{"product_id":"shining-legacy-storypoems-for-the-young-so-black-heroes-and-heroines-forever-will-be-sung-9781734769333","title":"Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung\u003c\/em\u003e, celebrates the past through epic, ballad, legend and saga, all accentuated with rhyme. Role models range from Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Sojourner Truth -- to Malcolm X, Denmark Vesey, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Paul Robeson and Marcus Garvey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis beautifully colored edition of \u003cem\u003eShining Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e comes 38 years after its original 1983 black and white publication. Through \u003cem\u003eShining Legacy, \u003c\/em\u003e Taifa provides much-needed identity, purpose and direction for children in general, and Black youth in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaifa, Nkechi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Nkechi Taifa is an attorney, activist, educator, author and mother. She is the author of several books for young people: Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung; The Adventures of Kojo and Ama; Three Tales of Wisdom; New Afrikan Children of the Sun (co-authored with Imamu Kuumba, and, forthcoming, Aisha and the Magic Ankh. These classics were originally written while teaching at an Independent Black School during the late 1970s, and some have now been re-published for a new generation. Taifa is also the author of the best-seller memoir - Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Songhay II","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623434191122,"sku":"9781734769333","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2184cd55-a44f-4b15-a4f8-f2d4eb519469.jpg?v=1758636224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shining-legacy-storypoems-for-the-young-so-black-heroes-and-heroines-forever-will-be-sung-9781734769333","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}