Blue Ivy Carter Narrates Audiobook Hair Love
Blue Ivy Carter, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s eight-year-old daughter, has added audiobook narrator to her resume. You can hear her narrate Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison’s book Hair Love based on the short film of the same name, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
Ruby Bridges Wrote A Children’s Book
Ruby Bridges, now a civil rights activist, was the first African-American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in 1960 when she was six years old. Norman Rockwell painted the iconic image The Problem We All Live With in 1964, showing Ruby Bridges walking into school escorted by U.S. Marshals beside a wall with a racist slur. Now Bridges has written a children’s book telling her story and documenting the historic moment, This is Your Time.
Feminist Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft Honored With Statue 200 Years Later
English writer Mary Wollstonecraft was a philosopher and women’s rights activist most known for her 1792 published work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. Now, after ten years of fundraising, the first memorial sculpture of her has gone up in Newington Green, London. You can check out the statue, said to “definitely promote comment,” and learn about Wollstonecraft, who was of course vilified during her life. Suffragist Millicent Fawcett helped restore her reputation a century after her death; Wollstonecraft died shortly after giving birth to her second daughter, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.