February 2022 - July 2023
New to the Black Book Nook
America made me a Black man : a memoir
Boyah J. Farah
Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
Shomari Wills
Black roses : odes celebrating powerful Black women
Harold Green
Building the Black Arts movement : Hoyt Fuller and the cultural politics of the 1960s
Jonathan Fenderson
Choosing family : a memoir of queer motherhood and Black resistance
Francesca T. Royster
Darkwater : voices from within the veil
W. E. B. Du Bois
Driving the Green book : a road trip through the living history of Black resistance
Alvin D. Hall
I saw death coming : a history of terror and survival in the war against Reconstruction
Kidada E. Williams
Lift every voice : a celebration of black lives
Hearst Books (Firm)
The mis-education of the Negro
Carter Godwin Woodson
Paul Laurence Dunbar : the life and times of a caged bird
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop
Danyel Smith
Stokely : a life
Peniel E. Joseph
Vigilance : the life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Andrew K. Diemer
Bigger than bravery : Black resilience and reclamation in a time of pandemic
Valerie Boyd
Black love matters : real talk on romance, being seen, and happily ever afters
Jessica P. Pryde
Black women will save the world : an anthem
April Ryan
Canaan Land : a religious history of African Americans
Albert J. Raboteau
Chrome valley : poems
Mahogany L. Browne
Defining moments in black history : reading between the lies
Dick Gregory
The Future of Black : Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
Gary Jackson
The Idealist : Jack Trice and the Fight for a Forgotten Football Legacy
M.D. Gelber, Jonathan
Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
Harriet A. Washington
The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride
David J. Dennis
Quilt of souls : a memoir
Phyllis Biffle Elmore
Sleeping with the ancestors : how I followed the footprints of slavery
Joseph McGill
The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Black folk : the roots of the Black working class
Blair Murphy Kelley
Black oak : odes celebrating powerful Black men
Harold Green
Breath better spent : living Black girlhood
DaMaris B. Hill
Casual conversation
Renia White
A darker wilderness : Black nature writing from soil to stars
Erin Sharkey
The devil's half acre : the untold story of how one woman liberated the South's most notorious slave jail
Kristen Green
Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad
Matthew F. Delmont
Illustrated Black history : honoring the iconic and the unseen
George McCalman
Message to the Blackman in America
Elijah Muhammad
Ordinary notes
Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
Saying it loud : 1966--the year Black power challenged the civil rights movement
Mark Whitaker
The state of black America : progress, pitfalls, and the promise of the Republic
W. B. Allen
Twice forgotten : African Americans and the Korean War, an oral history
David P. Cline
The wounded world : W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
Chad Louis Williams
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