Staff Recommendations

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Paperback – June 4, 2024
by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator), The New York Times Magazine (Creator), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Paperback – February 1, 2022
by Tiya Miles (Author)

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

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

Empire of Cotton: A Global History Paperback – November 10, 2015
by Sven Beckert

Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Revised Edition
by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist

Homegoing Paperback – May 2, 2017
by Yaa Gyasi

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Paperback – January 7, 2020
by Michelle Alexander

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts paperback – June 1, 2021 by Rebecca Hall (Author) and Hugo Martinez (Illustrator)

Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook Hardcover - March 1, 2021 by Michael W. Twitty

Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) Paperback – May 1, 2022
by Michael Lawrence Dickinson (Author)