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Once disregarded as bastardized literature with little to no educational content, nowadays the graphic novel is finally being taken seriously. Enter Roland Owen Laird, an African-American comic book author. Best known for his successful Afrocentric weekly strip The Griots, Laird yearned to tell a bigger story. Together with his wife Taneshia Nash Laird and artist Elihu "Adofo" Bey he created Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African-Americans, an account of the rough, continuing transition of Africans into African Americans.
Never Too Early to Read
The Governor's Early Literacy Initiative brought authors Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird to the Trenton Public Library yesterday to promote family reading.
