Black History Month
Reading List
FALL RIVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
A Selection of Titles for Children, Teens, and Adults
Picture Books
The ABCs of Black history by Rio Cortez. Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
Before She Was Harriet: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Holiday House, 2018
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy. Roaring Brook Press, 2020
Curls by Ruth Forman. Little Simon, 2020.
Maya's song by Renée Watson. Harper, 2022.
Me & Mamma by Cozbi Cabrera. Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2020
My Hair Is Magic! by M. L. Marroquin. Page Street Kids, 2020
Octopus Stew by Eric Velasquez. Holiday House, 2019
Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan. Thomas Nelson, 2022
The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney. Little Brown and Company, 2020
Fiction
Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2019
Rebound by Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
Root Magic by Eden Royce. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2021
So many beginnings : a Little Women remix byBethany C. Morrow. Feiwel and Friends, 2021
Tristan Strong destroys the world by Kwame Mbalia. Disney-Hyperion, 2020
True Definition of Neva Beane by Christine Kendall. Scholastic Press, 2020
Non-Fiction Titles
Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Black Lives Matter: From Hashtag to the Streets by Dr. Artika R. Tyner. Lerner Publications, 2021
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson. Puffin Books, 2016
Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022.
Explore the Cosmos Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson: A Space Science Journey by CAP Saucier. Prometheus Books, 2015
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2017
A Girl Named Rosa by Denise Lewis Patrick. American Girl, 2018
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. HarperCollins, 2018
Juneteenth by Emily Dolbear. The Child's World, 2021
Kamala Harris : Madam Vice President by Heather E. Schwartz. Lerner Publications, 2021
Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020
March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World by Christine King Farris, Scholastic Press, 2008
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rapport. Scholastic Inc. 2002
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittestein. Neal Porter Books, 2019
She Was the First: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisolm by Katheryn Russell-Brown. Lee & Low Books, 2020
Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil DeGrasse Tyson by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer, Crown Books for Young Readers, 2018
The Tulsa race massacre by Kara L. Laughlin. Childs World, 2021
Thurgood by Jonah Winter. Schwartz & Wade Books, 2019
Timelines from Black History Month forward by Mireille Harper. Dorling Kindersley, 2020
What is Black Lives Matter? by Lakita Wilson. Penguin Workshop, 2021
Who Was Booker T. Washington? by James Buckley Jr. Grosset & Dunlap, 2018
Who Was Coretta Scott King? By Gail Herman. Grosset & Dunlap, 2017
Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman. Grosset & Dunlap, 2010
Young Adult Novels & Graphic Novels
The Beautiful Struggle : a memoir : adapted for young adults by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Delacorte Press, 2021
The Black Friend : on being a better white person by Frederick Joseph. Candlewick Press, 2020
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020
The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes & D.J. Kirkland. Oni Press, 2019.
The chosen one : a first-generation ivy league odyssey by Echo Brown. Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson. Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
For Everyone by Jason Reynolds. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
Marvel voices. Legacy by Evan Narcisse [and others]. Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2021
Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed, Javier Garrón, David Curiel & Cory Petit. Marvel Comics, 2019-
Play the game by Charlene Allen. Katherine Tegen Books, 2023.
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam. Balzer & Bray, 2020
Reggie and Delilah's year of falling by Elise Bryant. Blazer + Bray, 2023
When they Call You a Terrorist : Adapted for Young Readers by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. St. Martin's Press, 2018
Adult Non-Fiction
An African American and Latinx history of the United States by Paul Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2018
And Still I Rise : Black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke. Ecco, 2015
A Peculiar Indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America by Elliott Currie. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Crown Publishers, 2020
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah G. Plant. Amistad, 2018
Becoming by Michelle Obama. Crown, 2018
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World/Spiegel & Grau, 2015
Black Boy: American Hunger by Richard Wright, HarperPerennial/Modern Classics, 2006
Black and White Airmen : their true history by John Fleischman. Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Black in Selma : the uncommon life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut, Jr., Julia Cass. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990.
