"Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.

Around the world, people celebrate many holidays and festivals. From religious rituals to joyous New Year celebrations, these holidays involve a variety of traditions and cultures and have rich histories. The ways holidays and festivals are celebrated around the globe have changed over time, with ancient traditions evolving into modern ones. History of Holidays and Festivals explores this fascinating history.

Some days Maya glows... Maya feels a warm glow when she's with the people she loves and when she sees good things happening in her neighborhood. She feels a different kind of glow when she overhears her family worrying about bills or sees her favorite cousin stopped by police. Sometimes that glowing feels like too much to carry. But then the local librarian gives Maya a stack of books about those who felt the same glowing light. Black women throughout...

You are invited to a most marvelous party. For a most marvelous man. A man who turned the alphabet into thump a bump. Who turned words into jazz into rivers into bustin' a move. All of his word-children will be there, uh-huh. Because it's a party for Langston. Langston Hughes. King o'Letters. Renaissance Man. Come on in. To the Hoopla in Harlem. Everyone is welcome.

Zuri's hair lets her be her. It coils and kinks to perfectly match a princess tiara or a superhero cape. But an extra-special day calls for an extra-special style! Comb in hand, Daddy steps in to help Zuri find the perfect fit. With heartwarming text and radiant illustrations, Hair Love celebrates the curls that are uniquely yours, the bond between dads and daughters, and the joy that fills you up when you get to express yourself freely.

Biographical sketches chronicle the contributions of enslaved and free blacks during the Revolutionary War, including Prince Hall, who organized the first branch of black Freemasons, and Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...