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Without fear of contradiction, I can say that Barack Obama's presidency has changed the texture of the nightly news for the next four (hopefully, eight) years.

Black History People's Hugh Smith interviews Roland Laird (video)

I liked the book so much I'm going to propose that it become a necessary text for teaching African-American history at my school. It is the perfect compliment to any text. There is not an event in African -American history left unturned.

In the early 1990s Posro Komics was the only black-owned comic-book company in New Jersey. It published popular comics that addressed the reality of young inner-city blacks, and their star was on the rise.

Blogger Christy Lockstein reviews Still I Rise

Chicago Sun-Times includes Still I Rise in a round-up of notable new books.

One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized -- and often suppressed - political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C

Barack Obama ascended to the White House on Tuesday on a cloud of hope, heralding a sea change in U.S. politics and shaking up race relations in the country.

Still I Rise is a graphical novel (aka “comic strip” style) structured around the history of America and the complex, interwoven African American contributions and sacrifices to its success and greatness.

Spreading open the front and back covers of Roland and Taneshia Laird's "Still I Rise" gives a sense of the cartoon history book's epic scope. On the left, a rebellious black slave holds a spear; next to him is the founder of a leading black church, the abolitionist Harriet Tubman and, over the book's spine, the country's first woman millionaire.