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Embrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact on society as we know it.
Female, Gifted and Black, the follow-up to
The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebrates the power of the women in black history who shaped and revolutionized the past.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Preface – MJ Fievre
Introduction – Becca Anderson
Chapter One – Amazing Artists: Musicians, Actors and Other Creators of Color
Chapter Two – Penning the Future One Word at a Time: Awesome Black Women Writers
Chapter Three – Rhythms and Rhymes: Poets & Literary Pioneers
Chapter Four – What the Eyes See: Black Women in Visual Arts
Chapter Five – Beyond the Catwalk & the Stage: Black Models and Dancers
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, Haiti, M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami.
M.J.’s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.’s first children’s book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.’s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
M.J. Fievre is the author of Happy, Okay? Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival (Books & Books Press, 2019) and Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Mango Publishing, 2020). She helps others write their way through trauma, build community and create social change. She works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy—even if they don’t realize that they need writing or therapy.
A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events.
Zusammenfassung
Embrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact on society as we know it. Female, Gifted and Black, the follow-up to The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebrates the power of the women in black history who shaped and revolutionized the past.
Vorwort
Anderson
- 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.
Fievre
- The author of the bestselling series Badass Black Girl, M.J. Fievre is a long-time educator and writer who has been praised as a model of efficiency and effectiveness in Scott J. Millerʼs Master Mentors.
- Both MJ’s Badass Black Girl and Empowered Black Girl have sold more than 22,000 copies.
- As the ReadCaribbean program coordinator for the prestigious Miami Book Fair, M.J. also directs and produces the childrenʼs cultural show Taptap Krik? Krak!
- MJ has been featured on PBS, NPR, and WLRN; the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the Sun Sentinel, and the New Times; and South Florida’s Channel 6, among others.
- M.J. is the collaborative editor behind several bestselling personal growth books, including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Guided Journal, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Guided Journal, and The 7 Habits Habit Tracker.
- She runs a Winter Garden book club that meets regularly in Orlando.
