Have You Thanked an Inventor Today?Have You Thanked an Inventor Today? by Patrice McLaurin is an exciting, informative and must have book for children, especially of African American descent. Have You Thanked an Inventor Today? is a beautifully illustrated children's book about inventions that we use every day. Children will learn that some things that we may take for granted from the components in a cell phone, street lights, peanut butter, hair brush, lunch box, guitar, potato chips,

Khalil's death is a national headline

So begins a letter that Tamara Winfrey Harris received as part of her Letters to Black Girls project

" The complexity of abolitionist concepts and the enormity of the task at hand can be overwhelming

where she asked black women to write honest

When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first

these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists [championing the] Black Lives Matter

whose dream is to become a librarian

this inspiring biography traces Chisholm's journey from her childhood in a small flat in Brooklyn where she read books with her sisters to Brooklyn College where she got her first taste of politics

and Black joy

which began a crucial chain of events: Rosa Park's sit-in nine months later

fast-paced

Petra will stop at nothing to keep her family safe and lead them to a better life across the U