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Boston Public Library Black is... sXele)4- ¥-]o le)0 ha nda l PNidterslaWavant=lalerslal experience 2020 EES ESE RSS ARMED SEO REO EC oo SSO NCE SALE OER BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR | Dapper Dan: Made |i n Harlem: A Memoir | By Daniel R. Day Tree: A Story of Courage, ae with Mikael Awake A Family, and the Nines ea | : The story of renowned ! fe Schoolgirls of Boko clothing designer Daniel “Dapper Dan" Laé wit Haram Day, from a childhood in 1950s Harlem, mem By Isha Sesay to stewardship of his eponymous boutique in the 1980s, to his work The author, a CNN host, details the being shown at the Smithsonian, story of the 2014 abduction of 276 the Met, the MOMA, and more. Nigerian Chibok girls by jihadist terrorist organization Boko Haram. BIOG F128.68.H3 D39 2019 BIOG HV6433.N62 S47 2019x | EARL Earl Campbell: » |T he Bold World: | Yards After Contact mp | A Memoir of Family &( By Asher Price Ri D and Transformation A biography of the legendary || g prteorkAemnusy AND |B yy JoJdoidei e PaPtatt terson | Heisman Trophy-winning go Thiers, of Texas and Houston Oilers L | Wife, mother, and activist (now Tennessee Titans) running back. Jodie ear ereen writes about raising her children, including her transgendered son. BIOG GV939.C36 P75 2019 BIOG HQ77.8.P38 2019 ci ndingM y vORS ‘| Finding My Voice: Breathe: A Letter Valerie bie My Journey to the | to My Sons West Wing and the me By Imani Perry el Path Forward | Scholar Imani Perry writes a ez a By Valerie Jarrett Gimme fetter to her sons addressing The former advisor to President Obama ae concerns about the struggles they will details her struggles dealing with racial face as young African American men in and gender issues. contemporary America. BlIOG E907.J37 2019 BIOG E185.86.P477 2019 | Ladysitting: My Year How We Fight for | with Nana at the End Our Lives: A Memoir | of Her Century By Saeed Jones | | By Lorene Cary In this coming-of-age Cary’'s brilliant narrative recounts m™ memoir, poet Saeed Jones both time spent with her frail but writes about his life as a gay African feisty centenarian grandmother American man from the South. as well as stories spanning five BIOG PS3610.06279 Z46 2019 generations of family. BIOG RC672.C374 2019 Ajnuostth er || | tJOour s tGU estAe n oWWthhhaeatrt YNYoiougu g eNrGe:oe td | Let's Play Two: rrr by Donald Cox |Th e Life and Times | of Ernie Ba mnks a ae Hiei MarshBaolno x lIne atdhiins g pmosetmhbuemro uosf tmheem oir, | By Doug Wilson Black Panther Party Donald Cox tells his | em This biography recounts story from his early life in Missouri to his Be Sane early years in the Negro experiences as a civil rights activist. Leagues in the segregated South through his 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs, BIOG E185.615.C692 2019 earning the nickname “Mr. Cub,” to his Baseball Hall of Fame induction. BIOG GV865.B24 R36 2019 = KD: Kevin Durant’'s Relentless Pursuit to | be the Greatest No Ashes in the Fire By Marcus Thompson II weet By Darnell L. Moore Legendary Oakland sports scribe ae: aimed author Marcus Sees This autobiography is the te story of Darnell Moore, a Thompson II delivers a poignant mi leading organizer of the biography of basketball superstar Kevin Durant. Black ree Matter movement. BIOG GV884.D868 146 2019x BIOG HQ76.27.A37 M66 2018 Notes from a Young ; Soulless: The Case | Black Chef: A Memoir Mnrccnera Against R. Kelly By Kwame Onwuachi | | By Jim DeRogatis PRKeLYE i a and Joshua David Stein | The co-host of nationally m™ The story of the Bronx- syndicated public radio show on Pea Beard Award-winning Sari Opinions and former Chicago Sun- chef and caterer. Times rock critic Jim DeRogatis followed BIOG TX649.062 A3 2019 R. Kelly's story for more than 18 years before creating this journalistic tour de force, a darkly riveting investigation of Kelly's alleged abuse of young women. Queen Bey: BIOG ML420.K37 D37 2019x | A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of : Beyonce Knowles-Carter Edited by 63b aS cie Survival Math: Notes on Veronica Chambers * an All-American Family This anthology is a collection of essays 6a | By Mitchell S. Jackson written by academics, musicians, and MITCHELL 5. JACKSj a This memoir details the cultural critics on the impact of the m author's early struggles, pop music legend. growing up in a Portland, Oregon BIOG ML420.K675 Q4 2019 neighborhood, blighted by drugs, crime, violence, and poverty. BIOG £185.86.J32 2019x 7 Smokin’ Joe: = The Life of Joe Frazier Sweat the Technique: » By Mark Kram, Jr. | Revelations on Creativity | This biography tackles the | from the Lyrical Genius Mm life of one of the greatest wee heavyweights of all time, Joe | By Rakim Frazier. Born a sharecropper’s son in ieee With Bakari Kitwana South