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Author and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in
The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share an uncensored history of the power of Black women like Sojourner Truth, Anita Hill, Wangari Maathai, Aretha Franklin, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and so many more, whose stories embody strength, perseverance, and talent.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Introductions – MJ Fievre and Becca Anderson
Chapter One – Hidden Figures No Longer: Black Women in STEM
Chapter Two – SHEroes: Unstoppable Black Women Who Busted Down Barriers
Chapter Three – Amazing Artists: Musicians, Actors and Other Creators of Color
Chapter Four – The Truest Eyes: Awesome Black Women Writers
Chapter Five – Let a New Earth Rise: Poets & Literary Pioneers
Chapter Six – Recovering and Reclaiming Identities: Black Women in Visual Arts
Chapter Seven – All-Kinds-of-Awesome Athletes: Women and Girls Who Leveled the Playing Field
Chapter Eight – Activists Who Kick A**: Fighting For Civil Rights, Human Right, Queer Rights & Climates Rights
Chapter Nine – Unbought & Unbossed: Black Women Fighting for Equality
Chapter Ten – Black Women Leading the Way: Mighty in the Classroom, the Military, and the Church
Chapter Eleven – Black Bodies on the Move: Awesome Black Models and Dancers
Chapter Twelve – SHEO’s & SHEroes: Black Women Give Back and Make the Best
Bosses
Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Becca
Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio
and Kentucky. The teacher's side of her family led her to become a women's
studies scholar and the author of The Book of Awesome
Women. An avid collector of meditations, prayers and blessings, she
helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle”' which meets at homes, churches and
bookstores monthly in the San Francisco-Bay Area where she currently resides.
Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice with helping her recover from
cancer and wants to share this with anyone who is facing difficulty in their
life.
Author of Think Happy to Stay
Happy and Every Day Thankful, Becca Anderson
shares her inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at
https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com/
She also blogs about
Awesome Women, like those in her book Badass
Affirmations, at https://theblogofawesomewomen.wordpress.com/
Born in Port-au-Prince, M.J. Fievre, B.S. Ed, earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Barry University. A seasoned K–12 teacher, a creator of safe spaces, and an initiator of difficult conversations, she spent much time building up her students, helping them feel comfortable in their own skin, and affirming their identities. Her close relationships with parents and students led her to look more closely at how we can balance protecting a child’s innocence with preparing them for the realities of life. She has taught creative writing workshops to children and teens at the O Miami Poetry Festival and the Miami Art Museum, as well as in various schools in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), and South Florida. She’s also been a keynote speaker at Tufts University (Massachusetts), Howard University (Washington, DC), the University of Miami (Florida), and Michael College (Vermont) and has served as a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP).
M.J.’s publishing career began as a teenager in her native Haiti. At nineteen years old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps for the publication of a YA book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has released nine YA books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles, and she is the author of the award-winning Badass Black Girl book series for tweens and teens (in English). One Moore Book published M.J.’s first children’s book, I Am Riding, as part of a special limited series edited by Edwidge Danticat. A middle-grade book, Young Trailblazers, and picture book, Sam Is Afraid of Christmas, are both set to be released by DragonFruit in the fall of 2021.
As the ReadCaribbean program coordinator for the prestigious Miami Book Fair, M.J. directs and produces the children’s cultural show Taptap Krik? Krak! For her podcast, MJ has interviewed many literary legends, including Edwidge Danticat, Alice Randall, and Nikki Giovanni.
Zusammenfassung
Author and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share an uncensored history of the power of Black women like Sojourner Truth, Anita Hill, Wangari Maathai, Aretha Franklin, Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and so many more, whose stories embody strength, perseverance, and talent.
Vorwort
- Becca’s books have sold upwards of 60,000 copies and counting, including Badass Affirmations that has been selling over 2,000 copies weekly!
- Becca Anderson contributed to several bestselling personal growth books including the million-selling Attitudes of Gratitude, and is co-author of The Gratitude Power Workbook.
- She runs a Silicon Valley book club that meets regularly at East West Bookstore in Mountain View.
- In addition to her popular Blogging Your Blessings blog, Anderson runs the Every Day Thankful Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Across all her platforms, she has over 100k followers and counting.
- She also blogs daily on The Blog of Awesome Women and The Daily Inspo.
- She has been featured on national tv as well as Bay Area's NBC and ABC afiliates. Anderson has been featured on NPR including KQED's FORUM, KPFA, KALX and also spirituality radio such as Coast-to-Coast.
- Anderson will be doing events in the great SF Bay Area, Los Angeles and speaking at a Unity Churches on the West Coast on gratitude, the power of prayer and women's spirituality.
