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The Book Itch
Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore.
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Crowning Glory
A Celebration of Black Hair
Carole Boston Weatherford
Cornrows forming complex patterns. Shells and beads on boxy braids. A flowery ‘fro that’s wash and go. A regal pouf that scrapes the sky. Black hair styles embody beauty and loving ritual, culture and community, expression and strength, patience and boundless creativity.
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The Green Piano
How Little Me Found Music
Roberta Flack & Tonya Bolden
Singer Roberta Flack reflects on her early childhood and her love of music.
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Harlem Grown
How One Big Idea Transformed A Neighborhood
Tony Hillery
Presents the history of Harlem Grown, an organization the author started after visiting an elementary school, noticing a litter-filled lot nearby, and initiating an urban gardening project to clear the lot and plant seeds with the help of the school children.
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How Sweet the Sound
Kwame Alexander
A celebration of the history of Black music in America
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The Last Stand
Antwan Eady
A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer’s market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
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The Life-changing Magic of Chess
A Beginner’s Guide With Grandmaster Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley
Discover why the world’s first Black Grandmaster Maurice Ashley thinks that chess is one of the best skills in life. Follow him on a journey from the Bronx to a world stage where he has taught thousands of young people the life philosophies of the game.
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
The Sanitation Strike of 1968
Alice Faye Duncan
Presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who accompanied her sanitation worker father to the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final stand for justice before his assassination.
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Missing Momma
Winsome Bingham
When a young girl’s veteran mother returns home a changed person, the mindful daughter seeks to ease her Momma’s melancholy and recapture the joy they once shared.
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Superheroes Are Everywhere
Kamala Harris
In this empowering and joyful picture book that speaks directly to kids, Kamala Harris takes readers through her life and shows them that the power to make the world a better place is inside all of us.
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Yellow Dog Blues
Alice Faye Duncan
One morning Bo Willie finds the doghouse empty and the gate wide open! Farmer Fred says Yellow Dog hit Highway 61 and started running. Aunt Jessie picks up Bo Willie in her pink Cadillac, and together they look for his missing puppy love.