Celebrating outstanding African American authors and illustrators #CSKBART #kidlit #YAlit

Chicago, IL
Joined November 2017
Dr. Newsum represented #CSKBART at @JCLC2022 conference at booth #19.
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#HBBlackHistoryMonth: In July/August #HBMag #ALA Awards special issue, we shared @poetweatherford's #CSK Author Award Acceptance for UNSPEAKABLE hbook.com/story/articlesopin… + @EdiCottonQuilts's profile of Carole hbook.com/story/articlesopin… #BlackHistoryMonth @LernerBooks
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#BCALA Reception #JCLC2022 Friday, February 10, 2023, 7PM(EST) 4th JCLC Long Key Room, Tradewinds Island Grand Resort
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Hi friends, we've rounded up some books for you in honor of Black History Month. What is on your reading list this month?
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Check out this wonderful interview with @frankmorrison_ who's our #CSKBART Illustrator winner! #BlackHistoryMonth
Begin #BlackHistoryMonth with newly minted #CSK Illustrator winner @frankmorrison_'s #5Qs interview about STANDING IN THE NEED OF PRAYER from Nov/Dec #HBMag Publishers' Preview hbook.com/story/publishers-p… @poetweatherford @randomhousekids #HBBlackHistoryMonth @CSKBART_ALA @wearealsc
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Congratulations to CSK Awardees as our own Dr. Janice Newsum announces. @UHClearLake @ALALibrary @TxASL @BCRT_TLA
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Congratulations to Dr. Claudette McLinn on winning the @CSKBART_ALA Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award! #LibLearnX23 #RepresentationMatters #CSKBART
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Happy birthday to our namesake Coretta Scott King ❤️
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RIP Ashley Bryan. He passed peacefully at 98. A beautiful tribute, including a a memory of him reciting Langston Hughes’ ‘My People’ is on the home page of the Ashley Bryan Center ashleybryancenter.org/ @wearealsc @CSK_EMIERT #love #legacy #grateful
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There is still time to apply for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Book Donation Grant. Learn more: ala.org/rt/emiert/cskbookawa…
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HOORAY to @rizzyfig on the Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor for her stunning illustrations in WE WAIT FOR THE SUN! 🎊🎉 #LibLearnX #ALAyma
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So honored to be selected as the winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent award! Grateful 🙏🏽❤️ Celebrating with @NatashaTarpley @TanyaMcKinnon1 and @LittleBrownYR 🥳
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Congratulations, @nikkigrimes9 on Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement! So well deserved!!! @CSK_EMIERT #alayma #LibLearnX
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Congratulations to Regis and Kahran Bethencourt (@csphoto_atl) on Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award for The Me I Choose to Be by @NatashaTarpley! @LittleBrownYR @CSK_EMIERT #alayma
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UNSPEAKABLE'S new stickers. This was the 1st Caldecott Honor for @floydcooper4 & my 1st CSK Author Award. My 2009 CSK Honor was 4 Becoming Billie Holiday--w art by Floyd. His CSK Illustrator Award that year was for The Blacker the Berry. If only we could collab again. #ALAyma
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This cover was already gorgeous and now it is also very shiny! #ALAyma @ambsmcbride @FeiwelFriends
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UNSPEAKABLE has also been selected as a Sibert Honor Book and a Caldecott Honor Book! Congratulations to author @poetweatherford and the family of illustrator @floydcooper4 for this spectacular day!