Markette is also founder of The GLOW Brands, LLC, a media company aimed at illuminating perspectives around the world. Her bestselling debut book, What Is Light?, inspired children to discover the light within through everyday surroundings. Her documentary DACAmented has received awards at Immigration Film Fest, Baltimore International Black Film Festival, Ogden City Latino Film Festival, and Cornell University’s Centrally Isolated Film Festival.ĭetrick-Jules will be in conversation with Markette Sheppard, an Emmy Award–winning journalist and children’s book author.

She has been featured on NPR's Strange Fruit, BuzzFeed News, The Washington Post and Everyday Black History: Afro Appreciation. Clair Detrick-Jules has a BA from Brown University in French and Francophone Studies. One hundred and one Black women share their stories of learning to love their natural hair and the immense power in that self-love. My Beautiful Black Hair is a book about Black women embracing their natural hair. She’s also winner of a 2017 Telly Award and the 2016 CableFAXaward for Best Talk Show Host in the region.Click Here to register for the Live! event. She is also the author of the just published inspirational children’s book, What Is Light? She has been featured on NBC’s TODAY, ABC’s Live! with Kelly and Michael and on VH1′s national morning show Big Morning Buzz Live. What Is Light Hardcover Picture Book, by Markette Sheppard (Author), Cathy Ann Johnson (Illustrator) 73 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 17.59 7 Used from 3.59 10 New from 13.31 1 Collectible from 45.66 Board book 99.99 18 Used from 1.75 1 Collectible from 45. Shepard is host of Great Day Washington on CBS in Washington DC’s WUSA9. “I don’t think I had this fairy tale childhood where everything was perfect and all of my needs were met but I truly feel that I had something innately in me that whenever somebody tried to tell me I was less than or I wasn’t enough or I didn’t matter as much, I just never ever accepted that,” Markette Sheppard told Hollywood on the Potomac. And so this was really like my love letter to my son that is now in a book.”

And if kids could just realize that early on, who knows where they’ll go with that information. Young readers will enjoy discovering the special glow in everything from nature to the smiles of loved ones. It comes from within you and the things that you do. The light revealed on the final page makes a fitting finale for this sweet, bright tale. A Book Celebrating Differences by Allia Zobel Nolan What Is Light by Markette Sheppard You Matter by Christian Robinson. What is Light? “It’s my love letter to children all over the world.

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