A Black Women's History of the United StatesIn centering Black women's stories, two award winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African

a boy who is supposedly her genetic match

But romance

And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head

Celebrate the power of Black womanhood in this first-of-its-kind collection of inspirational quotes from fifty activists

But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own

punch-in-the-gut story about the power of friendship and the horrors hiding right in front of us

a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit

a gaggle of lifelong friends

and schoolmates accused her of being illegal

With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous

Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself

and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy