Diverse reading helps you explore other cultures with the hope to further your own personal understanding. Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. These books consist of a mix of work by Black authors and works about African American peoples and cultures.
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You Truly Assumed
by Laila Sabreen
In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths.
Follows Sabriya, Zakat, and Farah, three Black Muslim girls living in different parts of the U.S. who come together and run a blog called You Truly Assumed, a space for Muslim teens, following terrorist attacks where the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim.
Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now.
Ain't Burned All The Bright depicts the sentiments of a young boy's family during racial upheavals and the Covid-19 pandemic conveyed in the style of a notebook written by the young boy himself.
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
by Kristen R. Lee
This activist-centered contemporary novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of attending an elite university with a disturbing racist history--that may not be as distant as it seems.
And We Rise
by Erica Martin
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout.
In stunning verse, a poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement, from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people.
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr.
There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic.
Readers are transported back to the turbulent 1960’s through the eyes of the founders of the Black Panther Party. Interspersed with interviews from people who lived through the founding and ultimate demise of the organization, FREEDOM!
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