BLACK LIVES ICONS OF DESIGN

Fashion designer Ann Lowe, automotive designer Ed Welburn and costume designer Ruth E. Carter rarely turn up in school textbooks, yet each reshaped their field. Icons of Design places them alongside toy makers, architects and graphic artists whose work deserves far wider recognition.

Every one of them faced obstacles on the way up and kept pushing, inventing and learning until their contributions became impossible to ignore.

The second volume of Black Lives, the graphic novel series by award-winning author Tonya Bolden and illustrator David Wilkerson, shines a light on Black innovators and their often overlooked histories in an accessible format for middle-grade readers.