A Celebration of Black Voices and
Black History
February 2021
Graphic Novels-Fiction For Adults and Teens
I am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina

The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store
Black Panther : a nation under our feet. Book two
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

While T'Challa assembles his few remaining secret police and allies to halt Zenzi's plot to overthrow Wakanda's king, Shuri's spirit travels through the Djalia, where she encounters astonishing challenges. Collects Black Panther issues 5-8. Original. 75,000 first printing.
King Shaka : Zulu legend
by Luke W Molver

Presents a graphic novelization of the life of King Shaka, a Zulu leader who consolidated his kingdom through warfare and the unification of local chiefdoms and provided help to white hunters-traders in exchange for tributes of ivory and guns
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur : Girl-moon #4, Girl-Moon
by Brandon Montclare

Lunella and Devil Dinosaur are lured by a voice from the cosmos and end up meeting Girl-Moon, but as they attempt to return they find themselves in a mirror universe
Sleepless
by Sarah Vaughn

"Lady 'Poppy' Pyppenia is guarded by the Sleepless Knight Cyrenic but becomes endangered when an assassin threatens her life in the new king's reign. As Poppy and Cyrenic try to discover who wants her dead, they must navigate the dangerous waters of lifeat court and of their growing feelings for one another"
Graphic Novels-Nonfiction and Biography
The life of Frederick Douglass : a graphic narrative of a slave's journey from bondage to freedom
by David Walker

Presents a graphic retelling of the abolitionist's life and accomplishments, from his birth into slavery to his escape and rise as a public speaker and the most photographed man of the ninteenth century
A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge
by Josh Neufeld

This graphic novel depicts the events of Hurricane Katrina though six true stories of New Orleanians who survived the storm, including Denise who experienced the chaos of the Superdome, and a Doctor whose French Quarter home was unscathed.
Six Days in Cincinnati : A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
by Dan Mendez Moore

Book Annotation
March
by John Lewis

A multi-volume graphic account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights covers his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his involvement in the Freedom rides and the Selma to Montgomery march
Sentences : [the life of M.F. Grimm]
by Percy Carey

In a brutally honest graphic novel memoir, an underground hip-hop icon shares the story of his life in the game--from the first time he picked up a microphone at a block party to the day he lost the use of his legs to gang violence.