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1861) Freedom riders
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
1862) Martin: Season 3
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A brash radio personality always speaks his mind, often to the frustration of his long-suffering girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An evocative chronicle of the battle that led to America's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling shares insights into the abuses of the "separate but equal" system and how such courageous activists as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois helped end legal segregation.
1864) Count to love!
Author
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This charming board book from the New York times best-selling and award-winning duo celebrates sweet baby love with bouncing, rhythmic text and whimsical illustrations.
1865) Uncensored: my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America
Author
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As the president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College, Zachary Wood knows all about intellectual controversy. From John Derbyshire to Charles Murray, there's no one Zach refuses to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs--sometimes vehemently so--and this controversial view has given him a unique platform on college campuses and in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own...
1866) Serena says
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital"--
1867) Backyard camp-out
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a backyard campout, Jada and Jamal Perkins join their friends Josh Cornish and Carlita Garcia in a search for Mrs. Mason's lost cat, Daisy.
1869) Struggles in Steel
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The current angry debates around affirmative action too often ignore their historical roots: how prior to government intervention African Americans were confined to the most back-breaking, dangerous and low paid work. Struggles in Steel documents the shameful history of discrimination against black workers and one heroic campaign where they won equality on the job. The film is the result of a unique collaboration. Black steelworker Ray Henderson was...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the "necessary rituals" that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. "From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon, an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
1873) Sugar
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Now that everyone involved with Michael Vallentino is under the microscope, Michael has to make the most drastic decision ever. This harrowing decision just might haunt him and his cohorts forever. Michael's gorgeous ladies are making loads of money, but their fortunes might turn after Lil Kitty and Ms. Ceily decide to partake in something that's totally forbidden. Will this be the beginning of their downfall? Or is there a way out of the precarious...
1875) Ethic 5
Author
Series
Ethic novels (Ashley Antoinette) volume 5
Publisher
Ashley Antoinette, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Life has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill he knew that he had met the woman who would love him back to life. They have weathered a storm together and their love is no fated that neither ever want to let it go, but it seems their bubble of happiness is an illusion becuase life around them is falling apart. When Morgan...
1876) Ethic 4
Author
Series
Ethic novels (Ashley Antoinette) volume 4
Publisher
Ashley Antoinette Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After facing his biggest sin, Ethic finds forgiveness within the love of his life. Alani is the woman he's been searching for his entire existence but loving her comes with a price ... his soul ... she wants his soul ... When Alani tells Ethic she can't be with a man who doesn't believe in God, Ethic must face his only fear, trusting something he can't see. With Alani's heart in his hands and his soul in hers, they must try to piece together a life...
1877) Juneteenth is
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"This book is an ode to the history of the Black community in the United States, a tribute to Black joy, and a portrait of familial love"--
A girl contemplates what Juneteenth means to her, her family, and her community.
1878) Dear yesteryear
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, Kimberly Annece Henderson started Emaline and Them, an Instagram-based archival image repository that features portraiture of everyday African Americans from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dear Yesteryear is a beautiful and lyrical continuation of that project that addresses the past, honoring the ancestors who made the present possible and celebrating the ordinary goings on of Black Americans."--
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After witnessing her mother's untimely death as a child and her brother's violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.
"Death is ever present in Vicaria's world -- violence, police brutality, substance abuse -- and after watching her mother and brother succumb, she's had enough. Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death... by bringing the dead back to life. Inspired by Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' The Angry...
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