Speaker 1: My league buds has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2: My league buds has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 3: My league Buds, yet they have out the books that
Speaker 3: the whole wild world one up read Malague Buds.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's.
Speaker 3: Bookshelf, bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: Ho my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf.
Speaker 4: WHOA wait?
Speaker 3: This has been an explosive weekend going into my birthday
Speaker 3: March fourth. As a matter of fact, I skipped last week.
Speaker 1: I got sick.
Speaker 2: But I'm back.
Speaker 1: I'm stocked and I'm loaded with great content.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you this, this week I gave
Speaker 3: my strength. I was back at one hundred and we
Speaker 3: hosted several events. One at Adam's lam Mentory, a book
Speaker 3: fair where I went out and I was able to
Speaker 3: talk for just a few minutes with all the students
Speaker 3: because they was curating a Black history celebration with drummers
Speaker 3: and dancers. So I got a chance just to introduce
Speaker 3: malikue in myself and our book fair and what we do.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to feature that.
Speaker 3: Little two minute segment because I think that it's inspirational.
Speaker 1: But outside of that.
Speaker 3: We also hosted Black Children Book Week at Malik Books
Speaker 3: and that was incredible. We brought in, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: say brought in, but we helped host in partnership with CJ.
Speaker 3: Charles and six other black women children authors, a event
Speaker 3: called the Black Children Book Week at Malie Books on
Speaker 3: March second, and each author did a story time as
Speaker 3: well as a book signing, and the community.
Speaker 2: Came out and we rocked it.
Speaker 3: It was electric, it was explosive, it was engaging, it
Speaker 3: was phenomenal. It's always a pleasure when we target the youth,
Speaker 3: the young and our children because they our voice, they
Speaker 3: are our future.
Speaker 1: And I got a chance to.
Speaker 3: Do a podcast right on the spot with all seven
Speaker 3: to talk about that book.
Speaker 1: So I want to feature that podcast in the store
Speaker 1: that we took.
Speaker 3: We that we did while they while we hosted the
Speaker 3: Black Children Book Week. So this was a phenomenal week.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. We had community.
Speaker 2: Going all week long.
Speaker 1: That you know, we had other events.
Speaker 3: We had another event that we were the book official
Speaker 3: book represented for Anita Phillips who wrote a book called
Speaker 3: The Garden Within.
Speaker 2: I didn't get a chance because I, hey, my wife
Speaker 2: had to go over there.
Speaker 1: And she had to host that event.
Speaker 3: I had to host the Black Children book we at
Speaker 3: at Malik Books at the Westfield Coover City Mall, and
Speaker 3: my wife had to go to West Angeles to host
Speaker 3: the book signing and be there for the Garden within
Speaker 3: at with the Need of Philip and conversation with the
Speaker 3: first Lady at West Angeles. And that was just on Saturday,
Speaker 3: March second. But before that, like I said, we were
Speaker 3: at downtown at a hospital called Oh No, I'm Sorry,
Speaker 3: Santa Monica at St. John's at a hospital around Wednesday
Speaker 3: where we curated a list of books for a hospital
Speaker 3: Black History celebration and met a lot of nurses and
Speaker 3: doctors and we got a chance to see Lift the
Speaker 3: Divorce and sing with They have a daycare at the
Speaker 3: Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, so we.
Speaker 2: All sang in.
Speaker 3: Unity with the preschool that's at the hospital and they
Speaker 3: call it the Taste of Soul where they offer different
Speaker 3: food curations from Black history, African, Jamaican, Caribbean, American, you know.
Speaker 3: So that was really nice and that was really positive
Speaker 3: to be able to be in that space and celebrate
Speaker 3: our culture, you know, and that's what Black History month
Speaker 3: is all about.
Speaker 1: Even though Black History is thrown the sixty.
Speaker 3: Five days year, it's just taking time out to give
Speaker 3: thanks an honor to now. You know, it's more than
Speaker 3: just talking about slavery. It's about our contributions as to
Speaker 3: American into the world. That's what typically now what Black
Speaker 3: history is all about. Now, it's evolved because we evolved.
Speaker 1: And no critical race theory is gonna change that stop that.
Speaker 3: We're gonna tell our stories, tell our voices, elevate our stories.
Speaker 3: You know, our children. You know, it's our future. And
Speaker 3: that's what this segment or episode is all about. You know,
Speaker 3: our children. It's our future. And I went to the
Speaker 3: school at Adams Elementary out Long Beach and we hosted
Speaker 3: a book fair and got a chance to inspire some
Speaker 3: of the kids cause readers are leaders and leaders are
Speaker 3: readers right read to achieve.
