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New titles to explore in celebration of Black History Month

February 6, 2023 By Library Staff

These new books — and more books honoring Black history, culture, and authors — are on display in the Library. Come in and check them out, or connect to our catalog at the links below and place them on hold!

Black origins in the Inland Empire
Author: Skinner, Byron Richard
Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen
Author: McCalman, George
His name is George Floyd : one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice
Author: Samuels, Robert
My people : five decades of writing about Black lives
Author: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
The Black Panther Party a graphic novel history
Author: Walker, David
The high desert
Author: Spooner, James
Black women will save the world : an anthem
Author: Ryan, April
When they tell you to be good : a memoir
Author: Shakur, Prince
The world we make
Author: Jemisin, N. K.
True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson
Author: Kennedy, Kostya
The last folk hero : the life and myth of Bo Jackson
Author: Pearlman, Jeff
A visible man : a memoir
Author: Enninful, Edward
Bessie Smith : a poet’s biography of a blue’s legend
Author: Kay, Jackie
Truth‘s table : Black women’s musings on life, love, and liberation
Author: Uwan, Ekemini
Ride-or-die : a feminist manifesto for the well-being of Black women
Author: Hubbard, Shanita
The black man’s president : Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the pursuit of racial equality
Author: Burlingame, Michael
A house built by slaves : African American visitors to the Lincoln White House
Author: White, Jonathan W.
Black and female : essays
Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
Author: Obama, Michelle
Vigilance : the life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Author: Diemer, Andrew K.

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