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PWID 2016 Scholarship winner – Nabeeh Bilal
You never know how the things you experience today can prepare you for an opportunity tomorrow. Likewise, you also never know how a person you ...
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PWID 2016 Diversity Scholarship Winner Khannie Dastgah
As I sit here thinking about how I am going to explain what this opportunity means to me, I get flooded with emotions and I ...
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A New Challenge – Jill Kuangfung
Not too long ago, I found myself in a well-known, independent feminist bookstore wondering where all the characters of color were. This was a while ...
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Diverse authors/illustrators at the Illinois SCBWI conference
Fellow African American children’s author, Urania Smith, teamed with me, B A Binns, to sponsor three diverse authors to attend the 2016 Illinois SCBWI conference, ...
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Using Diverse Books in Library Programs – ILA 2016
B A Binns & Nancy Goodfellow The Illinois Library Association, ILA, held it’s annual conference in Rosemont, Il on October 19 and 20. On Wednesday, ...
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What if you gave a contest and nobody came?
For the record, the title of this blog is meant to be a hook. Authors know what I mean, that thing good novels use to ...
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2016 Prairie Writers results
Presenting the winners of my contest to provide free tuition for diverse children\’s authors and illustrators to attend Illinois SCBWI\’s 2016 conference – Prairie ...
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Contest winners
Here are the winners of my contest, two fresh author/illustrator faces who won free tuition for the Illinois SCBWI conference, Prairie Writers and Illustrators Day, ...
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Sharing or Things that should be learned in kindergarten
I’m an outlier, a black female who swims. There are a few of us, you know. I grew up on the south side of Chicago. ...
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