Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford

Since her literary debut with Juneteenth Jamboree in 1995, Carole has published more than.

The first, by the staff writer Nikole HannahJones (from whose mind this project sprang), provides the intellectual framework for the project and can be read as an introduction.Īvailable in select MCPL reference sections. Juneteenth Jamboree by Carole Boston Weatherford and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . Bio: Carole Boston Weatherford was born and raised in Baltimore. Each essay takes up a modern phenomenon, familiar to all, and reveals its history. A young girl, who has just moved to her parents hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth. Weatherford will read Juneteenth Jamboree and share. List Price: 11.95 Individual store prices may vary. Celebrate Juneteenth with Newbery and Caldecott Award winning Author, Carole Boston Weatherford. The issue contains essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath. Carole Boston Weatherford, Yvonne Buchanan (Illustrator) Paperback. Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year.