Christ the King CWSP
The students of Christ the King Corporate Work Program helped put together the list of books for this guide, but also created posters for our physical displays at the LUC Libraries. You are welcome to download and print.
NCTE
The National African American Read-In
Hosted by the Black Caucus of NCTE and NCTE
Celebrate Black History Month by taking part in the National African American Read-In. Sponsored by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and NCTE, and endorsed by the International Literacy Association, the goal is to document readers making the celebration of African American literacy a traditional part of Black History Month activities.
Kanopy: Black History Month Collection
AALBC
Check out the African American Literature Book Club, the AALBC is a widely recognized source of author profiles, book and film reviews, book recommendations, event information, discussion forums, writer resources, interviews, articles, videos, and more.
Black History Month 2022
February is Black History Month - a celebration of the contributions/achievements African Americans have made in the United States.
"National African American History Month in February celebrates the contributions that African Americans have made to American history in their struggles for freedom and equality and deepens our understanding of our nation's history.
National African American History Month had its origins in 1915 when historian and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History...The celebration was expanded to a month in 1976, the nation’s bicentennial. President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
Since then each American president has issued African American History Month proclamations."
This guide is also highlighting titles promoted for the African American Month Read-In, the nation’s first and oldest event dedicated to diversity in literature established in 1990 by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English to make literacy a significant part of Black History Month.
Streaming Videos/Films
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Black LGBT Health in the United States by Call Number: RA564.9.S49 B53 2017ISBN: 9781498535762Publication Date: 2016-12-13 -
Black Women's Mental Health by Call Number: RC451.4.W6 B53 2017ISBN: 9781438465814Publication Date: 2017-07-01 -
Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men by Call Number: RC451.5.N4 G74 2020ISBN: 9781498567145Publication Date: 2021-06-15 -
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Farming While Black by Call Number: HD1476.U6 P46 2018ISBN: 9781603587624Publication Date: 2018-10-30 -
Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Call Number: Online & R853 .H8 W37 2006bISBN: 9780767929394Publication Date: 2006 -
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Head off and Split by Call Number: Lewis Library Main Stacks PS3556.I53 H43 2011ISBN: 9780810152168Publication Date: 2011-01-27 -
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Call Number: PS591 .N4 V56 2000 & Online BookISBN: 0375703004Publication Date: 2000-02-15 -
African-American Poetry by Call Number: PS591.N4 A345 1997ISBN: 9780486296043Publication Date: 1997-07-07 -
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Freedom Like Sunlight by Call Number: PS3562 .E9465 F74 2000ISBN: 1568461631Publication Date: 2000-08-01 -
The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Call Number: PS3569.H3234 R6 1999ISBN: 9780671028459Publication Date: 2009-02-03
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No One Is Coming to Save Us by "JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava's mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. And Don, Sylvia's unworthy but charming husband, just won't stop hanging around. JJ's return—and his plans to build a huge mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Ava—not only unsettles their family, but stirs up the entire town."--Jacket flap.Call Number: PS3623.A887 N6 2017ISBN: 9780062472984Publication Date: 2017-04-04 -
Rest in Power by Five years after his tragic death, Trayvon Martin's name is still evoked every day. He has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a child still in the process of becoming a young man, wearing a hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became, in death, an icon? And how did one black child's death on a dark, rainy street in a small Florida town become the match that lit a civil rights crusade? Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers, for the first time, those questions from the most intimate of sources. It's the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning.Call Number: E185.97.M372 F85 2017ISBN: 9780812997231Publication Date: 2017-01-31 -
The Mother of Black Hollywood by This 'Mega Diva' and costar of the hit sitcom black-ish bares her soul in this touching and poignant--and at times side-splittingly hilarious--memoir of a Midwestern girl with a dream, whose journey took her from poverty to the big screen, and along the way earned her many accolades.Call Number: PN2287.L434 A3 2017ISBN: 9780062410405Publication Date: 2017-11-14 -
Red at the Bone by "Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony -- a celebration that ultimately never took place"--Adapted from jacket.Call Number: PS3573.O64524 R43 2019ISBN: 9780525535270Publication Date: 2019-09-17 -
A Sick Life by As the lead singer of Grammy-winning supergroup TLC, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins has seen phenomenal fame, success, and critical acclaim. But backstage, she has lived a dual life. In addition to the balancing act of juggling an all-consuming music career and her family, Tionne has struggled since she was a young girl with sickle-cell disease, a debilitating and incurable condition that can render her unable to perform, walk, or even breathe.Call Number: ML420.W265 A3 2017ISBN: 9781623368609Publication Date: 2017-09-12 -
