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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, ... Through the eyes of a 12-year-old African American girl named Sage, Woodson conjures a captivating, ...

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, ...

Build empathy by reading personal narrative examples in children's books, including picture books and middle grade books. In ...

The stories of American soldiers fighting wars have been immortalized in movies and books throughout the years. Yet they have left out in great detail the contributions of Black soldiers.

Addy’s mother, Ruth Walker, is a remarkable seamstress. She makes Addy a few dresses for books that came later, and those dresses symbolize the exquisite skills of African American dressmakers ...