Brick by Brick
by Charles R. Smith
illustrated by Floyd Cooper
2013
The White House was created by many hands, several of them slaves', who will be remembered throughout history for their extrodinary feat.
Racial Equity Resources
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
2007
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.
Bright brown baby
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
illustrated by Brian Pinkney
2022
Dive into these five beautiful poems that celebrate the tender, cozy, early days between parent and child, and the exuberant joy of watching a brand-new life take shape. Warm, winsome, and welcoming illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney exude joy and love on every page. Bouncing, rhythmic text from New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney rolls off the tongue and begs to be read aloud.
Broken Places
Clark, Tracy
2018
Former Chicago PD detective and private eye Cass Raines investigates when her friend and mentor, a community activist priest, is found dead in his church with the body of a teen sporting gang colors lying nearby. As she digs into the case, she discovers greater tensions gripping her Hyde Park neighborhood than she could have imagined, and a killer willing to silence her at any cost.
Brown baby lullaby
By Tameka Brown Fryer
Illustrated by AG Ford
2020
An illustrated lullaby featuring a busy, independent, beloved brown baby being prepared for bedtime.
The Brown Bookshelf
created by Don Tate, Kelly Starling Lyons, Tameka Fryer Brown, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Gwendolyn Hooks, Crystal Allen, Varian Johnson, Tracey Baptiste, Jerry Craft, and Paula Chase-Hyman
2007-present
The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers. Their flagship initiative is 28 Days Later, a month-long showcase of the best in Picture Books, Middle Grade and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by African Americans.
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
2014
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
2014
The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South.
Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
2016
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Brown sugar babe
by Charlotte Watson Sherman
illustrated by Akem
2020
When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.
Brown Sugar Babe
by Charlotte Watson Sherman
Illustrated by Akem
2020
When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing
Brown Sugar Babies
by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
2000
Illustrations and rhyming text describe babies.
The Buried Bones Mystery
by Sharon M. Draper
2006
After the neighborhood basketball court is vandalized, Ziggy and his friends decide to form a club called the Black Dinosaurs and build their clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard. The first in a fun series of mysteries especially for early chapter book readers.
A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
2020
Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism.
The Butler
Lee Daniels, director
2014
The Butler is a feature film which won the 2013 African-American Film Critics Association awards for both Best Actor (Forest Whitaker) and Best Supporting Actress (Oprah Winfrey). Winfrey was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
The Capital City Hues
The Capital City Hues a free, bi-weekly look at contemporary issues facing Dane County’s communities of color and beyond.
Caribou Song: Atihko Nikamon
by Tomson Highway
illustrated by John Rombough
2013
When Joe and Cody sing and dance for the caribou, something unexpected happens. A bilingual book in English and Cree.
The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic
June, 2014
Caste :the Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
2020
As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality.
The cat man of Aleppo
by Irene Latham
illustrated by Karim Shamsi-Basha and Yuko Shimizu
2020
In the midst of the Syrian Civil War, Alaa takes care of Aleppo's abandoned cats.
Caterpillar Summer
by Gillian McDunn
2019
Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother for their hardworking mother. While spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat can be a kid again, and the journey she takes shows that even the most broken relationships can be healed if people take the time to walk in one another's shoes.
Centro Hispano of Dane County
Centro Hispano of Dane County
Centro Hispano of Dane County seeks to strengthen families and support the Latino community through programs for youth, employment assistance, translation and more.
Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson
2008
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion.
Change sings: a children's anthem
by Amanda Gorman
illustrated by Loren Long
2021
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves
Children of the Land
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
[2020]
With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry.