Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier  

Veronica Chambers

Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation 

Mama’s Girl

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed 

Michaela DePrince

Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer

Ger Duany w/Garen Thomas

Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Peace Activist Brown

Martin Ganda

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)

Langston Hughes

First Book of Africa   

June Jordan

Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood

Mikki Kendall

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights

Peter Magubane

Black Child

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Proud: Living My American Dream

Trevor Noah

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

Kwame Onwuachi

Notes from a Young Black Chef (Adapted for Young Adults)

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Rebecca Walker

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self