Black Klansman : race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime by Ron Stallworth. Flatiron Books, 2018
Blood at the Root : a racial cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016
The Devil You Know : a Black Power Manifesto
by Charles M. Blow. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Driving while Black : African American travel and the road to civil rights by Gretchen Sorin. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020
Four Hundred Souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. One World, 2021
His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. Viking, 2022
Ida B. the Queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster. Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021
Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster by Stephen L. Carter. Henry Holt and Company, 2018
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 2019
Last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning by Raines, Ben. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2023
Legacy : Treasures of Black History edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna M. Wells ; preface by John Hope Franklin. National Geographic, 2006
Making choices, making do : survival strategies of Black and White working-class women during the Great Depression by Helmbold, Lois Rita. Rutgers University Press, 2023
Me and White Supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F. Saad. Sourcebooks, 2020
On critical race theory : why it matters and why you should care by Victor Ray. Random House, 2022
Midnight Rising : John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz. Henry Holt and Co., 2011
Say I'm Dead : a family memoir of race, secrets, and love by E. Dolores Johnson. Lawrence Hill Books, 2020
Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop by Smith, Danyel. Roc Lit 101, 2022
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2019
Stamped from the Beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Nation Books, 2016
Tears We Cannot Stop : a sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin's Press, 2017
The butler : a witness to history by Wil Haygood. 37 Ink/Atria Books, 2013
The Color of Law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Vintage International, 1993
The Fire This Time : a new generation speaks about race edited by Jesmyn Ward. Scribner, 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Broadway Paperbacks, 2011
The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. New Press, 2020
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup ; introduction by Ira Berlin ; general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; foreword by Steve McQueen. Penguin Books, 2013
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho. Flatiron Books, 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power : an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World, 2017
What Set Me Free : a true story of wrongful conviction, a dream deferred, and a man redeemed by Brian Banks and Mark Dragostino. Atria Books, 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. St. Martin's Press, 2018
White Fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press, 2018
White Rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016
FALL RIVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
A Selection of Titles for Children, Teens, and Adults
Picture Books
The ABCs of Black history by Rio Cortez. Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
Before She Was Harriet: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Holiday House, 2018
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy. Roaring Brook Press, 2020
Curls by Ruth Forman. Little Simon, 2020.
Maya's song by Renée Watson. Harper, 2022.
Me & Mamma by Cozbi Cabrera. Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 2020
My Hair Is Magic! by M. L. Marroquin. Page Street Kids, 2020
Octopus Stew by Eric Velasquez. Holiday House, 2019
Opal Lee and what it means to be free : the true story of the grandmother of Juneteenth by Alice Faye Duncan. Thomas Nelson, 2022
The Little Mermaid by Jerry Pinkney. Little Brown and Company, 2020
Fiction
Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2019
Rebound by Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
Root Magic by Eden Royce. HarperCollins Children's Books, 2021
So many beginnings : a Little Women remix byBethany C. Morrow. Feiwel and Friends, 2021
Tristan Strong destroys the world by Kwame Mbalia. Disney-Hyperion, 2020
True Definition of Neva Beane by Christine Kendall. Scholastic Press, 2020
Non-Fiction Titles
Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Black Lives Matter: From Hashtag to the Streets by Dr. Artika R. Tyner. Lerner Publications, 2021
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson. Puffin Books, 2016
Call him Jack : the story of Jackie Robinson, Black freedom fighter by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022.
