Learning About God Through Lessons of the Past
LEARNING ABOUT GOD THROUGH LESSONS OF THE PAST
Civil Rights Heroes are Front and Center in New Multi-Cultural Resource, “Walk It Out: Together in the Way of Jesus”
Nashville, TN (BlackNews.com) – In a day when too many young people believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. “freed the slaves,” Abingdon Press presents Walk It Out: Together in the Way of Jesus to introduce participants to some of the pillars of the Civil Rights movement and to demonstrate how God uses people to promote the beloved community of Jesus Christ, then and now.
Introducing the Brown Bookshelf
ANNOUNCEMENT by Kelly Starling Lyons, author of One Million Men and Me, Just Us Books, 2007 and NEATE: Eddie’s Ordeal, Just Us Books, 2004
According to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), less than two percent of children’s books published last year were written by African American authors. Want the raw numbers? That’s just 87 children’s books by African-American authors out of an estimated 5,000 children’s books published in 2006 overall.
INTERVIEW | Nicole Tadgell
Nicole, describe yourself for our visitors.
I enjoy hiking, birdwatching, gardening, quilting, and of course, reading.
Who are your favorite authors? Favorite books?
When I was a child, my favorite books were: “Big Sister, Little Sister” “What’s in the Dark?”, and “Rain Makes Applesauce”. When I was a little older, I loved books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Anne McCaffery. Now that I’m grown up, I enjoy reading books by Grace Lin, Holly Black, Richard Peck, Sharon Creech, Jacqueline Woodson and many others.
INTERVIEW | Michael Davis
National Comic Book Day is September 25th
Celebrate by letting your audience know about an exciting comic book line coming out this fall, especially for the Christian market!
UMI (Urban Ministries, Inc), the largest independent African American media firm and a leader urban Christian and positive media content, announces the biggest launch in comics� history for a multicultural audience�The Guardian Line. This series is the faith-based, superbly styled result of the combined resources of UMI and creator of The Guardian Line Michael Davis .
When did you first become interested in comic books?
When I was in the fourth grade, my mother gave me some comic books to read at the beginning of the summer. She told me she was giving them to me so I would stay out of trouble. But she also knew I was behind in school. I was only reading at a second grade level. Every time I came to a word I didn�t know, she would point me towards the dictionary and make me look it up. My mother was a wise woman. By the end of the summer I was reading at a ninth grade level, and I was hooked on comic books. Reading comic books kept me off the streets and out of trouble, just like she wanted. Read more
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