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After seeing her mother murdered right before her very eyes, little Roxanne Walker is left to fend for herself and her younger sister Audrey at the tender age of 9. Now 7 years after running away from the group home Roxanne is at the top of her game ruling LA's fashion industry, she's gone places and met people shed only ever dreamed of while raising Audrey to be no less than a stellar student making her proud at every turn. They'd come along way from those two homeless girls on the street. In this story of tragedy and triumph, they learn that hard times don't last always.... Or so they say....

This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much—and how little—has changed for Black Americans since our country’s founding. Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals the universal importance of its subjects’ struggles for justice. From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by America’s first...