Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | Traci N. Todd + Shannon Wright Victoria Christopher Murray offering a way for all

offering a way for all families--especially Black families--to connect across generations through the power of literature

she didn't know what to make of the aisles and aisles of canned foods in the grocery store

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities

Spanning two hundred years--from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors

Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes | Traci N. Todd + Shannon Wright Victoria Christopher Murray offering a way for allCoretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Robert F. Sibert Honor Book An evocative picture book biography about the prolific life of Jackie Ormes, whose groundbreaking cartoons became some of the first empowering depictions of Black women in America! Jackie Ormes made history. She was the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the United States. She was also a journalist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist, and she used her