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A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart’s desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.

“Though Becker has plenty of experience as an artist for films, “Journey” is his first book, and it’s a masterwork.” — New York Times Book Review

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Be swept away on an elaborate flight of fancy in this Caldecott award-winning, wondrously illustrated picture book about self-determination and unexpected friendship. The winner of the prestigious Caldecott Honor, and described by the New York Times as 'a masterwork', Aaron Becker's stunning, wordless picture book debut about self-determination and unexpected friendship follows a little girl who draws a magic door on her bedroom wall. Through it she escapes into a world where wonder, adventure and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey ... who knows where? When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also guide her home and to happiness? In this exquisitely illustrated book, an ordinary child is launched on an extraordinary, magical journey towards her greatest and most rewarding adventure of all...

• Book 1 of 3 Journey Trilogy
• Print length 40 pages
• Language English
• Dimensions 27.1 x 0.4 x 24 cm
• Publisher Walker Books
• Publication date 7 Aug. 2014
• ISBN-10 1406355348
• ISBN-13 978-1406355345
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walker Books (7 Aug. 2014)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1406355348
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1406355345
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 - 8 years, from customers
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.1 x 0.4 x 24 cm
• 15 in Children's Books on Travel
• 49 in Travel Fiction for Children
• 107 in Children's Books on Self-Esteem & Self-Respect

About the author

Aaron becker.

Born in Baltimore, Aaron Becker moved to California to attend Pomona College where he scored his first illustration job designing t-shirts for his water polo team. Since then, he's traveled to Kenya, Japan, Sweden, and Tahiti backpacking around while looking for good things to eat and feeding his imagination. He now lives with his family in Amherst, MA where he's busy at work on his next book project. You can find out more about what he's been up to lately at storybreathing.com.

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Guide young readers to new heights

Learning to read is an excursion into the unknown. It's about meeting challenges head-on and gaining confidence with each victory. Preparing students for this voyage requires a program that lets teachers introduce the right discoveries at the right time. When things begin to line up, you can see confidence start to shine in students' eyes. Journeys is a comprehensive K-6 English language arts program. It provides an instructional system for reading both literature and informational texts, for acquiring foundational reading skills , and for developing mastery of speaking, listening and writing.

Meets new ESSA evidence standards

Promotes deep analysis of authentic texts, reaches 6.7 million students nationwide, a map for students on the path to literacy.

Journeys is built on a deep foundation of scientific research but treats students as young people who need to be encouraged—and to have fun. The result? An engaging learning experience that fits .

Sculpt lesson plans from scaffolded instruction and immerse students in small group sessions that fit like a glove.

Provide opportunities for thoughtful analysis and problem solving using texts that can be read and re-read for multiple purposes.

Prepare students for today’s rigorous standards—and the demands of next-generation assessments—with an approach to instruction that’s based on pioneering academic research.

See what Journeys has in store for your classroom.

Enrich the classroom with tools that foster a love of learning

To build confidence, students need flexible, individualized study. Journeys features complex anchor texts that challenge students, smart lesson plans that let teachers target the needs of all students, and assessments and digital tools that help track classroom progress.

Student Experience

With the right combination of demanding materials and individualized instruction, Journeys offers students the types of challenges needed to mold them into stronger readers. It’s a recipe for the continued growth they’ll need to excel at today’s rigorous assessments, college, and beyond.

Student texts promote deep reading.

Anchor text reading instruction challenges students well beyond their first encounter. A special three-part routine guides students to grasp big ideas, then analyze short passages, and finally undertake independent close reading.

The Student eBook guides students to highlight and make notes about the answers and evidence they are learning to gather.

Trade Books provide a backdrop for project-based learning and give students the opportunity to apply what they have been learning to extended texts.

A wide range of texts meet all students at their level.

Journeys Leveled Readers for Guided Reading, by Irene Fountas, allow students to get individualized practice alongside the core coursework.

Complete solutions for Tier I, II, and III intervention to reinforce skills, scaffold instruction, and teach key foundational skills.

Strategic language support for English learners provides integrated support and scaffolds for every lesson, plus five days of additional instruction to develop language skills, all enabling ELs to engage with core instruction.

Teacher Experience

Students’ confidence grows when the challenges they face are the right size. Teachers should be given the tools to find the right fit. Journeys is designed to be that tool. 

Simple, flexible instruction allows teachers to shine.

Weekly lesson plans make it easy for teachers to design customized lessons, allowing them to spend more time teaching and less time planning.

A realistic approach to pacing allows teachers to focus on depth and rigor, giving the class more time with each text.

Digital tools, like our Interactive Focus Wall and Teacher eBook, simplify planning and enrich instruction.

Practical, powerful assessments keep teachers informed and students prepared.

A comprehensive assessment system (including weekly tests, benchmark assessments, and unit tests) gives teachers the tools they need to monitor student progress.

The online dashboard gives teachers visibility into the progress of their class, providing the insights they need to develop customized lesson plans.

Tech-enhanced questions like drag-and-drop and multi-select allow students to prepare for high-stakes assessment formats.

Journeys scope and sequences are plans teachers can trust. They provide a pedagogical sequence that’s developmentally appropriate and research-based. That way, as students embark on their literacy journey, a path is being charted for the skills and knowledge they’ll need down the road.

Journeys Scope & Sequence: Grades K-6

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Vocabulary readers, flashcards and in-the-moment digital tools fill classrooms with ways to build vocabulary along every step of the journey

Informational texts let students gain mastery over core academic vocabulary as well as domain-specific knowledge and words

Weekly grammar skill targets, supplemented with daily lessons, support students’ understanding of how English works  

A spelling scope and sequence designed by Shane Templeton builds students’ spelling skills

Deep-dives into text analysis give students the foundation they need to interpret texts from multiple angles and form insights

Student books and digital tools prompt students to mark up and annotate texts, allowing understanding to blossom into written form 

Team projects and class conversations guide students to develop critical listening skills and mastery of group communication

Presentations and collaborative work put students in a position to develop social awareness and speaking skills

Giving students confidence to write their own stories

Award-winning texts. A research-based method. There’s a reason it’s used everywhere: Journeys works.

HMH Professional Services helps teachers and administrators prepare to transition to a new program. As you implement Journeys , our team can partner with yours to make sure you start off on the right foot.

Research & Results

Designed using the science of literacy development.

Using the latest research on what makes literacy instruction effective, Journeys was designed to be a system that reliably turns students into confident readers and writers. An impressive collection of scientific studies shows how well it works.

Journeys outfits aspiring readers and writers with the skills they need to scale the challenges of today’s rigorous assessment demands. Explore the research that shows just how high those students can climb.

Journeys: A Research-Based Approach

Grades K - 5

With a "strong evidence" rating from evidenceforessa.org, Journeys has been proven to simply work . And when students’ futures are at stake, results are what matter.

ESSA Evidence Criteria for Journeys

Overview of how Journeys meets ESSA “STRONG” evidence criteria.

Journeys RCT Gold Standard Study

Journeys field study, journeys multi-year quasi-experimental study.

Grades 3 and 5

Journeys Full-Year Research Study

2016 - 2017

To build Journeys , HMH ® worked with the brightest minds in literacy. Assembling a team of authors and consultants across every key area in the field of literacy, we put together an English language arts program that anticipates teaching needs and equips students to succeed.

Dr. MaryEllen Vogt

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Education, California State University, Long Beach; Journeys Program Consultant

Dr. Martha C. Hougen

National Consultant, Presenter, Researcher, and Author

HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

Erik Palmer

Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

Dr. Shane Templeton

Foundation Professor Emeritus, Literacy Studies, University of Nevada, Reno; Into Reading Program Author

Dr. Sheila W. Valencia

Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington; Journeys Program Consultant

Irene Fountas

Director, Literacy Collaborative, Lesley University; Language Arts consultant; Journeys Special Consultant

News & Events

The program authors behind Journeys want to continue the conversation about literacy instruction. Read what they’ve been thinking and stay up to date with the latest news and scholarship.

The Bad Habits of Good Readers

Carol Jago, HMH author and program consultant, makes the case for the seemingly bad habits avid readers possess. 

November 30, 2017

Reading Is More Than Fundamental

HMH’s Kristi James shares what ideal literacy engagement in an early childhood classroom would look like and how teachers can realize this goal and promote it outside of their classrooms as well.

Dr. Kristi James

November 20, 2017

A Guide to Engaging, Effective Instruction in Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary

In advance of the final fall 2017 Leadership Talk, literacy thought leader Dr. Shane Templeton previews his presentation on differentiating word study instruction.

October 20, 2017

Free Journeys Reading Resources

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This post begins with descriptions of the free Journeys reading program resources available here. Scroll down for the actual links to each ebook, for grades K – 6. Clicking into the links will automatically launch the ebooks. The ebooks that are handbooks or workbooks have printable pages. To print, open a workbook and look at the buttons on the left side. The last button is “More.” Click into it to print pages, as shown in the following image:

Descriptions of the Ebooks: (Scroll down for ebook links).

Student ebooks provide lessons with reading and comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and writing exercises. There’s also a link to the In the News current events ezine.

Leveled Readers include target skills (like main idea), vocabulary, and writing exercises.

Additional tools are available for some of the grades. Lessons appear to align with the main student ebooks:

Reading Adventures Magazine includes literature and informational texts and activities.

Writing Handbooks include step-by-step exercises for writing different types of compositions. Pages can be printed. 

Write-In Readers have short comprehension, vocabulary, and handwriting exercises, with pages that can be printed. 

Reader’s Notebooks have spelling, vocabulary, and grammar lessons. Pages can be printed.

Cold Reads are reading comprehension passages with questions. Pages are printable.

Close Readers are for analyzing short text passages.

Grammar Snap Videos are short lessons on grammar topics.

