Lisa at nowrisebooks@gmail.com
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Bookseller |
| Location | New Haven, CT, New England, United States |
| Introduction | I write about books and sell books under the name, Now Rise Books, a name inspired by the final line from Margaret Walker's poem, "For My People," in which the speaker calls out: "let a race of men now rise and take control." In this space, i transform my love of books into an activist stance, believeing that what is known as Black literature, (serious Black literature), when read and absorbed, can help to uplift Black people so that we overcome the debilitating impact of the hostile racial attitudes aimed at us day to day. Liberated from social brainwashing leaves room for us to affirm daily our God-given sensibility to know and honor God, to know ourselves as God's creation, and to treat others as we want to be treated. Now Rise! nowrisebooks@gmail.com |
| Interests | Books (surprise!), poetry, journalism, magazines and literary journals, essays, art, printmaking, playing the flute, teaching, community learning centers, public school curricula, |
| Favorite movies | Around the topic of books, education and social movements, some favorites are, To Sir, With Love, 84 Charing Cross Road, Educating Rita, Sounder, All the President's Men, Talk to Me, |
| Favorite music | Some of the music that really moves me is found on movie soundtracks:Dead Presidents, Talk to Me, Crooklyn, (I said music), Yentl, (I said music) or in collections of Coltrane, Ellington, Wonder, Rodgers and Hammerstein. |
| Favorite books | The Fire Next Time (Baldwin), The Life of Langston Hughes (Rampersad), My Black Me (Adoff), Drumvoices (Redmond), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), Beyond Black and White (Pool), Walking in Circles (Sizemore), The Mis-Education of the Negro (Woodson), ESSAYS & SPEECHES: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (Hughes), Never Without a Book (Madhubuti), I Have A Dream (King), Schooling Citizens (Moss), Self-Taught (Williams) |