Cultural Heritage

As a fourteenyearold, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alab...

Harriet Tubman's heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of t...

Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding th...

Negro league baseball players didn't always get the respect that major leaguers received....

Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of fi...

Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, The Voice That Challenged a Nati...

As a child, Amalia always thought she would grow up to be a teacher-that is, until she sa...

Laban Carrick Hill, the bestselling author of the National Book Award Finalist Harlem Sto...

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton is a Maasai tribesman of Kenya. In this fascinating autobiograph...

"Nelson plaits her narrative with Western lingo and homespun similes. . . . James' painte...

In 2003, Jay-Z retired from making music. He had made award-winning albums, founded a rec...

The author of My Name Is Maria Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba i...

Everyone's a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what gi...

Matthew Henson's destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary in 1887. An...

It was 1961. John Lewis and Jim Zwerg are two young men boarding a bus and heading south ...

Fauja Singh was born determined. He was also born with legs that wouldn't allow him to pl...

This inspiring biography tells the story of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian,...

Cuando lleg a Estados Unidos, en 1921, Pura traa los cuentos folclricos de su querido Pue...

Over a dozen seasons, Charles Tillman established himself as the greatest cornerback...

A biography telling the life story of Booker T. Washington, along with his accomplishment...

A biography telling the personal life and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie...

Michael Jackson's journey to fame began in 1966 at age eight, when he started singing wit...

Someone was trying to kill Malcolm X, and he knew who it was. From his troubled youth to ...

Chief Joseph wanted peace for his people. But the U.S. Army had different ideas. As the h...

Explore the life and achievements of Garrett Morgan, an African-American inventor and ent...

A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never tho...

"Father, is all of the world a refugee camp?"Young Kalia has never known life beyond the ...

Fanny Jackson Coppin was born a slave. After attaining her freedom, she pursued an educat...

The book is a biography of Guion Bluford, an aerospace engineer and the first African Ame...

Though George Washington Carver was born into slavery, he overcame great obstacles to bec...

This third book in the Food Hero series features Chef Roy Choi, a “street cook&rdqu...

Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that...

Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “sere...

Something says find out why rain falls, what makes corn proud and squash so humble, the q...

Go for a ride with motorcyclist Bessie Stringfield, the first African American woman to d...

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Pu...

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is...

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is...

Lee sobre la primera astronauta Latina en el espacio, Ellen Ochoa, quien se encuentra ent...

Lee sobre la magistrada de la Corte Suprema, Sonia Sotomayor, quien se encuentra entre lo...

Fauja Singh was born determined. He was also born with legs that wouldn't allow him to pl...