Explore the Cosmos Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson: A Space Science Journey by CAP Saucier. Prometheus Books, 2015
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2017
A Girl Named Rosa by Denise Lewis Patrick. American Girl, 2018
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. HarperCollins, 2018
Juneteenth by Emily Dolbear. The Child's World, 2021
Kamala Harris : Madam Vice President by Heather E. Schwartz. Lerner Publications, 2021
Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020
March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World by Christine King Farris, Scholastic Press, 2008
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rapport. Scholastic Inc. 2002
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittestein. Neal Porter Books, 2019
She Was the First: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisolm by Katheryn Russell-Brown. Lee & Low Books, 2020
Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil DeGrasse Tyson by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer, Crown Books for Young Readers, 2018
The Tulsa race massacre by Kara L. Laughlin. Childs World, 2021
Thurgood by Jonah Winter. Schwartz & Wade Books, 2019
Timelines from Black History Month forward by Mireille Harper. Dorling Kindersley, 2020
What is Black Lives Matter? by Lakita Wilson. Penguin Workshop, 2021
Who Was Booker T. Washington? by James Buckley Jr. Grosset & Dunlap, 2018
Who Was Coretta Scott King? By Gail Herman. Grosset & Dunlap, 2017
Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman. Grosset & Dunlap, 2010
Young Adult Novels & Graphic Novels
The Beautiful Struggle : a memoir : adapted for young adults by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Delacorte Press, 2021
The Black Friend : on being a better white person by Frederick Joseph. Candlewick Press, 2020
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020
The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes & D.J. Kirkland. Oni Press, 2019.
The chosen one : a first-generation ivy league odyssey by Echo Brown. Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson. Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
For Everyone by Jason Reynolds. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020.
Marvel voices. Legacy by Evan Narcisse [and others]. Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2021
Miles Morales by Saladin Ahmed, Javier Garrón, David Curiel & Cory Petit. Marvel Comics, 2019-
Play the game by Charlene Allen. Katherine Tegen Books, 2023.
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam. Balzer & Bray, 2020
Reggie and Delilah's year of falling by Elise Bryant. Blazer + Bray, 2023
When they Call You a Terrorist : Adapted for Young Readers by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. St. Martin's Press, 2018
Adult Non-Fiction
An African American and Latinx history of the United States by Paul Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2018
And Still I Rise : Black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke. Ecco, 2015
A Peculiar Indifference : the neglected toll of violence on black America by Elliott Currie. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Crown Publishers, 2020
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah G. Plant. Amistad, 2018
Becoming by Michelle Obama. Crown, 2018
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World/Spiegel & Grau, 2015
Black Boy: American Hunger by Richard Wright, HarperPerennial/Modern Classics, 2006
Black and White Airmen : their true history by John Fleischman. Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Black in Selma : the uncommon life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by J. L. Chestnut, Jr., Julia Cass. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990.
Black Klansman : race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime by Ron Stallworth. Flatiron Books, 2018
Blood at the Root : a racial cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016
The Devil You Know : a Black Power Manifesto
by Charles M. Blow. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
Driving while Black : African American travel and the road to civil rights by Gretchen Sorin. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020
Four Hundred Souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. One World, 2021
His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. Viking, 2022
Ida B. the Queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster. Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021
Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster by Stephen L. Carter. Henry Holt and Company, 2018
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 2019
Last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning by Raines, Ben. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2023
Legacy : Treasures of Black History edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna M. Wells ; preface by John Hope Franklin. National Geographic, 2006
Making choices, making do : survival strategies of Black and White working-class women during the Great Depression by Helmbold, Lois Rita. Rutgers University Press, 2023
Me and White Supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F. Saad. Sourcebooks, 2020
On critical race theory : why it matters and why you should care by Victor Ray. Random House, 2022
Midnight Rising : John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz. Henry Holt and Co., 2011
Say I'm Dead : a family memoir of race, secrets, and love by E. Dolores Johnson. Lawrence Hill Books, 2020
Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop by Smith, Danyel. Roc Lit 101, 2022
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2019
Stamped from the Beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Nation Books, 2016
Tears We Cannot Stop : a sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin's Press, 2017
The butler : a witness to history by Wil Haygood. 37 Ink/Atria Books, 2013
The Color of Law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Vintage International, 1993
The Fire This Time : a new generation speaks about race edited by Jesmyn Ward. Scribner, 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Broadway Paperbacks, 2011
The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. New Press, 2020
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup ; introduction by Ira Berlin ; general editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; foreword by Steve McQueen. Penguin Books, 2013
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho. Flatiron Books, 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power : an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World, 2017
What Set Me Free : a true story of wrongful conviction, a dream deferred, and a man redeemed by Brian Banks and Mark Dragostino. Atria Books, 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele. St. Martin's Press, 2018
White Fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press, 2018
Buses Are a Comin': Memoirs of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person with Richard Rooker. St. Martin's Griffin, 2022.
White Rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016
Selected Adult Fiction
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley. Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2016
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Harcourt, 2019
Deacon King Kong by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 2020
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 2013
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Vintage, 1995
Luster by Raven Leilani. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin Group USA, 2019
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Knopf, 1995
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Riverhead Books, 2020
Selected DVDs and Blu-Rays
12 Years a Slave [videorecording]. Regency Enterprises and River Road Entertainment presentation. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2014
Binge Box : Black Experiences Volume 1 : Just Mercy, The Hate U Give, Loving, The Great Debaters, The Color Purple [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Binge Box : Black Experiences Volume 2 : BlacKkKlansman, Dear White People, If Beale Street Could Talk, Fruitvale Station, Do the Right Thing, Get Out [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Binge Box : Black History : The Birth of a Nation, 12 Years a Slave, Race, Red Tails, 42, Selma [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Blindspotting [videorecording] Summit Pictures, 2018
Harriet [videorecording] Universal, 2020
Just Mercy [videorecording] Warner Bros., 2020
Selma [videorecording] Paramount, 2015
The Butler [videorecording] Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2014
The Hate U Give [videorecording] Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2019
Downloadable Resources
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Available as an eBook and an audiobook on Overdrive.
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. Available as an eBook and an audiobook on Overdrive.
The Black Presidency [electronic resource] : Barack Obama and the politics of race in America by Michael Eric Dyson. Audiobook, available through OneClick Digital Media Manager.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones. Available as an audiobook or eBook through Overdrive.
The New Jim Crow by Alexander, Michelle. Available through Hoopla as an eBook or Audiobook, or on Overdrive as an Audiobook.
Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
The Tradition by Jericho Brown. Available as an audiobook or eBook through Hoopla
Selected Adult Fiction
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley. Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2016
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Harcourt, 2019
Deacon King Kong by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 2020
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 2013
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Vintage, 1995
Luster by Raven Leilani. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin Group USA, 2019
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. Knopf, 1995
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Riverhead Books, 2020
Selected DVDs and Blu-Rays
12 Years a Slave [videorecording]. Regency Enterprises and River Road Entertainment presentation. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2014
Binge Box : Black Experiences Volume 1 : Just Mercy, The Hate U Give, Loving, The Great Debaters, The Color Purple [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Binge Box : Black Experiences Volume 2 : BlacKkKlansman, Dear White People, If Beale Street Could Talk, Fruitvale Station, Do the Right Thing, Get Out [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Binge Box : Black History : The Birth of a Nation, 12 Years a Slave, Race, Red Tails, 42, Selma [videorecording]. Midwest Tape 2020
Blindspotting [videorecording] Summit Pictures, 2018
Harriet [videorecording] Universal, 2020
Just Mercy [videorecording] Warner Bros., 2020
Selma [videorecording] Paramount, 2015
The Butler [videorecording] Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2014
The Hate U Give [videorecording] Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2019
Downloadable Resources
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Available as an eBook and an audiobook on Overdrive.
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. Available as an eBook and an audiobook on Overdrive.
The Black Presidency [electronic resource] : Barack Obama and the politics of race in America by Michael Eric Dyson. Audiobook, available through OneClick Digital Media Manager.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones. Available as an audiobook or eBook through Overdrive.
The New Jim Crow by Alexander, Michelle. Available through Hoopla as an eBook or Audiobook, or on Overdrive as an Audiobook.
Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
The Tradition by Jericho Brown. Available as an audiobook or eBook through Hoopla
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke (editor) and Brené Brown (editor)
by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
by Amanda Gorman
by Sunny Hostin