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Books in the Hood
By Emily Brady in Books, Featured Friday, May. 8 2009
When LaVerne Harris decided to open a bookstore in the South Bronx two years ago, she knew she it wasn't going to be easy. The area is known for a lot of different things -- urban blight, crime, poverty -- and a healthy book culture wasn't one of them.
But Harris, a 61-year-old primary school teacher who grew up on Simpson Street, was walking with some friends when she wondered aloud what it would take to put a bookstore in among the liquor stores, Laundromats, and take-out places.


Hip-Hop Lit Is Hot
February 11, 2008 by Kara Gebhart Uhl
Once limited to street-corner sales, hip-hop lit now can be found in major bookstores—and mainstream publishers are taking note.

From the Streets to the Libraries
Yolanda Degraff, a part-time employee, arranged books in the urban fiction area of the public library in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Gossip Girls and Ghetto Girls
Why are so many librarians—advocates of the uncensored right to read anything on all points of view—panic-stricken over teens reading street lit? As Amy Patee wrote in the July 2008 issue of School Library Journal, “There’s no getting around it: urban fiction forces many of us out of our comfort zones...

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Nanette Buchanan

Just Venting- Happy Thanksgiving

Just Venting

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With the holidays making their way into each of our homes, one should be focused on what it is we should celebrate this time of year. Periodically we look back to the last year to gauge our progress. Unfortunately, for most of us, misfortune has touched us more than once this year. We are a people who bounce back situation after situation, time after time. We understand the term “in everyone’s life, rain must fall”. This year there are those of us who have found they couldn’… Continue

Posted by Nanette Buchanan on November 23, 2009 at 6:48pm

Kim Wilson

OOWEE's Cultural Cards & Framed Poetry

The written word has historically made excellent GIFTS for holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, just to say hello/thinking about you, Words of Wisdom and the list goes on.

For more information on how we can create poetry from your thoughts/feelings/emotions or from OOWEE's stockpile, contact: onmyownkikl@yahoo.com 210-374-5330 and tell me what's on your mind.

Words are worth a thousand words but framed words last a lifetime.

Free shipping to any address within the U… Continue

Posted by Kim Wilson on November 18, 2009 at 7:30pm

Joey Pinkney

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Elva "Precious Love" Thompson, author of A Mother's Cry

When Elva Thompson (aka Precious Love) set out to write A Mother's Cry, I wonder if she knew how many lives she would directly affect with her honest approach to domestic violence and the struggles of being a single parent.

Although A Mother's Cry is written from a woman's perspective, the themes of struggle and perseverance is universal. Men and women alike have been not only touched by brought to action by this novel and its follow-up.

A Mother's Cry is more than a good story… Continue

Posted by Joey Pinkney on November 13, 2009 at 8:30pm

 
 

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