Ellington Was Not a Street Cover:Hardcover Lamar has to learn how

Lamar has to learn how to be a filmmaker while getting to know his grandfather

Even scarier

except for the fussy customers

no one questioned that rule—until the drum dream girl

Ellington Was Not a Street Cover:Hardcover Lamar has to learn howFeaturing luminous art by Coretta Scott King Awardwinning illustrator Kadir Nelson, this reflective picture book by poet Ntozake Shange looks back at the great Black thinkers and innovators who visited her fathers house. A close knit group of Black innovators formed their own community in the early to mid twentieth century. These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend,