It took guts to dream of becoming the first black woman in the U.S. Congress. It took even more guts ..
The year Yolanda Gladden was born, the United States looked much different than it does today. The country’s ..
When I was four and a half years old, I got my first bee sting. Ouch! I don’t know if you’ve ..
Close your eyes and picture a scientist. Was it a white dude in a lab coat, surrounded by test tubes ..
Have you ever heard a woodpecker tapping on a tree trunk? The tap-tap-tap of its beak against the bark ..
Araminta was enslaved. At age six, she already had a job as a weaver’s helper. “No, do it like ..
Kavi laughs as much as the others for the rest of the evening, but I sense she is feeling anxious about ..
I write these stories of Selma that I knew and loved. My own Selma. A Selma that brought me joy, troubled ..
“I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with ..
I got my morning chores and schoolwork done at lightning speed so I could get to the boards–maybe ..
“It’s her choice.” Mama says. Looking slightly defeated. “I told her as long as it’s a natural ..
When we first got to Milwaukee and I walked with Aunt Vera into town for groceries, I thought there was so many ..
Climbing the stairs, I headed to the bedroom in the back of the house that I shared with Eddie and Billy. ..
Practice Coach reads to us from The Art of War: A winning strategy is not about planning, he says. It’s ..
Gumbo, in it’s basic form, arrived shortly after 1720, carried in the flavor memories of enslaved ..
Jared: I’m not saying they didn’t, dude. You just proved my point. Black people have the same ..
‘Education is the key to the advancement of the Negro’ and ‘Be credit to your race,”’ Wash ..
Mama Some days, like today and yesterday and probably tomorrow- all my missing gets jumbled up inside ..
My morning started like any other. I ate most of my toast before running out the door to find food for my pets. ..
ONE I shouldn’t have come to this party. I’m not even sure I belong at this party. That’s ..
Chapter 1 Laying the Groundwork In the days before the United States sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ..
Mama’s face is chestnut brown. Her dark brown eyes are bright as bees. Papa’s face turns ..
Black people fought for many years for the right to be treated with respect. In the 1950s and 1960s, ..
We are joy! igniting the world, like stars caliente and bright, like trumpets blaring at midnight! ..
