black history – Elena Reads and Reviews

Review: Sewing Stories Tells Of A Quilting Extraordinaire

I read books with strong girl characters all the time, but during March I challenge myself to learn more about

That They Lived: African-Americans Who Changed The World is a unique way to learn about important trailblazers in our history.

Have you ever felt so happy, it felt like your heart was singing its own melody? In the book Thunder

Before the Little Rock Nine set foot into an all-white school, there was the Clinton 12: a group of Black

He preached and baptized his chickens as a young boy. He used to sneak off to school when his parents

Do you know who was America’s first self-made female millionaire? I didn’t know until I read a few books about

“Young, Gifted and Black!” Those are the lyrics to a popular song by Nina Simone. Author Jamia Wilson decided to

I read this book about slavery and the end of slavery called Juneteenth, by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Drew Nelson.