Black Lives Matter: Grassroots Movement to Global Phenomenon (Being Black in America)
by Stuart A Kallen
A Daily Dose of Affirmations Celebrating Black Joy for Teen Girls (Ages 12-16)“This book is a celebration, an affirmation, a history text, a little bit of memoir, and an exuberant prayer for the prosperity of Black women.”―Ashley M. Jones, author of Magic City Gospel Publishers Weekly Select Title for Young Readers2021 In the Margins Book Award Winner, Top Title for YA Nonfiction#1 Best Seller and Gift Idea in Teen & Young Adult Cultural Heritage Biographies Affirmations for strong, fearless B...
The Book of Awesome Women Writers
by Becca Anderson and M.J. Fievre
Celebrate Black Women Who Changed History #1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Modern History Embrace Black girl magic and learn about the historical Black women who made their impact on society as we know it. In The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebrate the power of Black women who have shaped, and continue to shape, our future. An uncensored history of the power of Black women. Whether you learned about these women in school or not, these Black women changed society and inspired future gen...
"In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors--many of them teenagers--loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring hundreds more....
Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement (Lucent Library of Black History)
by Stuart A Kallen
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don’t use their correct pronouns, and hordes of 'well-meaning' but patronising people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela's diagnosis becomes a cata...
*"A powerful, necessary book." SLJ, starred review A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equ...
In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion dollars in damage. In neighborhoods abandoned by the police, protestors and storeowners exchanged gunfire. More than 12,000 people were arrested and 2,400 injured. Sixty-three died. In Rising from the Ashes, award-winning author Paula Yoo draws on the ex...
Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. From the adventures of lawman Bass Reeves, to Henry “Box” Brown’s daring escape from slavery.
From the governor-elect of Maryland comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey. The story of “the other Wes Moore” is one that the author couldn’t get out of his mind, not since he learned that another boy with his name—just two years his senior—grew up in the same Baltimore neighb...
El libro que inspiró el documental de Netflix: Marcados al nacer. TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiempos Bestseller del New York Times y del USAToday Una exploración oportuna y crucial del racismo y el antirracismo en Estados Unidos. Este NO es un libro de historia. Este es un libro sobre el aquí y el ahora. Un libro que nos ayudará a comprender mejor por qué estamos donde estamos. Un libro sobre la raza. El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado para ganar...
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
by Michaela DePrince and Elaine Deprince
The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States. Born in war-torn Sierra Leone and adopted at age four by an American family who fostered her love of dancing, Michaela became the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. The coauthor is Elaine DePrince.