From the archives: The March Trilogy is one of the most important graphic novels created. A superbly told history of the civil rights movement, John Lewis’s personal account of the actions of individuals and organizations throughout the South (but focused largely in Alabama) is a gripping, passionate, and richly detailed narrative of the events that would eventually …
I’d been reading picture books to my kids for years before writing my own. I’d always taken pleasure in them but never really considered what a deep art form the genre is. It took creating Libba to figure that out.First, let’s take the words. Like in a song or poem, I wanted to get them just right. …
Besides in her novels, Zora Neale Hurston left us a rich legacy of black cultural history through her recordings as an anthropologist of the African American folk narrative, striving to, as she puts it “set down essential truth.” Here in this vital addition to her already known work, dating back to 1927, are interviews documenting …
From Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR: Look back at 100 cultural touchstones with civil rights activist Dick Gregory in Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies. Read actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish’s powerful and hilarious essays in the highly demanded The Last Black Unicorn. And learn about the birth of a modern …
