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Amazing Emotional Story

One Blood by Denene Millner

September 2, 2023 by LB Leave a Comment

Oof, this is a seriously intense and emotional story, but so compellingly told. Told through the experiences of three women – Grace, LoLo, and Rae – it chronicles the ties of family and motherhood as Black women and the ways intergenerational trauma ripples and impacts people moving forward. Grace is a teen when her mother is murdered by her boyfriend and her grandmother is taken away for claiming a white woman’s baby was white and not a product of an affair with a Black man […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Black mother, Black stories, Black women, Denene Millner, family, Fiction, generational story, intergenerational trauma, Literature, litfic, one blood

LB's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Black mother, Black stories, Black women, Denene Millner, family, Fiction, generational story, intergenerational trauma, Literature, litfic, one blood ·
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When the Fresh Prince is inspiration for a Fresh Princess

The Fresh Princess, by Denene Millner

April 5, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The story Denene Millner created, The Fresh Princess, is a solid one about moving, new places, making friends and being brave. However, while this story has been done before, it is a little different this time. You still get the “upset about moving” and the “jitters” trying to make new friends’ aspects, but it just has a slightly different feel. This could be since this family is black. However, this is not an “issue” (nobody comments on that), they just are a new family in […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: African-American, Denene Millner, Gladys Jose, New Experience

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:112 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: African-American, Denene Millner, Gladys Jose, New Experience ·
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