Books of the Month

Interview With Laila Lacy Co-Author Of Jump-My Secret Journey From The Streets To The Boardroom

Laila Lacy, a native of Philadelphia, graduated from Central High School. She earned a degree from Howard University in Washington, DC, where she studied Psychology and Human Communications and studied at New York’s Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Lacy taught middle school for the New York Board of Education and later served as a […]

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CMG September Book Of The Is The Price Of The Ticket :James Baldwin

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.” Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades he composed them.

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CMG February Book Of The Month Andrew Billingsley: Is Black Families in White America

A number of American Negro families managed to escape the more crippling consequences of poverty and racism. What are the sources of their achievement? What are the barriers they still face as they struggle for equality with the white middle class? And what about those families who still languish in the black ghettos of America?

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CMG January Book Of The Month Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles. Davis describes her journey

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CMG Children’s December Book Of The Month The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Galore Located at 1734 E 63rd Suite 110 St.KCMO 64110 This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered

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CMG Book November Book Of The Month Colin Powell My American Journey

This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Galore Located at 1734 E 63rd Suite 110 St.KCMO 64110 This Book can be purchased at Willa’s Book & Vinyl Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of

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CMG January Book #1 Of The Month Is One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since

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