Carole Boston Weatherford

Through the voices of leading clergy, AIDS advocates, and people living with AIDS (PLWAs), Somebody's Knocking at Your Door calls on the African-American church to become more involved in helping communities deal with HIV/AIDS. This book offers you ideas on how to improve the lives of individuals with AIDS through the church. Highlighting AIDS ministries throughout the United States, Somebody's Knocking at Your Door encourages the African-American church to confront the issue of AIDS and understand that the disease can affect anyone. This book will give you the necessary strategies for starting and implementing AIDS ministries and intervention programs that will educate and support your community.

Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African American actress and civil rights activist, with this inspiring and powerful picture book.

"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--

In 1999, Jimmy, Lavada, their mother, and other residents of the tiny town of Princeville, North Carolina, struggle to make a new start after the terrible floods caused by Hurricane Floyd.

Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.

The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.

This is the children's biography about the forty-fourth president of the United States. Containing up-to-the-minute information, including President Obama's November victory.

Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.

When she looks into a mirror, a young girl can see how she resembles various family members, as well as how she is unique.

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmAD730L Lexile

Describes the things that a grandmother and young child do together.

Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.