We hope everyone had a great President’s Day! The month of February has been filled with some fascinating diversity-related stories. Here are just a few that we’ve been following; if you’ve got more February news stories, feel free to share them in the comments below! In a matter of weeks, Knicks player Jeremy Lin has … Continue reading Diversity in the news, February 2012
This weekend, The NYU Institute of African American Affairs hosted the A is for Anansi Conference on Literature for Children of African Descent. It was a great conference and I was thrilled to be a part of it – it’s always exciting to be in a room full of people who care about books, … Continue reading A is for (Amazing) Anansi
Welcome to Black History Month! Heritage Months have their bad sides and good sides, but we’re starting out this week’s linkup with one of the good things to come out of Black History Month: The Brown Bookshelf‘s Twenty-Eight Days Later project, highlighting a Black children’s book author or illustrator every day in February. Check their … Continue reading This Week in Diversity: The Pervasiveness of Racism
Every week, we’re going to be bringing you a roundup of interesting articles, commentary, and projects dealing with diversity—race, gender, immigration issues, discrimination, and people bridging cultural barriers. Drumroll, please! From the New York Times, a California hospital is working with Hmong shamans to improve care—body and soul—of the town’s Hmong immigrant population. From Genreville, … Continue reading This Week in Diversity
The Moonlit Vine/Claro de luna by Elizabeth Santiago and Speculation by Nisi Shawl were selected as featured titles for the National Education Association’s Read Across America 2023–2024!
Civics and civic engagement are crucial to education and the preservation of our democracy. The key concepts of understanding how government works, engaging in and appreciating discourse and different beliefs, learning about the voting process, and working with the community are critical to students’ academic success and wellbeing. The state of civics education is in great need: students need to learn about all aspects of civics to be effective members of society.
Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month to all who identify as a women! Share these stories with readers of all ages as you highlight modern and historic women this month.
In this guest post, librarian Alexandria Brown discusses the issues with labeling books as “diverse” and other ways we can build and promote a more equitable library collection.
We look at our upcoming middle grade title, Stone River Crossing, set to be released May 30, 2019.
We interviewed author Karen Leggett Abouraya and illustrator Susan L. Roth about their picture book Malala Yousafzai.
