Black, African, or African American

Young Ron McNair challenges segregated library rules in a story of courage, books, and civil rights.

A family gathers across seven nights of Kwanzaa, centering ritual, memory, and Black cultural continuity.

This affirming address to Black children holds beauty, vulnerability, fear, and love in the same breath.

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.

Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.

Poetic text and motion-filled art celebrate girls and women who own the basketball court.

This affirmation-rich picture book invites children to value themselves and still make room for one another.

Poetry and portraiture honor Black excellence, grief, resistance, and survival across generations.

A Black girl dreams through many dazzling hairstyles and all the confidence they can carry.