Joy DeGruy

Nov 5, 2024 | modernghana.com | Joy DeGruy

President Dr. Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah did not just belong to the colonial Gold Coast (Ghana); Nkrumah was a 19th century Black/African traveling intellectual activist and belonged to the Pan African Global scheme of things. Such experiences, writing was a must be it speeches and/or books.

Mar 19, 2024 | wweek.com | Brianna Wheeler |Audre Lorde |Joy DeGruy |Sidney Morrison

“This is nothing new that we’re doing,” says Charles Hannah, owner of Third Eye Books Accessories & Gifts. “But a lot of the time, it’s the first time somebody who doesn’t look like me does business with somebody like me.”Hannah and his wife, Michelle Lewis, not only run the only Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstore in Portland—they curate it with exclusively pro-Black books by primarily Black authors, serving a predominantly Black audience.