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 ...

In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African American girl, a Girl Scout Brownie with pigtails. Carla Hayden, a ...

April is Arab American Heritage Month, but stories about and for Arab American children remain relatively rare.Despite the population of Arabs in the United States totaling 3.7 million people with ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened to the public in 2016. It contains more than 40,000 artifacts documenting more than 400 years of African American history.

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 ...