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We Are the Ship: Telling the story of the Negro Leagues with words and pictures

Award-winning artist and author Kadir Nelson spent seven years researching, writing, and painting the history of the Negro Leagues Baseball for his authorial debut, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. Told in the voice of an elder fictional "every player," We Are the Ship chronicles the life of a Negro League ballplayer both on and off the field.

Nelson shares his detailed process of creating the text and art for the book with a dynamic slide presentation and lecture.

Read an interview with Kadir Nelson on the Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog.