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11-11-2025 5:07 am • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
Aundrea Tabbs-Smith
Educator and author lists a few of her favorite affirming books for Black children, which will help them build that sense of belonging and possibility from their earliest moments.
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Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world.
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Jerome Saintjones, author of “The Chinaberry Tree”
Jerome Saintjones, author of the novel “The Chinaberry Tree,” secured a coveted finalist spot in the category for best African American Fiction.
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Photo: Carver Clark Gayton
The autobiography of a local and national leader in education and civil rights
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Photo: NNPA
The book delves deeper into personal stories, historical photos, and social-justice poems, kicking off each chapter with powerful verses. It highlights the lessons learned from Frank’s late uncle, the famed music producer Quincy Jones, whose influence remains an enduring part of her life.
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“I didn’t want to have a documentary book. I wanted to have a book that celebrated the lifestyle of Black people who share this Western heritage. Just, for lack of a better word, beautiful images of this lifestyle and people enjoying the culture,” explained Tarver.
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Harold of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ (Harper & Brothers, 1955)
As Johnson’s biographer and a scholar of children’s literature, I started to wonder about Harold’s race while researching “How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic,” which will be published in November 2024. I discovered that not everyone has seen Harold as white – possibly, not even Johnson himself. When cartoonist Chris Ware, who’s also white, was a little boy, he read Harold as Black. When picture book creator Bryan Collier, who’s Black, was a boy, he both read Harold as Black and “imagined himself as Harold.”
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Photo: Press L. Robinson, LSU Press
This candid memoir details Robinson's journey through a challenging upbringing in South Carolina, academic success in earning a doctorate and an extensive career in education and social justice.
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“When You Wonder, You’re Learning Mister Rogers’ Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids” by Gregg Behr & Ryan Rydzewski
Modern science backs Mister Rogers up. Young people with families and caregivers who are actively engaged in their learning tend to do better in school, and not by a little: Students with engaged families are up to 81 percent more likely to graduate from high school and 95 percent more likely to report physical and mental well-being.
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Jamaica Kincaid (Photo credit: Harper’s Bazaar)
Jamaica Kincaid is a world-renowned writer, a Harvard professor, and an avid gardener who’s passing on her plant expertise to Black youth in her new children’s book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening For Colored Children, the first children’s book Kincaid has published in almost 40 years.
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