Celebrate JuneTeenth with knowledge

PLEASE visit Anali's Blog for a
wonderfully intelligent post about Juneteenth.
I learned a great deal from it
and pray that you do, too.

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My newest S-hero: Ms. Beverly Jenkins!

I am moved to send a huge cyber HUG to my favorite living author and greatest inspiration outside of my parents and ancestors. Words don't sufficiently describe this amazingly humble woman. Her books are categorized as historical romances, which seems inadequate to me. I have learned an incredible amount of Black History from her novels and I am not new to Black History studies.

In addition to writing the best historical romance novels on the market, Ms. B (as we call her in BevLand) is extremely generous to her fans. She's taken some to dinner, sends gifts to young mothers, cards to those who are ailing and collects gifts and cards from fans to send to each other. I was extremely touched when a young fan (daughter of a BevLander), wrote into BevLand to tell Ms. B that she got an A on a book report about one of Ms. B's young adult novels (all the fluid history without the adult action;-). In addition to sending the young lady a letter that she could take to school to show her teacher, Ms. B called the girl! I know if that had been me in my pre-teen years, a phone call from a favorite author would have caused me to pass OUT! I can't imagine what I would have said to a Gwendolyn Brooks, or Mildred Taylor. As it is, when I had the great fortune of meeting Beverly Jenkins I had to remind myself to breathe!

So, thank you, Ms. Beverly Jenkins for your amazing books! Thank you for the love and encouragement that you offer to us in BevLand. You have truly made this world a better place. Please check out Ms. Beverly Jenkins' website by clicking on her name!

And I must add a Thank You to my dear friend Beverly, who introduced me to the wonderful books of Ms. B!

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