Staff Recommendations

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

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

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

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)

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

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives Hardcover – January 31, 2023
by Siddharth Kara (Author)

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

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)

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

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick (Oprahs Book Club 2.0) Hardcover – Deckle Edge, August 24, 2021
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Author)

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