african americans

Describes the life and basketball career of the young woman who won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics and went on to play in the Women's National Basketball Association.

A story celebrating a young African-American boy's first trip to the barbershop.

Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan, tells the story of how small town girl Ella Fitzgerald became one of the world's best-known songstresses.

Black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.

Describes the lives of the two African-American sisters who stunned the professional tennis world with their rapid rise to the top.

Baseball hero Jackie Robinson's daughter discusses nine values that her father held dear, shares memories from her life and her father's that illustrate those values, and profiles individuals whom she considers heroes, including Christopher Reeve and Oprah Winfrey.

A fictionalized account of the time when, as a teen-age music student, trumpeter Miles Davis spent many hours trying to find Charlie Parker in New York City.

Momma Mary tells stories about a special young man who does wondrous things, especially for the slaves on the Plenty Plantation.