Through the powers of a magical kente, a black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his black heritage as well as h

Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not unde

Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the rac

Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from N

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slave

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed aft

In the year 1864, young Addy & her mother try to escape slavery by fleeing to the North after her father is sold again & they are separated. Afte