These five children’s books handle slavery in an appropriate way. “Love Twelve Miles Long” (2011) by Glenda Armand, illustrated by Colin Bootman ...

And, so, this list of “Essential Books to Not Be Kanye West About American Slavery” isn’t for him. He should read them. Maybe, when he’s ready, he will, but it’s definitely not for him ...

These books can help them understand. As America celebrates Juneteeth, it can bring tough questions from children about the nation's history of slavery. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win ...

Unless you’ve had your head buried under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you’ve read the disturbing statements from rapper Kanye West. First, the College Dropout praised the racist ...

It was once possible for children to grow up aware in only the vaguest way that slavery was woven into the earliest chapters of the American story. That is no longer the case. Decades of ...

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On the Caribbean islands, slavery has just been abolished. Though not quite free, a mother goes looking for her stolen children and discovers her own strength, in Eleanor Shearer's moving ...

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The penalty has remained on the books in more than a dozen states, even though it hasn’t been enforced since the Civil War. But next month, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Vermont, Oregon and ...

While many of the books in question might not be directly about slavery, they are relevant because they address the legacy of slavery and enduring racism in the United States.

But the history of Jamestown and slavery isn’t that simple. Even though the 1619 landing wasn’t the first arrival of Africans in the Americas, it fits within the history of colonial America ...

Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel “Homegoing” tells a moving story about the lineage of Maame, an 18th century Ghanaian woman. One of her contemporary descendants, Marcus, notes that his father Sonny ...