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Essential reading, for Black History Month or for anytime! Black History Month Reading List Browse All See all items Staff Pick How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith Current price: $29.00 This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. ... The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by) Current price: $38.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ... An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History #6) Kyle T. Mays Current price: $27.95 The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America ... You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Genevieve West Current price: $29.99 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture ... Recitatif: A Story Toni Morrison Current price: $16.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith ... The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Current price: $20.00 The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again ... Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam Current price: $15.99 New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly ... King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Daniel de Vise Current price: $30.00 The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. ... On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed Current price: $15.95 NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Bestseller ... Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Current price: $27.95 Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States ... Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones Current price: $30.00 The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. ... A House Divided: Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War Ben McNitt Current price: $32.95 Slavery is one of the central, most enduringly significant facts of U.S. history. It loomed like a dark cloud over the country's birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War. ... Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland Issac J. Bailey Current price: $21.99 In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in an America that still supports Trump. ... Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy Gayle Jessup White Current price: $27.99 A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved. ... Harlem Shuffle: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $28.95 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... ... The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $16.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida ... The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $16.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace ... My Monticello: Fiction Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Current price: $26.99 “A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle ... Staff Pick Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner and A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel) Jason Mott Current price: $27.00 ***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** ... Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain Current price: $20.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ...
Staff Pick How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith Current price: $29.00 This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. ...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by) Current price: $38.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ...
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History #6) Kyle T. Mays Current price: $27.95 The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America ...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Genevieve West Current price: $29.99 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture ...
Recitatif: A Story Toni Morrison Current price: $16.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith ...
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Current price: $20.00 The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again ...
Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam Current price: $15.99 New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly ...
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Daniel de Vise Current price: $30.00 The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. ...
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed Current price: $15.95 NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Bestseller ...
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Current price: $27.95 Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States ...
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones Current price: $30.00 The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. ...
A House Divided: Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War Ben McNitt Current price: $32.95 Slavery is one of the central, most enduringly significant facts of U.S. history. It loomed like a dark cloud over the country's birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War. ...
Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland Issac J. Bailey Current price: $21.99 In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in an America that still supports Trump. ...
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy Gayle Jessup White Current price: $27.99 A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved. ...
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $28.95 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... ...
The Nickel Boys: A Novel Colson Whitehead Current price: $16.00 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida ...
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) Toni Morrison Current price: $16.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace ...
My Monticello: Fiction Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Current price: $26.99 “A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle ...
Staff Pick Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner and A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel) Jason Mott Current price: $27.00 ***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain Current price: $20.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ...