Chrissy is a 6-year-old girl who embarks upon a journey of seeking answers about her skin tone. After noticing that her mother, Teresa, is much lighter than she is, Chrissy is confused about her mother's racial identity. Her mother, Teresa, educates, uplifts, and bestows knowledge upon Chrissy so she can then teach others about the beautiful term called "melanin". Chrissy learns that there are many different shades of brown and that her melanin is indeed poppin'!
Latarsha Woods first wrote My Melanin Is Poppin' On My Beautiful Brown Skin as a poem to encourage her daughters Destiny, Trinity, and Serenity to celebrate their differences and likes. Since then, Latarsha Woods has transformed this beautiful poem into a children's book for other brown-skinned boys and girls around the world. Combating the stereotypes of colorism, this inspirational book will encourage girls and boys of color to love their beautiful brown skin.🤎🖤
Young and full of life, Cassandra Parker wouldn’t have it any other way but to hang out and party with her girls and be boo’d up with her boyfriend, Tommy. But all that changed when she had a spiritual encounter with God himself. What most people would find to be the most joyous time of their lives, Cassie struggled with the people she loved leaving her one by one, including the man she thought she’d spend the rest of her life with. Trying to see if her relationship with Tommy could survive the test of time, Tommy couldn’t get used to the scene of Cassie’s new-found love in Jesus Christ. Vowing to hold on to her celibacy, keeping God number one in her life and waiting for a true man of God, revelation took her by surprise. What Cassie thought would be a skip, a hop, and a jump when God told her who her husband was turned out to be a whirlwind of lies, deception, and manipulation. Up for the challenge, Cassie endured every blow as she suited up with the whole armor of God, with the shield of faith at work. But was it enough to grab hold of the promise and enter into God’s rest? This is the story, The Story Behind the Dress.
Tianna Thompson story continues as her life takes an unexpected change. She is keeping a secret learned after her ex-boyfriend, Mark brutally attacked her. Jamal is the only one that knows her secret and he will do anything for her. But will the consequences of what she's hiding destroy their friendship or bring them closer together? Tasha has uncovered Tianna's secret and revealed it to her brother Jackson. Jackson is in town to find the truth as he and Jamal continue to vie for Tianna’s love. Tasha, Jamal, and Jackson, the characters in Tar Baby are back in Tar Baby 2 to continue Tianna’s story.
Who said that going to school as a young Black girl is easy?10-year-old Ciara battles with being teased because she's a shade or two darker than the other girls in her school, and it begins to affect her grades. Despite being told she's beautiful by family, Ciara still feels ugly because of the mean things her classmates say to her. She doesn't want to go to school anymore because she's tired of being teased.After talking with her big cousin, Melanie, who dealt with the same issue, Ciara discovers a new level of confidence, and her parents, teachers, and peers see a shift in her grades and demeanor.Ciara learns how self-confidence is all she needs to be happy.Pretty Little Coco Girl is a love letter to all Black girls who face the world every day and isn't told they're beautiful. Young readers will find relatable scenarios and be empowered to embrace her beautiful brown skin, despite what her peers may think about her.
As we navigate through this journey called life, have you ever felt that there is more to the story? Is there an inclination that the powers that be have given us a false narrative? This reflection of my future and past explores various topics that affect each of our lives and, at times, threaten our existence. This book is hard-hitting and speaks to power. It attempts to take the reader down a path of enlightenment, exploring historical inaccuracies, religious fallacies, sinister experiments, and geo-engineering, just to name a few. The poems are written in a rhythmic style, designed to uplift and to inspire to action. In order to secure a future for our children, we all need to step up to the plate. We all need to do our part in raising consciousness on a global level, taking a stand against the tyranny that exists in a prudent and intellectual manner. The rulers of this world continue to dumb us down with fluoride in our drinking water and vaccines injected in our children, while we continue to breathe this toxic air. Our air is filled with aluminum, strontium, and barium, and the average person is clueless of this and the effects theyre having on each of us. As the planes continue to traverse the airways, no longer can we afford to sit back in silence. The rulers of this paradigm continue to label us black, white, Republican, Democrat, Christian, or Muslim. In my opinion, the only labels that are pertinent to our existence is the haves and the have-nots. The revolution starts in the mind. I challenge each of my readers to do their part in helping to free humanity from this evil that has plagued us for far too long.
Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment. As readers explore each part of this workbook, they will develop tools to overcome the mental injuries that occur from living in a racialized society. Clinicians who use this workbook with clients will find a practical toolbox of racially informed interventions to aid clinicians, particularly White clinicians, in culturally sensitive clinical practice.
"Discrimination based on skin color, also known as colorism or shadeism, is a form of prejudice or discrimination in which people are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin color." -- Wikipedia, viewed December 13, 2017.
This book is for those on a quest to find out what diet is the best for melanin dominant individuals who are rated highest in the leading causes of disease in America. Heart disease, cancer and diabetes are wiping us out one by one and there seems be no specific reason why from the medical community. The reason is because you have melanin and must learn how different you are from every other race.
In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Schneider Family Book Award and Stonewall Honor-winning author Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?
