Tune-in Sunday Morning, April 25,, 2021 at 7am to Kixie Sunday Morning Magazine. Meredith C. McGee discusses Stand Up, Speak Up, Rally 4 Peace, a call to end gun violence, Thur. May 6, 2021 in Jackson, MS at Parham Bridges Park on Old Canton Rd in north Jackson, MS.
Tune-in the following Sunday May 1, 2021 to hear Author Irma Mae Rodgers Walker discuss her new book “Mother Wit” on Kixie Sunday Morning Magazine hosted by Lessie Hayes. https://meredithetc.com/mother-wit/
Happy reading! Thank you shopping Meredith Etc books.
Enjoy Lily Darling by Malesha Smith, a novella about Lily Mitchell, a middle school student who transforms her negative thoughts into positive thoughts and exemplified leadership greatness.
Enjoy Starkishia: Estrella by Starkishia, a memoir about a teen who migrates from a small town in Georgia to Texas. By age 15, Starkishia advances from homelessness to the bride of a Mexican adult male. Her husband is deported to Mexico. She makes a life changing decision.
Enjoy Juvenile Offenders: From Big Wheels to the Big House, a collection of writings by Rosemary Jenkins and juvenile offenders in the California prison system. Readers walk away with a new outlook on criminology and the Industrial Prison System.
Enjoy Mother Wit by Irma Mae Rodgers Walker, a self-help book full of a mother’s wisdom. Irma became a mother at age 15. Her meager job gave her access to a trailer park. But, she kept dreaming and climbing. She became the ‘go-to’ person in her family for council. The author desires others to avoid the hard knocks she experienced as a teen mother and for the family unit to develop meaningful bonds.
Enjoy Married to Sin by Darlene Collier with Meredith Coleman McGee, a memoir about treks of Collier’s life. Collier’s great grandfather Mose Dantzler was the largest black land owner in Jasper County, Mississippi. How Collier, who was not a juvenile delinquent, went from the promised land to Oakley Training School is another story. Collier was teen bride. She married into a family cursed by generational sin.
Enjoy Nashida: Visits the Smith Robertson Museum by Meredith Coleman McGee, a children’s series book about Nashida’s visit to the Smith Robertson Museum. Smith Robertson was the City of Jackson’s first black lawmaker from 1879-1899. Robertson was a former slave from Fayette, Alabama. He raised the funds to form the school’s first public school for blacks. The famous black writer Richard Wright graduated in the 8th grade from Smith Robertson School. His writing career was launched at a black owned newspaper on Farish Street one block from school in 1925.
Quote by Meredith Coleman McGee. Word to the wise to the little fish in the big sea called capitalism. “It is not wise to swell the merchant’s pockets if one empties her own pockets.” by Meredith C. McGee
“This book provides an honest look at the life and times of Civil Rights icon James Howard Meredith within the context of the America that created him and his generation”– Provided by publisher.”This book provides an honest look at the life and times of Civil Rights icon James Howard Meredith within the context of the America that created him and his generation”– Provide
Community Library Mississippi launched its Local History Speaking Series today with a tour of the COFO Civil Rights Education Center and a book talk by Mary Haralson Coleman.
Guest were greeted by Dr. Robert Luckett. Angela Stewart facilitated the tour.
Right to Left: Dr. Robert Luckett, Director, Margaret Walker Center, Vickie Jenkins, Vice Chair, Community Library Mississippi, Mary Haralson Coleman, Author, Book Toaster, Angela Stewart, Margaret Walker Center, Tour Guide, Meredith C. McGee, Author/Publisher/Book Toaster
Meredith McGee with Dr. Eldridge HendersonMedgar Wiley EversMeredith McGee, Chair, Community Library Mississippi/Book Toaster/Sankofa Reading Group, and Vickie Jenkins, Vice Chair, Community Library Mississippi. Both women are founding members of the Learning Tree Book Club. Angela Stewart, holding her autographed copy. Stewart is the founder of the Sankofa Reading Group. Mary Haralson Coleman is an author, singer, song writer. She was the first black female licensed barber in the State of Mississippi 1960.
Congratulations to RDLN graduate Meredith Coleman McGee (Group 7), who since 2016 has been leading a drive for literacy in Jackson, Mississippi. Because local public libraries — even those named for African-Americans – have few books on their shelves and discourage participation in children’s programs by African-Americans, she and seven other women launched the Community Library Initiative with a long-term goal of opening their own library in Jackson. They developed My First Book Series, which included six primer books for beginning readers My First Book Series. She and other volunteers coordinated the Spring Break Reading Fair in March 2017. During that week, reading coaches and youth participants formed the Learning Tree Book Club, a reading group for young and adult readers (See photo at bottom).
Meredith (c) with Fran Wade Camper and Lena Barnes at Jackson Book Festival
Meredith and other authors had encountered barriers to entering their local marketplace. They could not sell books in the Jackson Hinds Library System. The books of several authors were rejected by the Mississippi Museum Book Store and several large book retailers. The Mississippi Library Commission refused to list their titles in the state’s database. The authors formed the “Book Toasters” a social club for authors andthey organized the first Jackson Book Festival. It took place at the Jackson Medical Mall on February 8. Meredith was the mistress of ceremony. “There was a great turnout with over 20 author and art vendors,” she said. Student volunteers from Hinds Community College supported the event. Four adults won the poetry contest. Local businesses donated gift bags consisting of books, children’s dictionaries, gift cards, and art. Meredith proclaimed, “This is an intellectual revolution!” and she added that “We plan to organize an event annually.”
In comparing the Jackson Book Festival, described above, to the traditional book festival in the state, she said, “I attended the Mississippi Book Festival, which is held at the Mississippi State Capitol every August, three times. Even though several authors split the cost of a table, we barely broke even each year. During our Jackson Book Festival, authors were given the opportunity to present six-minute book talks, and the cost of table space was only $20, which increased the opportunity for profit. Meredith has just released the second (paperback) edition of her biography James Meredith: Warrior and the America that created him through her small press Meredith Etc. She will speak at the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi, Oxford campus, on Thursday, March 7. She has also released the second edition of her book Odyssey, a collection of her poems and other writings from 1993 to 2018. Meredith is an entrepreneur, author, and publisher. She earned her master’s degree from Antioch University through the Rural Development Leadership Network.
Meredith standing defines a term for a new reader, who came to the Learning TreeBook Club with his mentors. Ty’Leeann, right, was a founding member of the club, which was formed at Pearl Street AME Church during the Spring Break Reading Fair.
Starry Krueger, Rural Development Leadership Network, P.O. Box 98 Prince St. Station, New York, NY 10012, (212)777-9137 (212)477-0367 (Fax) rdln@ruraldevelopment.org
Meredith Coleman McGee, Publisher, Meredith Etc, interviewed event organizers and one former ‘heart failure’ patient. Local male readers dubbed the article very informative. Article described how necessary it is to have a regular doctor, and the warning signs of ‘heart failure.’
Knowledge is power!
McGee, M. C. (July 28- Aug 3, 2016). Learn how to detect heart failure warnings at the ‘Live to the Beat’ event, Jackson Advocate, 10A. (APA citation)
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