Speaker 1: That's what I told them. I was a message and.
Speaker 3: Did the Black Children Book Week at Malik Boys and
Speaker 3: also I went to Pilgrimage and it's an honor.
Speaker 1: Look, Malik has been invited to a lot of events.
Speaker 1: It getting paid to speak my.
Speaker 3: Heart, getting paid to talk about something that's near and dear.
Speaker 1: I had I got paid three different honorariums. This week.
Speaker 1: I went to.
Speaker 3: Elementary Downtown also on Monday, I had two speaking engages
Speaker 3: on Monday. I went and started off on Monday, I
Speaker 3: believe that's the twenty seventh February, and talked about at
Speaker 3: Pilgrim Elementary, we had this first time I've met in
Speaker 3: person all the black bookstores in Los Angeles or surrounding, right,
Speaker 3: So they brought us in to talk about black books,
Speaker 3: black bookstore and our resilience, and they brought all of
Speaker 3: us together this first time.
Speaker 1: I got a chance to meet some of the owners.
Speaker 1: I knew of them.
Speaker 3: We follow each other occasionally we DM each other, but
Speaker 3: in this case, I was got a chance to meet
Speaker 3: Nikki from Octavia booksheved in Pasadena, Ache from Salt Eaters
Speaker 3: in Inglewood, and Jazzy from rever Rations Club just in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: So we all got a.
Speaker 3: Chance to meet and talk and have a conversation with
Speaker 3: all the students about black Books. Our Story as and
Speaker 3: I believe that's what it was called. I did a
Speaker 3: podcast on the same title, Our Story.
Speaker 1: Our Voices, That's Crazy and my last matter of fact,
Speaker 1: that was my last episode. I did Our Story, Our voices.
Speaker 3: Guess what that was the title of this particular segment.
Speaker 1: So you know, Malik do what he always do.
Speaker 3: You know, he dropped you know, his insight, you know,
Speaker 3: my experience and so forth. And I enjoyed it talking
Speaker 3: being in a panel me in April. We got a
Speaker 3: chance to talk and share our story and it was
Speaker 3: wonderful this first time I think me and April was
Speaker 3: in a panel together. So I enjoyed that and along
Speaker 3: with the other bookstore so we did that and that
Speaker 3: was really nice, and you know, we excited the kids
Speaker 3: and the students there. I was wonderful for wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna drop that conversation on this segment. Yes,
Speaker 3: our children our future, right, So I'm gonna drop that one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna drop the conversation I had with Pilgrims element
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sorry, Yeah, that's Pilgrim that I just
Speaker 3: talked about Adams Elementary. And also this segment I did
Speaker 3: with the podcast with seven black women authors for Black
Speaker 3: Children Book Week. I'm gonna drop that segments as well,
Speaker 3: because that went down this Saturday, March Sean, but also
Speaker 3: on March I'm sorry, fabruear twenty seventh Monday, after we
Speaker 3: left Pilgrims Elements, we went to downtown to this foundation
Speaker 3: called you know what, I allude me and I'm doing
Speaker 3: podcast live and I don't have it in front of me,
Speaker 3: but it's a foundation.
Speaker 1: They do great work.
Speaker 3: They try to solve the homeless. They try to bring
Speaker 3: effect endeavors in education and.
Speaker 1: Social justice and so forth.
Speaker 3: And if I'm not gonna say, it was a care
Speaker 3: foundation downtown in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And so they brought us in. They have a Black
Speaker 1: history panel, they fed us, paid us.
Speaker 3: I got another art aron, so but that was a
Speaker 3: great panel and a great discussion about black futurism, all right,
Speaker 3: about Los Angeles Black.
Speaker 1: To the Future.
Speaker 3: That's what that was called Black to the Future, and
Speaker 3: I want to feature that on the segment, but I'm
Speaker 3: not sure because of the time, but so I might
Speaker 3: say that for a latter day.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to share.
Speaker 3: The community outreach in the community events that I was
Speaker 3: blessed to be a part of that is and speak
Speaker 3: and so that one was Black Black to the Future,
Speaker 3: and we just talked about Los Angeles now and what
Speaker 3: we can expect in the future. And so I want
Speaker 3: to share my thoughts and what I had to say
Speaker 3: on that. But I don't think that I'm gonna share
Speaker 3: that on this particular episode because of the fact that this.
