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CELEBRATION: January 27th is Multicultural Children's Book Day!

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Thanks to author, blogger Mia Wenjen , and team of children's authors, illustrators, and book promoters - Multicultural Children's Book Day is happening again this year on January 27, 2016!. I am happy to be an Author Sponsor for this celebration of multicultural children's books!   We STILL need #diverse children's books! And we need to celebrate them widely.  We need more children's authors of diverse children's books and more children's editor/publishers who have an interest in a myriad of stories, told by diverse author perspectives AND FOR diverse young readers around the globe.  Support this wonderful initiative and find our more about Multicultural Children's Book Day here ! - DuEwa Author of Alice's Musical Debut  (2019), Quincy Rules(2016), Deanne in the Middle(2014), Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems(2013), Ten Marbles and a Bag to Put Them In(2010), Check the Rhyme Anthology (editor 2006), and Shedding Light From My Journeys (2002, ...

WRITING: Children's Book Insider

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The Children's Book Insider has valuable information for writers of children's books.

My Interview on "About a Book Mondays"

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Romance Novelist, Professor and Blogger, Gwyneth Bolton recently interviewed me about Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees ! Gwyneth has written several novels in the romance genre, several with a hip hop twist. Her latest is Sweet Sensations . Check out the interview in the February edition of "About a Book Mondays" on Gwyneth's blog.

REVIEW The Message: 100 Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs

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When you reminisce over hip hop, where do your thoughts take you? Do you think about the night you went to the roller rink with your friends and you heard NWA's "Express Yourself" pumping loud from the DJ booth, inspiring you to dance to the 70's beats in the song? Or maybe you think about the times you chilled out at the park in your car, with your boyfriend or girlfriend when L.L. Cool J.'s "I Need Love" played on the radio? If you're like me, you may reminisce about your college days: the parties in the student union, the walks with your friends across the bridge to the nearby store, the sorority and fraternity step shows. All of these memories have hip hop wrapped around them. We lived, loved and laughed, riding on the beats of songs by old school and new school hip hop artists. Within the pages of The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs , author Felicia Pride shares similar memories with us and invokes our hip hop laced ...

A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at UpSouth International Book Festival

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REPORT: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at UpSouth International Book Festival by DuEwa On Friday, September 21, 2007, there was a fire in Harlem! A fire was created from the mouths, hearts, and minds of the artists who performed and read in tribute to the late, legendary poet and performer, Sekou Sundiata at the UpSouth International Book Festival at Harlem Stage at The Gatehouse. The entire festival this year was dedicated to the memory of Sekou Sundiata (1948-2007). Around 7:40pm the program began with a graceful introduction by the mistress of ceremonies, Malaika Adero, founder of the UpSouth International Book Festival. Malaika informed the audience that the evening's program featuring Sonia Sanchez , Danny Simmons and Queen Esther, was in tribute to Sekou Sundiata, who had been a longtime friend of hers. She told a funny story of how Sekou called her out of the blue one day and said, "I'm standing right here in front of your church." Malaika...