I Almost Forgot about You by Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.Call Number: PS3563.C3868 I53 2016ISBN: 9781101902578Publication Date: 2016-06-07 -
Hidden Figures by "Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens." -- Publisher's descriptionCall Number: QA27.5 .L44 2016ISBN: 9780062363596Publication Date: 2016-09-06 -
Sing, Unburied, Sing by A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature"--
Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.Call Number: PS3623.A7323 S56 2017ISBN: 9781501126079Publication Date: 2018-05-08 -
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by "The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, a committed pacifist, and a civil rights activist, she was an avowed feminist--a graduate student determined to pursue her own career--when she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, a marcher, a negotiator, and a crucial fundraiser in support of world-changing achievements. As a widow and single mother of four, while butting heads with the all-male African American leadership of the times, she championed gay rights and AIDS awareness, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for fifteen years to help pass a bill establishing the US national holiday in honor of her slain husband, and was a powerful international presence, serving as a UN ambassador and playing a key role in Nelson Mandela's election. Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an independent-minded black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful in the face of terrorism and violent hatred every single day of her life."--Provided by publisher.Call Number: E185.97.K47 A3 2017ISBN: 9781627795982Publication Date: 2017-01-17 -
The Ballad of Black Tom by "People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?"Call Number: PS3562.A8458 B35 2016ISBN: 9780765387868Publication Date: 2016-02-16 -
When They Call You a Terrorist by In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love, to tell the country--and the world--that Black Lives Matter. [This book] is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele's reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.Call Number: E185.97.K43 A3 2018ISBN: 9781250171085Publication Date: 2018-01-16 -
Hunger by Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.Call Number: BF697.5.B63 G39 2017ISBN: 9780062362599Publication Date: 2017-06-13 -
Old in Art School by Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, "You will never be an artist"? Who defines what "An Artist" is and all that goes with such an identity?Call Number: N6537.P23 A2 2018ISBN: 9781640090613Publication Date: 2018-06-19
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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Call Number: BP223 .Z8 L5745 2006ISBN: 9780809095049Publication Date: 2006-11-14 -
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Incognegro a Graphic Mystery by Call Number: PN6727.J573 I53 2018ISBN: 9781506705644Publication Date: 2018-02-06 -
Kindred by Call Number: PS3552.U827 K51 2017 & Online BookISBN: 9781419709470Publication Date: 2017-01-10 -
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I Am Alfonso Jones by Call Number: PZ7.7.M446 Iam 2017ISBN: 9781620142639Publication Date: 2017-10-15 -
Hip Hop Family Tree by Call Number: ML3531 .P57 2013ISBN: 9781606996904Publication Date: 2014-08-26The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars. -
Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin: the Complete Collection Vol. 1 by Call Number: PN6728.B519338 H83 2017ISBN: 9781302907716Publication Date: 2017-11-14 -
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New Kid by New Kid tells the story of Jordan, a twelve-year-old boy from New York City who's enrolled in a private school where he is one of only a few students of color. This is even more crushing for Jordan, as he secretly dreams to go to an art school. Jerry Craft's New Kid has become the first graphic novel to ever win the Newbery Medal at the 2020 Youth Media Awards in Philadelphia for being the "most distinguished contribution to American Literature for children." While other graphic novels have been considered for the medal in the past, New Kid had enough of an impact on young readers to clinch the esteemed title.Call Number: Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.7.C74 New 2019ISBN: 9780062691200Publication Date: 2019-02-05
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Who Am I Without Him? by Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real. Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top 10 Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in 12 short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relationships, testing out ways to communicate with one another, respect each other - and respect themselves. This is a complex, often humorous, and always on-point exploration of today's teens determined to find love and self-worth...any way they know how.Call Number: PS3556 .L287 W46 2004Publication Date: 2004-05-01 -
Revolution by It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.Call Number: PZ7.W6474 Re 2014Publication Date: 2014-05-27 -
Chasing Space Young Readers' Edition by Leland Melvin is the only person in human history to catch a pass in the National Football League and in space. Though his path to the heavens was riddled with setbacks and injury, Leland persevered to reach the stars.Call Number: TL789.85.M46 A3 2017bPublication Date: 2017-05-23 -
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