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Black History Month

In celebration of Black History Month, we are highlighting books, audiobooks, and films that honor Black Voices and Black Stories. You can click on any image and it will take you to either our catalog to place a hold or directly to the online content. Enjoy!

Biographies (E-books and digital Audiobooks)

Ebooks

His Name Is George Floyd
Racism Without Racists
My Seven Black Fathers
The Sum of Us
The 1619 Project
book cover Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
book cover How to Be an Antracist
book cover Just Mercy
book cover We Were Eight Years in Power
book cover Between the World and Me
book cover The Fire Next Time
book cover Dreams from My Father
book cover Black Boy
book cover Hidden Figures
book cover I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
book cover Me and White Supremacy
book cover The New Jim Crow
book cover Policing the Black Man
boo cover So You Want to Talk About Race
book cover The Warmth of Other Suns
book cover White Fragility
book cover Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America
book cover The Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
book cover Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
book cover #HashtagActivism
His Truth Is Marching On

Fiction Print Books

book cover: The Bluest Eye
book cover: Americanah
book cover: Such a Fun Age
book cover: The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
book cover: The Underground Railroad
book cover: Homegoing
book cover: Their Eyes Were Watching God
book cover: The Hate U Give
book cover: If Beale Street Could Talk
book cover: Sing, Unburied, Sing
book cover: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
book cover: Hot Comb
book cover: Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation
book cover: Kindred
book cover: A Raisin in the Sun
book cover: The Street
book cover: The Ways of White Folks
book cover: An American Marriage

Nonfiction Print Books

By Hands Now Known
America Goddam
The White Wall
His Name is George Floyd
The 1619 Project
America on Fire
Policing Black Bodies
The Sum of Us
The Trayvon Generation
Fear of Black Consciousness
The Viral Underclass
The Whiteness of Wealth
Just Health
The Devil You Know
How to Raise an Antiracist
Antiblackness
The Rage of Innocence
How the Word Is Passed
Civil Rights Queen
book cover March
book cover White Rage
book cover Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
book cover White Fragility
book cover Mothers of Massive Resistance
book cover What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
book cover The Color of Law
book cover
book cover The Condemnation of Blackness
book cover Locking up Our Own
book cover Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
book cover Sister Outsider
book cover The Fire Next Time
book cover The Fire This Time
book cover Hood Feminism
book cover Heavy
book cover Citizen An American Lyric
book cover Blackballed: the Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
book cover Ain't I a Woman
book cover Stony the Road
book cover Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
book cover Policing the Black Man
book cover The Beast Side
book cover Eloquent Rage
book cover On the Other Side of Freedom
book cover Stamped from the Beginning
book cover Me and White Supremacy
book cover The New Jim Crow
book cover So You Want to Talk about Race
book cover I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
book cover Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
edit Brown Girl Dreaming
book cover How to Be an Antiracist
book cover Black Is the Body
book cover Dreams from My Father
book cover Tears We Cannot Stop
book cover We Were Eight Years in Power
book cover Democracy in Black
book cover The Warmth of Other Suns
book cover But Some of Us Are Brave
book cover Men We Reaped
book cover From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
book cover The Social Life of DNA
book cover Thick
book cover The Wretched of the Earth
book cover Driving While Black
book cover An African American and Latinx History of the United States
boo cover Racism Without Racists
book cover Just Mercy
book cover Between the World and Me
book cover Hidden Figures
book cover The Sun Does Shine
book cover The Black and the Blue
book cover Dying of Whiteness
book cover Five Days
book cover No Ashes in the Fire
book cover Race for Profit
book cover Tacit Racism
book cover They Can't Kill Us All
How We Fight for Our Lives

Documentary Films - Streaming

MLK/FBI
Who We Are
Making Black America
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Driving While Black
film cover 4 Little Girls
film cover When the Levees Broke
film cover Black America Since MLK
film cover The Central Park Five
film cover King in the Wildnerness
film cover Traffic Stop
film cover Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
film cover True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
film cover Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
film cover The Skin We're In
film cover Baltimore Rising
film cover Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
film cover I Am Not Your Negro

Feature Films & Television DVDs

Harriet
One Night in Miami
Judas and the Black Messiah
film cover: Selma
film cover: Fruitvale Station
film cover: Hidden Figures
film cover: If Beale Street Could Talk
film cover: Loving
film cover: Do the Right Thing
film cover: Malcolm X
film cover: Dear White People
tv series cover: Dear White People (netflix)
film cover: Get Out
film cover: Black Klansman
film cover: Last Black Man in San Francisco
film cover: queen and slim
film cover: The Hate U Give
film cover: Just Mercy

Documentary Film DVDs

Black Boys
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
film cover: 4 Little Girls
film cover: When the Levees Broke
film cover: The Central Park Five
film cover: I Am Not Your Negro
film cover: Race: the power of illusion
film cover: Black America Since MLK
film cover: The Loving Story
film cover: Eyes on the Prize
film cover: Traces of the Trade
film cover: At the River I Stand

Digital Audiobooks

The 1619 Project
book cover Dreams from My Father
book cover I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
book cover The Fire Next Time
book cover White Fragility
book cover How to Be an Antiracist
book cover Between the World and Me
book cover What Truth Sounds Like
book cover We Were Eight Years in Power
book cover Tears We Cannot Stop
book cover The Sun Does Shine
book cover Stamped from the Beginning
Brown Girl Dreaming
book cover So You Want to Talk About Race
book cover Race for Profit
book cover Hidden Figures
book cover Me and White Supremacy
His Truth Is Marching On