The story of the Nativity told in the speech patterns and imagesof African people newly acquainted with the English language.

In this classic work, a blend of memoir social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today, the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York's dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political struggle and examines the problems that have long plagued the American system of government. "I want to be remembered as a woman...who dared to be a catalyst of change." Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,...

A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everydaythings.

A biography of the distinguished eighteenth-century black astronomer, farmer, mathematician, and surveyor whose accomplishmentsinclude having published a popular almanac and constructed the first completely American-made clock.

Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter-who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's.

Depicts the world of daydreamers.

A collection of poems written from the point of view of a childwith a black mother and a white father.

Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.

Though she has been raised lovingly by her grandparents, a blackteenager goes in search of her father.

Includes four traditional tales told by the Hausa, Angolan, Masai, and Bushmen people of Africa.