‘The New Brownies Book’ Wins NAACP Image Award In NonFiction

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman

March 12, 2024

“The New Brownies’ E book: A Love Letter to Black Households” has received the NAACP Picture Award For Excellent Literary Work, Nonfiction.

The New Brownies’ E book: A Love Letter to Black Households has received the NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Literary Work, Nonfiction. The espresso desk ebook received previous to the dwell airing of the fifty fifth annual occasion.

The New Brownies’ E book was revealed in October 2023 by Charly Palmer and Karida L. Brown. The husband-and-wife duo have been impressed by W.E.B. DuBois’ unique kids’s journal, revealed in 1920 as the primary of its variety to deal with Black youth. Excerpts from DuBois’ work are discovered all through this contemporary take.

The creators of the ebook beforehand spoke to BLACK ENTERPRISE about their mission to interact with and encourage Black youth in addition to honoring the imaginative and prescient of DuBois.

The New Brownies’ E book seeks to advertise Black households and authors by that includes their artistic works, starting from brief tales to poetry and tremendous artwork. Its contributors will not be solely esteemed writers, resembling BE‘s Director of Content material Ida Harris, however youth artists. The youngsters’s creations are displayed all through, making the ebook an attractive learn for all age teams.

“I, together with a collective of 49 writers and artists, awoke winners of a NAACP Picture Award for our artwork,” Harris mentioned.

“It’s a testomony to the ability and great thing about village work, the urgency of sustaining Black artwork, and to carrying ahead Dr. W.E.B. Dubois’ imaginative and prescient and that which his dedicated editor Jessie Redmon Fauset actualized, in an up to date, inclusive and tangible means.”

The New Brownies’ E book received over 4 different esteemed works, together with The Artwork of Ruth E. Carter and Black AF Historical past. It now joins earlier winners resembling Barack Obama’s A Promised Land and Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Challenge: A New Origin Story.

The fifty fifth NAACP Picture Awards will happen on March 16, airing dwell on BET. For individuals who need a copy of the award-winning ebook, it may be bought throughout a number of retailers.

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