Download or read book Black Girls Do Cry written by Shante D. Lowe and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Girls Do Cry By: Shante D. Lowe Black Girls Do Cry: Battered but Not Broken is author Shante D. Lowe’s life story. It takes place from 1977-2012 and starts in Oakland to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she traveled. Her vision for this book is to empower other women who are going through abuse. She hopes her story will uplift them toward getting out of their toxic situations or to move towards getting out.

Download or read book For Troubled Black Girls Who Sometimes Cry written by Rodney Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where Do Black Girls Go To Cry written by Julie Doar-Sinkfield and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggling single mother finds herself broken, lost, and in a mental institution. Her fight back to her own humanity is a struggle that she has never encountered before. Things only get worse for Rochelle as she tries to change her destructive behavior. Forced to live in reality, she does the only thing she knows how to do. With her mother as enemy number one, she devises a plan to kill herself. With her new Homegirls in tow and the source of Rochelle's pain revealed, there is only one thing left to do. Find a place to cry.

Download or read book Where Do Black Girls Go To Cry written by Alicia Norman and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggling single mother finds herself broken, lost, and in a mental institution. Her fight back to her own humanity is a struggle that she has never encountered before. Things only get worse for Rochelle as she tries to change her destructive behavior. Forced to live in reality, she does the only thing she knows how to do. With her mother as enemy number one, she devises a plan to kill herself. With her new Homegirls in tow and the source of Rochelle's pain revealed, there is only one thing left to do. Find a place to cry.

Download or read book Black Girl Cry written by Heidi Lewis-Ivey and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you heard the advice, "Don't cry. You don't want to seem weak."? Have you ever considered that rather than being a sign of weakness, crying may actually be considered a sign of strength? This is one of the key messages that Heidi Lewis and her seven co-authors aim to get across in Black Girl Cry: What Black Women Need to Know to Amplify Their Voices. All too often, women-especially women of color-are given signals to stay in the shadows, to not draw attention to themselves, or to hide who they are and where they come from. Black Girl Cry advises exactly the opposite. All of the contributing authors in this anthology share with great courage and vulnerability the trauma and obstacles that they have faced as Black women and how they leaned into these experiences to discover, create, and reveal to the world their authentic selves. If you feel uncomfortable in your skin or are struggling to find or share your voice, you will find comfort and inspiration in the stories in Black Girl Cry.

Download or read book Big Girls Do Cry written by Carl Weber and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Girls Book Club has started a new chapter of BGBC in Richmond, Virginia. The same rules apply here: You must be at least a bodacious size 14 to join. . . Living in the plush suburbs, thirty-seven-year-old Egypt has it all--almost. She's happily married to Rashad, but there's one thing missing. They want to start a family. Enter her sister, Isis, who's moved into Egypt's McMansion with dreams of starting over. There's just one hitch: before her sister married Rashad, he was Isis's man for ten years. Isis thought she was over him, but the close quarters are creating doubts. . . Meanwhile, Loraine--Egypt's boss and one of BGBC's newest members--may be in the running for her sorority's next national president. But Loraine has secrets that could ruin her if they ever see the light of day. Now these book lovers are about to learn that drama can follow you wherever you go--and that big girls do cry. . .

Download or read book A Black Girl s Cry written by Danyelle Scroggins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Black Girl's Cry, Author Danyelle Scroggins deals with the struggles of black girls as they find themselves going through the challenges of racism, failed relationships, corporate tension, friendships, and pain. Who would imagine having a black mother who felt it more important to teach her girls how to be Christians verses the struggles life has with being black. From a young mother who knew all too well what it meant to be African American, she decided that there was something more important that being black in America. This deeply written partial memoir leads the readers through what it means to cry while not knowing VICTORY is already theirs, verses crying while knowing you already have the VICTORY through Christ Jesus. This is the victory to have in knowing Christ, understanding that we win in every situation because all things work together for our good. Scroggins shares how parenting two black girls put her in a space where she felt the need to teach more about being a Christian than being a black girl. She knew her girls would always know what it feels like to be a black girl, but learning what it meant to be a Christian would overpower the pain of being black. She gives so many powerful lessons handed down to her from her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother, which she in turned handed to her daughters and now to her granddaughter. In A Black Girl's Cry, you will understand that your tears is never a sign of weakness, but instead, just what you need to push past your fears and invite God into your situation.

Download or read book For Black Girls Like Me written by Mariama J. Lockington and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?

Download or read book Black Girls Don t Cry written by Angelica Leigh and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Girls Don't Cry uncovers "issues" with which many women struggle, but are too afraid to share. It provides scriptural solutions to life altering problems such as low self-esteem, abuse, and depression. Black Girls Don't Cry frees us from the bondage of regrets, encourages us to drop the baggage from our past, and moves us forward towards a renewed strength in Christ.

Download or read book I Know Why Black Girls Cry written by Kashya A Molineaux and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Know Why Black Girls Cry", is a poetic novel. This novel focuses on healing and explores the releasing and understanding of difficult traumas that some to many Black women have faced. Author Kashya Molineaux, dives deep into multiple forms of trauma, to uncover that we are not what we've been through, but in fact, everything we've been through, we can get through. Overall, "I Know Why Black Girls Cry" connects to the reader, through the understanding that no one is alone. Everyone has a story that deserves, to be heard and understood.

Download or read book Violence in the Lives of Black Women written by Carolyn West and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break the silence surrounding Black women's experiences of violence! Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue sheds new light on an understudied field. For too long, Black women have been suffering the effects of violence in painful silence. This book—winner of the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award for its contribution to the understanding of the role of gender in the lives of Black women—provides a forum where personal testimony and academic research meet to show you how living at the intersection of many kinds of oppression shapes the lives of Black women. With moving case studies, in-depth discussions of activism and resistance, and helpful suggestions for treatment and intervention, this book will help you understand the impact of violence on the lives of Black women. Topics you'll find in Violence in the Lives of Black Women include: using the arts to deal with sexual aggression in the Black community racial aspects of sexual harassment the consequences of head and brain injuries stemming from abuse domestic violence in African-American lesbian relationships strategies Black women use to escape violent living situations lifelong effects of childhood sexual abuse on Black women's mental health references and resources to help you learn more!

Download or read book Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls written by Lori D. Patton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the powerful essays that make up Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls, Black women and girls are listened to, appreciated and valued in recognition of the unrelenting challenges to our existence in a world that continues to be committed to stifling our voices. What these authors know intimately is that such stifling is not because what Black women and girls are saying isn’t important: It is precisely because it is. This book names the challenges Black women and girls continue to experience as we pursue our education and offers implications and recommendations for practitioners, teachers, administrators, and policymakers. [It] needs to be read widely and deeply studied as much for its formations and beautiful representations of Black women and girls as its recommendations. It is the truth-telling we need today and a groundbreaking resource we need today and beyond.”—Cynthia B. Dillard (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana), Athens, Georgia; and Cape Coast, Central Region, GhanaWhile figures on Black women and girls’ degree attainment suggest that as a group they are achieving in society, the reality is that their experiences are far from monolithic, that the educational system from early on and through college imposes barriers and inequities, pushing many out of school, criminalizing their behavior, and leading to a high rate of incarceration.The purpose of this book is to illuminate scholarship on Black women and girls throughout the educational pipeline. The contributors--all Black women educators, scholars, and advocates--name the challenges Black women and girls face while pursuing their education as well as offer implications and recommendations for practitioners, policymakers, teachers, and administrators to consider in ensuring the success of Black women and girls.This book is divided into four sections, each identifying the barriers Black girls and women encounter at the stages of their education and offering strategies to promote their success and agency within and beyond educational contexts.In Part One, the contributors explore the importance of mattering for Black girls in terms of redefining success and joy; centering Black girl literacy pedagogies that encourage them to thrive; examining how to make STEM more accessible to them; and recounting how Black girls’ emotions and emotional literacy can either disempower them or promote their sense of agency to navigate educational contexts.Part Two uncovers the violence directed toward and the criminalization of Black women and girls, and how they are situated in educational and justice systems that collude to fail them. The contributors address incarceration and the process of rehabilitation and reentry; the outcomes of disciplinary action in schools on women who pursue college; and describe how the erasure and disregard of Black women and girls leaves them absent from the educational policies that deeply affect their lives and wellbeing.Part Three focuses on how Black women are left to navigate without resources that could make their collegiate pathways smoother; covers how hair politics impact their acceptance in college leadership roles, particularly at HBCUs; illuminates the importance of social/emotional and mental health for Black undergraduate women and the lack of adequate resources; and explores how women with disabilities navigate higher education.The final part of this book describes transformative approaches to supporting the educational needs of Black women and girls, including the use of a politicized ethic of care, intergenerational love and dialogue, and constructing communities, including digital environments, to ensure they thrive through their education and beyond.

