By Elizabeth Sammons with love from Neighbor-to-Neighbor
Holding Her Own, American Sirens, and Can I Get a Witness? are the Neighbor-to-Neighbor books of note for this month. This literature intends to expand our awareness, theology and/or acceptance of diverse viewpoints. We hope you’ll discover how these writings from various generations embrace what it means to be human and to walk in spirit. …
Holding Her Own by Todd, Traci
Jackie Ormes was the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the USA. She was also a journalist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist. But in post-World War II America, Black people were still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie found herself in a dilemma: How could her art stay true to her signature "Jackie joy" while remaining honest about the inequalities Black people had been fighting? For grades 2-4.
American Sirens by Hazzard, Kevin
Until the 1970s, a 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men and women who became America's first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around the world, only to have their story and their legacy erased—until now.
Can I Get a Witness? by Blount, Brian.
Brian Blount reads the Book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the longstanding suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering and struggle amidst oppressive assimilation and that witnessing was the ethic by which John wished people to live.
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