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★"Twenty-one kid-lit authors of color share a wide array of delicious recipes as well as personal experiences related to culture, race, and racism. Accompanied by vibrant illustrations, these story-recipe pairings demonstrate how intertwined food and identity are...The result is a...

This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were...

A show celebrating the black voices in our communities. We will talk with people orginizing events, the history behind this month, the importance of a welcoming place and uplifting one another. GUESTS - Laurabel Mba is an anti-racism educator and a consultant and strategist on matters related to Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging; Raven Khadeja Anderson is founder of Ravensong Consulting NL and an organizer with BLM Canada (co-founder of Black Lives Matter NL); Alexis Foster, Municipalities NL director of advocacy and communications; Johnny Alubu Selemani, chair of the National Black Caucus with the Canadian Federation of Students; Chidinma Ozougwu, vice president of the Black student association at MUN; Chidinma Okaleke; MA Political Science Student at Memorial University.

From a South Carolina slave to one of the most successful ranchers in Canadian history, John Ware was known for his incredible strength of character and sheer force of will. Georgetown, 1867. Twenty-two-year-old John Ware knows there is no future for him in post-abolition South...

An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness. WINNER OF CANADA READS WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE WINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARDS -- I wonder, said Hermes, what it would...

Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection--obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family--and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven...

Set in the neighbourhood of "Little Jamaica," Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts...

A transportive, highly personal cookbook of 100 West African-influenced recipes and stories from Top Chef finalist Eric Adjepong. "Sankofa" is a Ghanaian Twi word that roughly translates to the idea that we must look back in order to move forward. In his moving debut...

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner in Writing | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root 100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural...

The classic cookbook from "the first lady of Southern cooking" (NPR), featuring a new foreword by the James Beard Award-winning chef Mashama Bailey Decades before cornbread, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler were mainstays on menus everywhere, Edna Lewis was pioneering the...