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What 2 Sculptures Taught Me about Representation
During the 1960s, my mother and I often visited the Baltimore Museum of Art. The museum’s crown jewel is the Cone Collection of impressionist art, which featured Edgar Degas’ sculpture, “Little...
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The Weatherford Report: Fall 2023 e-newsletter
FAMILY TREES, ROYAL ROOTS, SCHOOL VISITS & FREE GUIDES Why so sad? I just found out that Carole is not my mother. How far back can you trace your roots? In KIN: Rooted in Hope, my son Jeffery and...
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Restoring What Slavery Took Away: Ten Take-aways from Kin: Rooted in Hope, a guest post by Carole Boston Weatherford
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FREE BOOK IN BALTIMORE: First 125 Registrants Get KIN
KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, my latest collaboration with award-winning illustrator Jeffery Boston Weatherford, launches Thursday, October 19, 6-9 PM at the Reginald Lewis Museum at 830 East Pratt Street in...
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Reclaiming History Is Generational Wealth
Art by Jeffery Boston Weatherford from KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE. October is Family History Month, and true to form, I’m posting one day before it ends. My new verse novel, KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, is truly a...
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Resistance to Enslavement Took Many Forms
When I share books about enslavement with students, some state that they would have revolted or escaped if enslaved. Those options were not the only acts of resistance waged by enslaved people. In my...
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WEATHERFORD REPORT: TWO CSK Award Honors, Black History Month (and beyond),...
For the first time ever, I attended the American Library Association Youth Media Awards in person. What a thrill to have not one but two books honored. KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, illustrated by my son...
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What is critical fabulation?
Last week, I was honored to participate in the SLJ webcast, “Fact-Finding and Black History,” a panel discussion with Amina Luqman-Dawson, Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome, moderated by Marva...
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3 Books Named to BCALA 2023 Best of the Best
I feel so honored that three of my 2023 titles made the Best of the Best list compiled by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Congratulations to illustrators Ashley Evans, Frank...
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Sheroes, BROS Day, Poetry Month Ideas, Juneteenth, Spelling Bees & a...
Group shots clockwise from top left: Jeffery and Carole greet family and friends after the KIN event in Easton, Maryland; BROS Day, a celebration hosted by the Chicago-based pop-up play space, Brown...
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