Donna Seaman's "Core Collection: New and Innovative Black History" in the current Booklist is just in time for Black History Month. It's always nice when someone else puts together an excellent reading list. There are biographies, family histories, memoirs, histories, women's stories and I hope that you can find one (or more) that stimulates your interest. I know I have.
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones. Ed. by The New York Times Magazine. 2021. [ebook]
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles. 2021.
- Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Young. 2011.
- A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill. 2019. [ebook]
- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood. 2021.
- Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph. 2010.
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. 2020. [ebook]
- Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African Americans, 1619–2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. 2021. [ebook]
- How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith. 2021. [ebook]
- Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg. 2017.
- Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green. Jan. 2022.
- On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed. 2021. [ebook]
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson. 2018. [ebook]
- Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope. 2021.
- Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black by Timuel D. Black Jr. and Susan Klonsky. Ed. by Bart Schultz. 2019.
- South to America: A Journey below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry. Jan. 2022.
- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain. 2021.
- Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins. 2020. [ebook]