Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> People & Places - United States - African American & Black

The compelling true story behind the building of the White House, a powerful part of history rarely taught. From Coretta Scott King Award winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd Cooper.

The home of the United States president was built by many hands, including those of slaves, who undertook this amazing achievement long before there were machines to do those same jobs.

Stirring and emotional, Floyd Cooper's stunning illustrations bring to life the faces of those who endured hard, brutal work when the profit of their labor was paid to the master, not the...

2017 Coretta Scott King Honor

2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award

A 2016 New York Times Best Illustrated Book

This poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart.

Mondays, there were hogs to slop,

mules to train, and logs to chop.

Slavery was no ways fair.

Six more days to Congo Square.

As slaves relentlessly toiled...

The first national museum whose mission is to illuminate for all people, the rich, diverse, complicated, and important experiences and contributions of African Americans in America is opening.
And the history of NMAAHC--the last museum to be built on the National Mall--is the history of America.

The campaign to set up a museum honoring black citizens is nearly 100 years old; building the museum itelf and assembling its incredibly far-reaching collections is a modern story that...

CJ is full of worries after a school bully promises to beat him up. He listens to advice from sisters Tookie, Tay and then his dad, but he's still confused. So the next day after school when he finds himself face-to-face with the menace, he's not sure what he will do...

The inspiration for this project came directly from the birth of Brian Lawrence's daughter Nile. He knew he would read to his daughter, and wanted the first words he read to her to set the pace for the lifelong bond he would share with her. This project is a celebration of the father and daughter relationship, as well as a children's book. Little Brown Girl is written intentionally to be read by a father figure to a daughter to facilitate a bond based on literacy, spirituality, cultural awareness and active engagement.

About the Author: Brian Lawrence is a father, educator...

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big...

Meet Tsion, an eleven year old Ethiopian girl as she talks about her life and her country. Stunning photographs bring the reader to Tsion s house, school, church, dinner table and more. Informative cultural facts are included. Amharic words for each page are transliterated for easy pronunciation.

Book Awards received: Noteable Books for a Global Society, Moonbean Children's Book Awards, Benjamin Franklin Award, Independenct Publishers Book Award, Skipping Stones Honor Award.

Advance Praise: The striking photographs and carefully selected...

Meet Mia an 8-year-old with many great ideas. With the help of her friends and family members, she is able to develop one of them into an exciting new venture.

Experience the excitement of starting a new business with Mia and her team as you color inside the pages of this unique Children's Coloring book and full picture storybook all in one.

African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge the Jim Crow segregation. After hearing the Emancipation...