Staff Recommendations

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

Everyday Ubuntu: Living better together, the African way Hardcover – International Edition, September 19, 2019
by Nompumelelo Mungi Ngomane (Author)

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

The American Daughters: A Novel Hardcover – February 27, 2024
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Author)

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

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Hardcover – October 23, 2018
by n/a The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Author), Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)

Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table Hardcover – February 7, 2023 by Toya Boudy

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

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

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking Hardcover - November 5, 2019 by Toni Tipton-Martin (Author) & Jerrelle Guy (Photographer)

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

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