Unbossed, Khristi Lauren Adams
Unbossed, Khristi Lauren Adams
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Unbossed
How Black Girls Are Leading the Way

Author: Khristi Lauren Adams

Narrator: Khristi Lauren Adams

Unabridged: 4 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

Black girls are leading, organizing, advocating, and creating. They are starting nonprofits. Building political coalitions. Promoting diverse literature. Fighting cancer. Improving water quality. Working to prevent gun violence.

Are we ready to learn from their leadership?

"Black women are literally at the helm of every movement," says Tyah-Amoy Roberts, an activist and a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. "Every push for social justice. Every push for social change. We need to take our stories into our own hands." In Unbossed, they do.

From Khristi Lauren Adams comes Unbossed, a hopeful and riveting inquiry into the lives of eight young Black women who are agitating for change and imagining a better world. Offering practical lessons in leadership, resilience, empathy, and tenacity from a group of young leaders of color who are often neglected, Unbossed includes profiles of Jaychele Nicole Schenck, Ssanyu Lukoma, Tyah-Amoy Roberts, Grace Callwood, Hannah Lucas, Amara Ifeji, Stephanie Younger, and Kynnedy Smith.

These are the young Black women we will be reading about decades from now. Their stories may often be overlooked. But Black girls are leading the way.

About Khristi Lauren Adams

Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, writer, youth advocate, and ordained Baptist minister. She is the award-winning author of Parable of the Brown Girl (named the Best Young Adult Book by the African American Literary Awards and the New York Black Librarians Caucus) as well as Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way and its middle-grade version, Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way. Adams formerly worked as dean of spiritual life and equity at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and now is the executive director of community and belonging at The St. Paul's Schools in Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on May 05, 2022

You can barely go a day without hearing someone say, if only the news reported the good things that are happening in our world. I have been guilty of it myself but I have learned through the years that though it takes a bit of digging out of the mainline media outlets, you can find people excavating......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa on March 08, 2022

Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading The Way by Khristi Lauren Adams is a gem! 🀎 I love learning about extraordinary Black girls defying the odds and doing exceptional things. πŸ€ΈπŸΎβ€β™€οΈ πŸ“š This book spotlights 8 Black girls who are leading the way through activism in the areas of literature, music, art, m......more

Goodreads review by Kalina on March 10, 2022

This book is a profile of 8 young black women who are making a difference in the world and their local communities. What sets this book apart from other biographies or profiles is that the author, Khristi Adams, also provides a detailed analysis of how these young women all have unique leadership st......more