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BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR | _ His Truth Is Marching
_ On: John Lewis and the
§ By Jon Meacham
All Boys Aren't Blue:
M This book is the biography
A Memoir-Manifesto
Me of the noted Civil Rights
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activist and U.S. Congressman John
By George M. Johnson Lewis, who found inspiration from the
This book is a collection Bible, his parents, and his teachers.
“ of autobiographical BIOG E840.8 .L43 M43 2020
essays by LGBTQ+ activist and
journalist George M. Johnson.
TEEN BIOG HQ76 .A37 J644 2020 i) My Vanishing Country:
A Memoir
. By Bakari Sellers
rah Black Radical: The Life +, In this part memoir, part
= and Times of William e historical and cultural
pea kan Sellers
WiILtLaIA M Monroe Trotter analysis, CNN political
TROTTER analyst Bakari Sellers reflects on being
Secuee By Kerri K. Greenidge
raised ina “forgotten” community
Harvard-educated William
in rural South Carolina with water,
ma Monroe Trotter edited
medical, food, and internet issues.
Boe tat Ss Ghatdigh a weekly newspaper
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with national influence that helped
spread his vision of Black liberation.
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The Dead Are Arising:
This is the first volume of
The Life of Malcolm X Be is presidential memoirs.
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By Les Payne and
Tamara Payne
Winner of the 2020
This Is What America
National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Looks Like: My Journey
Thirty years ago, Les Payne began
from Refugee to
interviewing anyone he could find who
knew Malcolm X in his attempt to correct Congresswoman [] »))
and supplement the historical record. By II|han Omar
BIOG PN487.4 .L565 A3 2020 Ilhan Omar arrived in the
United States from a Kenyan refugee
camp when she was 12. She worked as
a community organizer, graduated from
college, and was elected to Congress.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER STACEY Our Time Is Now: Power,
ABRAMS Purpose, and the Fight
for a Fair America
OUR TIME By Stacey Abrams
Black Fatigue: How
IS NOW Author and activist Stacey
Racism Erodes the Mind,
Abrams shares stories of
Body, and Spirit /)
historic and personal voter suppression.
By Mary-Frances Winters JK1994 .A37 2020
How Racism Eredes the
Mind, Body, and Spirit Black Fatigue describes the
MARY-FRANCES WINTERS
impact of systemic racism
on the Fer siocical and physical health ‘ PALL: The Purpose of Power:
“a oF POWER
of contemporary African Americans. How We Come Together
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HOW WE COME TOGETHER ())
By Alicia Garza
Black Software: The
Lifelong organizer
Internet and Racial
Alicia Garza shares her organizing
Justice, from the
strategies of forging connections with
AfroNet to Black communities, building multicultural
Lives Matter /] »)) coalitions, and encouraging all sorts
of people to fight for change.
By Charlton Mcllwain
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This book describes the roles African
Americans played in the creation of
the internet and the use of technology
to promote racial justice. Stakes Is High:
Life After the
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American Dream
By Mychal Denzel Smith
_ Five Days: The Fiery In a series of essays, the
~~ Reckoning of an author examines such
eae _ American City [) »)) contemporary questions as patriotism
and justice, freedom and inequality,
By Wes Moore with
incarceration, and police violence.
a Erica L. Green
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The story of the uprising
that responded to the death of Freddie
Gray is told through the eyes of key
REYNOLDS YEN Stamped: Racism,
Baltimoreans, including a conflicted
Baltimore Police captain, Gray's sister, Antiracism, and You
and the owner of the Baltimore Orioles. D By Jason Reynolds
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This book describes
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spread, and how to eliminate it.
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The Talk: Conversations
about Race, Love & Truth
Edited by Wade Hudson
' examines modern life,
) and Cheryl Willis Hudson
written in an African
m A collection of 30
American vernacular.
illustrated essays about © PS3613 .A77555 F56 2020
self-esteem, identity, and racism.
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of Black Beauty
Uncomfortable
By Kahran and
Conversations with Regis Bethencourt
a Black Man []
Using photography and
_ By Emmanuel Acho essays, this book celebrates the diverse
The author answers beauty of Black children, past and present.
large and small questions TR681 .B52 B48 2020
about white privilege, cultural
appropriation, and color blindness
in an open and compassionate way. JUSTUS Just Us: An American
H1T1521 .A24 2020 Conversation []
By Claudia Rankine
CLAUDIA RANKINE
This collection of essays,
EXPRESSIONS me Commentaries, images,
and poems explores the
study of whiteness and white supremacy.
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BEGIN
Begin Again: James
AGAIN
Baldwin's America and
Make Me Rain:
Its Urgent Lessons for
Poems & Prose
Our Own [7] 9)
By Nikki Giovanni
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
EDDIE §. GLAUDE JR. Noted African American
heSae rweer miaciec inngel a whftn eaSm aen beerran: =nAe UsAkE The author finds poet Nikki Giovanni creates
inspiration in the words and deeds
| poems and essays about
of James Baldwin, which help him
: | injustice, her family and
cope with contemporary America. nertce and contemporary politics.
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Woke: A Young Poet's
Call to Justice
| Say Her Name:
By Mahogany L. Browne
~ Poems to Empower
with Elizabeth Acevedo
ENA By Zetta Elliott
and Olivia Gatwood
SY A| This collection of This book is a collection of poems
poems celebrates by women celebrating the joys and
the creativity, strength, and spirit of passions of the fight for social justice.
African American girls and women.
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HISTORY &
Sister Outsider:
Essays and Speeches CONTEMPORARY
By Audre Lorde
ISSUES
mae This book is a reissue
and a redesign of the
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classic collection of
nonfiction prose celebrating “difference”
in terms of race, gender, and sexuality _ ABlack Women’s
by the noted poet Audre Lorde. tory History of the
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J By Daina Ramey Berry
» and Kali Nicole Gross
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empower and celebrate the contributions
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of African American women.
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== activist Kimberly Drew
explains why art is for everyone.
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Discontents By isabel Wilkerson
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Kingdom The Abundant World and interviews, the author
analyzes the eight pillars
Sows of Vegan Recipes
of the caste systems used in the United
1 By Bryant Terry
States, Nazi Germany, and India.
==" Chef and food activist
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basics of vegan cooking using
fresh and seasonal ingredients.
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OVERGROUND Overground Railroad:
Full Dissidence:
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Notes from an Uneven
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Travel in America
By Howard Bryant
AN UNEVEN By Candacy Taylor
PLAYING FIELD This collection of essays o@f B GLRAECEKN TBROAOVKE La njnd AcMeE RROIOCTAS
examines the role of CANDACY TAYLOR An illustrated history of
sports today, including player-owner The Green Book, a segregation-era travel
relations, the loss of Black identity, guide that listed hotels, restaurants, gas
and the myth of integration. Stations, and other businesses that were
safe for African Americans to visit.
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A Knock at Midnight:
A Peculiar Indifference:
A Story of Hope, Justice,
The Neglected Toll of
and Freedom []
Violence on Black
By Brittany K. Barnett
America []
This book tells the story of
By Elliott Currie
how attorney Brittany K.
Barnett successfully freed single mother Criminologist Elliott
and first-time drug offender Sharanda Currie describes the impact of
Jones from a life sentence with no parole. “everyday” violence on the lives of
African American men and women.
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Ce Lifting as We Climb:
~~ Wandering in Strange
| Black Women's Battle
for the Ballot Box [J Sra Lands: A Daughter of
the Great Migration
Mm By Evette Dionne
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M This book tells the story
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of the contributions
African American women made Cultural critic
to the suffrage movement. Morgan Jerkins explores her
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Bennett and her
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with her old flame,
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church deacon, guns EVER AFTER
bully, he surprisingly
down the local drug dealer.
winds up in a love triangle.
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play, and community activities.
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The Secret Lives
of Church Ladies
A Phoenix First Must By Deesha Philyaw
Burn: Sixteen Stories This book is a collection
of nine short stories
of Black Girl Magic,
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African American girls star in
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fiction, and magic stories. TRANSCENDENT Transcendent Kingdom
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graduate student from
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Ghana narrates the story
Wallace, a shy, queer
of his immigrant family’s
African American
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Midwestern university.
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