Tonya Bolden

Raised in Charleston, West Virginia, at the turn of the twentieth century by her grandfather and aunt on off-putting tales of family members she has never met, twelve-year-old Delana is shocked when, after Aunt Tilley dies, she learns the truth about her parents and some of her other relatives.

Biographical portraits of ten African-American women including Leontyne Price, Toni Morrison, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Tracing her childhood in Jim Crow North Carolina and adulthood in the nation's capital with lyrical, celebratory prose, Tonya Bolden portrays a woman who believed the law should serve the people, and places her firmly in the context of the twentieth-century civil rights movement and Black history and culture.--book flap.

Young Dionne Warwick is ambling through childhood like any other kid--enjoying her family and neighbors, her pet dog, her hobbies, and school--when one day she discovers that she has a special talent.

"In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively...

"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will...

A mix of short stories, essays, a comic strip, a speech, an interview, poems, and more which offer insights and advice for girls.