#ourstoriesmatter

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A Father's Hand , A Son's Heart

A Father’s Hand, a Son’s Heart

Fleeting moments, lasting memories, and the quiet strength of a father’s love

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#GivingTuesday

🙌🏿Today’s the day, Giving Tuesday! 

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📢NEW Chapter Book Series

📖King of the Ice (Miles Lewis, Bk. 1)

and

📖Whiz Kid (Miles Lewis, Bk. 2)

Kelly Starling Lyons

Wayne Spencer

Penguin Workshop

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📚Hurricane Katrina

On the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, check out these children’s books by Black authors. The first book, Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year, is a new picture book releasing in February 2022. All the books are fiction except for A Place Where Hurricanes Happen.

📖Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year 

Kathy Z. Price

Carl Joe Williams

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Available for Pre-order

February 15, 2022

📖Escape From...Hurricane Katrina

Judy Allen Dodson

Nigel Chilvers 

little bee books

📖Saint Louis Armstrong Beach 

Brenda Woods

Puffin Books

📖A Place Where Hurricanes Happen

Renee Watson

Shadra Stickland

Random House BYR

📖Ninth Ward 

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Little, Brown BYR

📖Finding Someplace

Denise Lewis Patrick

Henry Holt and Co.

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Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 

📚Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry

Bebe Moore Campbell

E. B. Lewis 

Puffin, 2005

Some mornings, Annie's mother's smiles are as bright as sunshine as she makes pancakes for breakfast and helps Annie get ready for school. But other days, her mother doesn't smile at all and gets very angry. Those days Annie has to be a big girl and make her own breakfast, and even put herself to bed at night. But Annie's grandma helps her remember what to do when her mommy isn't well, and her silly friends are there to cheer her up. And no matter what, Annie knows that even when Mommy is angry on the outside, on the inside she never stops loving her.

*The books featured for Minority Mental Health Awareness Month are fiction stories. Any mental conditions addressed in the stories can be further explored via nonfiction books or mental health organizations. 

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Enough is enough. How much longer will we allow our stories, our histories to be told in whispers and shadows? The Getty Museum's $3 Bill exhibition lays bare a truth too long ignored: the queer past is vibrant, defiant, and far from invisible. As institutions gloss over our contributions, we must confront the deafening silence of power structures that continue failing us. Where's the action beyond admiring displays? Our existence isn't just art—it's a demand for recognition, justice, and change. Speak loudly. Share relentlessly. This is our narrative to define. We won't be erased. Not now. Not ever.

[noah-blake-journey]

The Three Mushroom Brothers

(For Grant Bulloch, who captured a fleeting world in stillness)

In the quiet spaces where light bends and grasses whisper, there exists a world just beyond our ordinary sight — a fleeting kingdom where the smallest lives dance, dream, and carry stories older than memory.

The Three Mushroom Brothers is a celebration of that hidden magic — a reflection born from a single photograph, carried forward by music, and reimagined through the lens of wonder.

This piece invites you to pause, to listen closer, and to see not just with your eyes, but with your spirit — where even the smallest things can unfold into vast, beautiful worlds.

Noah Blake

The Three Mushroom Brothers

(For Grant Bulloch, who captured a fleeting world in stillness)

The Three Mushroom Brothers

(For Grant Bulloch, who captured a fleeting world in stillness)

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Where Are You Now ?

JILL. CORNEL. CHASE. CLAUDIA. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

As the smoke clears from the chaos of the 2024 U.S.