Speaker 1: It might make this one too long. So let me
Speaker 1: say that one for late Black to the Future. Let
Speaker 1: me say that for later Black to the Future.
Speaker 3: Let me say that for later Black to the Future,
Speaker 3: let me say that for later.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 3: You can feel a vibe, you can feel the energy,
Speaker 3: you can feel the soul right now.
Speaker 2: And I'm hot. I'm hot, and I'm hot.
Speaker 3: So thank you, thank you, and enjoy this episode, our children,
Speaker 3: our future.
Speaker 2: History in mind.
Speaker 5: Today a special tree for you guys. We have a
Speaker 5: lead bookst bookstore up here and he's an independent after
Speaker 5: American business and he would like to come tell you
Speaker 5: about his bookstore.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Brown.
Speaker 6: Well, well, well, we got a beautiful day to put
Speaker 6: on a book fair, don't you, and a clack.
Speaker 2: History of it. You need to thank your school you're
Speaker 2: organizing this. Give it them around the poor break got
Speaker 2: to be here today.
Speaker 7: I'm the lead.
Speaker 2: This is same bro, and we are the owners of
Speaker 2: Lafe Books. So we're going to host a book fair today.
Speaker 6: Now we got two locations in Los Angeles, one in
Speaker 6: the Bone Hills Creacial Mare and one in Coba City
Speaker 6: Westfield Mall Westfield Cova City Mall.
Speaker 2: So we got two stores, all right, So fank you
Speaker 2: out to our soul. But today we're gonna give you
Speaker 2: a taste of what we gotta.
Speaker 6: Elite books because look, as you can see right behind us,
Speaker 6: we stopped and loaded with books.
Speaker 2: Our specialty is African American and diversity of books.
Speaker 6: You know why because children are one percent of our future.
Speaker 2: You're the future leaders.
Speaker 3: Everything that these teachers do, everything that we do is
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: You know why, because we got a pastor touch to you.
Speaker 8: And you know, books is a major part of your development.
Speaker 2: So that's why we do what we do with books.
Speaker 2: And we want you to see yourself.
Speaker 9: In these books so that you can love yourself in
Speaker 9: these books.
Speaker 10: Because readers are leaders, and readers are readers.
Speaker 2: You got to read to achieve.
Speaker 6: I'm excited about the Black History of Bites is gonna
Speaker 6: take place today and I just pray forul and thankful
Speaker 6: and your school invited us to come out here and
Speaker 6: be with you today and so want you all.
Speaker 2: To come over after the event. The Black History event.
Speaker 2: Come and see what we have in store for you.
Speaker 2: Don't bring some money too, because he's selling the books.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you, thank you. All right over,
Speaker 2: let's get a big record flood.
Speaker 11: I love the boy is strong and courageous.
Speaker 3: This was a wonderful conversation that took place at Pilgrim's
Speaker 3: Elementary where four black independent bookstore owners were on set.
Speaker 3: Me and April with their Malik books representing and three
Speaker 3: of the bookstores. And this is just excerts. The conversation
Speaker 3: is just too long.
Speaker 12: The aria.
Speaker 3: I think I might air the entire conversation at another time,
Speaker 3: but on this particular episode, I just pulled out the
Speaker 3: excerpts when we got an opportunity to speak from the
Speaker 3: questions that was asked. So and enjoy this conversation because
Speaker 3: it's just my insight to our children, our voices.
Speaker 7: I lead books.
Speaker 2: I'm glad Sun was couse and last.
Speaker 4: All rights and I recalled books.
Speaker 1: The question that was asked, were any of us published
Speaker 1: as bookstore owners?
Speaker 13: UH collaborated well called The Horror Black Man, The Story
Speaker 13: of Trying until We All Time. My chap was called
Speaker 13: from delstation to Delemas and I talked about my childhood
Speaker 13: growing up just like y'all growing up in a o
Speaker 13: come our schools and things.
Speaker 7: They come across a long way as become Adulf.
Speaker 2: But Halloween still win regardless.
Speaker 7: Of what cards you're building back and so I'm.
Speaker 2: Very proud of eventually will have grown that chapel into
Speaker 2: a full on bull.
Speaker 7: So you know I'm.
Speaker 2: Also ultimate city.
Speaker 7: All y'all gonna write is right now if y'all have
Speaker 7: a sell all.
Speaker 5: I know y'all testing.
Speaker 2: All and probably all tet you all.
