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Troy Andrews
The 5 O’Clock Band
Trombone Shorty
Glenda Armand
Ira’s Shakespeare Dream
Jabari Asim
Preaching to the Chickens
Ysaye M. Barnwell
We Are One: Book and Musical
Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something from Everything
Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song
Let it Shine
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals
Lord Burgess
Caribbean Carnival: Songs of the West Indies
Veronica Chambers
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
Lesa Cline-Ransome
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage As the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
Floyd Cooper
Cumbayah
Donald Crews
Parade
Nina Crews
The Neighborhood Sing-Along
Leo Dillon
Jazz on A Saturday Night
Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That
Alice Faye Duncan
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
Nikki Giovanni
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
Eloise Greenfield
Paul Robeson
Nikki Grimes
Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s
Nadia Hohn
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Harlem Renaissance: Profiles in Creativity
How Sweet the Sound: African American Songs for Children
Toyomi Igus
Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel
I See the Rhythm
I See the Rhythm of Gospel
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South
Sharna Jackson
Tate Kids Modern Art
Activity Book
Tate Kids British Art Activity Book
Bill T. Jones
Dance! With Bill T. Jones
Jacob Lawrence
The Great Migration: An American Story
Harriet and the Promised Land
Andrea J. Loney
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee
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Kelly Starling Lyons
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations
Sharon Bell Mathis
Ray Charles
Cheryl Warren Mattox
Shake It to the One That You Love the Best: Play Songs and Lullabies from Black Musical Traditions
Let’s Get the Rhythm of the Band: A Child’s Introduction to Music from African-American Culture with History and Song
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Storyteller
Marian Anderson: A Great Singer
Paul Robeson: A Voice for Change
Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz
James Weldon Johnson: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Michelle Meadows
Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins
Walter Dean Myers
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album
Jazz
Marilyn Nelson
Beautiful Ballerina
Greg Neri
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash
Andrea Davis Pinkney
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and his Orchestra
Alvin Ailey with Tylania Moore
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem
Katheryn Russell-Brown
A Voice Named Aretha
Tamara Pizzoli
B is for Breakdancing: An ABC Book of Ways to Shake What Your Momma Gave You
Faith Ringgold
Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True
Hilda Robinson
Didn’t We Have Fun!
Belinda Rochelle
Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
Katheryn Russell-Brown
A Voice Named Aretha
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
Ntozake Shange
I Live in Music
Charles R. Smith
Motown: My Girl (Motown Baby Love #1)
Motown: Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (Motown Baby Love #2)
Motown: How Sweet It is to Be Loved by You (Motown Baby Love #3)
Motown: I’ll Be There – Book (Motown Baby Love #4)
Motown: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – (Motown Baby Love #5)
Motown: The Way You Do the Things You Do (Motown Baby Love #6)
Motown: You’re All I Need to Get By – (Motown Baby Love #7)
Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem
Leotha Stanley
Be a Friend: The Story of African American Music in Song, Words, and Pictures
Javaka Steptoe
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Don Tate
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
Samantha Thornhill
Odetta: Queen of Folk
Quincy Troupe
Little Stevie Wonder
Sarah Warren
Beyoncé: Shine Your Light
Renee Watson
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
Carole Boston Weatherford
RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
The Sound That Jazz Makes
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood
Eric Velasquez
Grandma’s Gift
Grandma’s Records
Pharrell Williams
Happy
Richard Wright
Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright