brown skin girl BY RAMONA ROBERTS
“W
e are a reflection of our girls, and because we are a reflection of them, we have a responsibility to them.” That’s one of the most powerful things Khristi Adams said when I talked with her about her book and her passion for telling black girls’ stories. Recently released on February 4th, 2020, “The Parable of the Brown Girl” is a book that educates the reader on what black girls deal with in their adolescent years. “It centers their experiences, their stories, how they navigate through life’s challenges and how they sort of identify in this world with very little resources and support. This
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book celebrates them. It’s for the reader to be able to listen and absorb, but also see God through them and learn something about their own lives, learn something about God.” Adams expresses that she often sees herself in the stories, and points out that even if she didn’t experience what they experienced personally, she still relates and finds herself in the story. “I am all of the girls that I wrote about in the book and the girls that I continue to have relationships with. The girls whose stories are in the book are just a reflection of myself. For the most part a lot of the girls have gone through things that I have gone
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