Speaker 1: This question is regarding what inspired me to become a
Speaker 1: books story on.
Speaker 13: Her she took the back you saying I started reading this,
Speaker 13: you know when my journey, you know I had agree
Speaker 13: with usc Black age seventh when I graduated, or one
Speaker 13: thing I didn't have.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a knowledge of symbol. I didn't have
Speaker 2: a good view of my symbol.
Speaker 7: I didn't think of myself.
Speaker 2: And all my ancestors in the positive man.
Speaker 13: That was my inspiration for open up the late books
Speaker 13: because the books playing a difference.
Speaker 2: When I read, I began.
Speaker 13: To see a different world in a different perspect than
Speaker 13: what I learned from college. And things today that you
Speaker 13: might know, I didn't know my add seln when I
Speaker 13: graduated with Let's See. So my inspiration was to give
Speaker 13: voice or voices and to allow our voice to be heard.
Speaker 2: So I all know the books a world because.
Speaker 13: Since in nineteen ninety with the belief that if Boots
Speaker 13: had changed my life.
Speaker 2: I feel it didn't change my community side. And anything
Speaker 2: you want to from you fine, And it's kind of they.
Speaker 7: Got to get strolled with our stories, our voices.
Speaker 2: You know, our course matters and our stories matters.
Speaker 13: And we all have bookstores because a lot of these
Speaker 13: schools for a long time.
Speaker 7: Wasn't in main stream boot stores.
Speaker 13: And these moved for hard and five and so we
Speaker 13: opened up the space to provide our opportunity to talk
Speaker 13: about our culture, my.
Speaker 2: Issue, our people get voice to the voises.
Speaker 13: And so that was my whole mission while I opened
Speaker 13: up Believe Books in nineteen nineteen ninety. Now before that,
Speaker 13: in eighty four, so I ran an olympicated strong Olympia.
Speaker 13: I ran the nineteen eighty four of them games and
Speaker 13: collegself and I ran.
Speaker 2: In one hundred minutes two hundred mine.
Speaker 13: I also was a mortgage and saw so I helped
Speaker 13: people by a real estate because.
Speaker 2: It's home to the babies, investment that you will find
Speaker 2: it you wanna play most most of y'all in the body,
Speaker 2: but a medal pars and that's why need That's what
Speaker 2: team won. And as a result, he showed me something
Speaker 2: to question. And so just like I told you, he
Speaker 2: went to that's what I looked at.
Speaker 6: That support and I've got four hundred dollars on the
Speaker 6: boots because I didn't know things yet.
Speaker 2: I had to begreefing for college.
Speaker 14: So everything you find in school you still learn your
Speaker 14: own and Bootsto is a place you can go and
Speaker 14: learn whatever you want to know and whatever you want
Speaker 14: to be you find in a bull.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna passed this night to my wife because
Speaker 2: anything you want to do is run by the soccer
Speaker 2: fights and all of us laying soccrifics do what we do.
Speaker 13: And it hasn't been always a time and ourtunity where
Speaker 13: in our communities which are undeserved, our people would just
Speaker 13: walked out with Paige not Lisp. But it didn't discourage
Speaker 13: us from making a difference.
Speaker 7: And still here every day I was there.
Speaker 14: There's nobody being in that story that time and because
Speaker 14: what night issue is a wow all.
Speaker 13: This is something you'll find out that along. But whatever
Speaker 13: you do in life and when you finds a sacrifice, nothing.
Speaker 7: Is done in an issue.
Speaker 2: Nothing is game or at night. You going to score
Speaker 2: from the time you five to your eighteen, and then
Speaker 2: you gotta design if you wanna go, compete and continue
Speaker 2: your education. If you're not going to get sweet, you
Speaker 2: wanna go unless.
Speaker 7: You make sicri fights.
Speaker 2: Lets you work hard, lets you study. Let's for me
Speaker 2: you can be read to achieve. But I don't want
Speaker 2: let me quite tell you about her sacrifice.
Speaker 4: How does do this talk about these sacrifice in your career.
Speaker 4: I'm a nurse fighter, and I see him have and
Speaker 4: treating you that. I said, Wow, you get up every
Speaker 4: day and nobody's coming to the store.
Speaker 15: I get up every day and work so hard.
Speaker 4: Her and everybody's there because they have no choice to
Speaker 4: be there. So I said to myself, well, during the pandemic,
Speaker 4: I said, you know, I'm going to work to say
Speaker 4: that anyone else, but I'm coming home almost destroying my
Speaker 4: own family because of the pandemic. So I told my husband,
Speaker 4: I said, i'm'a make a sacrifice and i'm'a go calling
Speaker 4: you blindly with this book store.
Speaker 2: And I'm so grateful today that I.
Speaker 4: That I done that, and because we have two small
Speaker 4: children that see me sacrifice a career that's not easy
Speaker 4: to achieve, but I sacrifice that I'd loved and loved
Speaker 4: blindly for him and my daughter during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: She's a reader, and she's a a visual reader. She
Speaker 2: I see her. She sits at her desk or wherever
Speaker 2: she has a book. Wherever she goes, she has a book.
Speaker 2: She's smiling and doing things. I'm like, Jordan, what are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 4: She said, I'm reading, And she could tell me what
Speaker 4: she is reading and I can see it. So I said,
Speaker 4: I have to do something so independent that you've read
Speaker 4: seventy books. Seventy books, and I said, this is amazing.
Speaker 7: This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2: So with that sacrifice, I did leave.
Speaker 4: Nursing and I have been doing this ever since.
Speaker 16: So that is a great, big sacrifice.
Speaker 2: So Ever, so you're really to hear her how books
Speaker 2: are really.
Speaker 7: At the center of her knowledge.
Speaker 15: And if you all take anything from this animal today
Speaker 15: read re me, you're able to enter into a wholy
Speaker 15: world with the morelos.
Speaker 2: Stevy read Oh Okay. This question is specifically for Lead
Speaker 2: in April of Leading.
Speaker 16: Books, and it says, you see, you didn't consider yourselves
Speaker 16: to be both actress.
Speaker 15: What legend to decide to use books specifically as a form.
Speaker 7: Of action or something. Yeah, I feel that her move happeness.
Speaker 13: And it's because being in this business for like thirty years,
Speaker 13: I've watched she was no age wrong become adults. I've
Speaker 13: watched people my age when I started to come to
Speaker 13: see the citizens and they they come back to.
Speaker 7: The store, they cry, they tell us same you they.
Speaker 2: Catch the only os without answering this store.
Speaker 17: And I realized empime over these thirty years and will
Speaker 17: submaying and lot and how it encouraged them in many
Speaker 17: different ways, inspired them and motivating them by through.
Speaker 2: Reading the Bull and be happy to just be an
Speaker 2: issue and being in position to be on the open
Speaker 2: and they'll come in and then offer that.
Speaker 7: Space for them to see because we.
Speaker 2: Talk about characters in books and one of the those
Speaker 2: support ways of the Bull is to see yourself because
Speaker 2: the birth lady a little more the it's sure and
Speaker 2: when you don't see yourself, you saw fifteen pieces and
Speaker 2: I is a boiler.
Speaker 14: How you do yourself as impoil, how you see yourself
Speaker 14: as ampoiler?
Speaker 2: And books you can see yourself. You can read about
Speaker 2: yourself and you can beat yourself.
Speaker 7: But the most important thing.
Speaker 2: When you read a food is that you gotta find
Speaker 2: love for yourself. And that straying poie because in our
Speaker 2: comunity sometimes we've noted.
Speaker 17: That because we don't see representations, we don't see ourselves.
Speaker 2: Ashmans describe love children books because.
Speaker 17: It illustrations are so few the book, because it's the
Speaker 17: affection of the person in the characters of the.
Speaker 2: Book, and those people in that book sometimes look like you.
Speaker 7: Or when I grew up, I have that books and
Speaker 7: look like me.
Speaker 2: This is a new dynamic that consistent in Maria Will.
Speaker 2: You can walk in the store and see so many
Speaker 2: books reading and images of cutting people. How you grow
Speaker 2: up with that? Y'all growing up with that?
Speaker 9: And we hope that maybe a.
Speaker 2: Difference in your like because you got to love yourself
Speaker 2: to beat yourself, and that's how you be success one
Speaker 2: in the world. So characters matter in these books. How
Speaker 2: you see yourself matter these bulls because you.
Speaker 13: Don't wanna be alienated all on the side not loving yourself,
Speaker 13: not seeing yourself, not having friends.
Speaker 18: So that's what that's why I became coin that term
Speaker 18: both activities because of the work we've been able to
Speaker 18: do in the last thirty years, says the ad.
Speaker 2: So I want to see the ride.