Carolina, this biography traces his In this part memoir/part writing guide, rise to become an Olympic gold medalist, DJ and hip-hop artist Rakim discusses and the undisputed Heavyweight Boxing how he creates with words, music, Champion from 1970-1973. and rhymes. BIOG GV1132.F7 K73 2014x BIOG ML420.R279 A3 2019x The World According “Ine | The Last O.G. Cookbook: to Fannie Davis: My | ca| How to Get Mad Culinary Pom | Skills Mother's Life in the | Detroit Numbers |a tch |B y Tray Barker =. . oil 4 By Bridgett M. Davis A eieeten of classic African American pRivGert M.Davis | and multicultural Brooklyn recipes This singular memoir tells the story inspired by the hit TBS comedy TV of the author's mother, who took care series starring Tracy Morgan. of her loving family by running an illegal numbers racket out of her home for TX715.2.A47 L37 2019x 34 years. BIOG F574.D453 D38 2019x m™ Let Love Have the ast Word: A Memoir LET LOVE® | “wl SR iow House [HAVE THE | By Common |P} eLtAS T WeOaRrDn } wit: h Mensah Demary | ehh By Sarah M. Broom | «= |T his National Book Award- ‘ Mi Grammy- and Academy = winning biography chronicles oer -winner Common explores love in === _| the family history of Sarah all forms—his love of God, family, self, partners, and children. Broom, a descendant of storied New Orleans families. BJ1589.U66 2019x BIOG PS3602.R6458 Y45 2019 | Magical Negro: Poems EXPRESSIONS | | By Morgan Parker Mahotseaad The author of There PARKER |A re More Beautiful Things L mem [han Beyoncé and Other ™ Go Ahead in the Rain: Beniiee' Ss eiatan Keeps Me Up At Night | Notes to A Tribe returns with this 2019 poetry collection, Called Quest a broad exploration of African American By Hanif Abdurraqib womanhood. PS3616.A74547 A6 2019 | Poet and essayist Abdurragib, whose writing has appeared in The Fader, the New York Times, and Pitchfork, pays homage to the celebrated rap group A Tribe Called Quest. ML421.1762 W55 2019 WOTES FROM A BLACK peace Notes from a Black : i The Tradition Woman's Diary: Selected “g By Jericho Brown Works of Kathleen Collins 4)N EA recipient and “| By Kathleen Collins 6 Guggenheim Fellow A posthumous collection mu Brown explores Blackness, of screenplays, essays, stories, and diary meccone fatherhood, and gayness entries by artist, filmmaker, and writer in this 2019 poetry collection. Collins explores relationships: both as PS3602.R699 A6 2019 they are formed and come undone. PS3553.047485 A6é 2019 HISTORY & pow == CONTEMPORARY | | The Source of Self- See Regard: Selected ISSUES leo | Essays, Speeches, me |a nd Mediations “MORRISON By Toni Morrison r i Sia ai ™ Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner AN | AMERICAN An American Summer: Morrison delivers powerful cultural SUMMER Love and Death in commentary and meditations on topics || LOVE AND DEATH IM CHICAGO gj Chicago including Martin Luther King, Jr., James ‘seed By Alex Kotlowitz Baldwin, and her own works. PS3563.08749 A6 2019 _ S282 Reporter Alex Kotlowitz aie into the problem of urban violence by chronicling the events of a single summer in Chicago, as seen through | Talking to Strangers: the eyes of those most impacted. Talking ito Strangers || What We Should Know HQ799.2V56 K68 2019 e j |A bout the People We Malcolm |D on't Know Gladwell | fee By Malcolm Gladwell THe ee and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell cautions readers about their interactions with and assumptions about strangers. HM1106 .G58 2019x Reclaiming Our Space: The Fire is Upon Us: How Black Feminists Are James Baldwin, Changing the World from William F. Buckley, Jr. | the Tweets to the Street and the Debate Over Race in America | By Feminista Jones By Nicholas Buccola Social ore activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones discusses On February 18, 1965, American how young African American women are conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. and using social media to dialog about race, African American author James Baldwin class, and gender. debated the issue “The American Dream & is at the expense of the American Negro.” HQ197 .J66 2019 In this book, author Nicholas Buccola examines the radically different paths that brought Buckley and Baldwin to their aa Sacred Ground: positions that day, and the controversy | The Chicago Streets that still resonates long after their clash. | of Timuel Black E185.615.B77 2019 : swan By Timuel Black, Jr. B with Susan Klonsky peeemen historian, activist, and How We Fight White storyteller Timuel Black recounts | Supremacy: A Field Guide fascinating anecdotes about his life, to Black Resistance from his Great Migration arrival to By Akiba Solomon the race riot-torn Chicago of 1919, to mentoring President Barack Obama, and Kenrya Rankin and his life as a civil rights activist. Colorlines editors Solomon and F548.9.B558 2019 Rankin present a collection of essays by organizers, artists, journalists, comedians, and filmmakers on how they fight white supremacy. (THSET ORONAYD .