08/27/2026 06:00:00 PMOne hundred years ago, when George Cephas Ford was born in Brooklyn, Black illustrators had few opportunities in children’s publishing, and Black children rarely saw themselves, their families, or their communities reflected in books. Mr. Ford helped change that. Office of Communications & Marketing/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-06/george-cephas-ford-100th-birthday.xmlDownstate HealthPediatrics