Antoinette is a writer, researcher, and public speaker committed to the pursuit and documentation of her ancestral roots. Citadel Press published her first book, African American Holiday Traditions: Celebrating with Passion, Style, and Grace. The book pays homage to her African American culture and the traditions that grew out of the South, and from various other ethnicities in America, including Caribbean peoples, who melded with the African American race. She has contributed biographies to the African American National Biography, editor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Columbia Magazine, the Washington State Historical Society’s journal; Harlem of the West, Chronicle Books; The Baobab Tree, a journal of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California, Inc.; BlackPast.org, a reference guide to African American history; Everything Has Its Place, an Anthology published by The San Leandro Writer’s Workshop; and Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation, published by Rutgers University Press. Antoinette's eighteen years of research are the inspiration for her current work on a second book, Sweetwater: History Meets Personal Journey. More information can be found at www.antoinettebroussard.com.
