Letters to Young Black Women


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Daniel Whyte III never intended to write a book to young black women. He believes, according to the Scriptures, that the older women should teach the younger women. However, after Letters to Young Black Men: Advice & Encouragement for a Difficult Journey became a bestselling book, readers requested that Whyte write a book for young black women as well. He prayed about it and was led to do so. Regarding the purpose of this book, Whyte states: This book is more about prevention than it is about healing. There are many other great men and women of God who are doing great work in the healing and restoration department for young black women. I believe that many of the problems that young black women are dealing with today can be prevented from happening in the first place. I also believe that in order for young women to be victorious in this life, they must operate from a position of strength and power. This book will empower them to win against their enemies: the devil, sorry men and even themselves. I hope that they will read it and never live a defeated life again. Daniel Whyte III writes a heartfelt book to his daughters and to other young black women, on the various issues of life that they face today. Whyte actually commenced the writing of this book from his hospital bed during a routine stay for chest pains. Symbolically, if Daniel Whyte III were on his deathbed, the words contained in this book are those that he would say to his six daughters. Written just for the young black woman in your life, whether you are a father, mother, grandparent or Sunday school teacher, Letters to Young Black Women is overflowing with loving, fatherly, "advice and encouragement for a difficult journey."




Dear Black Girl


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“Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women's voices… is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but for everyone who cares about Black girls, and for Black women whose inner-Black girl could use some healing.” –Tarana Burke, Founder of the ‘Me Too' Movement "Dear Dope Black Girl, You don't know me, but I know you. I know you because I am you! We are magic, light, and stars in the universe.” So begins a letter that Tamara Winfrey Harris received as part of her Letters to Black Girls project, where she asked black women to write honest, open, and inspiring letters of support to young black girls aged thirteen to twenty-one. Her call went viral, resulting in a hundred personal letters from black women around the globe that cover topics such as identity, self-love, parents, violence, grief, mental health, sex, and sexuality. In Dear Black Girl, Winfrey Harris organizes a selection of these letters, providing “a balm for the wounds of anti-black-girlness” and modeling how black women can nurture future generations. Each chapter ends with a prompt encouraging girls to write a letter to themselves, teaching the art of self-love and self-nurturing. Winfrey Harris's The Sisters Are Alright explores how black women must often fight and stumble their way into alrightness after adulthood. Dear Black Girl continues this work by delivering pro-black, feminist, LGBTQ+ positive, and body positive messages for black women-to-be—and for the girl who still lives inside every black woman who still needs reminding sometimes that she is alright.




Letters to a Young Sister


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A guide to becoming empowered in today's world addresses a wide range of topics, from establishing a unique identity and confronting racism and sexism to engaging in responsible relationships with the opposite sex and managing finances.




Badass Black Girl


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Publishers Weekly Select Title for Young Readers ─ A Daily Dose of Inspiration for Badass Black Girls Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. MJ Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes in this journal designed for teenage girls. By reflecting on these topics, readers confront the issues that can hold them back from living their lives. Embrace authenticity and celebrate who you are. Finding the courage to live as you are is not easy, so here’s a journal designed to help readers nurture their creativity, self-motivation, and positive self-awareness. This journal celebrates girl power and honors the strength and spirit of black girls. Change the way you view the world. This journal provides words of encouragement that seek not just to inspire, but to ignite discussion and debate about the world. Girls, especially, are growing up in a world that tries to tell them how to look and act. MJ Fievre encourages readers to fight the flow and determine for themselves who they want to be. Reading Badass Black Girl: Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens will help you: • Build and boost your self-esteem with powerful affirmations • Learn more about yourself through intensive and insightful journaling • Resist the mold that outside opinions have put into place, and become comfortable and confident in embracing your authentic self If books like Just Between Us: Mother & Daughter, You Are a Girl Who Can Do Anything: A Very Special Book to Cheer You on and Help You Achieve Greatness, 12 Rules for Life, and Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, have interested you, then Badass Black Girl is for you!




