Echo Brown, Young Adult Author/Performer, Dies at 39
Echo Brown, a late blooming storyteller who mined her life to create a one-woman show about Black female identity and two...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 Book Selection - Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley.
'About Us' Bookclub readers have voted and our 3rd read is Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosely: protagonist Joe King Oliver was...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Poll for Selection of Our Next 'About Us' Read & Discussion on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 @ 6p.
Poll for Selection of Our Next 'About Us' Read & Discussion on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 @ 6p.
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Apr 5
- 1 min
We Discussed HIDE with the Engaging and Inspirational author, Tracy Clark - April 4, 2023
'About Us' Bookclub members had the pleasure of conversation with the gregarious Tracy Clark. Member Bernadette LaFrance expressed the...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Apr 1
- 1 min
The Subversive Art of Phillis Wheatley
A biography by David Waldstreicher offers a radical new vision of the life and work of colonial America’s brilliant Black female poet -...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Amerie’s New Children’s Book ‘You Will Do Great Things’ Bridges the Gap in More Ways Than One.
“You will do great things” sounds like an amazing affirmation we should all speak to ourselves. That’s why Grammy-nominated...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Reclaiming The Narrative: Must-Read Memoirs By Black Authors - Black America Web
Twelve memoirs from some of our most influential Black Americans.
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 12
- 1 min
College removes partial Malcolm X quote that sparked protest - Yahoo 3/10/23.
Malcolm X Quote Library FILE - Malcolm X sits for a portrait in London on Feb. 9, 1965, after he was refused entry into France. The...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 10
- 1 min
Colin Kaepernick's recalled that his white adoptive parents unwittingly perpetuated racism - CBSnews
The graphic novel, 'CHANGE THE GAME,' tells the story of Kaepernick’s journey from high school into his storied athletic career that...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 8
- 1 min
The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know - NYT 3/8/23
A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive. “We don’t have...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 7
- 1 min
At 86, Maryse Condé has called writing a “force she can’t resist” - NYT 3/6/23
“The Gospel According to the New World,” Condé's 3rd book to be published in the United States in her 80s. Throughout her four-decade...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Toni Morrison’s New Revelatory Exhibition At Princeton University.
"TONI MORRISON: SITES OF MEMORY" IS ON DISPLAY IN THE ELLEN AND LEONARD MILBERG GALLERY INSIDE THE FIRESTONE LIBRARY NOW THROUGH JUNE 4....
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Dr. James Marion Sims performed experiments on Black female slaves without anesthesia.
Alabama artist and activist, Michelle Browder, works to correct historical narrative around beginnings of gynecology. Sims, known as the...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Book Discussion with the Author, Tracy Clark - April 4, 2023 @ 6p.m.
UPDATE: It's with great pleasure that I announce that Tracy Clark, the author of Hide, will join our ZOOM discussion of her book, Hide....
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 8
- 1 min
Poll for Selection of Our Next 'About Us' Read and Discussion on Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Poll on next READ. Next READ scheduled Tuesday, April 4, 2023 @ 6p. - in memoriam of MLK assassination.
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 7
- 1 min
She left her job to open a Pasadena bookstore in the name of Octavia Butler.
Nikki High is opening a BIPOC centered bookstore. It is named after Octavia Butler. January 7, 2023 in Pasadena, CA. View the below Video...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee - NPR 2/7/23
The Chicago-born poet J. Ivy helped create the new category and is one of five contenders for the award, though he didn't nominate...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Turning Nairobi’s Public Libraries Into ‘Palaces for the People’ - New York Times 2/4/23
A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces.
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Arts Respond with Lucy Gellman - WNHH 103.5FM
ZOOM Link to Tuesday, February 7, 2023 @ 6p. Book Discussion Click the photo to hear Lucy Gellman and my discussion about the 'About Us'...
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Urban Grants 4 Us
- Jan 18
- 1 min
Is It Really That Bad?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s statue in Boston draws online mockery. I'll admit that the statutes' aesthetics was much more appreciative when...
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