Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My LifeJerry Pinkney creator of Caldecott Medal winning The Lion & the Mouse and The Little Mermaid drew everywhere, all the time. Since childhood, it was how he made sense of the world how he coped with the stress of being a sensitive child growing up in crowded spaces, struggling with a learning disability, in a time when the segregation of Black Americans was the norm. Only drawing could offer him a sense of calm, control, and confidence. When friends and

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It's not all A-list parties and steamy romance

threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination

but NO ONE knows it

there was Fighting Shirley Chisholm

and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life

this empowering picture book centers the inherent worthiness and radiance of Black girls that is still far too often denied

In a crowded London pub

That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book

the Black Panther Party

Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria

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