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• Summer of Soul (... or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

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  In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion.

• March. Book Three

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020,

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  By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• People Person

  Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

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  Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really KNOW them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How We Can Win

  Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

  Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice),

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  A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win.

• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

  Mays, Kyle T., 1987-

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  Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S

• The Beauty in Breaking

  a Memoir

  Harper, Michele,

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  A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others

• Vagabonds!

  : a Novel

  Osunde, Eloghosa,

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  In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Cry for Me

  a Novel

  Black, Daniel,

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  As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

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  Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture,…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

• Sister Mother Warrior

  a Novel

  Riley, Vanessa,

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  Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Walk About in Freedom

  the Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

  Emberton, Carole,

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  Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tears of My Mother

  the Legacy of My Nigerian Upbringing

  Osefo, Wendy,

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  As a teenager, Wendy struggled to carve out her own identity while still walking the narrow path of her mother's expectations. Unwavering family loyalty and obedience gave Wendy the road map to making it in America, but it also drove a wedge…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Ghost of Empire

  the Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

  Manjapra, Kris, 1978-

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  The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Period

  on Personhood, Race, and Origin

  Geter, Hafizah, 1984-

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  A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn she's not worthy. At the same time, she manages to sidestep shame, confront disability, embrace forgiveness,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Immortal Valor

  the Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II

  Child, Robert, 1963-

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  Tells the story of seven African American soldiers in World War II who were finally awarded Medals of Honor for their service in 1993 based on the work of a research team at Shaw University in North Carolina.

• Black Joy

  Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

  Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M.,

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  "With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life."

• Born in Blackness

  Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

  French, Howard W.,

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  "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, 'Born in Blackness' vitally reframes our understanding of world history.

• South to America

  a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  "An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America." Also available in digital formats.

• 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