19 May Book Signing: Dr. Janaka Bowman Lewis
Saturday, May 13, 2023, 5:30 pm
Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, in partnership with the Zeta Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated presented Augusta Native Dr. Janaka Bowman Lewis for a talk and book signing of her new book, Light and Legacies: Black Girlhood and Stories of Liberation.
Janaka Bowman Lewis, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of English, Interim Chair of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of the New South at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Freedom Narratives of African American Women (2017), and three children’s books Brown All Over, Bold Nia Marie Passes the Test, and co-authur of Dr. King is Tire, Tbo!! A 2021 TEDx UNC Charlotte speaker and author of several chapters and articles on Black women’s identities from motherhood to educational leadership, she is founder of the Vanilla Bowman Foundation for Educational Impact based in Georgia and the Carolinas, serves on the boards of Freedom School Partners and Rise 2 Thrive Family Resource Center. She was recognized in 2020 as one of Charlotte Business Journal’s “40 Under 40”. Her latest book is Light and Legacies: Black Girlhood and Stories of Liberation, which is out in bookstores now.