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Black Power, Black Lawyer
1st Anniversary New Revised Edition! Black Power, Black Lawyer is a memoir that stitches suspense, calamity, humor and wit into a tapestry of history, politics, law, culture and romance. Both serious and scandalous, Nkechi Taifa's audacious quest for justice is a gripping commentary on life; the perennial nature of human resistance against oppression; and her earnest embrace of what is fair and correct. Sometimes raw, sometimes abrasive, sometimes passionate, Taifa offers her truth, unapologetically and unfiltered, with honesty and authenticity. Her memoir is the story of a quest rarely told. The search for the resisters and the rebellious; the pursuit of issues on the cutting edge. Although...
Three Tales of Wisdom
This gem from master storyteller Nkechi Taifa is a magical adventure into wisdom-land with principles and proverbs transmitting positive values to children. The book incorporates three exciting short tales for youth: Ayanna; Remembering Garvey, and Jabari's Journey. In the story Ayanna," Anansi the Spider's magic helps Ayanna get to the Harvest Festival, despite the fact that her two sisters failed to follow the Seven Principles of their New Afrikan value system. In "Remembering Garvey," a young brother in New York City learns the story of a great Black hero. In "Jabari's Journey," wisdom is attained through Jabari's encounters with spiders, lions, warriors, elephants, cockroaches, camels and birds! Three Tales of Wisdom, illustrated in full color, includes a potpourri of African proverbs and a pronunciation guide to African words in the book.
Reparations on Fire
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The Adventures of Kojo and Ama
Journey with Kojo and Ama through seven wisdom-filled adventures combining excitement, fun and suspense filled with lessons in pride and heritage. The heroic black cat Sheba brings the children good luck as they find themselves in settings ranging from an inner city part to the deep South, and from the island of Jamaica to ancient Egypt. Richly colored illustrations bring the stories to life. The book includes exercises that strengthen basic reading and comprehension skills, and explores values centered around responsibility, purpose, pride, self-esteem, and unity. It also exposes children to the importance of safety and caution, and helps to sensitize them to discrimination in society. Perfect for both home and classroom ... pre-school through third grade.
Reconsidering Reparations
"Christopher Columbus' voyage changed the world forever because the era of racial slavery and colonialism that it started built the world in the first place. The irreversible environmental damage of history's first planet-sized political and economic system is responsible for our present climate crisis. Reparations calls for us to make the world over again: this time, justly. The project of reparations and racial justice in the 21st century must take climate justice head on. The book develops arguments about the role of racial capitalism in global politics, addresses other views of reparations, and summarizes perspectives on environmental racism"--
Reparations Yes!
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Shining Legacy
This new revised color edition of Shining Legacy comes nearly four decades after the original 1983 black and white publication. The book is timeless! Shining Legacy celebrates heroes and heroines of the past through dramatic epic, ballad, legend and saga, all accentuated with moving and rhythmic rhyme. Role models range from Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer and Sojourner Truth -- to Malcolm X, Denmark Vesey, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Paul Robeson, and Marcus Garvey. The book structures the learning experience in a motivating way, so that retaining historical data is not a brainwashing drudgery, but an inspiring joy. Richly colored illustrations bring the storypoems to life. Shining Legacy also includes a Glossary, Review Questions, and Work Projects and is perfect for youth and elder alike, in both family and classroom settings. It can be read to the very young, be easily read and understood by elementary age children, used as a research tool by Middle and High School students, and provide meaningful insights to adults as well.
Reparations, Yes!
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The Strong Black Woman
Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism “Marita Golden’s The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life Sarton Women’s Book Award #1 New Release in Reference Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care. The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic raci...
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
Mei Lin, a woman warrior, and pigboy Wang Lee find love, intrigue, adventure, and danger as rebels seeking to overthrow the Chinese emperor during the 1850s amid the Taiping Rebellion.
