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In “The People Remember,” a picture book written by Ibi Zoboi, a 2017 National Book Award finalist for her young adult novel “American Street,” and illustrated by Loveis Wise, African ...
40 best African American books, according to the NAACP Celebrate Black History Month reading these NAACP-nominated books, from fiction to poetry and young adult literature.
Every African American should read—or reread—this list of 20 books that amplify the voices that shaped our collective consciousness.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Reviews Two Picture Books About American History In separate works, Tami Charles and Kwame Alexander tell a story not of Black America but of America, of a history we all must own.
Each American Girl character had a series of books, and corresponding dolls, that explored her story in a particular time throughout history. The company started in 1986, and by the early 1990s ...
Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred is being made into a TV series. So we asked authors and critics what other not-yet-filmed books by Black authors they'd most like to see adapted for screen.
Build empathy by reading personal narrative examples in children's books, including picture books and middle grade books. In ...
Pleasant Company/American Girl, Addy Walker doll and Ida Bean, ca. 1933 New-York Historical Society, Gift of Nicole Wagner & Wagner family, 2019.32 / Photo by Glenn Castellano ...
Waterloo Schools pulls out of African American Read-In, distributing picture books. Maria Kuiper Feb 24, 2025 Feb 24, 2025 ... The African American Read-In, ...
Each American Girl character had a series of books, and corresponding dolls, that explored her story in a particular time throughout history. The company started in 1986, and by the early 1990s ...