african americans

Members of an extended African American family celebrate with joy and pride the birth of a first-born son according to African traditions. Text adorned with Adinkra symbols of the Asante people of Ghana.

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

Momma describes the special people and surroundings of her childhood, in a place where the edge of town met the countryside, in a time when all the children at school were brown.

Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read.

After taking the train downtown, Lizzie spends the day at the public library, helping her mother who is a children's librarian.

During the California Gold Rush, Rosabel, an African-American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel's mother her freedom from a slave catcher.

A biography of Jesse Owens, the African American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games.

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

In the mid-1800s, a slave boy dreams of escaping to freedom while on a journey from Missouri to the gold fields of Kansas Territory with his master's n'er-do-well son.

Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter and his friends Russell and Richelle follow Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome, only to find the mysterious Mr. Chickee on the other side.