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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create...
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Created by and for Black families today, this anthology is filled with inspiring essays, poems, photographs, paintings, and short stories reflecting on the joy and depth of the Black experience. Delivering delight to adults and children alike, this powerful celebration of twenty-first century Black culture fulfills the promise of its source material by reminding readers of all ages that Black is brilliant, beautiful, and bold.
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Author
Series
Ruby and the Booker boys volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Ruby Booker starts third grade at Hope Road Academy, the same school her three illustrious older brothers attend, she tries hard to make an impression of her own.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston pioneered jazz poetry and published nearly twenty poetry books...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
12) A-Train Allen
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Allen, known as A-Train because he is the fastest kid around, races through the city towards the one thing that will get him to slow down.
13) The last stand
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
15) Seoul food
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Hana's grandparents visit, Hana decides to cook a meal that represents both her Korean and Southern heritages.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined to prove something--to themselves and to each other. Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist,...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1964, ten-year-old African American singer Melody Ellison decides to fix up her Detroit neighborhood playground and plant a garden, but when her friends put her in charge, Melody finds out just how hard it can be to lead.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
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