| | | Stony the Road: E185.61 $6653 2019x peer ersten es | Reconstruction, White |S upremacy, and the * | Rise of Jim Crow | HENRY LOUIS | | GATES, JR. By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This book and companion television show discuss the post-Civil War triumphs of African Americans, and the eventual descent into Jim Crow. E185.61.6253 2019 | Genesis Begins Again | We Live for the We: | The Political Power | By Alicia D. Williams of Black Motherhood : |T een Genesis believes | By Dani McClain (oeenomestm, that her dark skin is partly | to blame for her family’s = | First time mother Dani Piel and financial struggles. McClain interviews other African American mothers about their J FICTION WILLIAMS A experiences during pregnancy and raising children of color from infancy through young adulthood. Hair HQ755.8 .M414 2019 [oVe| Hair Love By Matthew A. Cherry ' A young African American girl'Ssi e eit. her natural hair. What Doesn [ Kill You J PICTURE CHERRY M Makes You Blackel | By Damon Young Cultural critic for GQ and co- DAMON YOUNG founder of verysmartbrothas I'm Not Dying at theroot.com, Damon Young writes i with You Tonight humorous and pointed essays about | 4 By Kimberly Jones contemporary Blackness. Two Atlanta teens, one E185.97.Y632 A3 2019x African American and one white, must help each other when a riot breaks out at their high school football game. FICTION TEEN FICTION JONES K Let Me Hear a Rhyme Black Leopard, Red Wolt mee By Tiffany D. Jackson | By Marlon James fae with lyrics by Malik A lone wolf hunter me ’Malik-16" Sharif | reluctantly bands together | : mM with a motley group to | | Three Brooklyn teens we a mysterious lost boy. conspire to turn their murdered friend into a living hip-hop star. SCIFI FANTASY JAMES M TEEN FICTION JACKSON T Mycroft and Sherlock: Patsy: A Novel The Empty Birdcage By Nicole Dennis-Benn By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Patsy and her young and Anna Waterhouse daughter Tru emigrate This third book in the from rural Jamaica to Holmesian trilogy—co-written by urban Brooklyn where they discover former NBA All-Star Abdul-Jabbar— that all is not as they imagined. finds Sherlock and Mycroft facing off FICTION DENNISBE N against the Fire Four Eleven killer. MYSTERY ABDULJAB K The New Kid #2 Transgender teen Jam By Jerry Craft 8ga nd her best friend mm A timely, honest graphic =i Redemption encounter novel about starting over sae oe creature “Pet” and become Mm at anew school where monster hunters in a world that denies ae iS ae and the struggle to their existence. fit in is real. TEEN SCIFI FANTASY EMEZI A J GRAPHIC NEW KID a NIGKEL BOYS The Nickle Boys: A Novel UUzENIE| | Queenie: A Novel | By Candice By Colson Whitehead Carty-Williams In the early 1960s, two : When Queenie Jenkins, African American boys sail | a young British Jamaican COLSON WHITEHEAD ome fawt eanenrqeatne as from Florida are sentenced newspapere e breaks up with her to serve time at a corrupt reform school. latest boyfriend, she starts to question FICTION WHITEHEAD C her decisions and values. FICTION CARTYWIL C A Particular Kind ===| of Black Man JACQUELINE | Red at the Bone By Tope Folarin Bu! By Jacqueline Woodson An immigrant family y An unexpected teen from Nigeria struggles Y pregnancy brings together to adapt to life in rural Utah. E two families from FICTION FOLARIN T different social classes. FICTION WOODSON J ; aie : The Revolution : Speaking of Summer >. of Birdie Randolph F | By Kalisha Buckhanon ho. grinvic! ¥ By Brandy Colbert | Autumn Spencer becomes “SUMMER togf t 4 Teen Birdie Randolph's life | obsessed with solving mamma is rapidly changing. A good KALISHA BUCKHANAN m the mystery of her twin’s eens she falls for a troubled boy and death While dealing with the death yearns for more independence. of their mother. TEEN FICTION COLBERT B FICTION BUCKHANO K The Right Swipe A | A Tall History of Sugar TALI |B y Alisha Rai aeeweenee By Curdelia Forbes A Dating app designer This imaginative | Rhianna Hunter has career book tells the story success but no luck with mm— of two Jamaican eens ae, Will she finally connect lovers between 1958 and 2010. with sexy Samson Lima? FICTION FORBES C FICTION RAIA iy tristan Strong Punches Royal Holiday @ a Hole in the sky i By Jasmine Guillory » By Kwame Mbalia When Vivian tags along on Ww This epic fantasy book : her daughter's business trip > mal combines African American = ® to London, she’s excited to folk pernee and West African gods. see anee et but she hardly expects one J SCIFIC FANTASY MBALIA K will be the Queen's handsome private secretary with whom a flirtation arises. FICTION GUILLORY J