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Eric Jerome Dickey Made Black Women Feel Seen
The best-selling author…created a world of fiction that understood and celebrated his most loyal readers.
—Fellow author Diane McKinney-Whetstone in The Atlantic
Get the popcorn and wine ready,
Many of us have really deep intellectual lives, and that’s something that I tried not to shy away from in this book… These women, they don’t just have deep emotional lives, but they are… thinking about the world. They’re thinking about art. They’re thinking about things that are bigger than just reactions to circumstances.
Paula T. Renfroe and her beloved cousin Denise Lloyd photographed in Roosevelt, NY. © 2025 Paula T. Renfroe
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality – collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there.
I wanted to show that, specifically in this particular case, lil’ Black boys are tender and kind and they’re sweethearts. Like I think we get adultified very quickly. Young Black men and young Black ladies, young Black girls…People don’t realize that we’re not as full as machismo that everybody thinks.
The Day You Begin has been so beloved by so many kids in this country and around the world…I’m excited to see it come to animated life on screen, where even more young people can see — through the characters in this story — reflections of their own beauty and brilliance.
Adanne [pronounced ah-dahn-eh] Bookshop in Brooklyn, New York photographed by © Paula T. Renfroe (April 30, 2024)
On Saturday, September 28th, a pair of brides who “share a love for reading” and desired a bookstore wedding, said, “I do”
Authors Tina McElroy Ansa and Paula T. Renfroe pictured above in Atlanta, Georgia at the 2008 National Book Club Conference.
Tina McElroy Ansa, [Class of ’71], who passed away on September 10, 2024, was more than a novelist, publisher, filmmaker, teacher,
There were people before you who were just like you, and had many of those same issues and struggles and crises… And they paved the way for you so that you wouldn’t have to go through those many same things.
—George M. Johnson on People.com
New York Times bestselling author of the memoir-manifesto,
Last night, I had the most esteemed pleasure of attending the celebration of the incomparable poet and my former English professor, Sonia Sanchez’s 90th birthday at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. And first of all, self preservation was in full effect!
I had the privilege of partnering with the first Black woman ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court to write her extraordinary and inspiring memoir. In this intimate account, Justice Jackson chronicles her family’s ascent from segregation to her historic confirmation within the span of one generation.
