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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis.
2) Uh-oh!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As an African American toddler keeps getting into mischief throughout the day, the reader is invited to discover what the trouble is with each page-turn and to say "uh-oh."
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph spanning more than 400 years is presented through a fascinating mix of biographies-including 500 influential figures-little-known or misunderstood...
Author
Publisher
Row House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all. "An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind." — Kirkus Starred Review Named by Essence Magazine as one of "31 Books You Must Read" in 2023. Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The author believes that many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in practice they have slowed the self-development that was necessary for other groups to advance. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they also have a long history of pricing blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative...
6) Swing
Author
Series
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. The incident was infamous at once, for it was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, surging uncontrollably below the Mason-Dixon Line, was...
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