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Mother's Day Buying Guide

Mother’s Day Buying Guide

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  • “Like a Tree Without Roots”

    By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, TheRootDC.com In her debut young adult novel, “Like a Tree Without Roots” author Teresa Ann Willis explicitly confronts the persistent problem of “Like a Tree Without Roots” examines the universal teen desire to fit in with the peer group from a distinctly African American perspective. (Tewodross Melchishua) internalized sel... Read More »

  • The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogues By Angela Y. Davis City Lights Publishers, Paperback, 202pp., $15.95
    Angela Davis, Now

    The legendary activist and scholar releases a new volume of speeches By Todd Steven Burroughs, EBONY Magazine Much has happened to (Angela) Davis, and us, since Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’s blood began to dry, Panther Power’s hour had begun to fade, and Toni Morrison edited Davis’s now-classic autobiography. She has politically voyaged from [... Read More »

  • Hope Spring Eternal

    ‘Three Strong Women,’ by Marie NDiaye By Fernanda Eberstadt, The New York Times NDiaye’s career has been stellar. When she was 18, the legendary editor Jérôme Lindon (best known as Samuel Beckett’s champion) published her first novel to high critical acclaim. Her subsequent fiction and plays have won numerous prizes and distinctions. (NDiaye’s “Pap... Read More »

  • American Grown The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America By Michelle Obama Crown, 272 pp., $30
    Book review: First lady’s ‘American Grown’ tells of ...

    Michelle Obama writes in ‘American Grown’ of the White House kitchen garden she started, the American diet, her ‘Let’s Move’ program and her campaign against childhood obesity. By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times “American Grown” has many warm and fuzzy moments, both in photos — Obama holding just-picked tom... Read More »