Celebrating Black History and Culture

In honor of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight a few of the many titles that explore black history and culture, and celebrate the incredible works created by black authors, illustrators, producers, actors and others that bring these stories to life. We encourage you to explore the thought provoking and entertaining works in this list and beyond.

Fiction  

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates  

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray  

The Deep by Rivers Solomon   

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson 

Non-Fiction   

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard -- Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin  

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin  

The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait by Linda Soloman 

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison   

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis   

The Yellow House by Sarah Broom  

Feature Film 

If Beale Street Could Talk (2019) 

The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) 

Fast Color (2019) 

Harriet (2019) 

Roots (2011) 

Selma (2014) 

Us (2019) 

Documentary  

Amazing Grace (2019) 

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2013) 

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

Juvenile Fiction  

Freedom Bird: A Tale of Hope and Courage by Jerdine Nolen  

Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson  

Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives by Eloise Greenfield  

Juvenile Non-fiction  

A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. And the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein & Jerry Pinkney  

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley  

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks by Alice Faye Duncan  

Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison  

Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues by Leah Henderson   

The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta  

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard & Oge Mora  

Young Adult Fiction  

Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden  

Young Adult Non-fiction  

Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone  

Trouble Maker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman