A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.

Introduces the African American holiday begun in 1966 which celebrates seven important principles.

Artwork and poems by such writers as Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Askia Toure portray the creativity, strength, and beauty of their African American heritage.

Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.

A thirteen-year-old black girl from Pittsburgh describes what it is like to grow up in a tough inner-city neighborhood.