Links to the Journeys Reading Program Ebooks:

Kindergarten Ebook

Kindergarten Leveled Readers

iRead Videos : animations to help recognize uppercase and lowercase letters

Kindergarten Reader’s Notebook

Kindergarten Reader’s Notebook Teacher’s Edition

Kindergarten Writing Handbook

Kindergarten Writing Handbook Teacher’s Guide

Teacher Read Aloud Books Grade K

Grade 1 Ebook  

Grade 1 Leveled Readers

Grade 1 Writing Handbook

Grade 1 Writing Handbook Teacher’s Guide

Grade 1 Write-In Reader

Grade 1 Reader’s Notebook

Grade 1 Reader’s Notebook Teacher’s Edition

Grade 1 Cold Reads Grade 1 Close Reader

Grade 1 Close Reader Teacher’s Guide

Grade 1 Grammar Snap Videos

Grade 2 Ebook

Grade 2 Leveled Readers

Grade 2 Writing Handbook

Grade 2 Writing Handbook Teacher’s Guide

Grade 2 Write-In Reader Grade 2 Reader’s Notebook

Grade 2 Reader’s Notebook Teacher’s Edition

Grade 2 Cold Reads

Grade 2 Close Reader

Grade 2 Closer Reader Teacher’s Guide

Grade 2 Grammar Snap Videos  

Grade 3 Ebook

Grade 3 Leveled Readers

Grade 3 Writing Handbook Grade 3 Writing Handbook Teacher’s Guide

Grade 3 Write-In Reader

Grade 3 Reader’s Notebook

Grade 3 Reader’s Notebook Teacher’s Edition

Grade 3 Cold Reads

Grade 3 Close Reader

Grade 3 Close Reader Teacher’s Guide

Reading Adventures Magazine

Grade 3 Grammar Snap Videos

Grade 4 Ebook

Grade 4 Leveled Readers

Grade 4 Writing Handbook

Grade 4 Writing Handbook Teacher’s Guide

Grade 4 Write-In Reader

Grade 4 Reader’s Notebook

Grade 4 Reader’s Notebook Teacher’s Edition

Grade 4 Cold Reads

Grade 4 Close Reader

Grade 4 Close Reader Teacher’s Guide

Grade 4 Grammar Snap Videos

Grade 5 Ebook

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Do you have access to the answer keys for 3rd and 5th grade cold reads? I am wanting to use these as retests for my Special Education students. Thanks in advance for any help you may can offer.

The answer keys are within the books. Click into the book and then go into the “contents” and you will see the answer key there.

Comment: I love the Free Journeys Reading Resource. I wish there are more of these out there.

Question: I can’t seem to find Journeys student ebook grade 3 book 3 for lesson 26-30. would you be able to help me with that, please.

Whatever I have on this site is all I’ve found so far. If I come across it, I will post it and send you the info. In the meantime, have you seen the Journeys activities listed in this post ?

Lessons 26-30 are located in the Reading Adventures Magazine.

Thanks a million Ladies.

Kindly assist where I can find Journeys Ebook grade 4, lesson 26-30. There’s Reader’s Notebook ( teacher’s Edition) for these lessons.

Looking for answers to 6th grade readers notebook

This is good stuff! I’m about to teach a true beginner, a young learner, English as a Foreign Language. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!

I have no experience teaching foreign students. But there are many resources available online, some free. Here’s an article you may find useful with links to resources. Hope it helps: ESL Resources

Do you know how to access the Journeys Grade 5 Program Assessment link from ThinkCentral? I was about to find Grade 4, but I haven’t been able to find Grade 5. Grade 4 looks like this btw: https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys2017/na/gr4/program_assessments_9780544702066_/index.html

I found this link to intervention assessments for grades K – 6. Hope it helps. Journeys Intervention And here is the general link to Journeys Grade 5 Teacher Resources: Journeys G5 Teacher Resources

Thank you for that link, do you have the same links for grade 1-3 and grade 5-6? How do I find these? I am looking for the weekly assesments and benchmark assesments specifically for each grade.

Is there a Grade 6 Reader’s Notebook Teacher Edition? I see one for all of the other grades but not 6.

I have not been able to find that one yet. Will be happy to add it if I come across one or I’m sent a link.

I am looking for the weekly assesments and benchmark assesments specifically for each grade do you happen to have the links for these? Someone above posted them for 4th grade only.

I can’t get the links to work anymore. The page opens but just spins and spins. Is anyone else having this problem?

Try copying the link and pasting it into a new tab. Sometimes that works.

Hi! Any chance you have found any of the grade 6 projectables? Those would be a great addition to some of these resources! I love that you have the textbook digitally!

I’ve got access to projectables up to grade 5. I’ll keep my eye out for grade 6.

Hi, TRAYKAY

I was hoping that you may be able to find the Cold Reads for Grade 1 and 2?

I very much appreciate your website.

Regards Paul

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find Cold Reads for Grades 1 and 2. I’ve checked the various sections of the Teachers Resources and have not seen them. I’ll add them if I come across them.

I have added the Cold Reads for Grades 1 and 2 to the blog post. Those with access to Journeys teacher resources can find them in the Literacy Workshop under Assessments.

Great！ Thank you. This has really helped me with at least 6/7 classes I am running。 I am truely grateful xx

Tysm for this website! Is it possible to download the Journeys Write In Readers for each grade level? My school internet goes out alot and then I can’t access them. Thanks!

I don’t think downloading can be done from the online site. It looks like you may be able to print individual pages from the “More” tab.

Any links for the weekly tests for each grade? And benchmark assessments ?

Here is the link for the Literacy Workshop which has links to assessments (and other resources) for grades K – 6: https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys2017/na/gr5/focuswall_9781328834737_/literacy_workshop_hub/launch.html

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He pushed the NJ church to reckon with sexual assault. A new book shares his journey

For most of his life, Ed Hanratty carried a burden that he only recently began to unwrap.

When he was an altar boy at St. Francis of Assisi parish in Ridgefield Park some 35 years ago, he was sexually abused, he said.

The Rev. Gerald Sudol was a charismatic priest in his 30s who came to St. Francis in the 1980s and immediately became popular. Known for his outgoing personality, he paid special attention to the boys and cracked jokes, Hanratty said.

Hanratty said Sudol kissed him for the first time when he was 11, beginning a four-year pattern of abuse. One day, as they floated alone in his family's backyard swimming pool, Hanratty said the priest molested him in an incident he later described as "the worst thing that I ever experienced."

Now 47, Hanratty said he's suffered with the fallout from his trauma: substance abuse, intimacy issues, anxiety, depression, disdain for authority and low self-esteem. "I realized it manifested itself in the void that I felt, in confusion and identity. That is the void that a substance abuser jumps into to provide answers. I turned to heavy drinking throughout my teenage years to run from it."

His latest stop on a lifelong quest for healing and justice is a new memoir that lays out the harrowing journey of his childhood. " Nervous Exhaustion : A Gen X Saga of Clergy Abuse, PTSD, and the Path to Acceptance ," will be released July 1 and is already available for Kindle pre-order on Amazon. A 475-page hardcover edition will soon be available as well.

Hanratty lives in West Milford with his wife of 22 years. He's worked for most of his life as a television-news archivist.

But his seemingly stable resume belies the emotional turmoil just beneath the surface. For decades, he said in an interview, he tried to block the abuse out of his mind. Then he tried to convince himself it wasn't a big deal.

The book, which took 12 years to write, was the culmination of a long, therapeutic journey, Hanratty said. He began writing it for himself but realized in the process that it was important for others to read. Self-published through Amazon Kindle Direct, the memoir is available for prices ranging from $10 to $24.99.

The book's overarching message is that healing is a lifelong effort. But accepting that reality was difficult.

"I wanted there to be a quick closure," said Hanratty.

More: Five years later, clergy abuse survivors still waiting for NJ attorney general's report

Hanratty went public with his story in 2018, part of a wave of accusers that forced New Jersey's five Catholic dioceses to reckon with a history of clergy abuse. The dioceses in 2019 released a list of 188 priests deemed "credibly accused" of improprieties, including Sudol .

"Ed Hanratty has been a forerunner in making sure that the abuse he endured has been made known and handled by the proper authorities," said Robert Hoatson of West Orange, another clergy abuse survivor and an advocate for the community.

Hoatson, who also has a book coming out, said publishing such stories is a positive way to "work through your trauma. It's cathartic to put it out there. The more I wrote, the more it brought back memories. It's a way to tell the truth."

Hanratty, however, had stayed silent for decades about what he had endured.

The turning point was a Pennsylvania grand jury report , released in 2018, which documented the stories of hundreds of clergy abuse victims in the Keystone State and a decades-long coverup by the Church.

As he read through the report, Hanratty said, he felt like he was reading his own autobiography.

"I realized that I was part of something much bigger," he said. "It hit me that I too had been carrying around this burden for so long it had affected every aspect of my life."

Hanratty had kept the sordid details of his abuse from his closest friends and family, although they often suffered the most.

Shortly after the grand jury report was released, he shared the details of his abuse in his hometown newspaper in Ridgefield Park. After it was published, he received an email that made his blood go cold: "I don't know if you remember me," it read, "but I was an altar boy with you and went through the same thing with Father Gerry."

Like Hanratty, the writer said he too had never breathed about it to anyone.

Hanratty said he subsequently learned of many other victims who had kept quiet. There were at least two who had died young through drug overdoses, he learned.

After Hanratty's disclosure, Sudol, then 64, was forced to step away from his parish in Jersey City. The cleric had faced similar accusations 15 years earlier and was one of nine priests whose accusers settled with the Newark Archdiocese for a $1 million out-of-court settlement in 2004. But Sudol was assigned to work in a hospice and various parishes, where he was around children.

