Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move Historical ; History winner of the Newbery Award

winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award

Johnston unwittingly bled to death

rather than state repression of political dissent or Sékou Touré’s personal charisma as widely believed

The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move Historical ; History winner of the Newbery AwardWhat does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity