Celebrate Our History and Heroes Year-Round

Have you heard of entrepreneur/philanthropist Biddy Mason; Bishop Daniel Payne; or the U.S. Lifesaving Services - the only all-black rescue crew of the Outer Banks? How much do you and your young readers know about the contributions of political leader Barbara Jordan, activist Bayard Rustin, or poet Quincy Troupe? Learn about these and other important Black trailblazers in books from our non-fiction collection. Let’s celebrate our heroes - well-known and unsung - all year round.


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Celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the Million Man March

On October 16, 1996, Kelly Starling Lyons attended the Million Man March and was transformed by what she saw. She shares how that historic movement inspired her first picture book story. Read more  and buy the book here

Remembering the March on Washington

54 years ago today - They came from all corners of the United States: from big cities, and small towns, from the rural South, and the urban North. Holding signs that read "We Demand Voting Rights Now!" and "No U.S. Dough To Help Jim Crow," more than 250,000 people of all ages, races and religions joined together in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963 for what would become one of the most historic civil rights events in U.S. history: the March on Washington. Learn more in The March on Washington by James Haskins available here

Wade and Cheryl Hudson Speak at Black Caucus ALA Conference

Just Us Books Will Host Young Readers' Pavilion at 2017 Harlem Bookfair

Join Just Us Books and Marimba Books at the Inaugural Maplewood Book Festival