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Tired of the "women's work" he feels he must always do, ten-year-old Justin visits his cowboy grandfather, where he learns that cooking is men's work too.

The life of a pioneering African-American inventor from the mid-1800s recounts his successes with such products as rubber heels, lawn sprinklers, and locomotive oil cups.

Jamela wants sparkly "princess shoes" to go with her new birthday dress, but Mama makes her buy practical school shoes instead.

A young black child, while playing by the pond, meets a one-legged man who brings music to the community.

A collection of over one thousand, alphabetically-arranged quotations by noted African-Americans and black African men and women from all walks of life, focusing primarily on quotations from the 1990s, and including author and subject/key word indexes.

Selection of writings from the Black Consciousness movement leader addressing such themes as political ethnicism, racism, recovery and restoration of African culture within South Africa, and the need for Black solidarity.

A selfish queen loves the sun more than she does her husband or sons and learns a lesson about her cruel ways.

Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the expensive material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn.

Uses the contents of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.