRA Young Adult Choice Forged by Fire (1997) Coretta Scott King Award ALA BEST Book Award Parent's Choice Award Indiana Young Hoosier Award Tears of a Tiger (1994) Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award ALA Best Book for Young Adults Best of the Year by the Children's Book Council Best of the Year New York City Library Best of the Year Bank Street College Best of the Year National Council for Social Studies Best of the Best by VOYA American Library Association top 100 books for young adults https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm-598ke-8wsas monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627875056433-O560EFUJJZX56LRTK3ET/3.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Marc+Favreau+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Marc Favreau Marc Favreau is the co-author of Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Experiences in Slavery and Emancipation, a New York Times Notable Book that was also companion to a NPR documentary produced by the Smithsonian Institution. Remembering Slavery sold over 50,000 copies, and was the subject of widespread acclaim and media attention, in syndicated columns, public radio affiliates nationwide, and on national television (including a segment on Nightline with Ted Koppel). Marc is also the author of The Lazy Person’s Handbook, a popular reference guide (Perigee); and editor of A People’s History of World War Two, a collection of first-person accounts (The New Press). For young people he is the author of Kirkus and Voya starred review Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America a New York Public Library Best Book of 2018, Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018, 2018 Booklist Editors' Choice title, 2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and an ALA Notable Children's Book of 2019. His next Y/A non-fiction book, Spies, is forthcoming from Simon and Schuster. His latest Y/A non-fiction book, Spies, was a Publisher's Weekly best of 2019. He has been featured on and in and at The Leonard Lopate Show, ABC News, Fox 5 New York, and C-Span Book TV, Publishers Weekly, Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the New York Public Library. As a longtime history editor, Editorial Director, and now Executive Editor of The New Press, Marc has shepherded numerous popular histories for general readers -- by such bestselling authors as James Loewen, Studs Terkel, Ray Raphael, and Howard Zinn. He lives in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm-598ke monthly 0.5 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1628790681105-FVN3VH6RAQ6V2GWAULH4/Ian+Lendler+2.jpg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Ian Lendler Ian Lendler's The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth is a Kirkus Best Middle Grade of 2019 pick. He is also the author of the acclaimed Stratford Zoo graphic novel series illustrated by Zack Giallongo, and the picture books Undone Fairy Tale, Saturday, he Absolutely Positively No Princess Book, One Day A Dot, Little Sid, Nia and the Free Library, and The Fabled Life of Aesop: The extraordinary journey and collected tales of the world’s greatest storyteller. He has also written the adult non-fiction book, Alcoholica Esoterica. Ian originally hails from Wallingford, Connecticut (“home of the steamed cheeseburger”), has lived in New York City, London, and San Francisco, and now resides in San Rafael, CA (“home of normal cheeseburgers”). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t-gzxnm monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627874856192-MQBN1SYS3DRXFW02JMBR/5.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Danica+Novgorodoff+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Danica Novgorodoff Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, graphic designer, and horse wrangler from Louisville, KY, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include A Late Freeze, Slow Storm, Refresh, Refresh (included in Best American Comics 2011), and The Undertaking of Lily Chen. Her art and writing has been published in Best American Comics, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, and many others. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, and was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, Brush Creek, and Willapa Bay AiR. She currently completing her first picture book at work adapting and illustrating Jason Reynold’s National Book Award winning novel, Long Way Down, forthcoming from Simon&Schuster and writing her own non-fiction graphic novel about climate change for young people forthcoming with First Second Books. instagram @novgorodoff twitter @DNovgorodof https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83-s2g3t monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627874773037-HGITK3IYPP07V4WLVYLG/6.+Children%27s+Book+Client+-+George+O%E2%80%99Connor+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - George O’Connor George O’Connor’s is the New York Times bestselling author of the Olympians series (First Second Books). His graphic novels include Journey Into Mohawk Country, and Ball Peen Hammer written by playwright Adam Rapp, In addition to his graphic novel career, Mr. O’Connor has published several children’s picture books, including the New York Times best-selling Kapow, Sally and the Some-Thing, and Uncle Bigfoot. He is currently illustrating Unrig: How To Fix Our Broken Democracy by Dan Newman forthcoming with First Second Books He lives in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam-skd83 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627874657810-GXZIOVCQ54I34182YS2X/7.+Children%27s+Book+Client+-+Mark+Siegel+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Mark Siegel Mark was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in France. He graduated from Brown and lives in New York. Mark is the author and illustrator of several award-winning picture books and graphic novels, including Seadogs, Long Night Moon, To Dance, Moving House, and Sailor Twain, which author John Irving called “a gripping novel with compelling characters, enhanced by haunting, erotically charged artwork.” Mark’s latest project is the collaborative graphic novel 5 Worlds, an epic science-fiction series for young readers. The New York Times Book Review hails it as “ . . . a bang-zoom start to a series that promises to be epic in both the classical and internet senses of the word. . . this is a capital-S Saga.” Mark is also the founder, and Creative and Editorial Director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel house. First Second offers an ambitious collection in every age category, in a wide range of themes and styles, with talent from all over the world. First Second has garnered an unmatched array of literary awards, starred reviews and bestsellers—including for the original works of National Book Award Finalist and Printz Winner Gene Luen Yang, and beloved bestselling titles such as This One Summer, Real Friends, Spill Zone, and many more. Mark has appeared before thousands of librarians and educators to speak about the graphic novel renaissance. Mark has given lectures and workshops internationally and all around North America, for authors, artists, librarians, students, executives in many venues, at tradeshows, companies, Comic Cons, and animation studios, including Blue Sky, Dreamworks, Disney, and Pixar, for both creative and executives. Visit Mark's Website. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk-jctam monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627874544743-DVR9P5Q7VJ8TCX4TPUKO/8.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Sara+Varon+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Sara Varon Sara Varon is a printmaker, graphic novelist, and children's book author/illustrator living in Brooklyn. Her books include Odd Duck, Bake Sale, Robot Dreams, Chicken & Cat, and Chicken & Cat Clean Up, and the forthcoming Hold Hands picture book and the Sweet Pea middle grade graphic novel detective series from First Second Books. Her work has received many accolades including: Best Children's Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews for Odd Duck, YALSA Great Graphic Novel for 2012 for Bake Sale. Robot Dreams was a Texas Bluebonnet Award winner for 2008, Oprah's Kids' Reading List in 2008, Publisher's Weekly 150 Best Books of the Year, The American Library Association awards Notable Children's Book, named an NCTE Notable Book in the Language Arts, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books of the year, a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title. Chicken and Cat was a 3x3 Magazine’s Silver Medalist for 2006, and a Parents' Choice Foundation Silver Medal for the Picture Book. She was a recipient of the 2013 Maurice Sendak Fellowship and an Eisner nominee in 2014 .Sara currently teaches printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood-fl4dk monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627874459374-MEKRM5RO0C4X7A03A499/9.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Katie+Yamasaki+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Katie Yamasaki Katie Yamasaki is a celebrated muralist and children’s book author/illustrator and teacher. She has illustrated Honda, The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars (Lee and Low); Lifelines, the Black Book of Proverbs (Broadway Books/Random House). She has written and illustrated Fish for Jimmy (Holiday House), YAMA (Lee & Low), When the Cousins Came (Holiday House), a Kirkus best of 2018. Her latest picture book, Everything that Naomi Loved, is forthcoming with Norton Young Readers. Yamasaki earned BA at Earlham College and her MFA in the Illustration as Visual Essay program from the School of Visual Arts in 2003, where she is currently a member of the faculty. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientschildren/shay-youngblood monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627873888555-3LW7XIQZWCXH0TDYYM8G/10.+Children%27s+Books+Client+-+Shay+Youngblood+.jpeg Clients - Children's Books Feed - Shay Youngblood Georgia born writer Shay Youngblood is author of the novels Black Girl in Paris and Soul Kiss (Riverhead Books) and a collection of short fiction, The Big Mama Stories (Firebrand Books). Her published plays Amazing Grace, Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery and Talking Bones, (Dramatic Publishing Company), have been widely produced. Her other plays include Square Blues, Black Power Barbie and Communism Killed My Dog. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pushcart Prize for fiction, a Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, an Edward Albee honoree, several NAACP Theater Awards, an Astraea Writers' Award for fiction and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Sustained Achievement Award. Ms. Youngblood received her MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University and has taught Creative Writing to faculty and graduate students at NYU and has been Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M Universities. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts sponsored Japan-US Creative Artist Fellowship for 2011. 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He has developed kids’ and adult animated series for Warner Brothers and SyFy. Rob is also the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller “The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting” (Wicked Son/Post Hill Press), a comedic survey of all of Jewish history. Previous books include the horror-comedy kids’ anthology “Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales” (First Second); the New York Times bestseller “Look Out For The Little Guy” , the “in-universe” memoir of Scott “Ant-Man” Lang (making Rob technically part of the MCU); the satirical end-of-times national bestseller Apocalypse How: Turn the End Times into the Best of Times! ; the Amazon Kindle e-bestseller/Audible audiobook The Future According to Me ; and the graphic novel “Shrinkage” for Farrago Comics. Rob is a Senior Lecturer in Comedy Writing at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, and has published humor and feature pieces for the New Yorker, New York Times, Esquire, Huffington Post, McSweeney’s, and the Weekly Forward. Born in Atlanta and educated at Princeton University, Rob has lived in St. Petersburg Russia, Jerusalem, and been deported from Uzbekistan (really). He was named a “SuperJew” by Time Out New York — but is still waiting for his superpowers to kick in. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4-9a5jl-panmw-85k7s-ct73r-fsw8t-kgzd5 monthly 0.5 2021-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629429615989-1OYTJGB6HYZCLHMQLINO/khary.jpg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Khary Randolph Boston born and Brooklyn based, Khary Randolph graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2000 with a BFA in Cartooning & Illustration. In the years since, he has won multiple awards and worked on properties from some of the biggest media companies in the world, such as Marvel Comics, DC Comics, 20th Century Fox, ABC, ESPN, Cartoon Network, Upper Deck, Coca-Cola, M&M/Mars & Sony. Khary got his start in the comic book industry in 2003 on Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider-Clan. Since then, he has had several multi-issue runs on books such as New Mutants, Starborn, Charismagic, Tech Jacket, We Are Robin, and Mosaic. He has also been a prolific cover illustrator, having provided covers for every major publisher on books such as Static Shock, Batman Beyond, Spider-man, Harley Quinn, Black Panther, G.I. Joe, and Teen Titans. In animation, he got his start doing turnarounds for The Boondocks. He then graduated to doing design and storyboarding work for such shows as Wolverine & The X-Men, Hellboy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron, Chaotic and He-Man & The Masters of The Universe. In 2007 he worked on Upper Deck’s All-Star Vinyl line, designing toys based on sports superstars such as Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, David Ortiz and Michael Jordan. In 2015, in conjunction with Brooklyn Brewery and Reed Exhibitions, he created and designed a character called the Brooklyn Defender as the official beer and mascot of New York Comic Con. The beer was highly successful and sold all over the world. In 2019 he had his first gallery showing, BLACK/EXCELLENCE: The Art of Khary Randolph, at New York City College of Technology. He is currently the co-creator and artist of EXCELLENCE, published monthly from Image/Skybound, as well as the cover artist for the award winning series (and soon to be a motion picture from Warner Bros) BLACK and its forthcoming sequel WHITE, from Black Mask Studios. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4-9a5jl-panmw-85k7s-ct73r-fsw8t monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1628013961380-0EY2V32RDPDF9PP9NWRA/unnamed.jpg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Julie Robine Julie Robine is a designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn. Since graduating from RISD in 2015, she has worked as a freelance illustrator on a variety of projects, including the picture book The Day The Kids Took Over and the upcoming graphic memoir Muhammad Najem, War Reporter. Her favorite things include horror podcasts, forests, and really niche memes about queer culture. She loves drawing characters and crafting their worlds, and reading as many graphic novels as possible. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4-9a5jl-panmw-85k7s-ct73r monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627879040734-KPWG8WSWUH5AWPWXDGSZ/1.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Jorge+Aguirre+.jpeg+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Jorge Aguirre Jorge is an animation writer, producer, and book author. He wrote the graphic novel series The Chronicles of Claudette, which he co-created with artist Rafael Rosado (First Second Books/Macmillan). The first book, Giants Beware was called a “Rollicking fun story” by the New York Times; it received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, and was a nominee for a Texas Bluebonnet Award. The sequel was Dragons Beware and the third book, Monsters Beware was published in March, 2018. He recently collaborated with Rosado and wrote a story for the anthology, Comics Squad: Detention. He also wrote a graphic book review for the New York Times, which Rosado illustrated. He is working on a new graphic novel for First Second Books, Call Me Iggy. As an animation writer, he created, co-developed, and co-produced Disney Junior's, Goldie & Bear. He was a Story Editor for Nick, Jr., Blues Clues and Sprout's Nina's World. He's written on animated series for Amazon, Nick, Jr, PBS, and Netflix. His television producing credits include History Detectives, and non-fiction work for Discovery and TLC. A Colombian-American born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Aguirre calls the great state of New Jersey home. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4-9a5jl-panmw-85k7s monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878949441-0T1ACRNQ6MQJL3DHR12G/2.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Pe%CC%81ne%CC%81lope+Bagieu+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Pénélope Bagieu Pénélope Bagieu, is a bestselling French illustrator and comic designer. She is best known for her blog BDs (French webcomics in blog format) My Quite Fascinating Life and Les Culottées. Les Culottées was compiled and released in English as the graphic novel Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, which received widespread recognition. She has also created blog BDs California Dreamin' and Joséphine. Penelope Bagieu graduated with a baccalauréat in Economic and Social, she spent a year at ESAT Paris. She studied animation at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. She then studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Bagieu is in a rock band where she plays drums, and is a fan of nature shows. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4-9a5jl monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878830341-N3984GC16XEE6LTB0DW9/4.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Jibola+Fagbamiye+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Jibola Fagbamiye His work in the comic industry started with the self-published Dante: Last son of the Apocalypse, he also wrote and drew Arash: The Swift Arrow for the Tirgan Festival. His work draws inspiration from his two great loves: African history and North American pop culture. He uses a hybrid of digital design and traditional painting with influences of propaganda poster art, pop art and graphic novels to celebrate that history while inviting viewers to question their presumptions on consumerism, culture and normality. Jibola has exhibited in galleries in Toronto, Miami, New York and Lagos, and his work has been featured on AfroPunk, Toronto Life, Kobrini, CP24 and BlogTO. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts-eadm4 monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878769101-CXHBDW2VXSJIKTN2I0FB/5.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Kelly+Fernandez+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Kelly Fernandez Kelly Fernandez is a cartoonist and illustrator from Queens, New York. She is inspired by Latino folklore, 90's video games, and spooky monsters. Her first grahic novel, Manu, is forthcoming from Graphix. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9-knyts monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878698237-OQTR3PNO153K7ORGRAE8/6.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Braden+Lamb+%26+Shelli+Paroline+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Braden Lamb & Shelli Paroline Ian Lendler's The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth is a Kirkus Best Middle Grade of 2019 pick. He is also the author of the acclaimed Stratford Zoo graphic novel series illustrated by Zack Giallongo, and the picture books Undone Fairy Tale, Saturday, he Absolutely Positively No Princess Book, One Day A Dot, Little Sid, Nia and the Free Library, and The Fabled Life of Aesop: The extraordinary journey and collected tales of the world’s greatest storyteller. He has also written the adult non-fiction book, Alcoholica Esoterica. Ian originally hails from Wallingford, Connecticut (“home of the steamed cheeseburger”), has lived in New York City, London, and San Francisco, and now resides in San Rafael, CA (“home of normal cheeseburgers”). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr-x5an9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1628790593971-4HWHM872Q7G7TSS7MAEF/Ian+Lendler+2.jpg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Ian Lendler Ian Lendler's The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth is a Kirkus Best Middle Grade of 2019 pick. He is also the author of the acclaimed Stratford Zoo graphic novel series illustrated by Zack Giallongo, and the picture books Undone Fairy Tale, Saturday, he Absolutely Positively No Princess Book, One Day A Dot, Little Sid, Nia and the Free Library, and The Fabled Life of Aesop: The extraordinary journey and collected tales of the world’s greatest storyteller. He has also written the adult non-fiction book, Alcoholica Esoterica. Ian originally hails from Wallingford, Connecticut (“home of the steamed cheeseburger”), has lived in New York City, London, and San Francisco, and now resides in San Rafael, CA (“home of normal cheeseburgers”). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl-2ekmr monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878534373-7UZCKLIF9DHI3ZIXOBBZ/8.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Andre%CC%81s+Vera+Marti%CC%81nez+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Andrés Vera Martínez Andrés Vera Martínez is the co-author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel Little White Duck: A Childhood in China. The book received several starred reviews, including School Library Journal, Kirkus, and The Horned Book Magazine , and it won The New York Library Best Book for Kids. Gene Luen Yang reviewed Little White Duck for the New York Times Book Review saying, “Little White Duck’ is at once innocent and sophisticated. What Liu and Martínez do is convey a child’s-eye view of a country in transition. Politics, culture and history play into their stories, but the reader’s awareness of them is a child’s awareness… Their characters are more than just pieces to be puzzled into someone else’s narrative. They’re living, breathing people.” He is currently working on Courage to Dream with national book award winner, Neil Schusterman, for Scholastic Graphix. His work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3x3, Junior Library Guild, Slate Cartoonist Studio, School Library Journal, Horn Book Magazine, NPR, and The New York Times. Born in Lamesa, Texas, raised in Austin, he now lives and works in Maine with his wife, daughter, son, and two cats. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym-2thbl monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878469454-WZ0HRKTUGIYDI5N1X12N/9.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Conor+McCreery+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Conor McCreery He’s best known for his work on the Kill Shakespeare, series which has sold over 100,000 copies, as well as with story worlds like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Assassin’s Creed. As a journalist he’s worked on three continents, including as a reporter at The Ghana Statesman, and as a reporter and a producer for Business News Network. His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, BNN.ca, RaptorsHQ, Wired.com, The Grid and ‘Living with Shakespeare’ published by Random House. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas-ackym monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878383242-LAYBAOO3RH9427QU9S4S/10.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Hazel+Newlevant+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Hazel Newlevant Hazel Newlevant is a Portland-raised, Queens-residing cartoonist. Their comics include Tender-Hearted, Sugar Town, If This Be Sin, and No Ivy League forthcoming from Lionforge. They are the editor and publisher the anthologies Chainmail Bikini and Comics For Choice. Their work has been honored with the Ignatz Award, Xeric Grant and the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. They have worked as an Associate Editor at Lion Forge Comics. They like to dance around, alone or with others. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k-xmpas monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878293987-VIQ7GHFHRUXL1SXDPM8Y/11.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Danica+Novgorodoff+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Danica Novgorodoff Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, graphic designer, and horse wrangler from Louisville, KY, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include A Late Freeze, Slow Storm, Refresh, Refresh (included in Best American Comics 2011), and The Undertaking of Lily Chen. Her art and writing has been published in Best American Comics, Artforum, Esquire, VQR, Slate, Orion, Seneca Review, Ecotone Journal, and many others. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, and was named Sarabande Books’ 2016 writer in residence. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, Brush Creek, and Willapa Bay AiR. She currently completing her first picture book at work adapting and illustrating Jason Reynold’s National Book Award winning novel, Long Way Down, forthcoming from Simon&Schuster and writing her own non-fiction graphic novel about climate change for young people forthcoming with First Second Books. instagram @novgorodoff twitter @DNovgorodof https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz-jjw7k monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878216225-L4MR5VBIXEHAIXDK3X8P/12.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+George+O%E2%80%99Connor+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - George O’Connor Rafael Rosado Born in Puerto Rico and based in Columbus, Ohio. A seasoned writer, director and storyboard artist for the animation industry. He began his career at Character Builders in Columbus, Ohio as an assistant animator. He quickly worked his way up to become a character designer, storyboard artist and commercial director. During his tenure there he worked on such shows as Fox's Emmy Award-winning Life With Louie, HBO's Happily Ever After and Fox's Where in The World Is Carmen San Diego. After leaving Character Builders in 1994, Rafael went to work for Warner Brothers Animation, storyboarding on Pinky and The Brain and Emmy nominated Animaniacs, for which he also wrote two episodes. He was the recruited by the newly-founded Sony Television Animation division, where he worked on eleven shows including directing episodes of CBS's Project GeeKeR and NBC's Sammy. He was promoted to Supervising Director on Extreme Ghostbusters and Producer on Men In Black: The Animated Series. After 5 years honing his skills in Los Angeles, Rafael moved back to Ohio to raise his family. He is now one of the most highly sought-after storyboard artists, working for major studios such as Warner Brothers, The Walt Disney Company, Sony, Universal and the Cartoon Network. Highly diverse, he has storyboarded on action , comedy and pre-school shows, shows as diverse as Boondocks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Batman, The Venture Brothers and Curious George. His short film The Tortured Clown was acquired by and featured on the Sundance Channel. Rafael's graphic novel series, Giants Beware!, is published by First Second Books. He is currently illustrating the Y/A series, Brownout, with Jorge Aguirre forthcoming from First Second Books. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf-mz9tz monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878129952-N9CC4R55HFZIB0SCJOI3/13.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Rafael+Rosado+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Rafael Rosado Rafael Rosado Born in Puerto Rico and based in Columbus, Ohio. A seasoned writer, director and storyboard artist for the animation industry. He began his career at Character Builders in Columbus, Ohio as an assistant animator. He quickly worked his way up to become a character designer, storyboard artist and commercial director. During his tenure there he worked on such shows as Fox's Emmy Award-winning Life With Louie, HBO's Happily Ever After and Fox's Where in The World Is Carmen San Diego. After leaving Character Builders in 1994, Rafael went to work for Warner Brothers Animation, storyboarding on Pinky and The Brain and Emmy nominated Animaniacs, for which he also wrote two episodes. He was the recruited by the newly-founded Sony Television Animation division, where he worked on eleven shows including directing episodes of CBS's Project GeeKeR and NBC's Sammy. He was promoted to Supervising Director on Extreme Ghostbusters and Producer on Men In Black: The Animated Series. After 5 years honing his skills in Los Angeles, Rafael moved back to Ohio to raise his family. He is now one of the most highly sought-after storyboard artists, working for major studios such as Warner Brothers, The Walt Disney Company, Sony, Universal and the Cartoon Network. Highly diverse, he has storyboarded on action , comedy and pre-school shows, shows as diverse as Boondocks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Batman, The Venture Brothers and Curious George. His short film The Tortured Clown was acquired by and featured on the Sundance Channel. Rafael's graphic novel series, Giants Beware!, is published by First Second Books. He is currently illustrating the Y/A series, Brownout, with Jorge Aguirre forthcoming from First Second Books. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l-mcmsf monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627878005723-7H6XW724MSIJXE6MG5S8/14.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+Mark+Siegel+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Mark Siegel Mark was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in France. He graduated from Brown and lives in New York. Mark is the author and illustrator of several award-winning picture books and graphic novels, including Seadogs, Long Night Moon, To Dance, Moving House, and Sailor Twain, which author John Irving called “a gripping novel with compelling characters, enhanced by haunting, erotically charged artwork.” Mark’s latest project is the collaborative graphic novel 5 Worlds, an epic science-fiction series for young readers. The New York Times Book Review hails it as “ . . . a bang-zoom start to a series that promises to be epic in both the classical and internet senses of the word. . . this is a capital-S Saga.” Mark is also the founder, and Creative and Editorial Director of First Second Books, Macmillan’s graphic novel house. First Second offers an ambitious collection in every age category, in a wide range of themes and styles, with talent from all over the world. First Second has garnered an unmatched array of literary awards, starred reviews and bestsellers—including for the original works of National Book Award Finalist and Printz Winner Gene Luen Yang, and beloved bestselling titles such as This One Summer, Real Friends, Spill Zone, and many more. Mark has appeared before thousands of librarians and educators to speak about the graphic novel renaissance. Mark has given lectures and workshops internationally and all around North America, for authors, artists, librarians, students, executives in many venues, at tradeshows, companies, Comic Cons, and animation studios, including Blue Sky, Dreamworks, Disney, and Pixar, for both creative and executives. Visit Mark's Website. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee-csl4l monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627877948988-TD9XVK9SUIM7L5A01QS9/15.+Graphic+Novel+Client+-+James+Otis+Smith+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - James Otis Smith James Otis Smith is a multi-talented artist whose work spans illustration, comics, motion graphics, and video. Formerly a member of the Act-i-vate Comix collective, Smith lives in Brooklyn, New York. Most recently he adapted and illustrated the graphic Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater by Ted Fox. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/y2i2g1icp68i3nzxd0wxl9ab4qj6ee monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627877828827-5PV81IWTDK4PVSBG5TBY/16.+Graphic+Novel+Client+Client+-+Sara+Varon+.jpeg Clients - Graphic Novels Feed - Sara Varon Sara Varon is a printmaker, graphic novelist, and children's book author/illustrator living in Brooklyn. Her books include Odd Duck, Bake Sale, Robot Dreams, Chicken & Cat, and Chicken & Cat Clean Up, and the forthcoming Hold Hands picture book and the Sweet Pea middle grade graphic novel detective series from First Second Books. Her work has received many accolades including: Best Children's Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews for Odd Duck, YALSA Great Graphic Novel for 2012 for Bake Sale. Robot Dreams was a Texas Bluebonnet Award winner for 2008, Oprah's Kids' Reading List in 2008, Publisher's Weekly 150 Best Books of the Year, The American Library Association awards Notable Children's Book, named an NCTE Notable Book in the Language Arts, Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Books of the year, a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title. Chicken and Cat was a 3x3 Magazine’s Silver Medalist for 2006, and a Parents' Choice Foundation Silver Medal for the Picture Book. She was a recipient of the 2013 Maurice Sendak Fellowship and an Eisner nominee in 2014 .Sara currently teaches printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/category/Clients+-+Graphic+Novels monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Danica+Novgorodoff monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Jibola+Fagbamiye monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Rob+Kutner monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Rafael+Rosado monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Brandi+Lamb+%26+Shelli+Paroline monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Mark+Siegel monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Sara+Varon monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Ian+Lendler monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Khary+Randolph monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Kelly+Fernandez monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Hazel+Newlevant monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/James+Otis+Smith monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Andr%C3%A9s+Vera+Mart%C3%ADnez monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Conor+McCreery monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/George+O%27Connor monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/P%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope+Bagieu monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Jorge+Aguirre monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsgraphic/tag/Julie+Robine monthly 0.5 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/j7z7khz4r8re4rb-8awzh-gf832-8lgwm-d7dza-gdcek-tr38n-6rejw-j3r2a-jxs9f-d8ch4-g6clw-594m6-s5mpz-4f7ag-jwlje-tcftx-2anlw monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/6a2bd1c5-e29c-4171-b9d9-4fd1f95b2849/Kortney-Morrow-1024x1024-1-2013342798.jpg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - KORTNEY MORROW Kortney Morrow is a poet and writer creating from her studio in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has received support from 68to05, The Academy of American Poets, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, and Transition Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Run It Back, was the winner of the 2024 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, judged by Carmen Giménez. Kortney is represented by McKinnon Literary. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/j7z7khz4r8re4rb-8awzh-gf832-8lgwm-d7dza-gdcek-tr38n-6rejw-j3r2a-jxs9f-d8ch4-g6clw-594m6-s5mpz-4f7ag-jwlje-tcftx monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/c774c7c9-bb6d-4f3e-ac9d-03f669bb41be/Screenshot+2025-10-10+at+12.04.13%E2%80%AFAM.png Clients - Adult Trade Feed - MARIE Alohalani BROWN Dr. Marie Alohalani Brown is an award-winning author and committed activist/kiaʻi. She is Kanaka ʻŌiwi and grew up in Mākaha, Waiʻanae on Oʻahu, but her Kanaka ancestral roots are in Hoʻokena, Hawaiʻi. A world traveler, Dr. Brown has visited over thirty countries; lived in Tokyo for four years and Rome for nearly seventeen. She speaks English, Hawaiian, Italian, and French to varying degrees of fluency. She currently resides at Moʻo Momona, at Kapuʻeuhi, Hawaiʻi Island. Dr. Brown is a specialist in Hawaiian religion and moʻolelo; 19th-century Hawaiian history, historical trauma and healing; and ʻŌiwi life writing. Much of what is known today about Hawaiian religion derives from the writings of 19th-century Hawaiians in the Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948, and in interviews carried out from the 1950s until the present. These archives have been the primary focus of Dr. Brown's research for nearly two decades. Dr. Brown strives to raise awareness of the importance of moʻolelo, a Hawaiian artistic-intellectual genre, as a receptacle of and a vehicle for transmitting Hawaiian knowledge. The genre termed moʻolelo is predicated on ʻŌiwi ways of knowing and being. Mary Kawena Pukui’s definition of moʻolelo showcases the way that it is culturally informed: moʻo and ʻōlelo combined denote “series of talks,” a union reflecting a long history of oral tradition as Pukui points out (see Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert’s Hawaiian Dictionary, s.v. “moʻolelo”). Although this genre is distinctly ʻŌiwi, it encompasses and/or incorporates and weaves together elements from what in English would be termed story, history, myth, epic, legend, origin story, cautionary tale, folk tale, and life writing, such as autobiography, biography, and memoir. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/j7z7khz4r8re4rb-8awzh-gf832-8lgwm-d7dza-gdcek-tr38n-6rejw-j3r2a-jxs9f-d8ch4-g6clw-594m6-s5mpz-4f7ag-jwlje monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/965dfba8-568c-4806-a870-0c4fdfb62163/08tate-appraisal1-superJumbo-1530523383.jpg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Greg Tate estate A “godfather of hip hop journalism” Greg Tate was an immensely influential artist and cultural critic whose tenure at the Village Voice and later the Source shaped the sensibility of a generation of musicians and thinkers. 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Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in in the early modern Black Atlantic. Her recent journal articles include “Reproductive Racial Capitalism” in a special issue of History of the Present co-written and co-edited with Alys Weinbaum, and “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery,” in Small Axe. In addition to her archival work as an historian, Morgan has published a range of essays on race, gender, and the process of “doing history,” most notably “Experiencing Black Feminism” in Deborah Gray White’s edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2007). She is currently working on The Eve of Slavery—a project about slavery and freedom in the seventeenth century that centers around Elizabeth Key—the black woman who sued for her freedom in Virginia in 1656. Morgan served as the Council Chair for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture from 2019-2022. 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She has written for numerous anthologies and publications and specializes in international and multicultural fiction and nonfiction. For more information please visit: https://www.brownsugarbooks.com https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9-sp4ew-mbfct-xlwnm-lrwkw-8cd5a-7s428 monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629181513029-WBKAD4X1ID965GELT9IA/04164aa3ea2494a45a4de5a33ce44ec9.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Nicole Sealey Born in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka, Florida, Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, the 2021 Granum Foundation Prize, a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial and Poetry International Prizes, as well as fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, MacDowell, the National Endowment and New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2018 and 2021. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University. Her forthcoming volume of poetry, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, will be published by Knopf in the U.S. and Bloodaxe Books in the U.K. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9-sp4ew-mbfct-xlwnm-lrwkw-8cd5a monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627872444966-ME23ELZD51INN8HLRB5Q/1.+Adult+Client+-+Emily+Bernard.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Emily Bernard Emily Bernard was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a B. A. and Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Boston Globe Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Green Mountains Review, Oxtford American, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and theatlantic.com. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Nonfiction. Her first book, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. When discussing her latest book, Black is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, Fresh Air called her, "A revelatory storyteller of race in America who can hold her own with some of those great writers she teaches." She has received fellowships and grants from Yale University, Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Studio Center, and The MacDowell Colony. A contributing editor at Image and The American Scholar, Emily is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Black is the Body won the Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose in the Los Angeles Times 2020 Book Prizes competition. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Emily lives in South Burlington with her husband John, twin daughters Isabella and Giulia. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9-sp4ew-mbfct-xlwnm-lrwkw monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627872311796-Y9XAAML6A2NVQCXNF2F0/2.+Adult+Client+-+Daphne+A.+Brooks.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Daphne A. Brooks Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR; Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005) and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University, February 2021). Brooks has authored numerous articles on race, gender, performance and popular music culture, such as “Sister, Can You Line It Out?: Zora Neale Hurston & the Sound of Angular Black Womanhood” in Amerikastudien/American Studies, “‘Puzzling the Intervals’: Blind Tom and the Poetics of the Sonic Slave Narrative” in The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative, “Nina Simone’s Triple Play” in Callaloo and “‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’: Surrogation & Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe” in Meridians. She is also the author of the liner notes for The Complete Tammi Terrell (Universal A&R, 2010) and Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia (Sony, 2011), each of which has won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music writing, and her liner notes essay for Prince’s Sign O’ The Times deluxe box set was published in fall of 2020. She is the editor of The Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007) and The Performing Arts volume of The Black Experience in the Western Hemisphere Series, eds. Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (New York: Pro-Quest Information & Learning, 2006). From 2016-2018, she served as the co-editor of the 33 1/3 Sound: Short Books About Albums series published by Bloomsbury Press. She is the co-founder and co-director of Yale University’s Black Sound & the Archive Working Group, a 320 York Humanities Initiative. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Guardian, Pitchfork.com(link is external) (link is external) and other press outlets. Brooks is currently editing an anthology of essays forthcoming from Duke University Press and culled from Blackstar Rising & The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince, an international 3-day conference and concert which she curated. More information at her website. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9-sp4ew-mbfct monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627872151670-NWZXQWVP6MCWX60E3WVX/4.+Adult+Client+-+Devin+Carbado.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Devon Carbado Devon Carbado is Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and the Associate Vice Chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. He teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication. He has won numerous teaching awards, including being elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of Law classes of 2000 and 2006 and received the Law School's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003 and the University's Distinguished Teaching Award, the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching in 2007. In 2005 Professor Carbado was named an inaugural recipient of the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship. Modeled on the Guggenheim fellowships, it is awarded to scholars whose work furthers the goals of Brown v. Board of Education. He is the author with Mitu Gulati of Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America (Oxford University Press) and the editor of several volumes, including Race Law Stories (Foundation Press) (with Rachel Moran), The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives (Beacon Press) (with Donald Weise), and Time on Two Crosses: The Collective Writings of Bayard Rustin (Cleis Press) (with Donald Weise). A board member of the African American Policy Forum, Professor Carbado was the Shikes Fellow in Civil Liberties and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2012. Professor Carbado graduated from Harvard Law School in 1994. At Harvard, he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, a member of the Board of Student Advisors, and winner of the Northeast Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. He is currently working on a series on a book about the fourth amendment forthcoming with the New Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9-sp4ew monthly 0.5 2021-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1629057120792-N0AVRC94V00CTF6SO28N/5+-+Adult+Client+-+Brittney+Cooper.jpg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Brittney Cooper Brittney Cooper is an award-winning author, teacher, and public speaker who believes Black feminism can change the world for the better. She is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University and the is co-founder of the popular Crunk Feminist Collective blog. Her recent critically-acclaimed work, Eloquent Rage: A Black Woman Discovers her Superpowers (St. Martin's Press), was an Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 and named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Public Library, Mashable, The Atlantic, Bustle, The Root, NPR, and Fast Company. Her Ted Talk, The Racial Politics of Time, has been viewed over 800,000 times. She has been a contributing writer for Cosmopolitan.com and columnist for Salon.com. Her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, The Beat with Ari Melber, Melissa Harris-Perry, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, The Cut, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, Ebony.com, Essence.com, TheRoot.com, TED.com, and has been named four times to The Root 100. She is also co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection (The Feminist Press) and the author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l-xsny7-y5ba9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871920559-YU52W8NQDLGB3JIN3H6D/6.+Adult+Client+-+Ashon+Crawley.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Ashon Crawley Ashon Crawley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of the Lambda Award winning The Lonely Letters, an exploration of the interrelation of blackness, mysticism, quantum mechanics and love, to be published with Duke University Press in 2020. He is currently working on a third book, tentatively titled "Made Instrument," about the role of the Hammond Organ in the institutional and historic Black Church, in Black sacred practice and in Black social life more broadly. All his work is about otherwise possibility. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm-tjz2l monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871707350-KYF0ISRHIEJ7B9J7A5P7/8.+Adult+Client+-+Marcia+Dyson.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Marcia Dyson Marcia Dyson is a powerful reverend, astute businesswoman, and unrelenting social activist, who has dedicated her life, ministry, and career to fighting gender inequality and oppression as well as economic and political inequity at the local, national, and international levels. She is one of America’s most respected civil-social activists and is the president and CEO of M and M Dyson, LLC, an international consultant enterprise in matters of business development, marketing, political strategies, and social engagement. A champion of women's rights around the globe for more than three decades, she is the founder and CEO of Women’s Global Initiative, a for-profit organization that works to enhance the lives of women by increasing their wealth, education, and civil participation. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright selected her to be on the Women’s Global Summit Leadership Board and Zainab Al-Suwaij, the president of the American Islamic Congress, invited her to join her in Cairo, Egypt, to work with Egyptian women on creating a modern narrative for Muslim women. Dyson co-hosted the First Ladies Global Summit in 2012 and is a member of the Middle East Peace Civic Forum—the goal of which is to create a civic participation and conversation between Israeli and Palestinians. She is also an annual participant at the Black Entertainment Television (BET)’s Leading Women Defined Summit. Committed to helping rebuild Haiti, Dyson has worked as consultant to the Clinton Foundation on behalf of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC) and as a volunteer with Partners in Health and Partners in Education. She is a board member of We Advance, an organization founded by Maria Bello and Alison Thompson that challenges domestic violence and other social injustices toward women in Haiti, as well as a member of Femmes en Démocratie, which aims to empower Haitian women to seek political participation. Dyson was a contributor to Essence magazine and currently contributes to New Deal 2.0, The Grio, The Root, and The Huffington Post and has been a political commentator on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Show. She is a member of the Black Women's Roundtable, which acts as a liaison to the White House on behalf of women to voice their concerns; a member of Face to Face, which addresses cultural differences among women, diplomacy, and social justice for women globally; and a member of the Middle East Peace Civic Forum, the goal of which is to foster conversation between Israelis and Palestinians. She is also an executive advisor and consultant to the National Conference of Black Mayors. Dyson was senior vice president of R.J. Dale and senior manager for Margie Korshak Inc. She was a Presidential Scholar at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina; an executive board member of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas; and an advisor to Howard University's international outreach team and business school. Dyson is also an affiliate of Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice, Teaching, and Research in Washington, DC, where her husband, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, is a tenured professor. Her memoir is forthcoming with St. Martin’s Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b-26pnm monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871608434-120ZOUK97F0HHW112OU6/9.+Adult+Client+-+Michael+Eric+Dyson.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Michael Eric Dyson Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is the New York Times Bestselling author of What the Truth Sounds Like, Tears We Cannot Stop, The Black Presidency, I May Not Get There With You, and Is Bill Cosby Right? He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He is a New York Times contributing opinion writer, a contributing editor of The New Republic, and contributing editor of ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans, and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation. Previously he has held professorships at Chicago Theological Seminary, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, DePaul University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dyson’s influence has spread far beyond the academy in his roles of renowned orator, highly sought-after lecturer, and ordained Baptist minister. For the last quarter century, Dyson has also enlivened public debate across the media landscape on every major television and radio show in the country, from Good Morning America to the Today Show, from NPR’s All Things Considered to its former show Talk of the Nation, from the Charlie Rose Show to Def Poetry Jam, from This Week with George Stephanopoulos to Meet the Press, and from Real Time with Bill Maher to Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Dyson has won many prestigious honors, including an American Book Award and two NAACP Image Awards. Ebony magazine cited him as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, and as one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation. Dyson’s pioneering scholarship has had a profound affect on American ideas. His 1994 book Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X, was named one of the most important African American books of the 20th century and was also named a "Notable Book of the year" by the New York Times. According to Publisher’s Weekly, Dyson’s 2001 book, Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, helped to make books on hip hop commercially viable. And Dyson’s 2005 New York Times bestseller Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? helped to jump start a national conversation on the black poor. Dyson’s recent book, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, has been described by The New York Times as "an interpretive miracle." It was a finalist for the prestigious 2016 Kirkus Prize. Dyson's latest book is the widely praised New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, has. Even described by the New York Times as "One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait. Dyson's eloquent writing has inspired Vanity Fair magazine to describe him as "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today." Dyson's legendary ascent – from welfare father to Princeton Ph.D., from church pastor to college professor, from a factory worker who didn’t start college until he was 21 -- may help explain why writer Naomi Wolf calls him “the ideal public intellectual of our time." Visit Michael's Website https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb-jmh3b monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871525202-QI45KDC6CDB0SDK96LRV/10.+Adult+Client+-+Kendra+Field.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Kendra Field Kendra Field is associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, January 2018). The book traces her ancestors' migratory lives between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Field also served as Assistant Editor to David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009). Field's research and teaching areas include race, slavery, freedom, migration, and social movements in the long nineteenth century; African-American family history, memory, and public history. Field has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and Harvard University's Charles Warren Center in American History. Field's recent articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Western Historical Quarterly, and Transition. She is the recipient of the Western Writers of America's, 2017 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, the 2016 Boahen-Wilks Prize, and the OAH's Huggins-Quarles Award. Field has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" (2013) and "Roots: A History Revealed" (2016). Field received her Ph.D. in American History from New York University. She also holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Williams College. Previously, Field served as Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, and worked in education and the non-profit sector in Boston and New York. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p-8ptrb monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871433613-4FNJP5EFKOE3OHQ25SPA/11.+Adult+Client+-+Tanisha+C.+Ford.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Tanisha C. Ford Tanisha C. Ford is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015), which narrates the powerful intertwining histories of the Black Freedom movement and the rise of the global fashion industry. Liberated Threads won the 2016 Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She is a co-founder of TEXTURES, a pop-up material culture lab, creating and curating content on fashion and the built environment. Tanisha's work centers on social movement history, feminist issues, material culture, the built environment, black life in the Rust Belt, girlhood studies, and fashion, beauty, and body politics. Her public writing and cultural commentary have been featured in diverse media outlets and publications including ELLE, The Atlantic, The Root, Aperture, The Feminist Wire, Cognoscenti, New York Times, The New Yorker, Ebony, NPR: Code Switch, Fusion, News One, New York Magazine: The Cut, Yahoo! Style, Vibe Vixen, and New York City’s HOT 97. Her scholarly research has been published in the Journal of Southern History, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, The Black Scholar, and Qed. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh-7af7p monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871350872-A3XCQHJCTV3F6WSO0V3Y/12.+Adult+Client+-+Shennette+Garrett-Scott+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Shennette Garrett-Scott Shennette Garrett-Scott is a historian of gender, race, and capitalism. Her award-winning first book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) is the first full-length history of finance capitalism that centers black women and the banking institutions and networks they built from the eve of the Civil War to the Great Depression. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7-wgabh monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871271071-UTYD4TIQME8V300U0IXN/13.+Adult+Client+-+Alicia+Garza+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Alicia Garza Alicia Garza is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She is currently an Oakland-based organizer, writer, and public speaker serving as the Strategy and Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance. A contributing editor for Marie Claire, she is also working on a new initiative called the Black Future’s Lab. Her book on Black Lives Matter is forthcoming with One World Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr-xw5x7 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871073960-0DRTPKRCJWVDM92LF6JH/14.+Adult+Client+-+William+Germano+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - William Germano William Germano received his B.A. from Columbia and his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. He has taught at Cooper Union since 2006 and was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2006 until 2017. Prior to that he as the editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press and then vice-president and publishing director at Routledge. His scholarly work considers literature and the allied arts, the material culture of the book, and the problems of intellectual production. He is particularly interested in the writing life of scholars, a subject he has written on in Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press), which has been translated into Japanese, and From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press), which has been published in Spanish and Chinese. He has also written on Powell and Pressburger's 1951 film "The Tales of Hoffmann" in the British Film Institute Film Classics series. His essays have appeared in PMLA, Minnesota review, Scholarly Publishing, SPAN, Publishing Research Quarterly, PNR, Lingua Franca, and other publications. His scholarly essays have appeared in Opera Quarterly, University of Toronto Quarterly, The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Two Conversations with Contemporary Critics, and The Humanities and Public Life. He is a contributor to the two-volume Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare and the Oxford Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. A trustee emeritus of The English Institute, he serves on the advisory council of the Princeton University department of English, the boards of Johns Hopkins University Press and of Goldsmiths Press (UK), and the board of the Chicago Manual of Style. His most recent book, Eye Chart (Bloomsbury, 2017), a volume in the Object Lessons series, considers the history of one of the most familiar of graphic designs -- the common eye chart -- and examines its cultural life from the seventeenth century to the present day. Currently, he is working on a book on revising academic writing, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, and a project tentatively called Shakespeare at the Opera: A History of Impossible Projects, which will consider the ways in which Shakespeare's very English plays and characters have been adapted into a very Continental dramatic form. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth-8gyhr monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627871013528-V1WZO3WJA5U6RWF6726P/15.+Adult+Client+-+Alexis+Pauline+Gumbs.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs graduated from Duke with a PhD in English, African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She founded two organizations; The Mobile Homecoming project (an experiential archive amplifying generations of Black LGBTQ Brilliance) and Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind. Her works include Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity; M Archive: After the End of the World; and the forthcoming Dub: Finding Ceremony (all Duke University Press, 2016, 2018, 2020). She is the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016) and Creative Writing Editor of Feminist Studies. Bitch described M Archive by saying, "Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." And a starred Publisher's Weekly review, said, "Groundbreaking.... This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s-79yth monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870952144-X4FVWLJ7S1ANDVMY3BP3/16.+Adult+Client+-+Franc%CC%A7oise+Hamlin+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Françoise Hamlin Françoise N. Hamlin is an Associate Professor in History and Africana Studies at Brown University. She earned her Masters from the University of London, and her B.A. from the University of Essex (both in United States Studies). Hamlin is the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), winner fo the 2012 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize and the 2013 Lillian Smith Book Award. These Truly Are The Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on Citizenship and War is a co-edited anthology published by the University of Florida Press in 2015. It was a finalist for the QBR 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction, and was republished in paperback in 2018. Hamlin's new research focuses on youth, trauma, and activism. At Brown she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses primarily in twentieth century U.S. history, African American history, southern history, cultural studies and Africana Studies. Prior to joining the faculty at Brown, Professor Hamlin was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the University of Michigan (2004-2005), and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2005-2007). Since then she has been a Charles Warren Center Fellow at Harvard University (2007-2008), and a Woodrow Wilson-Mellon Fellow (2010-2011). Most recently she was the American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellow (2017-2018) at the Radcliffe Institute. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9-trn8s monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870880011-SG9ZF2CFVTKLQDU9JZSU/17.+Adult+Client+-+Michael+Harriot+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Michael Harriot Michael is a critically-acclaimed poet, journalist, and broadcaster. A Senior Writer for TheRoot.com, his work also appears on verysmartbrothers.com and Ebony. He recently won the 2019 National Association of Black Journalists award for digital commentary. He was the sole writer for Angela Rye’s Midterm Election Special on BET, which won the NABJ Award for Television, and he is currently writing Young Gifted and Broke, a BET news program about disparities in the American educational system. Known for his sharp take on racial news, he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and numerous international outlets to discuss race relations in America, and his work is often cited by outlets and individuals from the New York Times and the Washington Post, to Dave Chapelle and Nikole Hannah Jones. His weekly Clapback Mailbag, where he responds to hate mail, has garnered a cult-like following. He holds a degree in mass communications and history from Auburn University and an M.A. in macroeconomics from Florida State University. His latest venture, NegusWhoRead, is a hub for information, opinion, and ideas for Black thinkers. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28-p92z9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870792653-2MKSSS8OZIUEAQG9S7B7/18.+Adult+Client+-+Sylvia+A.+Harvey.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Sylvia A. Harvey Sylvia A. Harvey is a New York-based journalist and reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. She reports at the intersection of race, gender, and policy. Her focus is on the 2.7 million Children of Incarcerated Parents, COIP, a demographic rendered invisible by our criminal justice system and public policy. SAH’s written work has appeared in The Nation, Yes! Magazine, ELLE, Colorlines, The Feminist Wire, Narratively, the New York Post, AOL’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Patch, where she served as the gentrification columnist, and more. Her commentary on race and the criminal justice system has been featured on WNYC, NPR, WBAI, HuffPost Live, and beyond. She is the recipient of a Logan Non-Fiction Residency from The Carey Institute for Global Good, a National Headliner Award recipient, and a National Association of Black Journalists, NABJ, Salute to Excellence awardee. Her book The Shadow System is forthcoming with Bold Type Books. The Oakland native holds a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Columbia University and a Master of Science in journalism from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel-pec28 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870713769-DTO31HN42S8WI5W2UW48/19.+Adult+Client+-+Obery+M.+Hendricks+Jr..jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Obery M. Hendricks Jr. Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.” His lastest book, Christians Against Christianity: How the Right-Wing Has Debased the Faith is forthcoming from Little Brown. A widely sought lecturer and media spokesperson, Dr. Hendricks’ appearances include CNN, CBS, Fox News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, NHK Japan Television and the Bloomberg Network. He has provided major event running commentary for National Public Radio, MSNBC, and the al-Jazeera and Aspire international television networks. Dr. Hendricks has been a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, for whom he delivered the closing benediction at the 2008 Democratic Convention; served on the National Religious Leaders Advisory Committee of the 2008 Democratic Presidential campaign and currently serves on the Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group at the U. S. Department of State. He has been an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress and serves on the board of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Dr. Hendricks is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and Salon.com, a former editorial advisor to the award-winning Tikkun magazine, and a contributing editor to The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. The Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation has called his work “the boldest post-colonial writing ever seen in Western biblical studies.” Hendricks’ bestselling book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday), was the featured subject of the 90-minute C-SPAN special hosted by the Center for American Progress, “Class, Politics and Christianity. A past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the United States, Dr. Hendricks is currently a Senior Fellow at The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communications think tank; a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University with appointments in the Department of Religion and the Institute for Research in African American Studies; and is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. An Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hendricks holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy-78tel monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870621607-PVRQYPG4ZTFIR802V9IY/20.+Adult+Client+-+Kristin+Nicole+Henning+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Kristin Henning Kristin Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, will be released by Pantheon Books at Penguin Random House in September 2021. “Kris” Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law, where she supervises law students and represents children arrested in Washington DC. Before joining Georgetown’s faculty in 2001, Professor Henning was an attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where she helped organize and lead a Juvenile Unit designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile legal system. Professor Henning writes extensively about race, adolescence, and policing. Her previous work appears in journals and books such as POLICING THE BLACK MAN: ARREST, PROSECUTION AND IMPRISONMENT (2017, edited by Angela J. Davis) and PUNISHMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE (2015, edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat). Race features prominently in her articles such as The Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence and the Fourth Amendment; Race, Paternalism and the Right to Counsel; and Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behavior in Communities of Color: The Role of Prosecutors in Juvenile Justice Reform. Professor Henning is also an editor and co-author of an anthology RIGHTS, RACE, AND REFORM: FIFTY YEARS OF CHILD ADVOCACY IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM (2018). Professor Henning has trained state actors across the country on the nature and scope of racial bias and how it operates in the juvenile and criminal legal systems. Her workshops help stakeholders recognize their own biases and develop strategies to counter it and equip defenders to challenge racial injustice in their individual case advocacy and broader systemic reform efforts. Professor Henning also worked closely with the McArthur Foundation’s Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to develop a 41-volume Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP), a national training curriculum for juvenile defenders. She now co-hosts, with the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), an annual week-long JTIP summer academy for defenders. In 2019, she partnered with NJDC to launch Racial Justice for Youth: A Toolkit for Defenders, and again in 2020 to launch the Ambassadors for Racial Justice program, a year-long program for defenders committed to challenging racial inequities in the juvenile legal system. Henning serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Children’s Law and Policy and is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center. She has served as an expert consultant on juvenile justice to a number of state and federal agencies, including the USDOJ’s Civil Rights Division, and was the Reporter for the ABA Task Force on Dual Jurisdiction Youth. Professor Henning is the recipient of many honors, including the 2021 Juvenile Leadership Prize, the Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense from NJDC, the Shanara Gilbert Award from the American Association of Law Schools for her commitment to justice on behalf of children, and appointment as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement on Children and the Law project. In 2005, Professor Henning was selected as a Fellow in the Emerging Leaders Program of the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Professor Henning also traveled to Liberia in 2006 and 2007 to aid the country in juvenile justice reform. She received her B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.M. from Georgetown Law. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f-yxppy monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870552963-RDIJKFX7AIDAY1WYN0DG/21.+Adult+Client+-+Kelly+Lytle+Hernandez.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Kelly Lytle Hernandez Kelly Lytle Hernández is a Professor of History and African American Studies, and the Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. This week her most recent work, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, won the John Hope Franklin Prize. It had already won The American Book Award, James Rawley Prize, and The Athearn Book Prize. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, her previous work Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol has also garnered awards, including the 2010 Clements Prize, Honorable Mention for the 2011 Lora Romero First Book Prize, Honorable Mention for the 2011 John Hope Franklin Prize, and finalist in the 2011 First Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. In 2007 she won the Oscar O. Winther Award for the best article to appear in the Western Historical Quarterly, and the Bolton-Kinnaird Award for best article on the Spanish borderlands. Her latest book, Bad Mexicans: Ricardo Flores Magon and the Undocumented Immigrants who Felled a Tyrant and Changed the World is forthcoming from Norton. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687-c9d2f monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870495063-RPJV74QQ80DAFT05TWGP/22.+Adult+Client+-+Ben+Herold+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Ben Herold Benjamin Herold is a 2019-20 Spencer Fellow in Education Journalism at the Columbia University Journalism School. Herold is also a technology reporter at Education Week, where he has led an award-winning investigation into the nation’s online charter schools, and detailed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s multi-billion-dollar foray into public education. He has appeared on PBS Newshour, Radio Times, Think Out Loud, and The Big Picture with Oliver Knox. Prior to joining Education Week in 2013, Herold covered the Philadelphia school district for WHYY public radio and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, winning first-place awards from the Education Writers Association as the nation's top education beat reporter and for his feature reporting on Philadelphia's mass school closings. He has a master's degree in urban education from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he currently lives with his family. His first book, Disillusioned: How The Suburbs and Their Public Schools Undermine the American Dream is forthcoming from Penguin Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym-nd687 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870398715-8C4OOKYH6B1A6BYBFHLJ/23.+Adult+Client+-+Farah+Jasmine+Griffin+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Farah Jasmine Griffin B.A., Harvard (1985); Ph.D. ,Yale (1992). Professor Griffin's major fields of interest are American and African American literature, music, history and politics. The recipient of numerous honors and awards for her teaching and scholarship, in 2006-2007 Professor Griffin was a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin’: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001) and Clawing At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne, 2008). She is also the editor of Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus (Knopf, 1999) co-editor, with Cheryl Fish, of Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing (Beacon, 1998) and co-editor with Brent Edwards and Robert O'Meally of Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004). https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y-bshym monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870318926-T2IUQPOY6XYDXMV8CNBY/24.+Adult+Client+-+Kellie+Carter+Jackson+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Kellie Carter Jackson Kellie Carter Jackson is the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Her book, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press) was a finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Prize Award for 2019. The Washington Post also listed Force and Freedom as one of 13 books to read on the history of Black America. Carter Jackson is co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, & Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press). With a forward written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reconsidering Roots is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted entirely to understanding the remarkable tenacity of Alex Haley’s visual, cultural, and political influence on American history. Carter Jackson and Erica Ball have also edited a Special Issue on the 40th Anniversary of Roots for Transition Magazine (Issue 122}. Together, Ball and Carter Jackson have curated the largest collection essays dedicated to the history and impact of Roots. Carter Jackson was also featured in the History Channel's documentary, Roots: A History Revealed which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award in 2016. Her essays have been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Time, The Conversation, Boston’s NPR Blog Cognoscenti, Black Perspectives, and Quartz. She has also been interviewed for her expertise for MSNBC, SkyNews (UK), The New York Times, PBS, The Huff Post, the BBC, Boston Public Radio, Al Jazeera International, Slate, The Telegraph, Reader’s Digest, CBC, and Radio One. Carter Jackson has also been featured in a host of documentaries on history and race in the United States. Carter Jackson is also a commissioner for the Massachusetts Historical Commission, where she represents the Museum of African American History in Boston. She earned her B.A at her beloved Howard University and her Ph.D from Columbia University working with the esteemed historian Eric Foner. She has been awarded fellowships such as the Harvard College Fellowship in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University and the Newhouse Faculty Fellowship for the Center of the Humanities at Wellesley College. Before coming to Wellesley College, Carter Jackson was a Harvard College Fellow in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D in American History at Columbia University working under the esteemed historian Eric Foner. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf-lrr7y monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870179732-CMTH08RBZKVNCSE3GVN0/25.+Adult+Client+-+Martha+Jones+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Martha Jones Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Martha Jones is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), winner of the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Forthcoming in 2020 is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Fought for Rights for All (Basic.) Professor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015, together with many important articles and essay. Today, she is at work on a biography of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. Professor Jones is recognized as a public historian, frequently writing for broader audiences at outlets including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. Clements Library, and collaborations with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the American Experience, the Southern Poverty Law Center, PBS, Netflix, and Arte (France.) Professor Jones holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the CUNY School of Law. Prior to the start of her academic career, she was a public interest litigator in New York City, recognized for her work a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York at Columbia University. Professor Jones currently serves as a President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b-l35nf monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870073772-CPHUYQC2B5XU0RD9XBNL/26.+Adult+Client+-+Stephanie+Jones-Rogers+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Stephanie Jones-Rogers Stephanie Jones-Rogers is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley where she specializes in African-American history, women’s and gender history, and the history of American slavery. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she held the Harrington Faculty Fellowship in the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. She is the author of the book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. In 2012, she earned her doctoral degree in African-American History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her dissertation won the Lerner-Scott Prize which is given annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. After graduation she began her career as an assistant professor jointly appointed in the departments of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. She spent the 2013-2014 academic year at Tulane University as the Newcomb College Institute’s Post-doctoral Fellow in Law and Society. In addition to the post-doctoral fellowships she held, she has also received prestigious fellowships from the Hellman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/ynn77pssdxfey6b monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627870014740-PXFB4R9GL3F3U2401GGN/27.+Adult+Client+-+Philip+Kadish+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Philip Kadish Philip Kadish is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College in New York City. He received his PhD in American Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and his MFA in fiction writing from Brooklyn College. He teaches courses on multicultural American literature, Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies, and Whiteness Studies. His research looks at the role of scientific theories of race in shaping American culture from literature and popular culture to law, politics, and public policy. He has presented his research at Yale, Princeton, Notre Dame, Georgetown, and numerous other universities. His op-eds connecting contemporary racial issues to their roots in nineteenth-century American culture have appeared on CNN.com and NBC.com. His first book, the Great White Hoax, is forthcoming from the New Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49-gchz7-ybdtz-syws5-dt2y7-8l8cj monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869946316-MBCYZYIDJ6EHNIVAGDLY/28.+Adult+Client+-+Blair+L.M.+Kelley+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Blair L.M. Kelley Dr. Blair LM Kelley is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, published in the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture at the University Press of North Carolina in 2010 and was awarded the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Best Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. She is currently at work on a new book manuscript, The Execution of Corrine Sykes: Black Maids, Murder, and Memory which explores the racial climate in World War II era Philadelphia during the trial and execution of Corrine Sykes, a black woman convicted of murder who became the last woman put to death by Pennsylvania in its history. Her latest book Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class is forthcoming from Norton. A proponent of engaging publics in both traditional and new media, Kelley has been a guest on Here & Now, Melissa Harris Perry Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Democracy Now, and WUNC’s The State of Things. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, TheRoot.com, TheGrio.com, Ebony.com, Salon.com, Jet Magazine, and Medium.com. Kelley produced and hosted a podcast called Historical Blackness. She also has more than 38,000 engaged followers on Twitter. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49-gchz7-ybdtz-syws5-dt2y7 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869853372-JQT8J9BA1ADZS9OEND0Y/29.+Adult+Client+-+Robin+D.G.+Kelley+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Robin D.G. Kelley Robin Kelley is both a wunderkind of the academy as well as a much-loved public intellectual. He is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and recently completed a year-long visiting professorship as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His writing regularly appears in The Nation, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, US News and World Report, Utne Reader, The Root, Monthly Review, The Voice Literary Supplement, Boston Review, and Huffington Post to name a few. He is the author of many prize-winning books including Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class, and Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (selected as a Village Voice top ten book), He also edited (with Earl Lewis), To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans, a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and a History Book Club Selection. And his articles such as “The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the System Worked,” receive over one million hits. He is currently at work on The Education of Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century forthcoming from Metropolitan Books. Besides the Harmsworth Professorship at Oxford, Robin has been a visiting scholar of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University, and delivered the prestigious Nathan Huggins Lectures at Harvard, which were published last year as Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. Among the many honors and awards he has received are the PEN Open Book Award, the Jazz Journalist Association Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Outstanding Book in Human Rights Award from the Gustavus Myers Center at the Society of American Historians (twice), the ABC CLIO Award for Best Scholarly Article, the Elliot Rudwick Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and the Francis Butler Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Association. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49-gchz7-ybdtz-syws5 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869795524-FVR68843Y3MLGRTJ5BIZ/30.+Adult+Client+-+Jamilah+King+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Jamilah King Jamilah King is currently the Race and Justice reporter at Mother Jones, having previously worked as a senior staff writer at Mic, and a senior editor at Colorlines. Her work has appeared in The California Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, the Advocate, Salon, and Fusion, among other publications. Jamilah is a Senior Fellow at Pop Culture Collaborative where she tests the curation and production of stories, strategies and big ideas at the intersection of pop culture and social justice. She produced two content packages called Break the Story for Pop Culture Collaborative to engage stakeholders and potential change agents in social justice, philanthropy and entertainment, newsletter and social media platforms. Jamilah’s content focused on critical narrative conversations, big strategy questions and emerging culture change models. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49-gchz7-ybdtz monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869726519-AC9XNBDUEYWWSW96L8L0/31.+Adult+Client+-+Jamilah+Lemieux+.png Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Jamilah Lemieux A renowned cultural critic and writer with a focus on issues of race, gender and sexuality, Jamilah Lemieux is a leading millennial feminist thinker, influencer and game-changing media maverick. Lemieux formerly served as the Vice President of News and Men’s Programming for iOne Digital, where she helped spearhead the creation of Cassius, a progressive digital lifestyle platform and as the Senior Editor for EBONY magazine, where she played a key role in launching the publication’s website in 2012 and modernizing the brand voice and identity. She recently departed the 9-to-5 world to strike out on her own and launched The Lemieux Group, a consulting firm that provides communications, public relations and crisis management services. In this capacity, she served as the Communications and Engagement Strategist to Cynthia Nixon’s campaign for governor of New York and is currently working as a Communications Strategist for Girls for Gender Equity, a leading grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy and service delivery organization centering youth of color within the racial and gender justice movement of the 21st century. Lemieux’s written work has been featured via a host of print and digital platforms, including Essence, Mic, The Guardian, Colorlines, The Washington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and The New York Times. She penned the forward for the 2015 anniversary of Michele Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman and the 2017 re-release of Ann Petry’s Miss Muriel and Other Stories. She has appeared as a commentator on various news programs for CNN, ABC, CBS, BET, Buzzfeed, MTV2, and MSNBC, as well as Comedy Central's 'The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore' and 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,' Vice’s ' Desus and Mero,' TMZ and The Breakfast Club, the popular nationally syndicated morning radio show. In 2018, after years of calling for accountability for the famed R&B singer known for his mistreatment of underage girls and women, she was prominently featured in Lifetime’s critically acclaimed docuseries, 'Surviving R. Kelly.' As a public speaker, Lemieux has addressed countless audiences at schools, conferences and cultural events, including the official commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X. Her previous public speaking appearances include panels, keynotes and hosting duties at Columbia University, Vassar College, Howard University, SXSW, Georgetown, NYU, the Brooklyn Museum, Penn State, Morehouse College, Emory, the Claremont Colleges, the University of Iowa, Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University. Lemieux has been featured on The Root 100 list of the nation's most influential African Americans, and has been honored by Planned Parenthood, the New York City Council, the New York State Senate, Black Women's Blueprint, Walker’s Legacy and the Delta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She resides in Brooklyn. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49-gchz7 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869575180-D01KQKXX3W96CYBLDEYU/32.+Adult+Client+-+Miles+Marshall+Lewis+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Miles Marshall Lewis Miles Marshall Lewis is a pop culture critic, essayist, fiction writer and music journalist. There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ Series), his book on the making of the classic Sly and the Family Stone album, followed closely behind Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises (Akashic Books), a debut essay collection on coming of age in the Bronx in the 1970s-80s. Over the past 20 years, his celebrity profiles and arts criticism have been published by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Washington Post, NPR, The Nation, Essence, Salon and many others. His latest book, Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press His personal website, MMLunlimited.com, enjoys a dedicated following first established 10 years ago as the blog Furthermucker. Lewis also built an international audience living in Paris from 2004-2011, lecturing in France, England and Algeria, and chronicling his life abroad in an online PopMatters column, Paris Noir. On the voting roster at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, he has been digital arts and culture editor of Ebony, entertainment journalist at the French Press Agency, literary editor of Russell Simmons’s Oneworld, digital music editor of Black Entertainment Television (BET), music editor of Vibe and deputy editor of XXL. His interview with the late Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is anthologized in both The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (Believer Books) and Approaching Literature in the 21st Century (St. Martin’s Press); his fiction has been published in Wanderlust (Plume), Brown Sugar (Washington Square Press), and the award-winning Bronx Noir anthology (Akashic Books); and his essays have appeared in Rebecca Walker’s Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (Soft Skull) and Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey (Aria). His articles have appeared in Essence, The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Ebony, Salon, The Nation, The Fader, L.A. Weekly, Spin, Wax Poetics, The Believer, Okayplayer, GQ.com, Essence.com, Billboard.com, Complex, The Root, Genius, The Huffington Post, PopMatters, BET.com, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Vibe, King, XXL, The Source, Blender, Uptown, Honey, Oneworld, True, Rap Pages. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z-p5b49 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869511455-SUNK6IJY0CNATR18KQI4/33.+Adult+Client+-+L%27Heureux+Lewis-McCoy+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI (2008) and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA (2000). His central line of research concentrates on educational inequality particularly focused on the intersecting roles of race, class, and place. His first book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling examined the experiences of low income and racial minority families' attempts at accessing school-related resources in an affluent suburb. He is currently fielding a multi-site ethnographic study in Westchester County that examines residents’ experiences with housing and schools. His larger research interests include race and racism, gender justice, and community mobilization. His research has appeared in multiple edited volumes and academic journals such as Urban Education, American Educational Research Journal, and Ethnic & Racial Studies. He is a frequent media contributor and public speaker. His insights have been included in Ebony Magazine, The Grio, The Root, US World News Report and on channels such as CNN and Al Jazeera. Prior to joining NYU Steinhardt, he held an appointment as an associate professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York - CUNY and was a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93-f486z monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869448670-47JU29U0RNH44S9ACFGK/34.+Adult+Client+-+Bettina+Love+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Bettina Love Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia. She is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers. Her writing, research, teaching, and activism meet at the intersection of race, education, abolition, and Black joy. Dr. Love is concerned with how educators working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in Abolitionist Teaching with the goal of intersectional social justice for equitable classrooms that love and affirm Black and Brown children. In 2020, Dr. Love co-founded the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). ATN’s mission is simple: develop and support teachers and parents to fight injustice within their schools and communities. In 2020, Dr. Love was also named a member of the Old 4th Ward Economic Security Task Force with the Atlanta City Council. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including: Abolitionist Teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, Hip Hop feminism, art-based education to foster youth civic engagement, and issues of diversity and inclusion. She is the creator of the Hip Hop civics curriculum GET FREE. In 2014, she was invited to the White House Research Conference on Girls to discuss her work focused on the lives of Black girls. For her work in the field of Hip Hop education, in 2016, Dr. Love was named the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. In April of 2017, Dr. Love participated in a one-on-one public lecture with bell hooks focused on the liberatory education practices of Black and Brown children. In 2018, Georgia’s House of Representatives presented Dr. Love with a resolution for her impact on the field of education. She has also provided commentary for various news outlets including NPR, Ed Week, The Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. She is the author of the books We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Her work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the English Journal, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and the Journal of LGBT Youth. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w-tbn93 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869372428-319GZGCUXR6YJLHDJHII/35.+Adult+Client+-+Julianne+Malveaux+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Julianne Malveaux Dr. Malveaux’s popular writing has appeared in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Essence Magazine, and the Progressive. Her weekly columns appeared for more than a decade (1990-2003) in newspapers across the country including the Los Angeles Times, Charlotte Observer, New Orleans Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Examiner. She has hosted television and radio programs, and appeared widely as a commentator on networks, including CNN, BET, PBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN and others. Dr. Julianne Malveaux has been a contributor to academic life since receiving her Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1980. She has been on the faculty or visiting faculty of the New School for Social Research, San Francisco State University, the University of California (Berkeley), College of Notre Dame (San Mateo, California), Michigan State University and Howard University. She holds honorary degrees from Sojourner Douglas College (Baltimore, Maryland), Marygrove College (Detroit, Michigan), University of the District of Columbia, and Benedict College (Columbia, South Carolina). She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Boston College. During her time as the15th President of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Julianne Malveaux was the architect of exciting and innovative transformation at America’s oldest historically black college for women. Under her leadership, the administration identified four key focus areas: women’s leadership, entrepreneurship, excellence in communications, and global awareness. In the five short years of her presidency, Bennett College successfully received a 10-year reaffirmation of its accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, markedly improved existing facilities, embarked on a $21 million capital improvements program – which marked the first major campus construction in more than 25 years – and in fall 2009 enjoyed an historic enrollment high. Currently, Dr. Malveaux is the Honorary Co-Chair of the Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute as well as The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. A native San Franciscan, she is the President and owner of Economic Education a 501 c-3 non-profit headquartered in Washington, D.C. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c-tbp4w monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869116005-0VN8F85PBZEZVKKQ5P7C/36.+Adult+Client+-+Dani+McClain+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Dani McClain Dani McClain, author of the critically acclaimed We Live For The We: is a contributing writer for The Nation. She is a fellow at The Nation Institute and has written for Talking Points Memo, Al Jazeera America, Colorlines, EBONY.com and Guernica, among other media outlets. McClain reported on education while on staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and has also worked as a strategist and communications staffer with organizations including ColorOfChange.org and the Drug Policy Alliance. Follow her on Twitter at @drmcclain. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj-gpz8c monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627869028855-P0EFPN3FWBT1LXJZWZXB/37.+Adult+Client+-+Tiya+Miles+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Tiya Miles Tiya Miles is Professor of History at Harvard University, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women’s histories. Her temporal and geographical zones of greatest interest include the nineteenth-century U.S. South, Midwest, and West. Miles offers courses on African American women, Native American women, abolitionist women, and “Black Indian” histories and identities. She has become increasingly engaged in environmental humanities questions and ways of articulating and enlivening African American environmental consciousness. Miles is the author of five books. These include: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Lora Romero Prize from the American Studies Association), The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (winner of the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Ethnohistory Book Prizes); The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist), and Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (a published lecture series). Her prize-winning scholarly articles and essays explore nineteenth-century women’s struggles against injustice, conjoined Black and Native histories & literatures, public histories of plantations, and southern coastal environments. With the literary critic Sharon P. Holland, Miles co-edited a collection of essays on Afro-Native lives titled Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (2006). Miles has served as a volunteer consultant for the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis and the Chief Vann House State Historic Site in Georgia. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (2011-2016) and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture (2007). Her research on the Detroit River region was supported by a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship. Her newest book, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (New Press, 2017), received the Merle Curti Award in Social History and James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations from the Organization of American Historians, the James Bradford Best Biography Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, an American Book Award, and a Frederick Douglass Prize. Miles is currently at work on a new project about enslaved women’s creativity supported by an NEH Public Scholars Award. Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She holds an AB in Afro-American Studies from Harvard University, an MA in Women’s Studies from Emory University, and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She taught on the faculty of the University of Michigan for sixteen years, where she served as Chair of the Department of Afroamerican & African Studies, Director of the Native American Studies Program, and founding director of ECO Girls (Environmental & Cultural Opportunities for Girls in Urban Southeast Michigan). Please visit Tiya Miles’s websites for more information on her public history projects. tiyamiles.com mappingdetroitslavery.com https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata-834yj monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868921602-FYINENAQPM5EKWJRMVG6/38.+Adult+Client+-+Koritha+Mitchell+.png Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Koritha Mitchell Koritha Mitchell is an award-winning author, cultural critic, and professional development expert. Her first book, Living with Lynching, won awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Her second monograph, From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture, appeared in August 2020 and was named a Best Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine. She is also editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances E.W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy, and her scholarly articles include “James Baldwin, Performance Theorist, Sings the Blues for Mister Charlie,” published by American Quarterly, and “Love in Action,” which appeared in Callaloo and draws parallels between lynching and violence against LGBTQ communities. Mitchell has been invited to offer guidance to scholars at every stage of their careers by various types of institutions, including the Ford Foundation, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), the New Jersey Department of Education, Vanderbilt University, Michigan State University, the College of Wooster, and Princeton University. In addition to serving as external reviewer for tenure dossiers, she has chaired committees to select the winners of fellowships, essay awards, and book awards. In 2014, Mitchell lectured at the Library of Congress, and in 2018, she was named Undergraduate Professor of the Year by Ohio State University’s English Undergraduate Organization. On Twitter, she’s @ProfKori. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2-l8ata monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868815675-38WUFJCVNW1YH1AJ0B49/39.+Adult+Client+-+Nan+Mooney+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Nan Mooney Nan Mooney is the author of the memoir My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track (HarperCollins), and the nonfiction books (Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents (Beacon Press) and I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work (St. Martin's Press). Her work has also appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Slate, the Seattle Weekly, and Hamptons Jitney Magazine. She holds a BA from Scripps College. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm-jfc9m-ehxh2 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868732607-HG7R25YNSAAW2TZI2ISI/40.+Adult+Client+-+Mark+Anthony+Neal+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Mark Anthony Neal Mark Anthony Neal is Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit). He also co-directs the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity ( DCORE ). He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013). The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal’s New Black Man was published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Neal is co-editor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition. Additionally Neal host of the video webcast Left of Black, which is produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke. You can follow him on Twitter at @NewBlackMan. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd-2pbhm monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868571964-ELJS41SEDMC3RL4U9L94/42.+Adult+Client+-+Tony+Curtis+Perry+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Tony Curtis Perry As a scholar of race, culture, and the environment, Tony Perry’s research focuses on the environmental history of slavery in the U.S. In this work Perry examines how the institution of slavery informed enslaved people’s relationship to the environment, how this relationship diverged from that of slaveholders, and how differences in the enslaved community contributed to differences in said relationship among slaves. He argues that across several dimensions of the environment – the land and landscape, the aquatic, the weather, and the supernatural – enslaved women and men relied heavily on the latter as the primary arena of power from which they drew, even as they frequently found the environment an antagonizing entity in their daily lives. Perry received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, an M.A. in American Studies from Purdue University, and a B.A. in English and Africana Studies from Bowdoin College. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm-hkghd monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868504421-ILIS0794HYIBHPS916W5/43.+Adult+Client+-+Robert+Reid+Pharr+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Robert Reid-Pharr He was previously a Distinguished and Presidential Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining the Graduate Center he was an assistant and associate professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he has been the Jess and Sara Cloud Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, the Edward Said Visiting Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and the Carlisle and Barbara Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in African American culture and a prominent scholar in the field of race and sexuality studies, Reid-Pharr has published four books: Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (Oxford University Press, 1999); Black, Gay, Man: Essays (NYU Press, 2001); and Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (NYU Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in, among other places, American Literature, American Literary History, Callaloo, Afterimage, Small Axe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Women and Performance, Social Text, Transition, Studies in the Novel, The African American Review, Feminist Formations, Art in America, and Radical America. Reid-Pharr serves on the editorial boards of Studies in American Fiction and Social Text and he is a member of the editorial advisory committee of the journal, Callaloo. His research and writing have been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2015 he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. He is the recipient of a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his forthcoming work, Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique. He lives in Brooklyn. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2-f2ggm monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868420506-KYVNN5UZOEJB1TVGAIPU/44.+Adult+Client+-+Jenn+Pozner+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Jenn Pozner Jenn Pozner is a media critic, journalist, and Founding Director of Women In Media & News (WIMN), a media justice group which increases women’s presence and power in public debate through media analysis, education, and advocacy. Her book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV — the first book to expose how reality TV has functioned as backlash against gender and racial justice — was called “required reading for every American girl and woman” by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, and "insightful, funny, fun" by “Colbert Report” writer Cecelia Lederer. She is currently working on BREAKING (the) NEWS a non-fiction graphic forthcoming from First Second Books. Her media analysis has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, Newsweek, Ms. Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Elle Canada, Macleans, Politico, The Daily Beast, The Establishment, Salon, and Jezebel, among other news outlets and anthologies. In addition, Jennifer has served as an adviser and featured commentator for numerous documentaries, including the award-winning film Miss Representation, and has delivered media commentary on CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, NPR, CBC, Al Jazeera, and Comedy Central. And, because she’s a glutton for punishment, she’s gone head to head with some of the most blustery boys of cable news, including Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Joe Scarborough. As a media literacy educator she has conducted keynotes, workshops, and media trainings on gender, race, class, and sexuality in the media at more than 400 schools, non-profits, businesses, and conferences across the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and Turkey, as well as the United Nations, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She conducts media trainings for gender and racial justice groups such as Women for Afghan Women, NOW, YWCA, SPARK, Hollaback, Chicago Foundation for Women, and the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. And, as an incurable comedy nerd, Jennifer produced and co-wrote the satirical media literacy web series Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn ,which has been used in classrooms domestically and abroad. Prior to founding Women In Media & News, she directed the Women’s Desk at FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting), where she wrote for Extra! magazine and contributed to CounterSpin radio, and was a Media Watch columnist for Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, then the oldest feminist newspaper in America. She is the inaugural winner of the “Voice of Women” Award at the 2017 Women’s Choice Awards, which honored her work to “shape the positive portrayal of girls and women in entertainment and media.” Forbes magazine named @jennpozner one of “20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter,” and the New Leaders Council honored her as one of 40 Under 40 progressive leaders making positive change in America several years ago. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26-hnwf2 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868348020-Q9ESGX1E3XQXNNA3GJ3E/45.+Adult+Client+-+Elizabeth+Stordeur+Pryor+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor Her article, “The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North,” won the Journal of Early Republic’s Ralph D. Gray Prize for the best article of 2016. In 2016 she also published a monograph entitled Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War. Over 10 years at Smith, Pryor has developed methods for teaching the n-word. In turn, she has created an interactive workshop that she presents to high school and college faculty across the country. Her expertise on the n-word has been featured on podcasts, radio, TV and theater including interviews on NPR, NEPR, Backstory Podcast, WGBY and at a Broadway “talk back” for the musical Choir Boy. Pryor is the winner of Smith’s most prestigious teaching awards; she is Smith College’s Faculty Teaching Mentor for Inclusive and Equitable Pedagogies; and the inaugural recipient of the Smith College Presidential Award for Student Mentorship. Her latest book, Talking About the N-Word: A Personal Social History, is forthcoming from 37 Ink. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt-97d26 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868285716-RPWCP37TMZWLW6E9NAQR/46.+Adult+Client+-+Laurence+Ralph+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Laurence Ralph Laurence’s first book, Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago, was published by the University of Chicago Press. This book grapples with the consequences of the “war on drugs” together with mass incarceration, the ramifications of heroin trafficking for HIV infected teenagers, the perils of gunshot violence and the ensuing disabilities that gang members suffer. Investigating this encompassing context allows him to detail the social forces that make black urban residents vulnerable to disease and disability. Renegade Dreams received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in 2015. Laurence’s latest book, Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, explores a decades long scandal in which 125 were tortured while in police custody. The Torture Letters was also published by The University of Chicago Press. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge-ffelt monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868218291-M0OFPXG7NLRM103CX7KS/47.+Adult+Client+-+Kenrya+Rankin+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Kenrya Rankin Kenrya Rankin is an award-winning author, journalist and editorial consultant whose insight has been tapped by leading outlets, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress. She is currently the deputy editor at Colorlines. As a journalist and editor, her work has appeared in dozens of national publications—including Reader’s Digest, Ebony, Glamour and Fast Company—and it has been translated into 21 languages. She writes about everything from literature to technology, but her heart lies with racial justice, identity and parenting. She is also the founder and editorial director of parenting site BlackAndGreenMama.com and is a practicing doula at Mama's Intuition Doula + Lactation Services. She previously served as editorial associate at Reader's Digest, lifestyle editor at Latina, D.C. editor for Uptown Magazine and contributing editor at ShopSmart. She has published four books, including Bet on Black: African-American Women Celebrate Fatherhood in the Age of Barack Obama and the How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance (Nation Books). Kenrya earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from Howard University, and her master’s degree in publishing from New York University. She is a proud native of Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives in the Washington, DC area with her brilliant daughter. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt-h2sge monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868148640-S2I7XQ8YNJCPBTLR4B6M/48.