1956

As a young girl reflects on her family, she notices how she resembles various family members as well as how she is unique.

Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his life changed forever. He taught himself how to take pictures and before long, people noticed.

The Beatitudes form the backdrop for Weatherford's free-verse poem that traces the African American journey from slavery to civil rights.

Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.

Multi award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford delivers a message of perserverance, dignity, and honor in this picture book biography of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court-- From the time their daughter was born, Ketanji Brown's parents taught her that if she worked hard and believed in herself, she could do anything. As a child, Ketanji focused on her studies and excelled, eventually graduating from...

Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as Box, he entered the world a slave. He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad....

Aretha Franklin was born to sing. The daughter of a pastor and a gospel singer, her musical talent was clear from her earliest days in her father's Detroit church. Aretha sang with a soaring voice that spanned more than three octaves. Her incredible talent and string of hit songs earned her the title the Queen of Soul. This Queen was a multi-Grammy winner and the first female inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And there was even more to Aretha...

A picture book biography of Elijah Cummings, outlining major events in his childhood, career and fight for justice--

A novel in verse traces the life and legacy of Norma Jeane Mortenson, who survived the foster-care system, sexual abuse, and teen marriage before her meteoric rise to stardom was further challenged by depression, addiction, and exploitation.