Download or read book Carefree Black Girls written by Zeba Blay and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in America "Powerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay’s pivotal work will engage all readers, especially fans of Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism." —Kirkus (Starred) An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women—from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B. In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was “a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online.” In this collection of essays, Carefree Black Girls, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture--writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars--whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay celebrates the strength and fortitude of these Black women, while also examining the many stereotypes and rigid identities that have clung to them. In writing that is both luminous and sharp, expansive and intimate, Blay seeks a path forward to a culture and society in which Black women and their art are appreciated and celebrated.

Download or read book Making Black Girls Count in Math Education written by Nicole M. Joseph and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate school, deftly probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields. Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the mathematics pipeline. Joseph’s unflinching account calls attention to educational structures and practices that contribute to race- and gender-based stratification in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The author also disentangles a complex network of historical and sociopolitical elements that influence the perception and experiences of Black girls and women both inside and outside of mathematics education. In her clear-eyed assessment of the intersectional difficulties facing this marginalized group, Joseph offers a critical view of the existing mathematics education research, practice, and policies that have neglected Black girls and women; confronts the problematic history of mathematics education policy; and considers imbalances in the current teacher workforce in US mathematics programs. She then provides practical, actionable suggestions for reform. Joseph invites students, families, and educators, as well as researchers, policy makers, and other relevant stakeholders to disrupt systems, structures, and ideologies. She calls for an end to racism and sexism in many areas of mathematics education, including learning environments, curriculum design and implementation, and testing and assessments. An essential read for anyone concerned about supporting the mathematical learning and development of Black girls and women, this work advocates for coalition-building so that greater, more equitable opportunities for learning and engagement may be offered to Black female students.

Download or read book Black Girl Autopoetics written by Ashleigh Greene Wade and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Girl Autopoetics Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture with the speed and flexibility enabled by smartphones. She analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content online: on one hand, their online activity makes them hypervisible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence; on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Wade maps Black girls’ everyday digital practices, showing what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. She coins the term Black girl autopoetics to describe how Black girls’ self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls throughout the United States, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, urging us to listen to Black girls’ experience and learn from their techniques of survival.

Download or read book Black Girls Cry 10 Active and Passive Strategies for Healing After the Death of a Loved One written by Ngonzi Truth Crushshon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Girls Cry: 10 Active and Passive Strategies for Healing from the Death of A Loved One by Dr. Ngonzi Truth Crushshon, Psy.D. a licensed eligible psychologist from Chicago, Illinois.Have you experienced the death of a loved one? Are you having difficulty working through your grief? Are you wondering how long will my grief last? What ways can I effectively cope with grief? How can I help my loved one cope with grief? Do I need a grief counselor or grief support group?Dr. Crushshon takes the reader through the symptoms of grief, definitions of grief terms, stages of grief, active vs. passive grief, complicated grief vs. depression, how women vs. men cope with grief differently and finally her personal journey coping with the grief and loss of her loved one. She offers an extensive bibliography and a plethora of grief resources including websites, grief counselors, grief camps, grief groups, grief books/cellphone apps and online counseling to help the reader cope with their grief.Dr. Crushshon offers practical suggestions and resources for women, men, teens and children. Dr. Crushshon provides grief counseling to grieving families, children and adults.

Download or read book The Black Girls Left Standing written by Juliana Goodman and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Juliana Goodman's powerful young adult debut The Black Girls Left Standing, Beau Willet will stop at nothing to clear her sister's name. Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?