One Book One Bronx: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Each week, One Book One Bronx hosts restorative conversations related to gentrification, social justice, women’s empowerment, criminal justice, and racial inequality. Discussions reflect the borough’s racial, economic, and gender demographics and build bridges to engagement while (re)sparking a love of books. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, 206 pgsThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first…
One Book One Bronx: Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
ONE BOOK ONE BRONX HOSTS FREE AND OPEN DISCUSSIONS FOCUSED ON A DIVERSE SELECTION OF BOOKS. UP NEXT… Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S.…
The Numbers Lesson Plan
Mosaic supplements its print issues with lesson plans developed for high school educators. Each demonstrates how Mosaic’s content can help empower educators to use books, writing, and reading to engage students. The lesson plans supplement most issues of Mosaic. Click here to download. Few residents of 20th-century Black communities grew up without hearing about The Numbers. While…
Francesca Ekwuyasi: Interview
by Nicole Dennis-Benn Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread, is an evocative, lyrical tale of three Nigerian women—a mother and her two daughters whose relationship is ripped apart by a terrible event that would take years to overcome. We follow Kambrinichi—the troubled matriarch who believes she is an obanje— a spirit child in…
Review: Death, With Occasional Smiling by Dr. Tony Medina
by Alan King Growing up, my mom hammered Jesus into me and my siblings. But she didn’t know about the Jesus whose stomping grounds were “on 110th Street & Lexington Avenue/ In the crusty eyelash of El Barrio.” (from “Dame in Traguito”) This Jesus—without “an accent over the e” because he didn’t need it for…
Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Interview
BY OPAL MOORE I have two copies of Miracle Arrhythmia (2010 Willow Books). I bought one; the other is signed, a gift to me by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Somehow I don’t remember exactly how we met. Was it Kyla Marshell, poet and (at the time) Spelman College student and editor of Aunt Chloe: A Journal…
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Bridgett Davis: By the Numbers
This interview was conducted by Eisa Nefetari Ulen for Mosaic, and will be included in an upcoming lesson plan on Louise Meriwether’s Daddy was a Number Runner and Bridgett Davis’ The World According to Fannie Davis Few residents of 20th century Black communities grew up without hearing about The Numbers. While 21st century America gets…
Mitchell S. Jackson: Entrevista
Mosaic has partnered with the MNS Projek to translate its content into numerous languages. Launched in January 2019, the MNS Projek is a public translation, localization, and subtitling service dedicated to bridging linguistic divides in the Black world. It also operates as a linguistic resource aggregator that can be incorporated into curriculums used by teachers and professors lecturing on…
