How Selma's Teachers Changed History by Sandra Wallace, My Rainy Day Rocket Ship by Markette Sheppard, There's a Dragon in My Closet by Dorothea Taylor, and I Can Write the World by Joshunda Sanders.

Charly also co-authored The New Brownies Book: A Love Letter To Black Families which recently won the 2024 NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction.

[12][13] Palmer spoke at UCLA in November 2019 as one of the Regents Lecturers for the African American Studies Department about artists impacts on protests.

[15] As a part of the Black Lives Matter movement, Palmer was selected to do the July 2020 cover for the acclaimed Time magazine for the "America Must Change" issue.

[17] Also in relation to BLM, Palmer's piece "Speak with Confidence" was posted by celebrities online and gained media attention.