"He was assigned to a church attached to an elementary school," Hanratty said in disbelief.

In 2019, after Hanratty went public, the Archdiocese of Newark revealed Sudol had been permanently removed from ministry, citing what the diocese called multiple credible allegations of sexual abuse.

Hanratty said he's had no contact with Sudol and doesn't know where he is. Sudol's last address was in Pennsylvania. Efforts by The Record and NorthJersey.com to reach him recently were unsuccessful.

"If he's still around," Hanratty said, "I hope he reads the book."

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History and Law Professor Dylan Penningroth talks about his academic journey and new book about Black Civil Rights

UC Berkeley History and Law Professor Dylan Penningroth.

“Trial of Rev. Benjamin,” from J. Vance Lewis,  Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Houston: Rein & Sons, 1910). The image is from a copy held by  NY Public Library,  and is public domain.

“Church Ann[iversary] 1947.” Undated photograph, inside First Baptist Church, South Orange, New Jersey. Deacon Robert Baskerville (my grandfather) is on the left. Church anniversary celebrations like this one helped raise money, bonded members together, and ensured that legally important facts—some of which became crucial during lawsuits—became matters of public “notice.” They were also just plain fun. Credit: author's collection.

UC Berkeley History and Law Professor Dylan Penningroth began his journey in academia after receiving his bachelor’s degree in history from Yale and his Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. Throughout his career at Berkeley, Professor Penningroth has taught, mentored and inspired countless undergraduate and graduate students. 

Recipient of prestigious awards including the Merle Curti Prize, the Ellis Hawley Prize, the Civil War and Reconstruction Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and a MacArthur Fellowship, Penningroth's contributions to academia are unparalleled. His relentless pursuit of knowledge has led to groundbreaking insights into Black legal lives, challenging conventional narratives and reshaping our understanding of American history. In his acclaimed new book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights , historian Dylan C. Penningroth rewrites the conventional narrative around the civil rights movement.

Professor Penningroth spoke to Berkeley Social Sciences recently about his career, newest book and hopes for the future. His interview is edited for clarity.

Please tell us more about your background and how you ended up at UC Berkeley? Dylan Penningroth: I trained as a historian at Johns Hopkins, specializing in African American history and African history. I was a Carter G. Woodson Fellow and then assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia before moving on to become a history professor at Northwestern University. In 2007, I began a half-time appointment as a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, a research institute focusing on interdisciplinary empirical research on the intersection of law and society. 

In 2015, I came to Berkeley with a joint appointment that is half in the History Department and half in the Program of Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP), which is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of law at Berkeley Law. Unlike the American Bar Foundation, JSP has a vigorous teaching component, including a Ph.D. program and an undergraduate Legal Studies major with 450 students. I am currently the associate dean and chair of the JSP/Legal Studies program. 

Looking back on my career so far, I see at least one strong through-line: I had incredible mentors along the way. There were my advisors in graduate school—Michael P. Johnson, a leading historian of the 19th-century South; and Sara Berry, a brilliant economics-trained historian of Africa. Both were incredibly generous with their time whenever I knocked on their office doors. There were Herman Bennett and Jennifer Morgan, who were then postdocs at Johns Hopkins, and who created a warm haven for some of us Black grad students. You have to remember that in the mid-1990s, some academics—including a very famous professor in the very History Department at Johns Hopkins we were studying in—still didn’t think we belonged. 

And when I got to Charlottesville, as a new Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, there was the late Reginald Butler, director of the UVA Woodson Institute, who modeled how to move through the world of academia with grace and quiet brilliance. Some of this mentoring was formal and visible. A lot of it was not. I would not be here if not for them. 

Tell us more about your book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights? Dylan Penningroth: My book is about how Black people used law, talked about law and thought about law, in an era when we usually think they were outside the law. It has two big aspirations. First, to offer a new model for writing about African American history. Race relations is the dominant mode of scholarly writing about Black people. I am trying to complement and expand beyond that model, by focusing on Black people’s relations with one another, including their intimate relations. For example, we are often told that “the Black family” was a place of collective resilience in the face of white oppression. But I want to show that it was also a site of self-making, disagreement and politics — a place where people questioned what it meant to be a son or a mother or a cousin, and what family members owed each other. 

Second, I want to tell a story about how the meaning of “civil rights” changed from the 1830s to the 1970s. In 1830, “civil rights” meant property, contract and the right to go to court — rights that all free people used in their everyday lives. By 1960, it meant the right not to be discriminated against — a special body of law set apart for minorities. And people no longer remembered the long history of Black people exercising the rights of everyday use. 

What kind of awards has the book won?  Dylan Penningroth: Before the Movement was awarded two book prizes recently from the Organization of American Historians: the 2024  Merle Curti Social History Award and the Ellis W. Hawley Award . It has also been awarded the David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Legal History for 2023. 

