MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competitio

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book "This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled."—Booklist (starred review) MacNo

“A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African Americans and books about them.” — Kirku

Each poem is inspired by the poet's reaction to a film, whose director and date appear before the poem. The poems range widely: from The great train robbery (19

Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future “Poets are lyric historians,” proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, his