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Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood is recalled through the voice of Joseph 'Ziggy' Johnson in an imaginative collection of miniatures that capture the legendary denizens that made mid twentieth century Detroit a cultural, economic and political center of African American life.
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.
Black Enough is a collection of stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is…three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is…Nic Stone’s high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is…two girls kissing in Justina Ireland’s story set in Maryland.
Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs.
Founded in 2017 by Rosa Thompson, an Advanced Learning teacher in Madison, the first annual Black Girl Magic Conference took place in 2018 for 4th through 7th grade Black, African-American and multiracial girls in the Madison Metropolitan School District. As of October 31, 2021, the organization is now an independent community organization, Black Girl Magic Educational Services Inc (BGMES Inc).
A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on. Includes historical and cultural notes, song list, and two poems.
In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it.
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It's the end of senior year and they're spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer. Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley's not just one of the girls.
Madison-based pastor Dr. Alex Gee has had over thirty years' experience working for racial justice through such organizations as the Fountain of Life Covenant Church, The Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and the citywide movement Justified Anger. His podcast Black Like Me 'invites you to experience the world through the perspective of one Black man, one conversation, one story, or even one rant at a time.'
The best of mystery and crime fiction produced by African-American writers.
Short biographies of ten Black women from Canada and the United States, ranging from 1793 to the present. Anti-slavery activists, business women, community organizers, and educators; they were, and are, leaders committed to uplifting their communities.
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country.
A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with fifteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers.
Introduce young readers to the idea of self-love in a simple, playful rhythm with this luminous story where each little girl is as unique and beautiful as a blossoming flower.
African American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is drawn into the tense racial relations of a rural East Texas town when the bodies of an African American lawyer and a woman with white supremacy ties are discovered in quick succession. First in the Highway 59 series.
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment.
An eleven-year-old black girl prays for her eyes to turn blue so people will consider her beautiful.
Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. But what can she do? The local elections are coming up but she's just a kid. She can't even vote! Still, Yasmin has friends, and so the children get to work, launching a campaign to make sure the voices of the community are heard.
Arturo and Alma Rivera move from Mexico to Delaware in an effort to ensure the best education and opportunities for their teenage daughter, but they must confront the fear and alienation present behind the American Dream.
A preschool's exploration of the four seasons, told through each season's distinct sounds.
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. Borderlands / La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace.
A little boy plays among the stars before his mommy tucks him in and wishes him sweet dreams. The beautiful starry sky in the illustrations is a tribute to Van Gogh's "Starry Night", and the charming lullaby, inspired by "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," will take babies on a magical journey before bedtime.
An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.
