Staff Recommendations

The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)

Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) Hardcover
By Lesa Cline-Ransome (author) James E. Ransome (Illustrator) – November 7, 2017

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2

Homegoing Paperback – May 2, 2017
by Yaa Gyasi

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Hardcover – September 19, 2023
by Michael Harriot (Author)

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen Hardcover – Illustrated, September 27, 2022
by George McCalman (Author)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Paperback – February 9, 2016
by Angela Y. Davis (Author), Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface)

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Hardcover -
November 16, 2021
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson (Authors) and Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator)

James: A Novel Hardcover – March 19, 2024
by Percival Everett (Author)

Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
by Mona Lisa Saloy (Author)

We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy Hardcover – April 6, 2021
by Natalie Baszile (Author)