Learn about Ethel Ray Nance (1899 - 1992), a civil rights activist from Minnesota!

🎉New Book Alert! 📒 Learn about Ethel Ray Nance (1899 - 1992), a civil rights activist from Minnesota. ❤️💚🖤#history #blackhistory365 #blackhistoryguardians

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/04/11/civil-rights-leader-ethel-ray-nance-to-be-honored-in-duluth-and-in-new-biography

 

Good moms create smiles with BOOKS!

Good moms understand the power of reading to children. They create smiles through books! #literacymatters #readingmatters #junebookfair2024 #readtochildren 

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Read to children!

We know some of the BEST parents in the world! #literacymatters #junebookfair2024 #readtochildren #readingmatters 

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Real men read!

Real men read. Thank you, Kings! #trueroyalty #literacymatters #readingmatters #junebookfair2024 #booksATL 

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Literacy Matters!

The Avant-garde Books Team is committed to eliminating illiteracy around the world! 

 Our mission is to strengthen and support literacy development around the world, especially for children who reside in socio-economically disadvantaged communities. 

Our vision is to build a community of lifelong readers who constructively use knowledge to empower themselves and others. 

Happy Juneteenth 2024!

🎉It's Story Time with Avant-garde Books! 📚"They had few belongings. But they had powerful dreams. Dreams they could share as they walked..." ❤️🖤💚 https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/G2zWbTERoKb #juneteenth #freedomday

 

Happy birthday to world-renown poet and educator, Nikki Giovanni (1943)!

 🎂Happy birthday to poet and educator, Nikki Giovanni!

We 🧡you!

“Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.”—Nikki Giovanni

#NikkiGiovanni #BicyclesLovePoems #TheWomenTheMen #NikkiRosa #AGoodCry #BlackFeelingsBlackTalk

🎂 Remembering Award-winning Poet and Educator, Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)!

🎂Remembering award-winning poet laureate and educator, Gwendolyn Brooks who was born on this day in 1917. ❤️She made her ancestral transition on December 3, 2000. “We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”—Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000)

#GwendolynBrooks 📚#AnnieAllen 🏆#PulitzerPrize #WeRealCool #TheBeanEaters #InTheMecca #MaudMartha