african american

Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

Half the people in the United States that are now diagnosed with AIDS are African American. Interweaving personal stories with national policy, this book captures this devastating epidemic and illuminates its potential to expand our understanding of race in America.

A sharecropper's son, Jesse Owens was born when the world was on the brink of World War I, and attained Olympic glory with the world on the brink of World War II. He made world history at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin when Adolf Hitler was in power, winning four gold medals.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

A career biography of LeBron James, discussing his youth and family in Akron, Ohio, his accomplishments in high school and college, and his record as a professional basketball player with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Includes career statistics.

Examines the life and achievements of Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped from slavery and went on to work as an abolitionist fighting for an end to slavery, and later for African-American civil rights.

An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, the engineer and doctor who became the first African-American woman to fly on the space shuttle.

Presents an illustrated biography of Jackie Robinson, an African-American athlete who was discriminated against by Major League Baseball and in society in general, but fought for his rights in sports and in the army before he helped the Brooklyn Dodgers go to the World Series.

Presents a short biography of the life and career of Muhammad Ali; and describes his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his early introduction to boxing, and entrance into professional prizefighting.