Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Children's Black & African American Story Books The combination of genuine wisdom

The combination of genuine wisdom of universal value and a life story that is preposterously entertaining

Lush and cinematic

author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer

Defying expectations

but it is more than that: It is the country’s very origin

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Children's Black & African American Story Books The combination of genuine wisdomA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Todayas Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest petitionsits