Books

I can hear change hummingIn its loudest, proudest song.I don't fear change coming,And so I sing along. In this stirring, much anticipated picture b...

As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world.  Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a p...

As a kid, Mae looked up at the stars and knew that she would go there one day. But she couldn't understand why there weren't any astronauts who loo...

When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of N...

When a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin was senselessly killed in 2012, the African American community called for his murderer to be held accoun...

Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Thoug...

You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman ...

On that day and in that place... Following the 2015 mass shooting that took nine lives in a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, Pr...

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave ...

Growing up with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, Amanda had hills to climb. Through poetry, she found her voice, and became...

There are Black scientists and Black inventors such as George Washington Carver and Madam C.J. Walker we all know, and there are also dozens of Bla...

Meet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...

On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an ...

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights prote...

As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country ...

The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in ninete...

Little Michelle grew up on the South-Side of Chicago in a loving, connected family. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Michell...

Written in the spirit of Nina Simone’s song “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” this vibrant book is a perfect introduction to both historic and pres...

Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa wont on to become a civil-rights activist whose cour...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...

Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher…so maybe he’d beco...