Walk Boldly
Embrace Who You Are as a Male Black Teen
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Language Arts Books
Embrace the color of your skin and celebrate your identity. Finding the courage to live freely and authentically is not easy. This black teen book is designed to help you facilitate your creative drive, promote positive self-awareness, and boost your inner strength.
Affirmations for Black teen boys. This black teen book is full of wisdom from Black male trailblazers who accomplished remarkable things in sports, literature, entertainment, education, STEM, business, military and government services, politics and law, activism, and more.
Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. In this guidebook for teens, M.J. Fievre, educator and author of Raising Confident Black Kids and Badass Black Girl, tackles a variety of relevant topics, such as family and friends, school and careers, and stereotypes. While reflecting on these subjects, you confront the issues that could hold you back from living a confident life as a Black teen boy.
Learn from the lives of thriving black men. Alongside space for personal work and reflection, M.J. Fievre provides interviews with successful black men in a variety of fields, including Andrew Bernard of Make It Dairy Free, Justin Black of Redefining Normal, and Roderick “Rod” Morrow of Rodimus Prime.
Walk Boldly helps you to:
- Build and boost your self-esteem with powerful affirmations and stories from Black male role models
- Learn more about yourself through insightful journaling
- Become comfortable and confident in your skin
If you enjoyed Black teen books like Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Boy, 31-Day Affirmations for African American Boys, or Letters to a Young Brother, you’ll love Walk Boldly.
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Book details
- Author
- M.J. Fievre
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 218
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Bold and Black
- Ages
- 12-18
- Subjects
- Young Adult Nonfiction › Social Topics › Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
Young Adult Nonfiction › Biography & Autobiography › Cultural & Regional
Young Adult Nonfiction › Social Topics › Civil & Human Rights
Young Adult Nonfiction › African American & Black - Topics
- Black teen boys · self-esteem · identity · affirmations · civil rights · Black history · inspirational quotes
- ISBN-13
- 9781642507331
About the author
M.J. FIEVRE is an educator and the author of nine books in French as well as Badass Black Girl, Empowered Black Girl and Resilient Black Girl.
Fievre holds a B.S. Ed and began her publishing career as a teenager in Haiti, signing her first contract with Hachette-Deschamps at nineteen for the Young Adult title La Statuette Maléfique. She has spoken as a keynote at Tufts University, Howard University, the University of Miami, and Middlebury College, and has appeared as a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.
When she’s not writing, Fievre works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, the elderly, and others who use writing as a form of therapy. Her books reflect her commitment to affirming Black identity and building community.
M.J. lives in Winter Garden, Florida, with her husband, artist Thomas Logan.