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