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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood by Dani McClain From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/weliveforthewe.html 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 auth...

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Yasmin the Superhero. Saadia Faruqi (Author)  Hatem Aly (Illustrator) Black Is a Rainbow Color. Angela Joy (Author)  Ekua Holmes (Illustrator) Rocket Says Look Up! Nathan Bryon (Author)  Dapo Adeola (Illustrator) Harriet Gets Carried Away. Jessie Sima (Author) Peanut Goes for the Gold. Jonathan Van Ness (Author)  Gillian Reid (Illustrator) A Family Is a Family Is a Family. Sara O'Leary (Author)  Qin Leng (Illustrator) The Little Red Stroller. Joshua Furst (Author)  Katy Wu (Illustrator) Strega Nona. Tomie dePaola (Author)

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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks From Bookshop.org https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-about-love-new-visions-bell-hooks/8888106 "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nat...