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• Antiracist Baby

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby 's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Is for Activist

  Nagara, Innosanto,

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  The bestselling ABC book for families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that we believe in and fight for

• Something Happened in Our Town

  a Child's Story About Racial Injustice

  Celano, Marianne,

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  After discussing the police shooting of a local Black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Stop on Market Street

  De la Peña, Matt,

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  A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

• When We Were Alone

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parker Looks Up

  An Extraordinary Moment

  Curry, Parker

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  Representation matters. A visit to the National Portrait Gallery transforms Parker.

• Harlem's Little Blackbird

  [the Story of Florence Mills]

  Watson, Renée

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  Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissance had a court, they were its kings and queens. But there were other, lesser known individuals whose contributions were just as impactful, such as Florence Mills.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sulwe

  Nyong'o, Lupita,

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  A beautiful story about colorism and how it hurts.

• What's the Difference?

  Being Different Is Amazing

  Richards, Doyin, 1974-

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• My Hair Is a Garden

  Cabrera, Cozbi A.,

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  After being teased yet again about her unruly hair, MacKenzie consults her neighbor, Miss Tillie, who compares hair care with tending her beautiful garden and teaches MacKenzie some techniques. Includes tips for shampooing, conditioning,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Schomburg

  the Man Who Built a Library

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Day You Begin

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.

• Not My Idea

  a Book About Whiteness

  Higginbotham, Anastasia,

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  A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Skin You Live in

  Tyler, Michael, 1960-

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  Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate being content with the skin in which one lives, whatever that skin might be.

• Separate Is Never Equal

  Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

  Tonatiuh, Duncan

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  Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let It Shine

  Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

  Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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  Pinkney presents portraits of 10 African-American activists for the causes of abolition, women's rights and civil rights.

• Skin Again

  hooks, bell, 1952-2021

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  The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Summer

  Wiles, Deborah

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  In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is African American, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.

• The Other Side

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.

• The Colors of Us

  Katz, Karen

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  Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.