Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive LiteracyThis book examines culturally responsive practices, interventions, and supports for educators that can be utilized in school settings. "In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four layered equity framework one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 9th century Black literacy

All you need is a pen and paper

This "pepper pot

Winfrey Harris's The Sisters Are Alright explores how black women must often fight and stumble their way into alrightness after adulthood

she and her family are attending the community family ball

these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be

the after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights movement

one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good

the woman screams

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet

and the strength in their numbers to combat inequality

There are many things that seem normal or average today that at one point in time seemed absolutely crazy