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African American History Month

HistoryMakers

A video oral history collection highlighting the accomplishments of well-known and unsung African Americans, and African-American-led groups and movements.

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Books to Read This Month

The water dancer : a novel

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

We want our bodies back : poems

Moore, Jessica Care

Tough love : my story of the things worth fighting for

Rice, Susan E.

The Nickel boys : a novel

Whitehead, Colson

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age

Alexander, Michelle.

The mothers : a novel

Bennett, Brit

Self made : inspired by the life of Madam C.J

Bundles, A'Lelia Perry

Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)

Remaking Black power : how Black women transformed an era

Farmer, Ashley D.

Homegoing

Gyasi, Yaa

Lakewood : a novel

Giddings, Megan

(Im)perfectly happy

Harris, Sharina

Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories

Hurston, Zora Neale

How we fight for our lives : a memoir

Jones, Saeed

Song of Solomon

Morrison, Toni.

Redefining realness : my path to womanhood, identity, love &

Sing, unburied, sing : a novel

Ward, Jesmyn

Caste : the origins of our discontents

Wilkerson, Isabel

The warmth of other suns : the epic story of

Wilkerson, Isabel.

To Inspire Children

Homemade love

hooks, bell

The King of Kindergarten

Barnes, Derrick D.

Peekaboo morning

Isadora, Rachel.

Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry


The crossover

Alexander, Kwame.

Planetwalker

Francis, John.

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