Showing posts with label Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Show all posts

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Book News

'Go, Tell Michelle': Wisdom For The Future First Lady
npr.com
In churches or beauty shops or anyplace where groups of women gather — especially black women — it is not uncommon for them to talk about the advice they would like to pass on to the incoming first lady.
A group of women in upstate New York went one step further and decided to publish their words of wisdom for Michelle Obama in a book called Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady.
The poems and letters were compiled by two education specialists, Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, who are co-founders of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at the University at Buffalo in New York. More
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