During a drought in the early 1900s, a large, loving African American family finds a delicious way to earn the money they need to save their family farm.
The audience was completely silent the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but this song wasn't ei
In this lyrical picture book, Rose, a young garden-lover, takes a gift from an eccentric old Birdman who sits in his wheelchair surrounded by ugly gray pigeons. She discovers that even in the soil-les
Neighbors gather on a hot summer day for a joyful block party: Kids play double Dutch; men debate at the barber shop and play chess; mothers and aunts cook up oxtail stew, collard greens, and other de
When Sonny's mother loses her job in New Orleans during the Depression, Smilin' Jack, a jazz musician, tells him how to organize a rent party to raise the money they need.
