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Brave. Black. First.: 100 Postcards Celebrating More Than 50 African American Women Who Changed the World (2020)
These 100 stunning postcards celebrate 50 groundbreaking African American women, from Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks to Angela Davis and BeyoncĂ©âpublished in collaboration with the Smithsonianâs National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Based on the childrenâs book Brave. Black. First., these empowering postcards celebrate artists, athletes, activists, politicians, and writers who championed civil rights in their communities. Each card features the portrait on the front and, on the back, an inspiring quote, short biographical information, and space for writing a message. With two postcards for every portrait, youâll have one to send and one to save. Taken together, the collectio captures the iconic moments of fifty African American women whose heroism and bravery rewrote the American story for the better.
by Cheryl Hudson (Author), Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)
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Cheryl Willis Hudson is an author and editor and the co-founder and editorial director of Just Us Books, an independent company that focuses on Black-interest books for children and young adults. Cheryl has written over two dozen books for young children, is a member of the childrenâs book committee of PEN America, and has served as a diversity consultant to a number of educational publishers.
Erin Robinson is an Emmy-nominated illustrator in the News and Documentary category. Trained at the Parsons School of Design and the Corcoran School of Art, Erin has had her illustrations published in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. Erin lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can find her art on her Etsy shop brooklyndolly.
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Brave. Black. First.: 100 Postcards Celebrating More Than 50 African American Women Who Changed the World (2020)
These 100 stunning postcards celebrate 50 groundbreaking African American women, from Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks to Angela Davis and BeyoncĂ©âpublished in collaboration with the Smithsonianâs National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Based on the childrenâs book Brave. Black. First., these empowering postcards celebrate artists, athletes, activists, politicians, and writers who championed civil rights in their communities. Each card features the portrait on the front and, on the back, an inspiring quote, short biographical information, and space for writing a message. With two postcards for every portrait, youâll have one to send and one to save. Taken together, the collectio captures the iconic moments of fifty African American women whose heroism and bravery rewrote the American story for the better.
by Cheryl Hudson (Author), Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)
Pre-order it here
Cheryl Willis Hudson is an author and editor and the co-founder and editorial director of Just Us Books, an independent company that focuses on Black-interest books for children and young adults. Cheryl has written over two dozen books for young children, is a member of the childrenâs book committee of PEN America, and has served as a diversity consultant to a number of educational publishers.
Erin Robinson is an Emmy-nominated illustrator in the News and Documentary category. Trained at the Parsons School of Design and the Corcoran School of Art, Erin has had her illustrations published in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. Erin lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can find her art on her Etsy shop brooklyndolly.
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Black Girls Are From the Future:: Essays on Race, Digital Creativity and Pop Culture (2013)
When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows heâs fallingâhard. Soon sheâs meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.
But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.
Yet Kateâs death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kateâs there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isnât sure if heâs losing his mind.
Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kateâs death, heâll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what heâs willing to do to save the people he loves.
by Renina Jarmon  (Author)
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Renina Jarmon is a blogger, documentary producer, author and doctoral student. Her graduate studies specifically focus on the politics of Black womenâs digital story-telling archives and the political ecosystems of the internet. Currently, she is studying gender, race and sexuality in the media and she also teaches a college course- Introduction to Womenâs Studies. Most recently she taught Introduction to Womenâs Studies with a focus on popular culture and digital feminisms. As a veteran blogger she has written about race, gender, feminism and sexuality in pop culture. She has written on her own blog New Model Minority for eight years, she has been a contributor at the blog Racialicious since 2008 and she been a member of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog since 2010. Renina has been invited to speak at several institutions and organizations about topics such as gender, race and blogging including the Barnard Center for Research on Women, The WESTAF Symposium in Aspen, Words, Beats and Life and Art Sanctuaryâs Annual Writing Festival in Philadelphia. Her work has also been highlighted in The Root.com, Ms. Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. You can learn more about her work at Blackgirlsarefromthefuture.com and Newmodelminority.com
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Right now, Iâm sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Hereâs some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:
âYou must include a cover letterâ does not mean âwrite a single line about why you want this positionâ. If you canât be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I canât be bothered to read your CV.
Donât bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is âsocialising with friendsâ and âlistening to musicâ. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly donât care how you spend your time. I wonât be looking at your CV thinking âhuh, they havenât included their interests, they must have noneâ, Iâm just looking for what you have included.
Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that donât include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like âCV - mediaâ tell me that youâve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didnât tailor it for this position. â[Full name] CVâ is best.
USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I canât make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.
I donât care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why theyâre useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and youâre applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, donât give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job Iâm advertising.
Does the application pack say who youâll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. Itâs super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people donât do this.
Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what youâre looking for, not just what you think Iâm looking for.
I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If itâs not interesting to you, itâs probably not interesting to me. Iâm overworked and tired. Make my job easy.
âI work well in a team or individuallyâ okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means youâll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.
For an entry-level role, tell me how youâre looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you canât teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.
This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually donât go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how youâll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all youâve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - itâs up to you to figure out the culture and what theyâre looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, itâs not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.
And if you get rejected, itâs worthwhile asking why. Youâve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, thereâs really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, âif it isnât too much troubleâ). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know itâs shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if itâs just one line like âyour cover letter wasnât inspiring" at least you know where to start.
And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesnât read exactly like that of every other person who took the same âhow-to-get-a-jobâ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like âI am a highly motivated and punctual individual whoââ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
Very good post thanks for this.
Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.
This is the first good resume advice post Iâve seen on this site. Much better advice than the âlists of active verbs to useâ and âhere are resume templatesâ. Follow this advice.
A Fistful of Honey  (2017) Â
Money. Love. Family. When it all falls away and sheâs left with nothing, one woman must find the strength to fight her demons⊠so she can save the world.
Alena Ford has a great job, a beautiful home, and a rich, powerful husband. When she loses it all she faces a nightmare worse than her horrible childhood. Fired from her job, she leaves her Manhattan penthouse for a decrepit apartment in a gritty section of Brooklyn. Stripped of everything, she is forced to face the demons of her past and the ghosts in her heart.
When Alena befriends her eccentric neighbor Gloria, the womanâs stunning amethyst necklace and Black Madonna painting draws her into a world of ancient secrets, dark forces, and powerful magic. It is a world in which black women, the first people, are divine. Alena is descended from an ancient order called The Bridgers, chosen to save humanity from the Dark Ones. To succeed, Alena must first battle the demons of her past. If she loses, the fate of the world is at stake.Â
A Fistful of Honey delivers racial healing and reawakening wrapped in a thrilling, page-turning tale, introducing a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fiction.
by Malena CrawfordÂ
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Malena Crawford is a Washington, DC-based writer and holds degrees from the George Washington University in Psychology with a concentration in Neuropsychology. She founded the Black Divine Feminine Reawakened movement,one dedicated to revolutionizing the way women of color see and experience themselves, and facilitates workshops on personal development, empowerment, and anti-oppression across the globe, most recently in South Africa. Her passion for writing and teaching come from a life story of healing and overcoming. A Fistful of Honey is her first novel and she is currently completing its sequel.
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