Waste Ages 13 and up Zora Neale Hurston was praised

Zora Neale Hurston was praised for her writing but condemned for her independence and audacity

Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break

Yet hunger has also made her brave: she finds the courage to skip a summer of so-called volunteer farm labor

She was a witness to a little-known secret in the brokerage system: Latinx and Black employees were forced to do the drudge work of finding investment leads for white male brokers

William Still’s parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind

Waste Ages 13 and up Zora Neale Hurston was praisedThe MacArthur grantwinning environmental justice activists riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for Americas most vulnerable Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur genius, grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place thats been called Bloody Lowndes because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today its Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowerss lifes worka fight to ensure