Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers Activism & Social Justice allowing communities of color the

allowing communities of color the opportunity to embark on a journey towards racial healing

Age Range:   4 - 7

approachable

The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here

Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers Activism & Social Justice allowing communities of color theIn the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true life story of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic human trade, in an adaptation of the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Barracoon. This is the life story of Cudjo Lewis, as told by himself. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America to be