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When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her...

While twins Ella and Herbie help the handyman Mr. Mital work on their new home, he tells them about such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African-Americans.

In the 1920 and 30s, the New York neighborhood of Harlem was a haven for black artists and writers. Although some of these black writers catered to the white fascination with blacks as "exotic primitives, " the best of the Harlem literati...