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“Many residents of Compton, California, live in a food desert, which means they lack access to healthy foods and young people have never acquired the habit of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. Retired neurosurgeon Sherridan Ross may have a solution: Teach them to grow their own food. Drawing on the legacy of farming in Compton by African Americans, Sherridan develops community gardens that transform the attitude of neighborhood youth to food, and benefits them in other ways, too.”

Mia can’t understand why the new kid, Amena, seems sad, but she learns that a little empathy can go a long way.

Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.

Young Delia learns a hard lesson from her papa about what it means to be enslaved on George Washington’s plantation.

Two small boys on a plantation strike up a dangerous friendship.

In the face of extreme punishment for enslaved people and breaking the law for whites, roughly 5 percent of the enslaved population learned to read and write. Letters like the ones written below show the lengths they would go to learn.

Frederick Douglass made an amazing journey from slavery to freedom. Once free, Douglass committed his life to fighting for the freedom of others.

Mum Bett hears the cries for American freedom from British tyranny and launches her own American Revolution against slavery in Massachusetts.

Nat Turner was an American freedom fighter who led one of history’s most successful revolts by enslaved people in Southampton County, VA.

In this poem, Nell and her family follow the North Star and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.