27 books
A Black family searches for safety, dignity, and permanence in a historically grounded story about where belonging can be built.
An alphabet board book introduces Black history through names, ideas, movements, and moments worth returning to as children grow.
This lyrical reflection gathers color, protest, memory, and pride into a celebration of Black identity.
A Cinderella retelling rooted in the Underground Railroad reframes bravery, escape, and hope through a Black historical lens.
Paula Young Shelton recalls what it was like to grow up inside the daily reality of the civil rights movement.
Eleanor Roosevelt emerges as a restless, outspoken public figure who helped reshape what leadership could look like.
This lyrical historical picture book centers the weekly gathering place where enslaved Africans in New Orleans sustained culture and community.
This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.
A school bus carries children through Rosa Parks's story and the wider history of Montgomery's bus boycott.
A Wampanoag-centered retelling of Thanksgiving that restores Indigenous perspective, food knowledge, and history.
As Lillian climbs a hill to vote, the story traces generations of Black American struggle and progress around the ballot.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and language are distilled into a picture book built around the power of his words.
Mike and Mary Anne try to prove that old tools and deep skill still matter in a changing modern world.
A very old rock tells younger natural neighbors what he has witnessed across ages of geologic time.
This anti-racist primer helps adults and children talk concretely about skin color, race, and fairness.
A young girl's real-life response to Michelle Obama's portrait opens into a story about art, possibility, and being seen.
Harvey Milk and Gilbert Baker's collaboration around the rainbow flag becomes an inviting introduction to pride, protest, and belonging.
Young Ron McNair challenges segregated library rules in a story of courage, books, and civil rights.
Art and text together introduce Arturo Schomburg and his lifelong work collecting Black history the world tried to erase.
This picture-book biography recounts how Sylvia Mendez and her family helped end school segregation in California.
During urban unrest, neighbors divided by prejudice discover shared fear, loss, and responsibility.
Anna Atkins's fascination with plants and cyanotype photography becomes a story about science, art, and innovation.
History, survival, and sacred relationship shape this account of the buffalo's central place in Indigenous life and renewal.
A young immigrant girl in 1929 New York discovers a library branch that opens a wider world of language, books, and possibility.
