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Retold African-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope; includes an audio CD containing eleven of the tales, narrated by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton.

An illustrated retelling of the story of Sundiata, who overcame physical handicaps, social disgrace, and strong opposition to rule Mali in the thirteenth century.

Where did the expression "the real McCoy" come from? African-American inventor Elijah McCoy's successful design of an automatic oil cup may have inspired to popular phrase.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.

In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.

When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa.

In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is African-American, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.

Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest.

Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only African-American barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.

At lunchtime Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game: a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse.

Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.

Discusses the basketball career of Jamaican born Patrick Ewing of the New York Knickerbockers.

A biography of the eighteenth-century slave who led his people in the struggle for an independent Haiti and became its ruler in 1799.