Knightlizard Music

What the students learned in creating this book goes far beyond music, Kate Sheeran says. "They're also seeing that they can have a voice in shaping who writes history and who tells stories," she says, "and that we don't have to just accept the way music is presented to us or the way music history is presented to us — that they too can shape that. And that, to me, is the most exciting thing."

These NYC kids have written the history of an overlooked Black female composer A group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students realized there was no children's book about the composer Florence Price. So they wrote, illustrated and published their own.