“We have a new boy joining us in school today,” said Miss Kelly. “His name is Hassan ..
Chapter 2 I quietly enter our row with my arms crossed over my chest to cover the gigantic wet spot. ..
THERE IS A RIVER CALLED BOK CHITTO that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between ..
One funny thing about life and all the stuff that happens while you’re living it is that mostly ..
Melvin Robinson lay in the bottom of the bunk bed he’d been sharing with his older brother, Chuck, ..
It was the first Sunday of summer break, and I was in a hurry to finish my dusting chores fast so I could ..
They say the people could fly. Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would ..
MAYO CORNELIUS HIGGINS RAISED HIS ARMS HIGH TO THE SKY and spread them wide. He glanced furtively around. ..
Nelson Mandela was born on 18 July 1918, in the small village of Mvezo, in the Transkei area of South ..
Up on the Hill- Foley Hill, some say, but we just say the Hill- we look down on downtown- not looking ..
Barzillai Lew was born not far from Boston, in Dracut’s “Black North”, a black settlement ..
But Sunday was a day of rest, when Master charmed the weekend guest. Slaves had off one afternoon, when ..
Wangari lives under an umbrella of green trees in the shadow of Mount Kenya in Africa. She watches the birds ..
Callie rode on the horse with the lieutenant, while Mama and Little Charlie rode with Papa. She could ..
Little Black lives matter child; just you wait and see. There have been many children just like ..
Dr. Dorothy Irene Height was always a helper. As a little girl, her mom taught her to never look down ..
Named after her grandma Cora, Coretta Scott came into the world connected to a deep legacy of faith, ..
When President Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, seven Southern states had left the United ..
My work will be precious. I will bridge the “gap” between Black & white… …and ..
Because fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin didn’t give up her seat on the bus for a white person ..
It took guts to dream of becoming the first black woman in the U.S. Congress. It took even more guts ..
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 ..
I write these stories of Selma that I knew and loved. My own Selma. A Selma that brought me joy, troubled ..
