Black History Month is typically observed during February, but why stop there? Black history is part of our communal history, and there is a rich vein of fascinating stories for everyone to tap into at any time, for any reason. Here we present a selection for each age, from young children through adults…find them all in the catalog.
Explore the options, and don’t stop at the end of February; you’ll find yourself smiling and weeping, turning pages and learning — so much to still be discovered. Thanks to our friends at Brightly and at PBS for their lists.
- Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
by Jonah Winter - Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout; Dance, Spin & Turn It Out
by Patricia C. McKissack - A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
by Jabari Asim
- Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
by Tonya Bolden - Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
by Roxane Orgill - Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
- How to Build a Museum by Tonya Bolden
- Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Jackson
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
- American Ace by Marilyn Nelson
- March by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
- Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
- Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith
- Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
- Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward