Hidden Figures: The American Dream an...
Margot Lee Shetterly[Read by Robin Miles]The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture.Before John Glenn orbited Ear...
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: T...
Daina Ramey BerryGroundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early AmericaIn life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health,...
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relent...
Erica Armstrong DunbarFinalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Wh...
Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious h...