&nbsp;&nbsp;"What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders' clear-eyed and powerful writing made this a hard one to stop reading!" --Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-Winning Author "This is a novel to cherish and share. And this is a history to sing about and affirm -- to&nbsp;proclaim." -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times Bestselling author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, an Oprah Book Club Novel Named a Most Anticipated Book of Summer by Ms. Magazine, PopSugar, Lambda Literary, and many more! Inspired by true events,&nbsp;Women of the Post&nbsp;brings to life the heroines who proudly served in the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps in WWII, finding purpose in their mission and lifelong friendship. 1944,&nbsp;New York City.&nbsp;Judy Washington is tired of having to work at the Bronx Slave Market, cleaning white women's houses for next to nothing. She dreams of a bigger life, but with her husband fighting overseas, it's up to her and her mother to earn enough for food and rent. When she's recruited to join the Women's Army Corps--offering a steady paycheck and the chance to see the world--Judy jumps at the opportunity. During training, Judy becomes fast friends with the other women in her unit--Stacy, Bernadette and Mary Alyce--who all come from different cities and circumstances. Under Second Officer Charity Adams's leadership, they receive orders to sort over one million pieces of mail in England, becoming the only unit of Black women to serve overseas during WWII. The women work diligently, knowing that they're reuniting soldiers with their loved ones through their letters. However, their work becomes personal when Mary Alyce discovers a backlogged&nbsp;letter addressed to Judy. Told through the alternating perspectives of Judy,&nbsp;Charity and Mary Alyce,&nbsp;Women of the Post&nbsp;is an unforgettable story of perseverance, female friendship and self-discovery. "A moving and compelling tribute to the lives and legacy of Black women in the American military during World War II that feels especially poignant in this moment."&nbsp;-- The Boston Globe

Women of the Post: Inspired by the Events in the Upcoming Netflix Release "The Six Triple Eight"

Literature & Fiction

Sanders, Joshunda

United States

Park Row

An evaluative examination that challenges the media to rise above the systematic racism and sexism that persists across all channels, despite efforts to integrate.
The Internet and social networks have opened up new avenues of communication for women and people of color, but the mainstream news is still not adequately including minority communities in the conversation. Part of the Racism in America series, How Racism and Sexism Killed the Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color reveals the lack of diversity that persists in the communication industry. Uncovering and analyzing the racial bias in the media and in many newsrooms, this book reveals the lesser-known side of the media―newsrooms and outlets that are often fraught with underlying racist and sexist tension.
Written by a veteran journalist of color, this title brings an insider's perspective combined with interviews from industry experts. The book analyzes the traditional media's efforts to integrate both women and people of color into legacy newsrooms, highlighting their defeats and minor successes. The author examines the future of women and people of color in the mainstream media.
 • Gives a thorough background on the history of minority-produced media
• Highlights ideas for improving hiring practices and coverage for minorities
• Identifies the growing number of news consumers who are people of color
• Provides a chronology of diversity efforts in legacy newsrooms
• Includes material derived from interviews with experts like Dori J. Maynard with the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and veteran journalists like Ellis Cose and Danyel Smith

How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color (Racism in American Institutions)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Praeger

The Beautiful Darkness focuses on author Joshunda Sanders’ three-year journey through loss, grief and solitude, which led to reconciliation, forgiveness, and ultimately healing. The Beautiful Darkness, her candid memoir, begins in 2010 with a phone call that informs her that her father has died by suicide. It is the first of many events that transform her life dramatically for the next three years.  To understand the present, she looks to her past. Sanders vividly recalls living in multiple homeless shelters with her mentally ill single mother in 1980s and 1990s New York City when homelessness was at an all-time high. Together, they survived violence, hunger, and fear.  While Sanders cared for her abusive mother, she also slowly began to seek a way out of poverty through education. She went on to attend an elite boarding school and Vassar College by way of academic scholarships. Sanders went on to pursue careers in journalism, academia, and communications before her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2011.  Exploring themes of faith, identity and perseverance, Sanders candidly details the heartbreak of caring for a mentally ill parent while also telling the rare story of invisible families who grow up in poverty in New York City and throughout the United States in this unforgettable memoir.

The Beautiful Darkness: A Handbook for Orphans

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Lovely and timely. So glad Joshunda is telling our stories." - Jacqueline Woodson Eight-year-old Ava Murray wants to know why there’s a difference between the warm, friendly Bronx neighborhood filled with music and art in which she lives and the Bronx she sees in news stories on TV and on the Internet. When her mother explains that the power of stories lies in the hands of those who write them, Ava decides to become a journalist. I Can Write the World follows Ava as she explores her vibrant South Bronx neighborhood - buildings whose walls boast gorgeous murals of historical figures as well as intricate, colorful street art, the dozens of different languages and dialects coming from the mouths of passersby, the many types of music coming out of neighbors’ windows and passing cars. In reporting how the music and art and culture of her neighborhood reflect the diversity of the people of New York City, Ava shows the world as she sees it, revealing to children the power of their own voice.

I Can Write the World (Ava Murray Writes the World, 1)

Children's Books

Six Foot Press

A Place of Our Own (Ava Murray Writes the World, 2)

Women of the Post: A Novel

Thorndike Press Large Print

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