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Book The Lightmaker s Manifesto

Download or read book The Lightmaker s Manifesto written by Karen Walrond and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Karen Walrond shines her light so we can find our own." —Brené Brown Many of us have strong convictions. We want to advocate for causes we care about--but which ones? We want to work for change--but will the emotional toll lead to burn out? Leadership coach, lawyer, photographer, and activist Karen Walrond knows that when you care deeply about the world, light can seem hard to find. But when your activism grows out of your joy--and vice versa--you begin to see light everywhere. In The Lightmaker's Manifesto, Walrond helps us name the skills, values, and actions that bring us joy; identify the causes that spark our empathy and concern; and then put it all together to change the world. Creative and practical exercises, including journaling, daily intention-setting, and mindful self-compassion, are complemented by lively conversations with activists and thought leaders such as Valarie Kaur, Brené Brown, Tarana Burke, and Zuri Adele. With stories from around the world and wisdom from those leading movements for change, Walrond beckons readers toward lives of integrity, advocacy, conviction, and joy. By unearthing our passions and gifts, we learn how to joyfully advocate for justice, peace, and liberation. We learn how to become makers of light.

Book Eric Walrond

Download or read book Eric Walrond written by James Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, this biography situates Tropic Death within the author's broader corpus and positions the work as a catalyst and driving force behind the New Negro literary movement in America. James Davis follows Walrond from the West Indies to Panama, New York, France, and finally England. He recounts his relationships with New Negro authors such as Countée Cullen, Charles S. Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Gwendolyn Bennett, as well as the white novelist Carl Van Vechten. He also recovers Walrond's involvement with Marcus Garvey's journal Negro World and the National Urban League journal Opportunity and examines the writer's work for mainstream venues, including Vanity Fair. In 1929, Walrond severed ties with Harlem, but he did not disappear. He contributed to the burgeoning anticolonial movement and print culture centered in England and fueled by C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and other Caribbean expatriates. His history of Panama, shelved by his publisher during the Great Depression, was the first to be written by a West Indian author. Unearthing documents in England, Panama, and the United States, and incorporating interviews, criticism of Walrond's fiction and journalism, and a sophisticated account of transnational black cultural formations, Davis builds an eloquent and absorbing narrative of an overlooked figure and his creation of modern American and world literature.

Book The Beauty of Different

Download or read book The Beauty of Different written by Karen Walrond and published by Bright Sky Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores beauty in nine fresh ways and challenges the reader to revel in her own uniqueness, in a book that combines beautiful imagery, portraiture, insightful commentary, essays and interviews in a multisensory, self-discovery-provoking exploration of what is really beautiful.

Book Tropic Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Walrond
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Tropic Death written by Eric Walrond and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Search of Asylum  The Later Writings of Eric Walrond

Download or read book In Search of Asylum The Later Writings of Eric Walrond written by Eric Walrond and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. . . . A significant and fascinating collection."--African American Review "Brings together a number of interesting pieces of fiction and non-fiction by this Guyana-born, Barbados- and Panama-bred author."--New West Indian Guide "Forms part of a gradual rehabilitation of Walrond’s work that has been taking place in recent years."--Caribbean Review of Books "Place[s] Walrond squarely on the map. . . . In Search of Asylum could not have arrived at a more propitious time."--sx salon "A substantial step forward for black diaspora and black transnational literary studies."--Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha "Fills a significant void in our understanding of the life and literary career of Eric Walrond. By collecting, for the first time, the writings Walrond produced following his departure from the U.S. in 1928, Parascandola and Wade have done scholars a rich service."--Heather Hathaway, author of Caribbean Waves Eric Walrond is one of the great underexamined figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean diaspora. Very little of his later work has been subsequently published or made readily available to American scholars. His writings, set in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe, discuss imperialism, racism, the role of the black writer, black identity, and immigration--all topics of vital concern today. Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Walrond moved to New York City in 1918 where he worked briefly for Marcus Garvey and became a protégé of Charles S. Johnson. During that time, he wrote short fiction as well as nonfiction and gained a measure of fame for his 1926 collection, Tropic Death. In Search of Asylum compiles Walrond’s European journalism and later fiction, as well as the pieces he wrote during the 1950s at Roundway Hospital in Wiltshire, England, where he was a voluntary patient. Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade have assembled a collection that at last fills in the biographical gaps in Walrond’s life, providing insights into the contours of his later work and the cultural climates in which he functioned between 1928 and his death in 1966.

Book My Body Is Special   2nd Edition

Download or read book My Body Is Special 2nd Edition written by LaKeesha Walrond and published by Let's Talk about It. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Let's Talk About It (LTAI) books series address important but challenging topics for children and adults in an effort to end child abuse. These books will equip children with tools necessary to protect themselves from physical, mental, psychological and sexual abuse. Intended to open the lines of communication between adults and children; LTAI books will lead to empowering conversations on 'taboo' topics that will decrease abuse against children. The initial six part series; which will include three books about girls and three books about boys, focuses on the prevention of sexual violence against children. In the first book, "My Body is Special," Eva empowers other children to take ownership of their bodies and provides them with problem solving tools to help prevent an unhealthy touch. Eva teaches children what to say, what to do, where to go and who to tell if they ever feel unsafe around another person. The goal of the book is for each child who encounters this book to develop their own individual personal plan of action to prevent this type of abuse.

Book Winds Can Wake Up the Dead

Download or read book Winds Can Wake Up the Dead written by Eric Walrond and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.

Book Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems

Download or read book Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems written by Claude McKay and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Somebody Else s Money

Download or read book Somebody Else s Money written by W. M. Elofson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first close environmental and economic study of one of the great ranches on the northern Great Plains of North America. Somebody Else's Money examines the business side of large-scale, open range grazing and describes the myriad of natural and man-made obstacles that barred it from success. --Book Jacket.

Book Ratoon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence Maxim Walrond
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 1460269306
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Ratoon written by Lawrence Maxim Walrond and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ratoon, Lawrence Walrond describes the quest for the history of his family name and for his roots. Unrelenting research takes him from 7th-century Germany through 11th-century France and England and eventually to 17th-century Caribbean countries. He links customs in ancient New Guinea to trade practices of Mediterranean states, and he follows the Walrond name from the battlefields of England across the Atlantic to the sugar plantations of Barbados, where African slaves adopted the names of English landowners. From the history of world events, Lawrence turns to the recent past and pieces together his father's biography using childhood memories, family photographs, interviews, and the man's own diary and records. His father's vocation as a successful elementary school principal in Trinidad is paralleled by Lawrence's own equally effective career as a French teacher in Canadian secondary schools. A unique blend of history, biography, and memoir, Ratoon explores the value of travel, how individuals relate to world events, what kinds of information are worth recording, and how we make sense of the past.

Book Disquiet Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Grant
  • Publisher : Jericho Books
  • Release : 2014-10-21
  • ISBN : 1455578843
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Disquiet Time written by Jennifer Grant and published by Jericho Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and hilarious collection that encourages readers to tackle those strange, awkward, worrying, yet endlessly compelling passages of the Bible. The Bible is full of not-so-precious moments, from murder and mayhem, to sex and slavery. Now, an incredible cast of contributors tackles the parts of the Bible that most excite, frustrate, or comfort, like: What the heck is the book of Revelation really about? (The answer will surprise you.) How do we come to grips with the Bible's troubling (or seemingly troubling) passages about the role of women? Why did the artist of the oldest known picture of Jesus intentionally paint him with a wonky eye -- and what does it tell us about beauty? Disquiet Time was written by and for Bible-loving Christians, agnostics, skeptics, none-of-the-aboves, and people who aren't afraid to dig deep spiritually, ask hard questions, and have some fun along the way.

Book A Taste of the World

Download or read book A Taste of the World written by Little Little Gestalten and published by Little Gestalten. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes children on a culinary journey around the world, teaching them about new cultures and landscapes through different foods. This illustrated non-fiction book explains facts with interesting references and stories that spark curiosity about the different history and cultures of the world. As children learn about foods, they also understand how the environment and cultural practice can shape the way we eat. By the end, they will have learned about different cuisines and cultures with a thought about how we all share these widely today.

Book The Law Journal Reports

Download or read book The Law Journal Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Board of Fire and Water Commissioners

Download or read book Report of the Board of Fire and Water Commissioners written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devonshire Wills

Download or read book Devonshire Wills written by Charles Worthy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: