The Year We Learned to Fly Cover:Hardcover is her most penetrating look

is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families

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Misty Copeland was the first African American woman to become a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theater

Inspired by the activism of Rosa Parks

The Year We Learned to Fly Cover:Hardcover is her most penetrating lookJacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lpez's highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence. On a dreary, stuck inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmothers advice: Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and believe in a thing. Somebody somewhere at some point was just