Celebrating author-publisher-artist and Just Us Books cofounder Cheryl Willis Hudson on her birthday!! 🎉

Photo: Stephan Hudson
Quilt: Cheryl Willis Hudson

As we celebrate National Poetry Month, I am happy to share this poem from my collection, Journey, Poems By Wade Hudson, published by Third World Press.

If you missed Wade and Cheryl’s convo on Backstage Stories with Marcia Pendelton, you can catch a replay on WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org
They discuss:
📄 How they find new writers
🏫 The 17th National Black Writers Conference
🧭 Book banning, their literary trip to Cuba & more

wbai.org/archive/progra…

A literary conference that asks ‘where do we go from here’ isn’t complete without our youth.☺️

📸 Jason Reynolds, Renee Watson, Jenn Baker, Dr. Brenda Greene, Cheryl Willis Hudson, Wade Hudson

📸 Cheryl, Renee, Wade with students at #NBWC2024 Youth Program Center for Black Literature at #MedgarEversCollege

Women with the pen 🖊️

Check out this selection of Just Us Books titles written by talented women in our publishing family.

justusbooks.com/bywomenauthors

#WHM

It’s time for another giveaway. Follow me or this page and comment FOLLOWING to win a copy of, She Persisted: Opal Lee. I will announce the winner on 3/16! Happy Reading! sheliapmoses.com #giveawayalert

Don’t miss the National Black Writers Conference Youth Program this Thursday, March 21 featuring conversations with Wade and Cheryl Hudson and Renee Watson; Jennifer Baker and Jason Reynolds; Tiya Miles and Dr. Brenda Greene.

centerforblackliterature.org/nbwc-2024-prog…

Our cofounder cheryl willis hudson joined the HEALING WORDS podcast to discuss Brave. Black. First.
a biographical complilation of 50 Black women who helped change the world. The project is in collaboration with Smithsonian NMAAHC

pamelawrites.org/podcast/episod…

#WomensHistoryMonth

📸 Stephan Hudson

What *some* folks never grasped about #BlackTwitter is that it wasn't the platform, it was the people.

I'm honored to have been included in the official story of one of the greatest communities I've ever been part of.

Black Twitter: A People’s History premieres May 9 on Hulu…

Butterfly in the Sky - a documentary on the gem that’s Reading Rainbow - is coming to theaters this month!

Trailer: youtu.be/FHt1pJOG3Q0?si…

See where it’s playing: window-pictures.com/butterflyinthe…

What’s one quote from a Black author that forever changed you?

“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”

- Kwame Nkrumah, March 6, 1957

Images Laura Freeman
from Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech For Independence by Useni Perkins

#GhanaIndependence #GhanaIndependence Day #KwameNkrumah