Jacques M. Shoreâs new picture book,
Sleep, My Baby, to come out just weeks after his daughter
Emily gave birth to her first child.
This book is based upon the lullaby by the same name, which Shoreâs late mother,
Dr. Lena Allen-Shore, composed for him when he was born. Growing up in Montreal, his childhood was a very happy one. âI knew that my parents loved me very much,â he says. âMy parents were both Holocaust survivors doing their best to make a life in Canada. My father was a businessman, and my mother focused on her career as a poet, songwriter, novelist, and journalist. Their days were hectic, but as dinner and bedtime approached, the mood at home would change. There was a calm, a serenity, and an exchange of love that could only have been experienced in a home environment where peace and tranquility existed. It was those hours I cherished most.
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February 11, 2021
Journalist Ernest Owens is annoyed with white people’s attempts to celebrate and promote Black History Month. In a Feb. 5 op-ed at the Washington Post, he complains of what he calls a “thoughtless ‘Happy Black History Month’ email from a White colleague.” He bemoans the “empty platitudes” that make him as a “Black queer millennial” feel “insulted” when white people, especially white bosses, indulge in exaggerated declarations of support for black Americans. “I don’t need or want corporations celebrating Black History Month,” he asserts.
In one sense, I can appreciate Owens’s frustration. Many white Americans’ expressions of solidarity with our fellow black citizens are undoubtedly superficial, if not performative. Corporate commemorations of Black History Month from Amazon’s “celebrate Black innovators” tab to Apple’s “App Store Black History Month Hub” say as much about capitalists co-opting the latest cause as it d