Celebrating Black History Month 2021
Nonfiction titles
New This Month...
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi

Co-edited by the National Book Award-winning author of How to Be an Antiracist, a 400-year chronicle of African-American history is written in five-year segments as documented by 80 multidisciplinary historians, artists and writers.
Aftershocks : a memoir
by Nadia Owusu

An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets. 
Just as I am : a memoir
by Cicely Tyson

The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.
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Surpassing certainty : what my twenties taught me
by Janet Mock

The transgender activist presents a memoir of her search for purpose, love, and self-realization in an early adulthood marked by her education at the University of Hawaii, a defining relationship, and her entry into journalism
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander

Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race
Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement
by Angela Y. Davis

The renowned activist and scholar discusses state violence and oppression, including such issues as prison abolitionism and the South African antiapartheid movement
How we fight for our lives : a memoir
by Saeed Jones

The co-host of BuzzFeed’s AM to DM, award-winning poet and author of Prelude to Bruise documents his coming-of-age as a young, gay, black man in an American South at a crossroads of sex, race and power. 
Black skin, white masks
by Frantz Fanon

An updated translation of the author's seminal work on black identity and race theory offers insight into its influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements throughout the world.