BHM 2025 Booklist

The three mothers: how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs Library Books


Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Library Books


March by John Lewis Library Books


The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Library Books


On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed Library Books


The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X , Alex Haley , et al. Library Books


The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country by Henry Louis Jr. Gates and Cornel West Library Books


12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Library Books


Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster Library Books


The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander Library Books


The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron Library Books


Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Library Books


I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry by Catherine Clinton and Stephen Alcorn Library Books


Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood Library Books


James by Percival Everett Library Books


Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Library Books


All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson Library Books


I Have Always Been Me by Precious Brady-Davis Library Books


Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Harry Ziyad Basket Shopping


The Risk It Takes to Bloom by Raquel Willis Library Books


Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm Library Books


A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib Library Books


An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley Library Books


Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot Library Books


Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD Library Books


Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Library Books


Solitary: Unbroken By Four Decades In Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox Library Books


The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L Swarns Library Books


Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman Library Books

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