Hello and welcome to my web site. This site provides information about me as a writer and as co-founder of Just Us Books, a leading publisher of books for children and young adults that focus on Black
history, Black culture and Black experiences. Here you'll find information about the books I have authored, my school visits and speaking engagements, upcoming events and a blog where I share my thoughts about issues that impact the publishing industry, our country and our world. I invite you to browse the site freely to find out more about me, what I am doing and what I am thinking.
                          I have been blessed with the opportunity to do what I really love – write and publish books. I began writing when I was a little boy in my hometown, Mansfield, Louisiana. At first, I wrote poems, then short stories and in the 9th grade, I wrote a play that was staged at my school.  Most of my writing was about my own experiences and focused on the people in my life. These were people who were not represented at all in the books in our segregated schools, or in other books I was able to obtain. Almost all the books available to me either left out people of African descent or maligned them as non contributors to the development of civilization. My writing was a counterpoint to the world of Jim Crow laws in which we were forced to live. Racial prejudice and discrimination were everywhere when I was growing up in 1950s and 1960s. But the writing of my youth pointed to an optimistic future, in spite of the challenges and obstacles. It is that same optimism that I hope to share with children and young people through the books I write today. Yes, I have been blessed indeed to have been given the opportunity.

                       I KNOW BOOKS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! HERE'S WHY.
         "Images, whether in print, film, television, or on stage, are constantly shaping the way we feel and what we think and believe. This is particularly crucial to the African-American community which has been deliberately given negative images of its history and culture. 
             I find it rewarding to help reshape and change those negative images to reflect truth. I think the struggle to present the correct images, the truth, is the most crucial one facing us all."   WADE HUDSON

Left Photo: I share a moment with a student at the Portsmouth Public Library in Portsmouth, VA.  The event was sponsored by the  local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

"One of Wade's most well-received works, Powerful Words: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans sheds a fresh light on the speeches, letters, essays, and other writings of black Americans, many of which are frequently overlooked in similar anthologies. Praised as an "inspiring and enlightening" collection by a School Library Journal contributor, Powerful Words contains excerpts from over thirty influential works, from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's arguments in Brown v. Board of Education and scientist Benjamin Banneker's commentary to black activist Malcolm X's address before a group of African-American teens and Lauryn Hill's rap lyrics."

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                                                                                                I pose with students and a parent during a visit  at the READY ACADEMY in Norfolk, VA, 

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CHECK OUT THESE LINKS FOR INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES AND MORE


http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2014/05/12/making-our-own-market-creating-our-own-publishing-houses/"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-souleo-wright/on-the-a-wsouleo-more-tha_1_b_5082972.htm

http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2008/07/28/just-us-books-celebrating-a-20-year-legacy/

http://www.c-span.org/video/?294543-5/diversity-childrens-young-adult-publishing

http://wowlit.org/blog/2011/01/24/a-conversation-with-just-us-books/#more-1246



http://www.sistasense.com/2010/05/black-writers-spotlight-cheryl-and-wade-hudson/

http://www.bvonbooks.com/2010/04/01/teen-bibles-for-african-american-teens/

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2001-03-07/news/0103070430_1_reading-by-9-read-this-book-robo

 

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