Love Letters to My Girls


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Inspire. Uplift. Motivate. Empower. These letters, written by over 100 Black women and girls, will do just that. Drawing from personal experiences, emotional hardships, desires of the heart and victories; our sisters share words that will help you recognize your natural beauty, remember the strength and resilience that resides within you and realize your potential and power. Each letter will meet you where you are, when you need it and help you to see you for who you really are-brilliant, valuable, worthy, loveable, loved, powerful, bold, fearless, a fighter, a difference-maker, and vulnerable, yet strong. This is who you are; who you really are. These letters testify to the truth of who you are. Read it. Feel it. Be fueled by it, then go light up the world with all of your magnificent color.




Dear Kamala


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Women of all ages, races, and nations share their hopes, fears, desires, advice, and support with the new Vice President. As the first woman of color elected as the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris broke through many barriers and made history, energizing a host of women who have a lot to say. Seeing a model of themselves filling the second-most-powerful office in the Free World, women from Africa to California, Canada to Florida began writing to the new Vice President. Dear Kamala: Women Write to the New Vice President showcases a selection of these heartfelt and moving letters. Girl Scouts confide their fears for a future ravaged by climate change; a business owner in Harlem offers unflinching advice about the need for real investment in inner cities; civil rights activists share their stories, struggles, and successes over the decades. Filled with moving personal stories and heartbreaking tales of racial injustices suffered, Dear Kamala offers much more than kind words. They represent an offer of support and a call to action for all those who will be at Vice President Harris's side throughout the next four years.




Black Woman Redefined


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It's time for a REDEFINITION among black women in America. In its 2011 hardcover release, Black Woman Redefined was a top-selling book and took home a 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards. Author Sophia A. Nelson won the 2012 Champions of Diversity Award, given each year by diversity business executives in Fortune 100 companies. Black Woman Redefined was inspired in part by what Nelson calls “open season on accomplished black women": from Don Imus's name-calling of black female basketball players in 2007 and a 2009 Yale University study titled “Marriage Eludes High-Achieving Black Women," to the more recent revelation that First Lady Michelle Obama is concerned about being painted as an “angry, black woman." In Black Woman Redefined, Nelson sets out to change this cultural perception, taking readers on a no-holds-barred journey into the hearts and minds of accomplished black women to reveal truths, tribulations, and insights like never before. This groundbreaking book provides black women of a new generation with essential career and life-coaching advice. Based on never-before-done research on college-educated, career-driven black women, Nelson offers her fellow “sisters"—and those who know, love, and work with them—a feel-good volume for personal and professional success that empowers them without tearing others down.




Decolonial Daughter


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A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, and identity—and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples. Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualize her and her son’s existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world, where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised upon the demise of her lineage. Through letters to her son, Brown writes the past into the present—penned from the country that has been declared “The Happiest Place in the World”—creating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold.




We are Your Sisters


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Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.




Letters to a Little Black Girl


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Uzoma Family Publications and Author Leila Lacey presents Letters to a Little Black Girl: Letters, Poems, and stories of Love and Guidance for every little Girl, an inspiring collection of narratives for girls, ages five to twenty-one. The letters, poems, stories and scriptures were lovingly written by 17 amazing women from all over the country, and from all walks of life. They believe in the motto, "It takes a village to raise a child," and they have come together, here, to create that village in the hearts of growing girls everywhere.Raising our children to be prepared for anything, and to do it with grace, gratitude and kindness, is difficult in today's world. In these pages, the women-mothers, daughters, teachers-of the "village" have candidly shared priceless life experience and offer guidance on important issues such as:* Pre-marital sex * Higher education * Single parenthood * Entrepreneurship * Religion * And a host of other topics These life stories have the capacity to give direction and shape children at vulnerable times in their lives. The possibility of who they will become and the heights they will reach is immeasurable. So please share this with those you love and witness your daughters, granddaughters, nieces and friends as they blossom into the strong and capable women you know they can be.Your purchase continues to help others, now and in the future. Seventy percent (70%) of all proceeds from this book's sales will be donated to various non-profit organizations that benefit the health and well-being of today's girls.