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Banned & Challenged

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto By George M. Johnson Cover Image
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
Chocolate Me! By Taye Diggs, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image

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Black Panthers

To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton By Huey Newton, Toni Morrison (Editor), Elaine Brown (Introduction by) Cover Image
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party By Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Cover Image
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party (New Edition) By Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kathleen Cleaver (Introduction by) Cover Image
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers By Stephen Shames (By (photographer)), Bobby Seale Cover Image
The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs By Huey P Newton Foundation, David Hilliard (Editor), Cornel West (Foreword by) Cover Image
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination By Alondra Nelson Cover Image

Beloved Fiction

Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
Invisible Man (Vintage International) By Ralph Ellison Cover Image
Beloved (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Novel (Easy Rawlins Mystery #5) By Walter Mosley Cover Image
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Tayari Jones Cover Image
The Street By Ann Petry, Tayari Jones (Introduction by) Cover Image

Fiction

The Vanishing Half: A Novel By Brit Bennett Cover Image
Deacon King Kong: A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
Transcendent Kingdom: A novel By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel By Akwaeke Emezi Cover Image
Such a Fun Age By Kiley Reid Cover Image
It's Not All Downhill From Here: A Novel By Terry McMillan Cover Image

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities #1) By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
Who Fears Death By Nnedi Okorafor Cover Image
My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series #1) By Tananarive Due Cover Image

Teen Fiction and Nonfiction

One Crazy Summer: A Newbery Honor Award Winner By Rita Williams-Garcia Cover Image
Dragons in a Bag By Zetta Elliott, Geneva B (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them By Junauda Petrus Cover Image
Jackpot By Nic Stone Cover Image
Dear Martin By Nic Stone Cover Image
The Boy in the Black Suit By Jason Reynolds Cover Image

Children's Books

Ada Twist, Scientist (The Questioneers) By Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Undefeated By Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator) Cover Image
Islandborn By Junot Díaz, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator) Cover Image
Firebird By Misty Copeland, Christopher Myers (Illustrator) Cover Image
Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea By Meena Harris, Ana Ramírez González (Illustrator) Cover Image
I Got the School Spirit By Connie Schofield-Morrison, Frank Morrison (Illustrator) Cover Image

Anti-Racism and Allyship

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Cover Image
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness By Austin Channing Brown Cover Image
How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image

Children’s Anti-Racism and Allyship

Let's Talk About Race By Julius Lester, Karen Barbour (Illustrator) Cover Image
Race Cars By Jenny Devenny Cover Image
Antiracist Baby Board Book By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator) Cover Image
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice By Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard Cover Image
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) By Anastasia Higginbotham Cover Image
All Are Welcome By Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator) Cover Image

History

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans By Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor), Earl Lewis (Editor) Cover Image
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America By Candacy Taylor Cover Image
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross Cover Image
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) By Paul Ortiz Cover Image
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #3) By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Cover Image

Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoir

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) By Sarah M. Broom Cover Image
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir By André Leon Talley Cover Image
The Autobiography of Malcolm X By MALCOLM X Cover Image
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body By Roxane Gay Cover Image
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol By Nell Irvin Painter Cover Image
Assata: An Autobiography By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image

Black Feminisms and Queer Thought

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Cover Image
Thick: And Other Essays By Tressie McMillan Cottom Cover Image
Assata: An Autobiography By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor) Cover Image
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals By Saidiya Hartman Cover Image
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by) Cover Image

Black Politics

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
Chokehold: Policing Black Men By Paul Butler Cover Image
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment By Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis Cover Image
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by) Cover Image
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America By Michael Eric Dyson Cover Image
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Cover Image

Celebrating Latinx Voices

An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) By Paul Ortiz Cover Image
Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas By Marc James Léger (Editor), David Tomas (Editor), Emory Douglas (With) Cover Image
Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices By Lara Medina (Editor), Martha R. Gonzales (Editor) Cover Image
AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez By Lynda Lopez Cover Image
No One Is Illegal (Updated Edition): Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border By Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis Cover Image
Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image

Children's and YA Latinx Stories

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation By Duncan Tonatiuh Cover Image
My Papi Has a Motorcycle By Isabel Quintero, Zeke Peña (Illustrator) Cover Image
Sulwe By Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison (Illustrator) Cover Image
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music By Margarita Engle, Rafael López (Illustrator) Cover Image
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré By Anika Aldamuy Denise, Paola Escobar (Illustrator) Cover Image
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella By Robert D. San Souci, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) Cover Image

Nonfiction

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve By Rheeda Walker, Na'im Akbar (Foreword by) Cover Image
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America By Gilbert King Cover Image
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership By Ed Gordon Cover Image
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools By Monique Morris, Mankaprr Conteh (Foreword by), Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by) Cover Image
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by) Cover Image
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present By Harriet A. Washington Cover Image

Spooky Season

The Good House: A Novel By Tananarive Due Cover Image
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel By Oyinkan Braithwaite Cover Image
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora By Sheree R. Thomas Cover Image
How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
Wild Seed (Patternist #1) By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
Lovecraft Country: A Novel By Matt Ruff Cover Image

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