What was the inspiration behind writing it? Dylan Penningroth: The anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston once wrote that “research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” My curiosity came partly from family stories. My mother’s family came from Virginia and they still had ties there when I was growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s and 80s. I would hear older relatives talking about life in Cumberland and Baskerville, Va. 

They didn’t talk about the civil rights movement. Instead, they talked about ordinary things: moving up North because they couldn’t make it on the farm; sending money back to Cumberland to pay taxes on the family land; and one fascinating story about my great-great-great-uncle Jackson Holcomb, who had a boat even though he was a slave, and once got paid for ferrying Confederate soldiers across a river. Each of these stories opens up questions about law and Black life. So, Before the Movement is a deeply personal book. 

What do you hope the book's impact will be? Dylan Penningroth: I hope that it helps put Black people at the center of their own history. We have to grasp Black people’s political, economic, religious and family commitments as more than episodes in race relations or echoes of America’s original sin. When we take that broader view, we can better see the rich diversity of Black life in all its messy humanness: the ways they loved each other, exploited each other, fought each other, got annoyed with each other, helped each other, joked with each other; and how they dealt with getting old. The basic premise of this book is that Black people’s lives are worth studying in themselves. 

Finally, I hope the hidden history of Black civil rights will open up ways of rooting present-day movement activism in a deep history of Black legal activity and Black legal thought. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo used to say that politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. Activists must work in both poetry and prose. But it is all too tempting to lose sight of the prosaic stuff of law that has always been crucial to struggles for social justice and that regular people can relate to. What I have tried to do is to replant a familiar story in the soil where it first grew. And I hope it may flourish beyond the academy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court declared that legal racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional through  Brown v. Board of Education   in 1954 .  However, despite this ruling, public schools took years to integrate.

In South Carolina, school desegregation did not begin until 1963, when Judge Robert Martin ruled in  Millicent Brown et al v. Charleston County School Board, District 20 , to approve requests from Black students to be admitted to white schools. In fact, the Palmetto State was one of the last states in the country to desegregate schools.

“You’re learning very early that this thing we call Civil Rights is no easy matter…What people need to understand is that in South Carolina and all of its elected officials and administrators decided we don’t care what the Supreme Court says and we are going to resist this as much as we can and they did,” said Brown .

In Millicent Brown’s case, Judge Robert Martin ruled that Black students’ requests to be admitted to white schools must be approved. However, because this ruling occurred within two weeks of when the school term started, only the chief plaintiffs, 11 Black elementary, middle, and high school students, including then 15-year-old Brown, were admitted to attend.

In later years, Brown would go on to add a Dr. to her name, earning a Ph.D. in U.S. history and writing her dissertation about the history of civil rights in her home city of Charleston . Now retired, Brown was a former associate professor at Claflin University as well as other prominent institutions of higher education. A lifelong advocate for equality and equity, Brown continues to fight for social justice today.

In April, over 60 years after her court case, Brown released a book, “ Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey From Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond .” In this memoir, Brown explores “her fears and doubts, as well as the challenges of being a teenager expected to ‘represent the race’ and combat negative stereotypes of African Americans. Readers also gain perspective on the interpersonal aspects of white backlash to civil rights progress and strategic machinations within the movement.

Acclaimed actor and activist Samuel L. Jackson had rave reviews for her memoir, stating, “Millie Brown’s love for her people made her a force to be reckoned with—and her knowledge was always unquestionably on point. Sharing her journey and insights will surely paint a picture of the American dream as only a free woman of color and a child of the ’60s could.”

“When I was writing the book, one thing drove me: I don’t believe in iconic images. What’s real is the grappling, the struggle. I’m not brave or special, but I never stop being curious and moving on,” Brown said in an interview with Post and Courier .  

With the courts continuing to hand down decisions that impact American lives, and many of the recent rulings disproportionately impacting communities of color, ultimately, Brown wanted to ensure that these cases are humanized . “All the civil rights cases (including M. Brown et al v. Charleston School District No. 20, 1963) need explaining as personal events.”

As Brown told ESSENCE, “I, and other ‘first children’ trying to do the adult work of changing society, need to be seen as more than legal cases—our humanity and vulnerability must be recognized first.”

In fact, Brown sees her case as incredibly relevant and being inextricably intertwined with the Black Lives Matter movement of today. “The idea of Black lives NOT mattering dates back to legalized human bondage, through decades of discrimination, to thwarted attempts at public access to quality education and ultimately criminal injustice,” continued Brown, adding, “It’s more than a slogan, and must continuously be sought in all arenas.”

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James a. michener.

James Albert Michener (/ˈmɪtʃnər/; February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. Michener was known for the popularity of his works; he had numerous bestsellers and works selected for Book of the Month Club. He was also known for his meticulous research behind the books.

Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal; his memoir titled The World Is My Home, and Sports in America. Return to Paradise combines fictional short stories with Michener's factual descriptions of the Pacific areas where they take place.

His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and later as a film by the same name, adding to his financial success.

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WASHINGTON (7News) — The NBA finals are right around the corner. Game 1 is June 6 and I can tell you one thing every player and this series has in common -- They all had a "first game."

That's what this week's Reading with Robert is about.

The title of the book is “My First Game Day.” It’s about something a lot of us went through as a child if we played youth sports. Do you remember how nervous you were for your first big game?

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Is Book The Last Kwejian In Star Trek: Discovery?

Book’s family link to star trek: discovery’s new villain moll explained, star trek: discovery season 5's best surprise is book and culber’s friendship.

• The final season of Star Trek: Discovery brought closure to Cleveland Booker's journey with a "powerful" coda.
• Cleveland Booker's journey with Michael Burnham was transformative, leading to a satisfying conclusion.
• David Ajala reflects on Book's growth, potential spin-offs, and the importance of connections in the series.

[WARNING: The following interview contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery 's final season.] After a five-season run, Star Trek: Discovery came to an end on May 30, 2023, providing closure for characters such as Captain Michael Burnham and Cleveland Booker, while also offering a further glimpse forward as to what their future could hold. After ordering a 10-episode fifth season in January 2022, Paramount made the surprise choice in March 2023 to make it the last of the series, a decision that came as a shock to both the cast and the crew and resulted in some additional scenes being shot to create a coda to bring the series to a satisfying conclusion.

The Kwejian rogue first appeared in the series in season 3 as a nomadic courier, meeting Michael Burnham and forming a relationship with her, and despite many trials and tribulations as he dealt with the loss of his homeworld and family, he ultimately became an asset to the Discovery crew.

David Ajala's Cleveland Booker saw his planet Kwejian blow up in Star Trek: Discovery. Is Book the last Kwejian in the 32nd-century galaxy?

While attending MCM London Comic Con in May 2024, where there was also a celebratory Star Trek: Discovery panel in the run-up to its series finale, Screen Rant sat down with David Ajala, who plays Cleveland "Book" Booker, to discuss his time on the show and his thoughts on Booker's journey and Discovery 's series finale, " Life, Itself " .

"It's A Journey": David Ajala Reflects On Book's Star Trek: Discovery Arc

Screen Rant: How would you describe Cleveland Booker's arc in your three seasons from where he started to where he ended?

David Ajala: Well, it's a journey! It's a massive, massive journey. I think when we first meet Cleveland Booker, we meet him in the middle of doing what he loves, his call, his purpose, which is to save endangered species. And in the middle of him, you know, saving a species, he literally bumps into Michael Burnham, and she becomes a massive inconvenience to him. But somehow, her being away from her home or her family, and trying to find the home and family reconnect just resonates with Cleveland Booker. So, against his better judgment, he decides to take her on board of his ship, and kind of help her to just find her way again.

Screen Rant: That actually takes me onto this next question. We still don't know the details of that one year where Booker and Burnham were couriers together. Like, would you be down to tell that story if there was a spin-off?

David Ajala: Oh, absolutely. I think that'd be an amazing story. Because that year, I call it "The adventures of Burnham and Book, featuring Grudge the Queen", like that specific period of time, I think there was so much growth for Michael Burnham, so much growth for Cleveland Booker. I think that journey inside of that year, has allowed them to be the individuals that they've become, that we then meet in the rest of season three. I just feel that these two are meant to have met each other, and they'll continue to be in each other's lives forever, and I know things can be rocky, but the course of true love never did run smooth, and Cleveland Booker has gone through a whole gamut of emotions and experiences that has led them to this moment, right now in season five, where he's been given a second chance... and he grabs it like a life raft.

Screen Rant: So you mentioned the Queen, Grudge. One thing that I have noticed fans saying about the latest season... Where is she?

David Ajala: [Laughs] I know! She's expensive, Glenn! She is a queen, she's a diva, and with that comes a whole entourage, and she's just very high maintenance. Logistically, we would always love to have more Grudge, on screen. Absolutely. But I guess sometimes with the way the story goes, it's not that there isn't room for Grudge, there's always room for a queen, but the direction the story goes, we're always trying to find interesting ways to be able to have Grudge feature, but we will be seeing a bit more of our beloved queen, for sure .

Screen Rant: Family is so important to Book. Can you talk more about Booker's need to connect with Moll as the last family that they have left?

David Ajala: Yeah. I mean, it's so wild that his last and only connection to any kind of family member is the very person who is quote-unquote, his enemy. It's such a profound way to discover your last kind of lifeline, which he thought had expired, but now he's presented with another chance to connect. I guess his need to connect is the very thing that propels him and makes him duty bound to try and give Moll that same second chance which he was afforded , that level of grace. I just felt if anyone is going to connect with Moll it is Cleveland Booker.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5's new villain, Moll, has an unexpected family connection to Cleveland Booker that could have major implications.

Screen Rant: What did you learn from working with Sonequa Martin-Green? And also what did she learn from working with you?

