Celebrating Black excellence
Learn About Some Important African American Heroes
Learn more about celebrating Black History Month
Jackie Robinson, baseball hero/American hero
Meet Some Important Inventors in American History
Muhammad Ali,
boxing legend
Fredrick Douglass, American Hero
Civil Rights Heroes of American History
Rosa Parks, American Hero and Changmaker
Read more about Rosa Parks
Back of the Bus, fiction story set on the famous bus featuring Rosa Parks herself!
Learn All About
Harriet Tubman
More about Jackie Robinson
Meet Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall
Meet legendary singer,
Ella Fitzgerald
I Am Harriet Tubman written and presented by Brad Meltzer
Learn All About
Ruby Bridges
Meet our U.S. Vice President, Kamala Harris
Meet Amanda Gorman, 2020 National Youth Poet Laureate
Amanda Gorman recites her original poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 Inaguration
Amanda Gorman on Ellen
Amanda Gorman on CBS Morning Show
Amanda Gorman TED Talk
stories Celebrating Black Excellence
My Nana and Me by Irene Smalls
Black All Around!
by Patricia Hubbell
GET INSPIRED BY THESE INCREDIBLE YOUNG PEOPLE
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World
written and read by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Brick by Brick
by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
by Ellen Levine
Hair Love Short Film
Academy Award Winner
Hair Love Read Aloud with Ms. Linda