March: Book One (Paperback)This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville

A high-born Nigerian goddess

threatening to sue Kiera for "anti-white discrimination

Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns

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and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women

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Poetry knows when to lean forward and when to pull back

and National Public Radio

Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project

Henley hates to read

Mae Jemison

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood