"Onward we forced our weary way." So wrote Matthew Henson in his 1912 autobiography, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. The words followed months of Henson and his companions marching across moving
STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITYEach year on December 26, the African American holiday of Kwanzaa begins. What is the purpose of Kwanzaa? How did it get its start? Dolores Johnson's easy-to
A fictionalized account of the life of Minna, kidnapped as a girl in Africa, as she endures the harsh life of a slave on a Southern plantation in the 1800s and tries to help her family survive.
The conquest of the North Pole was an elusive, almost impossible goal at the beginning of the last century. But a son of patrician parents, Robert E. Peary, and a son of sharecroppers, Matthew Henson,
