On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
On this day, in 1965, five assassins murdered Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. But they did not silence his words. Malcolm’s words still ring with relevance for our time. These quotes are from MALCOLM X SPEAKS, a collection of Malcolm’s speeches and statements, mostly from the last year of his life. I wrote the introduction for a new edition that dropped yesterday.
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by @tatteredcoverbookstore. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by @tatteredcoverbookstore. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by @tatteredcoverbookstore. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by @tatteredcoverbookstore. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by @tatteredcoverbookstore. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis and other enslaved people from West Africa. Lewis tells his life story in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, which I adapted for young readers and now is a New York Times Best Seller. Among the founders of this church was Clara Brown. Upon the death of her Kentucky enslaver, Brown had been emancipated at 56 years old around the same time Lewis had been enslaved at 18 years old. Brown traveled West in the midst of the Colorado Gold Rush. This predominantly White influx of settlers increasingly occupied Native lands and decimated Native communities in Colorado’s plains and mountains. In Gilpin County, Brown established a laundry service, the occupation of many freed Black women at that time. She saved her money and acquired housing and mining properties in Denver and Boulder. Brown became known as the “Angel of the Rockies” for opening her arms, home, and purse to formerly enslaved Black people coming to Colorado. But as she help found Trinity United Methodist Church in 1859, Brown longed for what Lewis longed for as he walked off the Clotilda that month into Alabama slavery. They longed for what human traders brutally separated: families. International human traders had separated Lewis from his parents and siblings in 1859. Decades earlier, domestic human traders had separated Brown from her husband and children. When Black people found freedom before and after the Civil War, there number one priority was usually finding family. Lewis never saw his parents and siblings again. He married after the Civil War and created a new family in AfricaTown. After decades of searching, in 1882, Brown found her daughter, Eliza Jane, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. #blackhistorymonth
Shout out to the author of this op-ed, Matt Reid (@footprintsink), and all the teachers using graphic novels to get students interested in learning about history. They work. They really do. #StampedfromtheBeginning
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
When I visited Atlanta to speak about #Barracoon recently, I not only had a spirited conversation with author @kimberlylatricejones at the local public library. I had the absolute honor of speaking at two different events before hundreds of Atlanta area students who received copies of #Barracoon, thanks to Page Turners Make Great Leaners, @braveandkindbooks, and courageous district leaders, principals, and teachers. At one middle school, the students created a collage and another intricate portrait with fingerprints. The students peppered me with questions about how I became a writer and what is my writing process. I think you would have been proud. To witness the love of writers and the love of reading among these young people. Our young people are going to be alright. Now, the non-reading, book-banning adults on the other hand. . . S/o to @mobleyinthemix and @dontaye_carter for the vids.
A new edition of Malcolm X Speaks came out today. Many thanks to @groveatlantic for giving me the opportunity to introduce this monumental collection of speeches and statements from one of the greatest orators and revolutionaries in American history. #MalcolmXSpeaks
So thrilled for this! Thank you to the Writers Guild. Big congrats to David Teague and the entire team behind Stamped from the Beginning led by @rogerrosswilliams, @al_is_a_payne and @marabrockakil. As a writer, I remain in awe of the screenplay: the transformation of this 500-plus page narrative history book into a pulsating and illuminating 85-minute documentary on Netflix. I remain in awe. 🙌🏾🖤
We are overjoyed over here because of this! Second week #Barracoon is a New York Times Best Seller. This never gets old. The gratefulness is always new. 🙏🏾
We are overjoyed over here because of this! Second week #Barracoon is a New York Times Best Seller. This never gets old. The gratefulness is always new. 🙏🏾
The third starred review for #Barracoon, adapted for young readers. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This time from the school librarians over at @sljournal. 🙏🏾🙌🏾 The review in full: “Collected by Zora Neale Hurston in 1931, the tale of the ‘Last Black Cargo’ wasn’t published for 87 years because Hurston refused to alter the dialect of the formerly enslaved Cudjo Lewis. The sole living Black man kidnapped from West Africa in 1859, Cudjo survived transport to the U.S. on the final slave ship, was forced to work, and was suddenly liberated in 1865 with no resources or means to return home. A significant introduction creates the context for Cudjo’s story and Hurston’s fieldwork as an anthropologist to gather it. Kendi honors the tale by preserving both Cudjo’s and Hurston’s voices. The visual art as well as the narrative are exceptional; astonishing black-and-white images created by fine artist Lee-Johnson demand attention and create pause. Cudjo’s lifelong yearning for his home and the tragic lives of his six children bring readers to his final parting with Hurston. The interviews and artistry here create of this narrative an emotional experience. VERDICT This adaptation of Hurston’s beautiful, important work is a true gift. Highly recommended for all libraries.”
