The Blood of Emmett Till

The Blood of Emmett TillThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movementthe 1955 lynching of Emmett Tilland demands that we do the one vital thing we arent often enough asked to do with history: learn from it (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal

Kids love sneakers

plus deadpan humor and wonderfully expressive art

and others—of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools

the staggering teen pregnancy rate

Headteacher

when Mavis spies Trisha in yellow rubber gloves and booties

Chino and her toy bunny can look at her whole family as they go through their routines

joy and resilience of Black people in America

Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege

I say that They are wrong

has made brilliant variegated pictures

But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders