Roda Ahmed

Mae Among the Stars

Glenda Armand

Ira’s Shakespeare Dream

Jabari Asim

Preaching to the Chickens

Fifty Cents and a Dream 

Tonya Bolden

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas 

The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Ashley Bryan

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Howard Bryant

Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Veronica Chambers

Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb  

Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa 

Tami Charles

Fearless Mary: The True Adventures of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver

Lesa Cline-Ransome

The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician 

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Before She Was Harriet

Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey

Satchel Paige 

Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist

Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star

Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart 

Before There Was Mozart:  The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George 

Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass 

Floyd Cooper

Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan 

Mandela

Hasan Davis

The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Leo Dillon

Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That

Alice Faye Duncan

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

Joel Gill

Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride

Nikki Giovanni

Rosa

Eloise Greenfield

Paul Robeson 

Mary McLeod Bethune 

Nikki Grimes

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 

Talkin’ About Bessie 

Joyce Hansen

African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women

Janice N. Harrington

Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

Meena Harris

Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea

Vashti Harrison

Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Board Book)

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

Dream Big, Little Leader Board Book

Little Leaders Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

James Haskins

John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement 

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali 

Carter G. Woodson : The Man Who Put “Black” in American History

Leah Henderson

Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues

David Heredia

Little Heroes of Color: 50 Who Made a BIG Difference

Tony Hillery

Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood

Nadia Hohn

A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice

Gwendolyn Hooks

Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons: An Enslaved Woman Fights for Freedom

Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

Crystal Hubbard

Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream

Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe

The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby: The Story of Jimmy Winkfield

Rita Lorraine Hubbard

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

Hammering for Freedom

Kai Jackson Issa

Howard Thurman’s Great Hope

Dolores Johnson

Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson

She Dared to Fly: Bessie Coleman

Jehan Jones-Radgowski

The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery  

Denise M. Jordan

Muhammad Ali: Meet the Champion

Deloris Jordan

Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream 

June Jordan

Fannie Lou Hamer

Lynn Joseph

Fly, Bessie, Fly 

Shana Keller

Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story

Ticktock Banneker’s Clock  

Sharon Langley

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story 

Andrea J. Loney

Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!

Kelly Starling Lyons

Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon

Melina Mangal

The Vast Wonder of the World

Sharon Bell Mathis

Ray Charles 

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

Ralph J. Bunche: Peacemaker 

Mary Church Terrell: Leader for Equality

Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Storyteller

Satchel Paige: The Best Arm in Baseball

Langston Hughes: Great American Poet

Mary McLeod Bethune: Woman of Courage 

Madam C. J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire 

Marian Anderson: A Great Singer 

Frederick Douglass: Leader against Slavery 

Paul Robeson: A Voice for Change 

Booker T. Washington: African-American Leader 

Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz 

George Washington Carver: Scientist and Inventor

Jesse Owens: Legendary Track Star   

Carter G. Woodson: Black History Pioneer 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace 

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence 

James Weldon Johnson: “Lift every voice and sing”

Sojourner Truth: A Voice for Freedom

Michelle Meadows

Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins

Tony Medina

I and I Bob Marley

Nanette Mellage

Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter 

Louise Meriwether

The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story 

Robert H. Miller

Buffalo Soldiers: The Story of Emanuel Stance

The Story of Jean Baptiste Du Sable              

The Story of Nat Love

The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields  

Johnny Ray Moore

Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Meet Martin Luther King Jr. 

Naomi M. Moyer

Black Women Who Dared

Walter Dean Myers

Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

Toussaint L’ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom 

I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion 

Young Martin’s Promise

Kadir Nelson

Nelson Mandela

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Let ‘er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshall 

Greg Neri

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash

Barack Obama

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

Lorenzo Pace

Frederick Douglass and the North Star

Baptiste Paul

I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon

Willie Perdomo

Clemente!

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

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 

Bill Pickett, Rodeo Ridin’ Cowboy 

Dear Benjamin Banneker 

Alvin Ailey with Tylania Moore 

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride

Christine Platt

Harriet Tubman 

Cleopatra 

Sacagawea 

Joan of Arc

Megan Reid

Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-ins

Jael Ealey Richardson

The Stone Thrower

Faith Ringgold

If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True

Katheryn Russell-Brown

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

A Voice Named Aretha

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Ilyasah Shabazz

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X 

Ntozake Shange

Coretta Scott 

Float Like a Butterfly: Muhammad Ali, the Man Who Could Float Like a Butterfly and Sting Like a Bee 

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Charles R. Smith

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Despite The Height

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson

Nikkolas Smith

The Golden Girls of Rio

Javaka Steptoe

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Don Tate

Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw 

Gaylia Taylor

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip 

Samantha Thornhill

Odetta: Queen of Folk

Quincy Troupe

Little Stevie Wonder 

Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson 

Glennette Tilley Turner

An Apple for Harriet Tubman 

Alice Walker

Langston Hughes, American Poet

Mildred Pitts Walter

Alec’s Primer

Jody Nyasha Warner

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged

Sarah Warren

Beyoncé: Shine Your Light

Renee Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird

Carole Boston Weatherford

Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman’s Case for Equality and Respect

RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

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

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library 

Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression   

The Legendary Miss Lena Horn

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Oprah: The Little Speaker 

Obama: Only in America 

Michelle Obama: First Mom 

Before John Was a Jazz Giant:  A Song of John Coltrane 

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom 

Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion

I, Matthew Henson 

Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics

Jamia Wilson

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

Jacqueline Woodson

Martin Luther King, Jr., And His Birthday