Vicki And A Summer Of Change Vicki Y Un Verano De Cambio

Inspired by actual events in 1969, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of how people in East Harlem, New York united with the Young Lords Organization to spark positive neighborhood changes.Vicki and A Summer of Change! ¡Vicki y un verano de cambio! follows Vicki and Valentina, her older sister, who live in East Harlem/El Barrio. The streets are overrun with rotting garbage because sanitation trucks rarely pick up trash in the neighborhood. Children and adults are getting sick.Members of the Young Lords Organization, Puerto Ricans, Latinx, and African Americans, start sweeping the streets. Valentina encourages Vicki to take part saying, "You're never too young to make a difference!" The sisters eagerly join their neighbors and discover that they can help change the world.

This coloring book includes illustrations from Vicki and A Summer of Change! ¡Vicki y un verano de cambio! Inspired by actual events in 1969, the book is about how residents of East Harlem, New York unite with the activist Young Lords Organization to spark positive neighborhood changes. The story follows Vicki and her older sister in their journey discovering they too can help change their community and the world.

Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education. Using narratives, self-identification stories, and testimonios as theory, methodology, and advocacy, this volume brings together a wide range of Latinx perspectives on education identity, bilingualism, and belonging. The narratives illustrate the various ways erasure and human agency shape the lives and identities of Latinas in the United States from primary school to higher education and beyond, in their schools and communities. Contributors explore how schools and educational institutions can support student agency by adopting a transformative activist stance through curricula, learning contexts, and policies. Chapters contain implications for teaching and come together to showcase the importance of explicit activist efforts to combat erasure and engage in transformative and emancipatory education.

THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members. They fought the "revolution within the revolution" believing that women's equality was inseparable from society's progress as a whole. Written and edited by Iris Morales, the book includes essays, interviews, and primary documents.

Flying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navigational equipment of any kind. Sound impossible? It wasn't for the Soviet Night Witches. This unit of incredibly brave women flew hundreds of missions to attack German forces on the front lines during World War II. Learn all about these brave women and how their skill and courage in battle helped defeat the Nazis to win the war. The Capstone Interactive edition comes with simultaneous access for every student in your school and includes read aloud audio recorded by professional voice over artists.

Magadalena Gómez is an award-winning performance poet, playwright and theater director. Dancing in my cockroach killers, a dramatization of her poems, has been performed to critical acclaim of Off-Broadway audiences. She is the co-founder of Teatro V!da, the first Latin@ theater in Springfield, Massachusetts, and founder of the Ferocious Women's Group bringing to public view voices of women and girls through writing and performance. For ten years, Ms. Gómez performed with the late baritone saxophonist, Fred Ho, as part of the ¡Caliente! Tour.

JULIA DE BURGOS is one of Puerto Rico's most illustrious poets whose work has earned a place among the best Latin American and Caribbean literature of the 20th century. In JULIA DE BURGOS: CHILD OF WATER, Carmen Rivera takes us on a journey through de Burgos' life capturing her passions and inner turmoil to come to terms with herself and her times. De Burgos died tragically in New York City in 1953 when she was just 39 years old. De Burgos challenged the major historical problems of her times: colonialism, racism, and sexism. She was a feminist and activist with the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party at a time when it was dangerous to be either.

Heartbeats, Rhythms, And Fire is José Angel Figueroa's new poetry and prose collection. A leading writer of the Nuyorican literary movement, Figueroa is best known for his powerful social commentary. A master of poetic storytelling, visual imagery, and metaphor, his writings-sometimes lyrical and rhythmic, sometimes autobiographical, and sometimes politically charged- do not fit neatly into one category. Heartbeats, Rhythms, And Fire explores universal themes of the human experience as well as major present-day social concerns. Poems, personal essays, monologues, and elegies deliver an intriguing range of storytelling approaches. Figueroa invites the reader to question the origins of self, the roots of love, and the unpredictability vibrating from everyday life. Figueroa's accounts of migration journeys and struggles against racism offer an insider perspective. His narratives of immigration, poverty, and violence against women uplift the voices of everyday people, while others capture the passion and fire of activists who toppled the governor of Puerto Rico in 2019, of Erica Garner who fought against police violence, and of Oscar Lopez Rivera, the former Puerto Rican political prisoner. This impressive collection is a voyage that ebbs and flows arriving to what remains when you "can't kill relentless faith born from the spirituals of stardust and many rivers."