The River Is My Ocean Binding:Hardcover Thoughtfully curated by writer and

Thoughtfully curated by writer and Black bookstore owner Katie Mitchell

they have often had great difficulty articulating and substantiating both the existence and impact of that discrimination to an American public who is convinced that it no longer exists

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most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published

The River Is My Ocean Binding:Hardcover Thoughtfully curated by writer andA grandmother and granddaughter share a magical trip to the Hudson River affirming intergenerational love and the power of water in this heart song of a picture book. Every day, Abuela misses the ocean in Puerto Rico. But on Saturdays, when the sun is high, Abuela takes her granddaughter on a walk down the hill in Harlem to Twelfth Avenue, to a place that is just as magical: the Hudson River. There, they visit Yamaya, mermaids that invoke child like