Created in partnership with Ebony Jr., this Little Golden Book biography celebrates the life and legacy of singer, performer, and activist Harry Belafonte. When Harry Belafonte was a little boy, he moved from Harlem, New York, to live with his...

Damaged, a gritty and raw urban thriller that will grab you from the very first page, takes contemporary urban fiction to the next level. Mita "Sweet Lips" Cruz never had much chance to enjoy her youth because of her drug-addicted mother's attraction to...

Published in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, discover over 50 remarkable Black women whose unique skills and contributions paved the way for the next generation of young people. Fearless. Bold...

Ava DuVernay is a groundbreaking moviemaker, the first African American woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival. In her films, she examines the Black experience and fights for justice. This book explores her life and her fascinating...

Black women are powerful, brilliant, and brave, and it's time to affirm these truths with more than 100 affirmations and journal prompts Black women can use to empower themselves. In a world that perpetuates negative stereotypes about Black women, it's...

Brooklyn’s Finest: The Greene Family Farm is a fun, scintillating story for the entire family. On many weekends Akosua and Booker Taliaferro Washington Greene and their parents are surrounded by dirt, fertilizer, vegetables, and fruit. The...

You will love watching Chef Toussaint make magic in the kitchen, from fried chicken to apple cinnamon french toast. Join this 9-year-old master chef as he turns his grandmother's old recipes into award-winning dishes. Experience the power of literacy...

"This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages." --Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist  At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes...

Having worked as a nurse, a pastor, and a community organizer in St Missouri, Cori Bush hadn't initially intended to run for political office. But when protests in Ferguson erupted in 2014, Bush found herself on the frontlines, providing medical care and...

Hop on the bike with Bessie Stringfield, the motorcycle queen of Miami, in this powerful picture book from Coretta Scott King medalist Charles R. Smith, Jr. and debut picture book illustrator Charlot Kristensen.The folks they lined up to meet the...

New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of American slavery through the voice of a teacher struggling to help her students understand its harrowing history.   From the fireside tales in...

Betrayal casts its shadow on the Black Panther's reign! The reveal of T'Challa's darkest secret has led to the Hatut Zeraze hunting him as a traitor, with orders to kill him on sight. The Panther must escape these tireless warriors before he can clear...

This tender family story -- inspired by the author's own -- illuminates a dynamic chapter in American history known as the Great Migration, and the many trains people rode toward freedom.Thelma loves to watch the Sunset Limited chug through her little...

On the first day of her honeymoon a young woman inadvertently discovers that she's a descendant of a pod of mermaids once revered for their unrelenting disruption of the slave trade across the Atlantic. As the tensions rise between the remaining mermaids...

A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancyGordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay "Whip of Black Power" is a nuanced profile of the young, controversial civil rights leader...

A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison's first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes. "This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little...