David Ajala: Oh, great question. I learned from Sonequa, and I feel the best teachers occasionally use words. Sonequa Martin-Green for me, is such a wonderful leader and lightning in a bottle . She describes the show as being "lightning in a bottle" and I agree. Day by day, I would see Sonequa always showing up and giving her all, having the most wonderful amount of curiosity, enthusiasm, and commitment to her work. She's super inspiring. Just a great individual to be around. I saw her go through... we all witnessed going through challenging times and to see how she navigated that space as best she could in completely unfamiliar territory. No one ever has to be any specific which way when they go through certain challenging things, but Sonequa's light continues to shine. I know she describes the show as being "lightning in a bottle", and after working with her and finishing season five, I believe that she is the lightning in the bottle .

Looking At Star Trek: Discovery's Evolution Through 5 Seasons And Beyond

Screen Rant: Outside of Burnham, Booker got to develop a friendship with Dr. Culber. Could you talk about the bonds that formed between them... and was that real Mofongo that you guys ate?

David Ajala: Yes, it was, and according to Mr. Wilson Cruz, he said that it was a very good Mofongo! We really enjoyed it. I remember we shot that scene early part of the morning, so that was actually my breakfast. We enjoyed it, but you know, what I really, really loved about the relationship between Culber and Cleveland Booker is it just came to a place where Cleveland Booker needed help to unpack thoughts, experiences, trauma, and at the same time it created a fertile ground for Culber to now look inwardly at himself as well. So he used himself as a subject to be able to help Cleveland Booker, but then Cleveland Booker did the same for him . It was like they, they literally helped each other out and I think it had a quite profound effect on Culber, because he's always there to help other people, but now he needs to understand that sometimes, you need to create room so that people can help you, too. I really love that very transparent relationship that they have.

Screen Rant: I think that's such a brilliant message to give people as well, because it's so relatable to so many. Everyone needs help sometimes.

David Ajala: Absolutely.

Friendship is vitally important in Star Trek: Discovery, and it's been a joy to watch Cleveland Booker and Dr. Culber become friends during season 5.

Screen Rant: As Star Trek: Discovery ends, and we look to the future of the franchise , we have Starfleet Academy coming up.

David Ajala: Yes!

Screen Rant: Would you come back as Cleveland Booker in that and what course do you think he would teach?

David Ajala: That's a great question! Would I come back? If I'm invited? Absolutely . It would be a pleasure. Which course would Cleveland Booker teach? I think it would be a course that would be very unconventional, but beneficial, and dare I say it, the only way that Cleveland Booker would be able to teach is if he is given free and full reins to teach in his way.

Screen Rant: I would pay good money to watch that!

David Ajala: [Laughs] That'd be cool, right? I love the fact that the world of Star Trek continues and evolves through the academy. I just feel it's wonderful, fertile ground to tell some really, really amazing stories.

Screen Rant: We got a screener of the finale, and I would like to talk about some of the stuff in it...

David Ajala: I haven't seen it! I've got it. I have it. But when I'm working it's hard to watch the stuff that I'm in, so I won't watch until the end of the year . I can obviously talk to you about it though.

Screen Rant: Thanks! So Burnham and Booker have that moment on the beach after Saru's wedding. Was that the original ending for season 5?

David Ajala: Yeah! It absolutely was! And that was before we found out. So the thing is, it's kind of bittersweet, but when we had to go back to Toronto after we had the news that season five was the final season, we didn't really shoot much to kind of tail end the story . There were a few little bits here and there, but we didn't really shoot a crazy amount. One of the main additions was the more mature Cleveland Booker and Michael Burnham . That was an addition.

Screen Rant: Yeah, my other question about it was going to be about that final scene with Booker Burnham and their son Leto, the new Captain Burnham. So how was it coming back to film that, because that was after you found out?

David Ajala: Yeah, it was. It was so special, like, really, really amazing... And all the feels, all the warm energy, all the healthy sentimental values of why we appreciate this franchise so much, but to be able to tell that story... You know, it's like Star Trek and the different iterations of Star Trek. They're like heirlooms, and they're just passed down from generation to generation , but to see the physical manifestation of that on screen I think it's incredible. For Michael Burnham to say, "Son, you've got this." And in that moment, what's so special is, when Leto is stood there, he has a little moment of being shy and doubtful, and the way Michael Burnham sees it arrests them in that moment - like, "Hey, I see that and it's fine. In spite of that, you still got it." I found it so powerful, because we're not superheroes. We just have courage. Yeah, that's what it is. It is courage. It was a very, very wonderful moment to shoot that scene. Truly.

About Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well … dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.

Check out our other Star Trek: Discovery season 5 interviews here:

• Sonequa Martin-Green
• David Ajala and Doug Jones
• Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman & Blu del Barrio
• Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise
• Callum Keith Rennie
• Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis
• David Ajala
• Mary Wiseman
• Elias Toufexis
• Jonathan Frakes

All seasons of Star Trek: Discovery are now available to watch on Paramount +.

Screen Rant was provided with a copy of the series finale prior to its air-date for the purpose of this interview.

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.