FAMILY TREES, ROYAL ROOTS, SCHOOL VISITS & FREE GUIDES
Why so sad? I just found out that Carole is not my mother.
How far back can you trace your roots? In KIN: Rooted in Hope, my son Jeffery and I reach back to 1770 at Maryland’s largest plantation and to the Reconstruction-era villages our ancestors co-founded. Dramatic poems and scratchboard art conjure our enslaved forebears, reclaiming lost narratives and a royal legacy.
Our new presentation based on KIN shares primary sources, poems, illustrations and the book’s backstory. We are now booking school and library visits for KIN and for K-12 programs about the Tuskegee Airmen, Tulsa Race Massacre, segregation/civil rights, jazz/the Harlem Renaissance/Great Depression, poetry and your choice of biographies. And we’re still celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop.
In case you missed these TEACHER GUIDES for recent and award-winning titles.
Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star for Equal Justice
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
To bring us to your school or community, contact cbwpoet@gmail.com.
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Carole and Jeffery
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