+Adult+Client+-+Daniel+Rood+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Daniel Rood Dan Rood is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Georgia. He specializes in the history of Atlantic slavery and its intersections with the histories of technology, agriculture, and capitalism. His first book, The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. "Bogs of Death" in the Journal of American History was awarded a best article prize by the Agricultural History Society in 2014. He coedited of Global Scientific Practice in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850. His essays have appeared in numerous edited anthologies such as Slavery’s Capitalism (U Penn Press) and New Frontiers of Slavery (SUNY Press). He has been teaching and writing about the history of pre-Civil War plantations for more than a decade. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8-9p9xt monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868085127-B6K9HP60I1X9I4LZ7790/49.+Adult+Client+-+Noliwe+Rooks+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Noliwe Rooks An interdisciplinary scholar, her work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and political life in the United States. Specifically, Rooks works on the cultural and racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment. In addition, her work explores race, capitalism and education, as well as Black women and material culture. The author of four books and numerous articles, essays and OpEd’s, Rooks has received funding from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center to aid in her research. She lectures frequently at colleges and universities around the country and is a frequent contributor to popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Time Magazine and NPR. Rooks’ current book, in which she coined the term “segrenomics,” is Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education which won an award for non-fiction from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Her current research, for which she has received a Kaplan Fellowship and a fellowship from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, will explore relationships between capitalism, land, urban food politics and cannabis legalization in the United States. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9-t7as8 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627868020566-RGZ12JG8DVPNPE7BHYTN/50.+Adult+Client+-+Tricia+Rose+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Tricia Rose Born and raised in Harlem and the Bronx in New York City, Tricia Rose graduated from Yale University where she received a BA in Sociology and then received her Ph.D. from Brown University in American Studies. She has taught at NYU, and UC Santa Cruz and is currently Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Rose also serves as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives. In addition to her duties at Brown, Professor Rose sits on the Boards of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Color of Change and Black Girls Rock, Inc. Rose is an internationally respected scholar of post civil rights era black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender and sexuality. She has been awarded for her teaching and has received several scholarly fellowships including ones from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. She is most well known for her groundbreaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America is considered foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what is now an entire field of study. Black Noise won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995, was voted among the top 25 books of 1995 by the Village Voice and in 1999 was listed by Black Issues in Higher Education as one of its "Top Books of the Twentieth Century." In 2003 Rose published a rare and powerful oral narrative history of black women's sexual life stories, called Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy. In 2008, Professor Rose returned to hip hop to challenge the field she helped found, with: The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters. Her essays can be found in a range of scholarly journals and public venues. She is currently working on a project called How Structural Racism Works. Tricia Rose lectures, engages in conversation and presents seminars and workshops to scholarly and general audiences on a wide range of issues relating to race in America, mass media, structural inequality, popular culture, gender and sexuality and art and social justice. Rose has been featured on PBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and other national and local media outlets. More of her work can be found in scholarly journals, and more popular outlets. She encourages you to connect with her on her website: www.triciarose.com, on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8-zzjl9 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627867947611-MYPI2XVMQVZ9Z5ZAXY39/51.+Adult+Client+-+Gio+Russonello+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Gio Russonello Giovanni Russonello is a music critic and journalist who covers jazz and improvised music as well as electoral politics for the New York Times. He’s also the founding editor of CapitalBop, a publication and presenting organization serving the Washington, D.C. jazz scene. He is a 2021 fellow in the Logan Nonfiction Program. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR Music, JazzTimes, The FADER, DownBeat and others. For more than two years he hosted “On the Margin,” a weekly books show on WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C. He has delivered lectures on the intersection of music and politics at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France; as the 2019 critic in residence at the Ace Hotel New Orleans; and elsewhere. He graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history, with a focus on African-American history. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe-d5zt8 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627867873681-B5DMHSCDKMG7QYLVC236/52.+Adult+Client+-+Julietta+Singh+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Julietta Singh Julietta Singh is a writer and academic who works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), and No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018). Her academic writing has been published in leading cultural theory journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her creative work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Animal Shelter, Prairie Fire, Social Text, and Women & Performance. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4-ywtys-xcpxe monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627867777926-XU3ZO6VUFNCWSNX2WYM2/53.+Adult+Client+-+Akiba+Solomon.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Akiba Solomon Akiba Solomon is the Senior Editorial Director of Colorlines. She is an NABJ-Award winning journalist from West Philadelphia. Online, she has written about culture and the intersection between gender and race for Ebony, Dissent, Essence and POZ. As Colorlines' inaugural reporting fellow, Solomon reported on reproductive health access for women of color. Solomon has also been a health editor for Essence, a researcher for Glamour and a senior editor for the print versions of Vibe Vixen and The Source. She is the co-editor of the anthology titled "How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance" (Bold Type Books). Solomon was the coeditor "Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Lips, Hips and Other Parts."As a panelist, she has spoken about women’s and social justice issues at a range of institutions including The Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture, Stanford University, Yale University and Harvard University. 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A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003, and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, a collection edited by Spillers published by Routledge in 1991. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera-fbcw4 monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627867206897-RJKUE1P1NM9HHP9KTZ57/55.+Adult+Client+-+Steven+Thrasher+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Steven Thrasher Steven W. Thrasher, Ph.D., holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ+ research. He is also a faculty member of the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern, the largest university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the health of LGBTQ+ people. In 2019, Out magazine named him one of the 100 most influential and impactful LGBTQ+ people of the year. A scholar of the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher recently served as a national surrogate and advisor on AIDS policy to the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. He has worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice, a contributing editor for BuzzFeed News, U.S. Writer-At-Large for The Guardian, and a regular contributor to the New York Times op-ed page. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Teen Vogue. An avid public speaker on matters of race, sexuality, and public health, he has given talks at universities and cultural institutions around the world, and is a frequent commenter on social matters on Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera, PBS, CNN and many public radio programs and podcasts. Radio journalism he has produced has been broadcast by National Public Radio programs like All Things Considered and Morning Edition and on Public Radio International’s Marketplace. Dr. Thrasher’s accolades include the Courage Award from the Anti-Violence Project, the James A. Arronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College, the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, an induction into the Hall of Fame of the American Sociological Association’s journal Contexts, an Honorable Mention for the American Studies Associations Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for Best Dissertation, and receiving writing grants from the Gannett, Ford and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations. Prior to his career as a journalist, Dr. Thrasher earned a BFA in film and worked in the crews of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, HBO’s The Laramie Project, and NPR’s StoryCorps project. He earned his doctorate in American Studies from New York University in 2019. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg-fyera monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627866827394-5R7542QV7AZWSB770K47/56.+Adult+Client+-+Salamishah+Tillet+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Salamishah Tillet Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing; Founding Director of the New Arts Social Justice Initiative at Express Newark; Associate Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University and formerly the Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a contributing Culture critic to the New York Times and the author of Sites of Slavery (Duke University Press), Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview for Amazon, In Search of 'The Color Purple' (forthcoming the Abrams series Writers on Writing), and All the Rage “Mississippi Goddam,” and the World that Nina Simone Made forthcoming from Ecco Press. In 2003, she and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, co-founded A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that uses art to empower young people and end violence against girls and women and is the subject and writer of the "Story of A Rape Survivor" multimedia performance. She is featured in "Rape Is...," is an associate producer of Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s groundbreaking film "NO! The Rape Documentary," and along with Gloria Steinem wrote the new introduction for the 30th anniversary of Robin Warshaw's landmark book "I Never Called It Rape" to be reissued by HarperCollins in September 2018. In July, Tillet will join Rutgers University-Newark as the founding director of the Public Arts and Social Justice Initiative, the Associate Director of the Price Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience and as the Henry Rutgers Term Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing. She has been the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow for Career Enhancement and served as a visiting fellow at the Center of African American Studies at Princeton University. She also been awarded the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2013-14, she was a Scholar-in-Residence at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She wrote the liner notes for John Legend and The Roots’ three-time Grammy award-winning album, Wake Up!. and was interviewed in the documentary, “The Amazing Nina Simone.” Tillet has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, TEDxWomen, All In With Chris Hayes, AM Joy with Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow Show, and PBS News Hour. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, The Guardian, The Nation, New York Magazine, New York Review of Books, The Root, Time, Callaloo as well as in the premiere academic journals, American Literary History, American Quarterly, and Novel. For her leadership in activism and advancing girls and women’s rights, Tillet was named as one of the “Top 50 Global Leaders Ending Violence Against Children” by the Together for Girls’ Safe magazine and America’s “Top Leaders Under 30” by Ebony. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb-yjahg monthly 0.5 2021-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627866730799-VQOAC41EB639PXGMNEFO/57.+Adult+Client+-+Arun+Venugopal+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Arun Venugopal Arun Venugopal is Senior Reporter of Race & Justice at WNYC. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. He also serves as a regular guest host of NPR's Fresh Air. Arun was the creator and host of Micropolis, a series about race and identity. He is a contributor to NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has appeared on PBS Newshour, On the Media and Studio 360, and has been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Salon. He also frequently serves as an emcee and moderator of panel discussions on race, religion and identity issues. He lives with his family in Queens. https://www.mckinnonliterary.com/clientsadult/client-name-5e7zb monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f625e07b41171bd4b7a89e/1627866637036-2FMMXRFC1KYKVBQM0DEA/58.+Adult+Client+-+Monica+White+.jpeg Clients - Adult Trade Feed - Monica White Dr. Monica M. White is an associate professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. She is the first African American woman to earn tenure in the College of Agricultural Life Sciences at UW-Madison. Her research investigates communities of color and grassroots organizations that are engaged in the development of sustainable, community food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility. Her publications include “A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms Cooperative,” in Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment. Her first book, entitled, “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement,” is under contract with University of North Carolina Press, released fall 2018. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement revises the historical narrative of African American resistance and breaks new ground by including the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. The book traces the origins of Black farmers’ organizations to the late 1800s, emphasizing their activities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Whereas much of the existing scholarship views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of Black people, Freedom Farmers reveals agriculture also as a site of resistance by concentrating on the work of Black farm operators and laborers who fought for the right to participate in the food system as producers and to earn a living wage in the face of racially, socially, and politically repressive conditions. Moreover, it provides an historical foundation that will add meaning and context for current conversations regarding the resurgence of agriculture in the context of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans. In addition to her academic work, she is the past President of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), and has served on the advisory board of SAAFON (Southeast African American Farmers Organic Network). Active in the food justice movement for over a decade, especially active in Detroit with the DBCFSN, her work in the classroom and community embodies the theoretical framework of Collective Agency and Community Resilience and the use of community-based food systems and agriculture as a strategy of community development. As a result of her scholarship and community work, Dr. White has received several grants including a multi-year, multi-million dollar USDA research grant to study food insecurity in Michigan. She has also received several teaching and service awards including the 2013 Olsen Award for distinguished service to the practice of Sociology from the Michigan Sociological Association and the Michigan Campus Compact Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award. 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