Karida Brown

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Shifa Safadi |Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown

My name is Shifa,spelled S-h-i-f-a,for most of my life pronounced shee-fa,sometimes said Shiff-a,but really in Arabic it’s she-faa’ with an emphasisat the endlike a silent t...

1 month ago | hbook.com | Emma Otheguy |Betsy Groban |Karida Brown |Charly Palmer

I first met Cuban-born translator Emily Carrero Mustelier through poet and translator Alexis Romay. I was working on my middle-grade novel Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene, a book about a girl whose family danced with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Alexis read a draft of the book and immediately put me in touch with Emily, who had studied at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet in Cuba as a child.

1 month ago | hbook.com | Betsy Groban |Karida Brown |Charly Palmer |Carole Weatherford

I recently picked up Philip Nel’s 2012 dual biography of children’s literature luminaries, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature, and was immediately riveted. Nel did amazing due diligence: eighty interviews! Nearly six hundred (unobtrusive) footnotes! Research at three dozen archives! All his work paid off handsomely.

May 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Karida Brown

Karida L. Brown is a professor of sociology at Emory University and the author of “Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia.”As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education this month, let us not forget: It was Black children who did the work of desegregating our schools. Like soldiers conscripted onto a battlefield, these kids were thrust onto the front lines of the American struggle to live up to our nation’s founding creed.

Oct 5, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Iyana Jones |Karida Brown

On October 10, Chronicle Books will release married collaborators Karida Brown and Charly Palmer’s The New Brownies’ Book, a contemporary take on W.E.B. Du Bois’s influential monthly children’s magazine, The Brownies’ Book. The New Brownies’ Book is an anthology showcasing the power of community and the foundations of the Black family via drawings, poetry, short stories, and other artistic formats.