Results for "Holbrook, Carolyn"

A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota   In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history... Read More about We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.... Read More about A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty- three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth. Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how mu... Read More about Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journeys focuses on Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods (LIN), a leadership program that The St. Paul Companies (now St. Paul Travelers) founded and managed from 1986 to 2002. Through profiles and photographs by renowned photographer, Wing Young Huie, the book docu... Read More about Ordinary People, Extraordinary Journeys: How The St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods Program Changed Lives and Communities

How a Black woman from Texas became one of the most well-known civil rights activists in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fighting for fairness in voting, housing, education, and employment   Why do you continue to work on issues of justice? young Black people ask Josie Joh... Read More about Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir

The compassionate and redemptive story of a prominent Black woman in the Twin Cities literary community Carolyn Holbrook’s life is peopled with ghosts—of the girl she was, the selves she shed and those who have caught up to her, the wounded and kind and malevolent spirits she’s encountered, and also... Read More about Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays