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• Celebrate Juneteenth!

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  Join the City of Redwood City and Community Partners in celebrating Juneteenth through a variety of special programs throughout the month of June.

• A Black Queer History of the United States

  Snorton, C. Riley,

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  "Through storytelling and other narratives, Snorton and Bost show how the Black queer community has always existed, regardless of the attempts to stamp it out, and how those in it continue to fight for their rightful place in the world."

• Black Evidence

  a History and a Warning

  Smith, Candis Watts,

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  "BLACK EVIDENCE describes the centuries-old tactics used to deny Black truth...Candis Watts Smith shows how the sins of the past continue in the present and the cure is to believe Black people, to listen to their voices and their evidence and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Flyer

  Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

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  "With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman's surroundings and examines her kinship with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imagine Freedom

  Transforming Pain Into Political and Spiritual Power

  Tesfamariam, Rahiel,

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  "A former Washington Post columnist and founder of the activist online community Urban Cusp, Tesfamariam argues that people of African descent can break their cycle of trauma and Imagine Freedom only by decolonizing their thinking and clarifying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette,

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  "Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  "A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America." Also available in digital…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watermelon & Red Birds

  a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

  Taylor, Nicole A.,

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  "The very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor—who draws on her decade of experiences observing the holiday." Also available as an eBook.

• Black on Both Sides

  a Racial History of Trans Identity

  Snorton, C. Riley,

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  C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials-early sexological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 1619 Project

  a New Origin Story

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  "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  "Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  "A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  "A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain." Also available as an eBook and an eAudiobook.

• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey,

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  "A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country." Also available as an eBook and an eAudiobook.

• Black Liturgies

  Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human

  Arthur Riley, Cole,

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  "With a poet's touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today, Riley invites readers to reflect on their own experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, while also including liturgies for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Us What We Carry

  Poems

  Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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  The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.

• Sweet Taste of Liberty

  a True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

  McDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb), 1979-

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  "W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage." Also available as an eBook and eAudiobook.

• 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

• Unsung

  Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition

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  "An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Question of Freedom

  the Families Who Challenged Slavery From the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

  Thomas, William G., 1964-

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  "For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court."