Black Stories Matter

The goal of Black Stories Matter is to showcase a database of children's books by Black authors for educators, families and youth. Black users can find “Mirrors”, stories they see themselves in. Other users visit for “Windows”, stories that give them a look into another experience.

- Deployed application

Installation

• Fork and clone this repo into an empty directory on your local machine.
• Run npm install in your teminal to install the project's dependencies.
• Run npm start to run the application in development mode.

Technologies

• This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
• This project was styled mobile-first with styled-components and Bahunya, a classless CSS framework with responsive typography, navbar, and syntax highlighting.

Future Iterations

We would like to continue adding books to the database and add more functionality to the front end user interface. Please see the CONTRIBUTING file if you are interested in making an open source contribution to this project!

Maintainers

• Front End Repo
  • Lauren Lucero
• Back End Repo
  • Krista Stadler