Award-winning author Tamara Winfrey Harris will talk about her new book, âDear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power,â in a free Books & Books Instagram Live event on March 19 at 6 p.m.
âDear Dope Black Girl, You donât know me, but I know you. I know you because I am you! We are magic, light, and stars in the universe.â
So begins a letter that Winfrey Harris received as part of her Letters to Black Girls project, where she asked Black women to write honest, open and inspiring letters of support to young Black girls aged 13 to 21. Her call went viral, resulting in the receipt of one hundred personal letters from around the globe covering topics such as identity, self-love, parents, violence, grief, mental health, sex and sexuality.
YMCA Summer Day Camp
This summer, let your kids be kids again at the Sewickley Valley YMCA’s Summer Day Camp. During camp at the Y, your child can build robots, dance, become a lego master or gymnast, explore the outdoors and much more. Plus, all camps include art, swimming, games and singing silly songs. Whether you register your child for a single two-week session, or all five, the tech-free summer will be the summer to remember!
New this year, cardboard camp offers creativity and imagination where campers build armor, participate in live-action adventure gaming and seek out lost relics.
Here’s the thing about new books: They are the catalysts that inspire readers to try, do, and feel new things. “Black Girl Magic” is not just something that exists as a campaign or chant at rallies, but something to hold onto within ourselves and use to catapult over whatever obstacles come our way.
The books released this week give us so much Black girl magic, it’s hard to keep track. There is Jasmine Mans’
Black Girl, Call Home, a collection of poetry detailing her experiences as a queer Black woman and navigating her identity.
Act Your Age, Eve Brown is the third installment of