Enjoy a selection of great adult, young adult, and children’s titles celebrating Black history this month and every month.
Adult Titles:
- https://encore.clamsnet.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2148897__Scaste__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=defBarracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
- Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
- Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri Greenidge
- A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
- Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore
- Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty by Kahran Bethencourt
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- His Truth is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
- Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Young Adult & Juvenile Titles:
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
- March: Book, One, Two & Three by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin
- Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
- Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
- Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
Picturebooks:
- 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.
- The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim
- Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
- Trombone Shorty by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
- Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Ebans