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Black History Month: Resources and Recommendations
Immerse yourself in the literature and lives of African Americans authors:
Fiction:
Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles *New!
November Blues by Sharon Draper
Bang! by Sharon Flake
See No Color by Shannon Gibney
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (plus Beloved, Jazz, Song of Solomon, and Sula)
All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers (plus Monster, Fallen Angels, and more)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (plus Look Both Ways, the Track series *New!, For Every One, All-American Boys, and more)
X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (plus The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi (plus American Street and Pride) *New!
Nonfiction:
March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
The Negro Leagues by Matt Doeden
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Locked Up for Freedom by Heather E. Schwartz
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Memoirs:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (plus Gather Together in My Name, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, The Heart of a Woman, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas)
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes *New!
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride *New!
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by multiple authors (edited by Ibi Zoboi) *New!
Plays
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Poetry
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Free Online Resources
Explore open access collections from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (includes primary sources related to civil rights, fashion, hip-hop, literature, politics, and more).
Discover people, places, and perspectives through BlackPast.org.
Learn something new every day with the National Parks Service's 28 Days of Black History.
View African American artwork from the National Gallery of Art.
Read poems exploring African American culture with the Poetry Foundation.
Learn about the influence of African American music.
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