Speaker 16: I was one final batch four Brandy and it's ques shit,
Speaker 16: says Why is a little in mid All house? I
Speaker 16: don't remember. Little Blant is not ex father and it's
Speaker 16: about the brother and sisters. Little is the Orcys that
Speaker 16: lions line her brother, the stats, it's.
Speaker 4: About all.
Speaker 16: It's about all the taxes, relationships. Little I will sat
Speaker 16: here so teens, it's not elite us and.
Speaker 7: Yeah that's.
Speaker 5: Welcome.
Speaker 9: Last welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malie's Books.
Speaker 3: You'll bringing the world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 2: Well, the day was incredible because we hosted the Black
Speaker 2: Children Book were right here at Malieue Books.
Speaker 3: But this is my podcast and what I want, I'm
Speaker 3: my audience to know all about this moment, this day
Speaker 3: and what this stands for.
Speaker 2: So we got seven beautiful black woman children's author I
Speaker 2: ain't forget about you. What the brown is the black tooth,
Speaker 2: it's original. Welcome.
Speaker 3: We had a wonderful day. People came in and out
Speaker 3: all day. This was electric. Everybody spoke their.
Speaker 8: Storytelling and right now I'm gonna let them tell a
Speaker 8: story about that book on the podcast.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go right down the line.
Speaker 9: Well, my sister, no one can tell you about your
Speaker 9: book better than you.
Speaker 2: So you know what my sister I'm gonna bring. She
Speaker 2: wrote the book, My beautiful Son. I don't get no
Speaker 2: names on. I'm gonna let them introduce their name. We
Speaker 2: gonna go down starting.
Speaker 7: On my right.
Speaker 19: My name is Mada j'alla, and I'm the author of
Speaker 19: My Beautiful Silence, and it's a story about a mother's
Speaker 19: love for au sile. It's a love letter my meant
Speaker 19: to stay.
Speaker 20: Young and youthful, and it's just to remind them that,
Speaker 20: regardless of how the world will.
Speaker 19: See them later on, there's still beautiful soul side. And
Speaker 19: they added bonuses that I donate ninety percent, I might
Speaker 19: proceed to.
Speaker 2: Social justice process ninety percent. Yes, sir, what you can't
Speaker 2: eat on ten percent, I can.
Speaker 19: But there are bigger problems than my eating.
Speaker 21: You heard it straight from the author. Next, come on,
Speaker 21: Hello cocoas right.
Speaker 22: My glafen right, I am the author of Hello Cocoa.
Speaker 22: SuDS songs and Aunt Fancy Salad and my book help
Speaker 22: from a beautiful story with my niece in which we
Speaker 22: cooked together. And so the themes are healthy families.
Speaker 2: Healthy food, and healthy hand washing.
Speaker 22: And the added bonus is there is a song about
Speaker 22: hand washing in the book to help your little one
Speaker 22: to learn how to wash their hands as they cook
Speaker 22: and help around.
Speaker 1: The house as well.
Speaker 2: Shit, I know, grown men don't wash their hand.
Speaker 3: You know, that's one thing out of coat we learned
Speaker 3: Washington hands keeps some Germans or what cause the cup.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't have to wait.
Speaker 3: For a pandemic to do some basic sanitizing and you know,
Speaker 3: and that's a culture and humanitarian thing, just a wash yo, pay.
Speaker 2: Now, ain't you think that?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 11: My name is Alexis Mozelle and my children's book is
Speaker 11: I Know I can.
Speaker 2: And the inspiration behind my book is my son uh Amir.
Speaker 2: He's actually the main character.
Speaker 20: And my book spot likes.
Speaker 9: Different African American math careers.
Speaker 20: That paved the way for you'll black boys to be whatever.
Speaker 3: It is they wanted to peach bingo bingo. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: I know I can't. That's important, you know why because
Speaker 3: many of us don't believe we do nothing.
Speaker 2: And it starts with how we look.
Speaker 1: We don't like a lot of us, some of us.
Speaker 2: I know I did when I came out of cop
Speaker 2: You don't miss the reason why I opened up mine to.
Speaker 3: Book M because I didn't have a knowledge hel I
Speaker 3: had a degree, M, but I ain't have a knowledge yourself.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Black people achieved so much incredible things around the world.
Speaker 2: Black history is world history, and I just didn't know
Speaker 2: that coming out of a college. I had a degree,
Speaker 2: but I didn't have knowledge yourself. So that's what my
Speaker 2: motivation for old women.
Speaker 1: So you gotta know I can and I use.
Speaker 3: Barack Obama m as an inspiration for youth and young
Speaker 3: why because you know, we didn't.
Speaker 2: Think he was going but he you know, we hoped
Speaker 2: he won and so but he shout at the impossibility.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm saying that that's the to me, it ain't about
Speaker 3: the policy, but it's the fact that he what he done,
Speaker 3: shot at the impossible. And so when I hear little
Speaker 3: kids and dogs say they can't do I said, no,
Speaker 3: you can't do, because we have we have somebody that
Speaker 3: you know you did and he want, and so put
Speaker 3: your mind, put your soul, put your heart into whatever
Speaker 3: you wanna be, because I know I can't.
Speaker 15: My name is Krista Hawkins. I'm the co founder of
Speaker 15: Black Girl, Brown Girl Buds, and the brown Girl that
Speaker 15: here is here today is Inger Estrata Darling, our children's
Speaker 15: book publishing company, is designed solely to increase in representation
Speaker 15: of black and brown characters.
Speaker 2: Research shows that you're more likely to see.
Speaker 15: A white character, a car, or an animal before you
Speaker 15: see a black or brown character, so we're intentional about
Speaker 15: changing that. Our books are designed for kids zero to
Speaker 15: eight because by eight years old, ninety percent of your
Speaker 15: adult brain is developed, and so you're really learning to
Speaker 15: navigate the world around you and get a sense of self.
Speaker 15: Our books are bilingual English Spanish, so our babies can
Speaker 15: have access to dual language books to strengthen them.
Speaker 2: And all that they'll do.
Speaker 16: We have two books.
Speaker 15: Our Los Angeles is our two main characters, Crystal and Lazette.
Speaker 15: They take you on a tour around LA highlighting some
Speaker 15: really great places. We run by the Marathon Store, shout
Speaker 15: out to nip We go to Randy Donut, to Watts Towers,
Speaker 15: a lot of times when our babies look in books,
Speaker 15: they don't see their communities. You're more likely to see
Speaker 15: the Hollywood sign or the Golden gate bridge. Really bringing
Speaker 15: it home for our babies in LA and in soul systems,
Speaker 15: we tell the actual friendship story of myself, Christal and
Speaker 15: Ingrid growing up in south central LA. Products of l
Speaker 15: a unified meeting that figure or elementary and the importance
Speaker 15: of sharing and celebrating culture.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead, but I mean him thinking, I'm
Speaker 1: like Span, it's sunning at lession.
Speaker 20: Those linguages.
Speaker 2: I think that means what?
Speaker 23: Thank you?
Speaker 2: So this is this is wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 12: You know, board books are very special, uh you know,
Speaker 12: for the especially for the youngsters, and you know, cause
Speaker 12: they like the terror pages and picture books don't work
Speaker 12: for them, so they can give them these books.
Speaker 2: So this is wonderful. What your achievement and what you
Speaker 2: brought for this rich culture out here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So thank you for your contribution. All right, who we
Speaker 2: got next?
Speaker 15: Okay, hello everyone.
Speaker 20: My name is Tyoni Patterson. I'm the author of the
Speaker 20: Tamiya T. Scott series. My children's books are for kids
Speaker 20: birth to seven years old and they teach vocabulary and sentences.
Speaker 20: It's important that our kids see themselves in children's books.
Speaker 20: They need to see their hair, their skin, their culture,
Speaker 20: and vice versas. It's important for the world to see
Speaker 20: our children and children's books as well. We're all culturally
Speaker 20: different and it gives us the opportunity to learn about
Speaker 20: each other's culture.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow, wow, you know I I I enjoyed the
Speaker 3: interaction today that you have with the with with the
Speaker 3: kids and whatnot.
Speaker 13: You have a.
Speaker 2: Powerful voice and a strong authoritary.
Speaker 9: Command.
Speaker 3: You know the room all right, and that's what you
Speaker 3: need when firsially you deal with them youngsters. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: gotta take control, you know. We gotta guide them, you know,
Speaker 3: to elevate them. We gotta get them to listen. And
Speaker 3: they don't want you know, they got their own way.
Speaker 3: When you know, you doing a little mama's job. Thank
Speaker 3: you for your contribution to our culture, our community, and
Speaker 3: the time you spend to make a difference in our
Speaker 3: youth than our young because they all one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of our future.
Speaker 2: Think anything else you would like to say about this
Speaker 2: beautiful book.
