Book Recommendations

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Dr. Joy Degruy

Revolutionary Suicide: Dr. Huey P. Newton

The Deepest Well: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Dr. Rheeda Walker

We Are Not the Same: Shaneequewa Samuels

You Can Heal Your Life: Louise Hay

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Why Literacy Matters to Us

- 1 in 4 children in America grow up without learning how to read (dosomething.org, 2015 )

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-Reading to children early on can help boost literacy rates longterm (Lake, 2016).

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- Nearly 85% of juveniles who face trial in the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate (dosomething.org, 2015).

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-Teenage girls who have lower literacy rates are about 4X's more likely to become a teenage mother (Lake, 2016).