Spoken-word poet Harold Green III welcomes the beauty and power of Black identity in Hugged by the Night, a lullaby picture book.
Browsing: Black experience
A girl learns how a history of racism and community action has affected her neighborhood in Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining.
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice, by Carole Boston Weatherford and Bryan Collier, is the story of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, as witnessed by the Alabama River.
Small-Girl Zora and the Shower of Stories is a tale inspired by the life and works of American writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
Celebrate the richness of the African heritage behind braids, locs, cornrows, and more in Hairstory, by Sope Martins and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu.
The most decorated gymnast of all time, joins the ranks of the Ordinary People Change the World picture book biography series in I Am Simone Biles, by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Amber McBride’s The Leaving Room is a hopeful YA novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death.
Learn more about Wicked’s two leading ladies in two new picture books: Spotlight on Cynthia Erivo and Spotlight on Ariana Grande
Three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker in Candace, the Universe, and Everything, by Sherri L. Smith.
A young Black woman dreams of independence while living in 1860s England in The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick, by S. Isabelle.