Staff recommendations
For Youth:
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson
The Book Itch by Vaunda Michaeux Nelson
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Miles Morales by Jason Reynolds
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
March Trilogy by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Teens & Adults)
Black History Month Picture Books
YouTube Playlist of Black History Month Picture Books
Youth Booklists:
Black Creators: Authors, Illustrators, & Protagonists (Picture Books)
Printable Version
Black Creators: Authors, Illustrators, & Protagonists (Chapter Books)
Printable Version
Black Excellence: People, Places, Culture, & Historical Events (Children's Nonfiction)
Printable Version
Walk in Someone Else's Shoes: Diverse Books for Teens (Authors A-L)
Walk in Someone Else's Shoes: Diverse Books for Teens (Authors M-Z)
Printable Version
Poetry and essays
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Podcasts
Movies
If Beale Street Could Talk [and the novel by James Baldwin]
The Urban SUN: Black Voices Book Club meets on the fourth Sunday of the month at 3:00 pm via Zoom.
Fiction and Nonfiction stories
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color of Water by James McBride
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Cookbooks
Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing by Jerelle Guy
Sweet Home Cafe: A Celebration of African American Cooking by Albert Lukas