We’re Coloring In the Parts of History That Got Erased
Unique Coloring is a home for stories history left out—
Starting with Larger Than Life, our YA historical fiction series.
History Left Them Out. We’re Writing Them Back In
The people who built movements, crossed oceans, and changed the course of history rarely made it into the textbooks.
Unique Coloring brings them back — not as footnotes, but as the heroes of their own stories. Every book is rooted in real research: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, brought to life through narrative fiction written for young readers and adults alike.
Some Stories Get Told. Others Get Colored Out
You already know the names history decided to remember.
Unique Coloring is where you meet the ones it left behind — Martin Delany, Robert Smalls, Ida B. Wells, and more — as fully realized characters in stories built to be read, not just remembered.
Introducing Larger Than Life
Coming January 31, 2027!
A YA historical fiction series that puts real, overlooked Black historical figures at the center of their own stories — researched deep, written for readers who want history that reads like a novel, not a syllabus.
Available January 31, 2027 in hardcover, paperback, and ebook wherever books are sold.
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Black History Explainer Video
Martin Delany was a physician, newspaper editor, explorer, and Union Army major. Harvard dismissed him within weeks in 1850. In 1865, a note from Abraham Lincoln introduced him as “this most extraordinary and intelligent black man.” This is his story, from his birth as a free man in Charles Town, Virginia, to his death in Wilberforce, Ohio.
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Augusta Braxton Baker revolutionized children’s literature as the first Black curator at the New York Public Library, creating diverse collections that transformed how black children saw themselves in books.