Walk Boldly: Empowerment Toolkit for Young Black Men

by M. J. Fievre

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642507348
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	11/18/2022
Series:	Bold and Black
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre, B.S. Ed is a long-time educator whose publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles.

M.J. moved to the United States in 2002. A creator of safe spaces and an initiator of difficult conversations, M.J. spent much time building up her Black students, helping them feel comfortable in their skin, and affirming their identities. Her close relationships with parents and students led her to look more closely at how we can balance protecting a child’s innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. She is the author of A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Beating Windward, 2015); Happy, Okay? Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival (Books & Books Press, 2019); Badass Black Girl (Mango Publishing, 2020); Empowered Black Girl (2021); and Resilient Black Girl (2021). In collaboration with bestselling author Becca Anderson, M.J. has also published a productivity toolkit, Your Work from Home Life (2021).

A frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. helps others write their way through trauma, build community and create social change. She works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, minorities, the elderly, those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapy —even if they don’t realize that they need writing or therapy. For her blog, M.J. has interviewed legendary writers such as Edwidge Danticat, Nikki Giovanni, and Alice Randall.

She currently lives in Winter Garden, FL, with her husband, artist Thomas Logan.

Table of Contents

You Are Worthy of a Good, Long, Productive Life 10

Weeks 1-2 Get a Boost of Confidence 14

Weeks 3-4 Know Your Own Self-Worth 26

Weeks 5-6 Create Balance, Overcome Burnout, and Eliminate Roadblocks 32

Weeks 7-8 Build a Growth Mindset 40

Weeks 9-10 Practice Optimism and Find Those Silver Linings 48

Weeks 11-12 Challenge Your Negative Thoughts! 56

Weeks 13-14 Use Negative Thoughts to Your Advantage 64

Weeks 15-16 Spend Smarter 70

Weeks 17-18 Find Clarity and Purpose 78

Weeks 19-20 Imagine Happiness 86

Weeks 21-22 Go After Life! 94

Weeks 23-24 Live Your Values 100

Weeks 25-26 Develop an Attitude of Gratitude 106

Weeks 27-28 Stay Mindful 114

Weeks 29-30 Face Stress Head On 122

Weeks 32-32 Speak Up, Be Yourself, and Get Out of Your Comfort Zone 130

Weeks 33-34 Build Meaningful Connections 136

Weeks 35-38 Have an Open Mind 144

Weeks 37-38 Hold Yourself Accountable 152

Weeks 39-40 Develop Healthy Habits 158

Weeks 41-42 Go Outside! 168

Weeks 43-44 Memorize Happiness in Your Body 174

Weeks 45-46 Let Go of Feeling Busy 182

Weeks 47-48 Consider Therapy 188

Weeks 49-50 Treat Yourself Like a Friend 194

Weeks 51-52 Believe in Your Power to Change Your Life 200

All the Very Best in Life! 206

They Walk Boldly 208

About the Author 217