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• Black Ink

  Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

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  Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word.

• The Undefeated

  Alexander, Kwame,

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  This inaugural title from Newbery Medalist Alexander's new imprint is a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Available in eBook format.

• The Tradition

  Brown, Jericho,

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  What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which weve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The King of Kindergarten

  Barnes, Derrick,

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  Joyful and empowering, this picture book celebrates the first day of kindergarten. Available in eBook and Audiobook format.

• The Yellow House

  Broom, Sarah M.,

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  This ambitious, haunting memoir of home, movement, displacement, loss, and persistence allows Broom to offer an intimate, closely observed history of her family over nearly a hundred years.

• I Am Enough

  Byers, Grace, 1984-

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  Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.

• Me & Mama

  Cabrera, Cozbi A.,

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  A young Black girl enjoys a rainy day alone with her mother, savoring each ordinary moment for the joyful expression of love it represents. Available in eBook format.

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  This transcendent tale of a boy born into bondage exposes the brutality of slavery but also shimmers with hope. When his mother is sold away, Hiram is gifted with a mysterious power which ultimately emboldens him to escape. Available in eBook and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Making Our Way Home

  the Great Migration and the Black American Dream

  Imani, Blair,

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  The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. Available in eBook and Audiobook formats.

• Song of Solomon

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  Song of Solomon is a powerful, sensual, and poetic exploration of four generations of a family mistakenly named Dead. Available in eBook and Audiobook formats.

• Sulwe

  Nyong'o, Lupita,

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  When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but a shooting star's tale of the sisters Night and Day helps her understand there is beauty and worth in every shade.

• Breathe

  a Letter to My Sons

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  A distinguished scholar writes to her sons about the joy, possibility, and grace of black life amid ongoing American struggles with race, gender and class.

• Look Both Ways

  a Tale Told in Ten Blocks

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and weaves them into one funny, poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enuf

  a Choreopoem

  Shange, Ntozake

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  From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th century. Available…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Days Past, All the Days to Come

  Taylor, Mildred D.,

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  Taylor completes her monumental saga of the Logan family of Mississippi that began with her first novel, Song of the Trees (1975).

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn

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  A road trip to retrieve their father from prison becomes a harrowing, haunted journey for thirteen-year-old JoJo, his baby sister, and his drug-addicted mother. Ward's lyrical prose brings the characters and the sweltering setting to life.

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red at the Bone

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment,…Read moreRead more of this annotation