Johnson, Javon
Summary: "Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JOHReynolds, Jason
Summary: "A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2022
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYReynolds, Jason
Summary: "Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 REYReynolds, Jason
Summary: "Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022