The publication of “Purple Hibiscus” didn’t just signal the start of a single author’s brilliant career. It forged a path for a whole new generation of African novelists who had come to America as immigrants and have been mining that experience in their writing.
READ MORERuby Bridges has written several books, most recently I Am Ruby Bridges: How One Six-Year-Old Girl’s March to School Changed the World.
READ MOREThe book aims to teach young readers about Juneteenth, a national holiday honoring the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Publisher Penguin Random House announced it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels along with the new editions, so “readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer.”
READ MOREThis book will give us insight into her journey from childhood to motherhood and her amazing feat in the U.S. justice system as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
READ MOREHer work helped propel the antislavery movement and served as a model for abolitionists looking to prove that Black people were both intellectual and artistic.
READ MOREDiverse representation in science fiction is important because authors are imagining futures, and the sorts of people who create those futures, such as, NASA scientists and mechanical engineers
READ MOREMichelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control.
READ MOREReading these first-hand accounts we see how Rustin's socialist outlook, Quaker faith and formidable work ethic gave us a man with phenomenal organizing abilities to create inclusion and diversity.
READ MORENewbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series with "Ways to Share Joy".
Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series with "Ways to Share Joy".
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