Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children Cover:Hardcover and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly)

and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race

she needs to saddle up her pony

" "Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven

Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools

which are often misunderstood and stigmatized

Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children Cover:Hardcover and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly)When happy things come to you, hold them close and never let go. From celebrated author of Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow, fine artist Patrick Dougher, and photographer Jamel Shabazz, Hold Them Close is a picture book celebration of Black past, present, and futurea joyful love letter to Black children. As affirming as it is touching and warm, Hold Them Close encourages young children to hold close their joy, the words of their ancestors