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Prose, poems and stories

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne

July 20, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While there are a lot of new titles out there, I needed to catch up on some older titles. Books, I keep “meaning to read” and never get around too. I picked up A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne. I thought it was a book in verse, but it is more short essays and diary entries. Or as if someone is interviewing the narrator and they are just replying to questions.  Still, it was short and figured […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: African American & Black, cbr18bingo, cbr18bingo Bird, civil rights, community, Daily Living |, Death, Diseases, family, fathers, grief, Illness, incarceration, Mahogany L. Browne, pandemic, poc, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:199 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: African American & Black, cbr18bingo, cbr18bingo Bird, civil rights, community, Daily Living |, Death, Diseases, family, fathers, grief, Illness, incarceration, Mahogany L. Browne, pandemic, poc, Social Themes ·
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Talking to Dad

Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton, Antoine Patton, Kiara Valdez and Markia Jenai

February 27, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I went to the library to drop off some books I had finished and to drop off my reading challenge form. My ride had some errands to run, so I told them to drop me off, and I would use the library as a way to pick up and read a few books I normally wouldn’t read. But first, I looked at the children’s room. I hadn’t been in there too often, and not since they had updated it. But the fist section I went […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Antoine Patton, Children of prisoners, Coding & Programming, Correspondence, family, fathers, fathers and daughters, incarceration, Jay Jay Patton, Jay Jay Patton, Antoine Patton, Kiara Valdez and Markia Jenai, Kiara Valdez, Markia Jenai, parents, Prisoners, Social Topics

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:115 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Antoine Patton, Children of prisoners, Coding & Programming, Correspondence, family, fathers, fathers and daughters, incarceration, Jay Jay Patton, Jay Jay Patton, Antoine Patton, Kiara Valdez and Markia Jenai, Kiara Valdez, Markia Jenai, parents, Prisoners, Social Topics ·
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