Speaker 20: Just support me, uh my, you guys. I have a
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Speaker 20: dot com. And thanks you so much Molak for this
Speaker 20: amazing platform and all allowing us to enter your space
Speaker 20: in your community and just sharing our books with you
Speaker 20: guys in your community as well.
Speaker 2: Sokay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank alright, alright, next, a day out of you know,
Speaker 3: a day out with Kennedy?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is that what a little girl going on on today?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I you know, uh my my baby sixteen and she
Speaker 2: still came down, come on over to the set. So
Speaker 2: my name is Jason Phillips.
Speaker 11: And so this book I like it so much because
Speaker 11: it represents a black family with a father and a home.
Speaker 2: And so that's good for us to see that in
Speaker 2: this book, to see a healthy family and that's their
Speaker 2: home and they're happy. That's a good representation. So that
Speaker 2: was the whole full well, you know, it all starts
Speaker 2: at the home.
Speaker 3: Yes, they don't start at the school, and don't start
Speaker 3: in the streets, and start.
Speaker 2: Right there at the home.
Speaker 3: And we need to make sure that we're something and
Speaker 3: the foundation is right at home if we are to
Speaker 3: make a difference in how you young?
Speaker 2: Yeah, y, you got it? What about five books though? Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's what and I one. I'm still well. I
Speaker 2: got one from Devastation to Elevation. It's a chapter.
Speaker 3: Maybe one day I'll have a future book out of
Speaker 3: of my chapter. But yeah, but you know five books,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Are you writing in your sleep?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, illust for an artist and a writer. Give it
Speaker 2: up for myself? No, no, no, Now. CJ. Charles is
Speaker 2: coming up. You know, she's instrumental in helping plan this
Speaker 2: entire event, Black Children Book Week. She approached me, the
Speaker 2: host to hear that malite books. I'm honor, so we
Speaker 2: say the best for last, no knock on the other.
Speaker 2: We love them all, but but uh, let's give.
Speaker 21: It up for yes.
Speaker 11: Charles, I'm the author. My mother is a superhero and
Speaker 11: Miss April's a superhero all right by Lingual books. Our
Speaker 11: books are aimed to help children to learn to appreciate
Speaker 11: the superheroes and their lives on a daily basis, those
Speaker 11: caring adults who love them and take care of them.
Speaker 2: We want to get our.
Speaker 11: Kids back to being appreciative and caring and loving. Uh
Speaker 11: so they going into the world to be.
Speaker 2: Awesome human beings.
Speaker 11: But I wanna thank everyone behind me, all these ladies,
Speaker 11: helped me playing black children's book with mo with Malik,
Speaker 11: we couldn't do anything without him and April, So we
Speaker 11: wanna think everybody who came out today support us next
Speaker 11: year too.
Speaker 20: This is the first and many, many, many years of.
Speaker 11: Celebrating black books in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: So thank you so much, you walking, you welker, y'all,
Speaker 3: y'all allys many y'all made the show.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm just thankful I can host it, you know, and
Speaker 2: y'all put it in the real work. This first time.
Speaker 2: I didn't have to hold do a whole lot. So
Speaker 2: I'm thankful and thankful. We gonna do many more and
Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I
Speaker 2: hope my autists enjoyed that. I was wonderful. These are
Speaker 2: also published authors. If they can do it, you can
Speaker 2: do it. So if you got something to write, you
Speaker 2: got something to say, put it in a book.
Speaker 23: Let's get it published. Get in touch with them, cause
Speaker 23: they tell you I get put Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 23: thank you, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 20: Please special thank you to all of the sponsors who
Speaker 20: contributed to this event. We really appreciate you guys.
Speaker 12: That's right.
Speaker 2: And be the.
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Speaker 3: If we never want to forget our sponsors, you know,
Speaker 3: because with them that's what makes our be successful. To
Speaker 3: appreciate the shout out for them. We want to make
Speaker 3: sure that shout out, though, is loud and clear, because
Speaker 3: they gave some money. So let's come somebody, stand right here, give.
Speaker 1: All four or five?
Speaker 8: Right, they know that all their names and listen, come on,
Speaker 8: come on, we want to make sure we give them, yes,
Speaker 8: come right here. We want to support them sponsors, all right.
Speaker 19: So AM Catering.
Speaker 5: And whoo.
Speaker 20: Cafe?
Speaker 2: Who all right?
Speaker 21: All right, So let's give it up for the authors
Speaker 21: put on this wonderful black soldier.
Speaker 2: I knew they had finished it up.
Speaker 6: All right.
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