Oooooohhhhh. Thanks for the heads up; I hadn’t come across this!

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A lovely mentor of mine died extremely young of colon cancer that wasn’t detected with cologuard. She urged everyone to have a colonoscopy.

I’m always grateful to be able to think and write about Frances Harper.

Like, they would have better luck telling us they were cutting a percentage of our pay bc that has actually happened before.

I cackled! This was the fakest shit I have ever seen. 😂

Same!

I have so many complaints! That review will likely never see the light of day as such but someday I’ll write something about what this is doing within the broader mix of children’s historical literature (about which I’m much more hopeful).

I feel extra bad about the children’s versions. The children’s lit authors he’s collaborated with there are legit. I’m telling you we’re gonna find out how broadly they’ve reached. Its even worse that these are getting framed as the authoritative text in the subject. It’s a damn shame.

Also, just count the women mentioned in this book before you get to Angela Davis. I’ve written sad footnotes about that.

I wrote a review of all his children’s iterations of this, that never got published because pandemic and changed editors, etc. The worst pet is that teachers are already assigning this as *the* thing. Re-teaching those kids is gonna be wild because they will assume they’re really knowledgeable.

10/10 no notes!

Every month can be Black History Month if we just choose to celebrate Black history all year round!

John Brown, Black History, and Black Childhood: Contextualizing Lorenz Graham’s John Brown Books Lorenz Graham wrote two children’s books about the (in)famous abolitionist, John Brown—a picture book, John Brown’s Raid: A Picture History of the Attack on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (1972) and a biogr...

Black children’s book author Lorenz Graham wrote TWO children’s books about John Brown! - a biography (1980) & a picture book about the raid on Harper’s Ferry (1972). I wrote about them both here:

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