Ms. Afrika Abney - Consultant Branding Blog

  Author, Sharon Bell Mathis of several books will be at AACL Tour held this saturday from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM at 3660 Alabama Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020, USA. Info: aachildrenslit2023@gmail.com The Hundred Penny Box (Picture Puffin Books) - https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Penny-Picture-Puffin-Books/dp/014240702X Photo found on the Internet "This charming story is of Michael, a young African-American boy, and the close relationship he enjoys with his Great Aunt Dew, who is now one hundred years old. Michael does not think his mother understands Aunt Dew and the value of her precious hundred penny box, which holds one penny from each year of her life.Aunt Dew likes to take pennies out of the box and tell Michael stories from the year the penny represents. The conflict in the story revolves around Michael's mother's attempt get rid of the hundred penny box and his plight to protect it." https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/african-americans-and-childrens-lite...

 " Nkechi Taifa is an attorney, activist, scholar, motivational speaker and author. A native Washingtonian, she has been part of many movements for justice throughout the decades - the Black Power Movement, the New Afrikan Independence Movement, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Movement to Free Political Prisoners, the Reparations Movement, and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration. Incensed that books for Black children failed to highlight freedom fighters, she authored a book in her twenties, "Shining Legacy: Storypoems and Tales for the Young, So Black Heroes Forever Will Be Sung," (1983) followed by "The Adventures of Kojo and Ama" (1992). She describes her latest book, "Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice," as "part memoir, part textbook, part study guide, part expose'." Although sometimes raw, sometimes abrasive, sometimes passionate, Taifa offers her truth, unapologetically and unfiltered, with honesty and a...