Junauda Petrus

May 30, 2024 | ajc.com | Junauda Petrus

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. In ”Leo and the Pink Marker” (Peachtree Publishing), Atlanta author Mariyka Foster takes young readers on a journey of the life-changing magic of color in a drab world. In its pages, we feel the dimensions of color psychology activate in the hands of a small Black boy in the junkyard owned and operated by his white mom and East Asian mama.

Sep 27, 2023 | womenspress.com | Junauda Petrus

One fall day, at the beginning of the new millennium, during a mental health spiral, he was shot down by Minneapolis police in his driveway. Over the years I would chant the names in protest of the deaths of countless Black people who would meet the same fate as Abuka: Amadou, Trayvon, Amir, Sandra, Breonna, Ahmad, Jamar, Eric, Philando, George. Names that loom in my chest with love and ancestral reverence.

Jul 13, 2023 | hickoryrecord.com | Joyce Sidman |David LaRochelle |Junauda Petrus |Laurie Hertzel

'Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight'By Shannon Gibney, illustrated by Charly Pwalmer (University of Minnesota Press, $17.95, ages 5 to 9)If food is love, what people does Sam love the most? His African American mother, who likes pizza and tacos and wants Sam to like them, too? Or his father and aunt, Liberian born, who prefer to-rbogee soup and who urge Sam to try it? Sam loves them all — his family and their foods — and he doesn't want to play favorites.

Jul 6, 2023 | news.lee.net | Shannon Gibney |Joyce Sidman |Junauda Petrus |David LaRochelle

'Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight'By Shannon Gibney, illustrated by Charly Palmer. (University of Minnesota Press, $17.95, ages 5-9.)If food is love, who does Sam love the most? His African American mother, who likes pizza and tacos and wants Sam to like them, too? Or his father and aunt, Liberian born, who prefer torbogee soup and who urge Sam to try it Sam loves them all — his family and their foods — and he doesn't want to play favorites.

Jul 6, 2023 | auburnpub.com | Shannon Gibney |Joyce Sidman |Junauda Petrus |Laurie Hertzel

'Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight'By Shannon Gibney, illustrated by Charly Palmer. (University of Minnesota Press, $17.95, ages 5-9.)If food is love, who does Sam love the most? His African American mother, who likes pizza and tacos and wants Sam to like them, too? Or his father and aunt, Liberian born, who prefer torbogee soup and who urge Sam to try it Sam loves them all — his family and their foods — and he doesn't want to play favorites.