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There are a number of reasons to teach children about slavery, even besides the fact that it played such a large role in the history of the world and in the U.S. in particular. Teaching this history can show children that injustices can be corrected...

Eight years ago, I published an article in Book Links magazine that matched picture books with parallel poems, so that teachers and librarians who read the picture book aloud could have a poem on the same topic (or with the same theme) to follow up or...

Award-winning artist and author Kadir Nelson discusses and signs his book Nelson Mandela at the Schlafly Branch on February 11 at 7 p.m. Nelson’s appearance is part of the Library’s celebration of Black History Month 2015. The program is FREE and open...

When I was in sixth grade, my older brother handed me a paperback book. I don’t remember what he said, but I knew by the look on his face that I had to read it. I didn’t understand the title, Manchild in the Promised Land, and I’d...

The results are in. The winners of the 2014 Coretta Scott King Medals were announced at the 2014 Youth Media Awards, in addition to four honor books. Given annually to African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults,...