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In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences teach Neo about the risks and rewards of using her own voice to empower others.

Containing the work of more than 40 poets equally divided between men and women who self-identify as Afro-Latino, Manteca! is the first poetry anthology to highlight writings by Latinos of African descent.

Explores African American history through one hundred question and answers: Who was the first African American? Did black people own slaves? Who was the first black president in North America? How much African ancestry does the average African American have? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire?.

A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.

A debut collection of poems draws on personal, political, and social histories to address black humanity and ideas of lineage and tradition.

A biography of Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, and president.

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive. Suggested level: senior secondary.

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Residents of an impoverished South African town find new hope when they come together at their school and start a brickmaking business.

Nelson Mandela's fight to end apartheid in South Africa is a riveting story of hardship, courage, and triumph. One of the great moral leaders of modern history, Mandela never gave up his struggle against racial oppression. Through Mandela's own words, primary documents, photographs, and engaging text, readers will learn about his early life in a small village, the stirrings of his political consciousness, his twenty-seven years of imprisonment for defying apartheid, and the events leading to his election as the first black president of South Africa. The book also explores Mandela's legacy of justice, equality, and dignity, which has inspired people to action around the globe.