Black History Month 2024 Featured Colllection
February is Black History Month. Celebrate community and culture, honor Black history, and recognize achievements of Black Americans with these featured titles. Search our catalog for more!
Adult Reads
- All That She Carried: the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
- An Amerikan Family: the Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley
- Barracoon: the Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
- Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: the Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick
- Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster
- Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
- Crook Manifesto by Colson Whithead
- Four Hundred Souls: a Community History of African America (1619-2019); edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
- Half American: the Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont
- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
- Home and Away by Rochelle Alers
- King: a Life by Jonathan Eig
- Music Is History by Questlove (Ben Greenman)
- No Right to an Honest Living: the Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
- River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
- South to America: a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Teen Reads
- The Awakening of Malcolm X: a Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
- Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson
- The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
- Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles
- Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins
- The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson
- The Davenports 02: More Than This by Krystal Marquis
- The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Ida, in Love and in Trouble by Veronica Chambers
- My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen
- Seeds of America 01: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tangleroot by Kalela Williams
- The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté
- Under the Heron's Light by Randi Pink
- Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice by Lawrence Goldstone
- We Are the Scribes by Randi Pink
- When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
Kids Reads
- Black Lives 01: Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden
- Chadwick Boseman King of Wakanda: a Hero On and Off the Screen by Chris Singleton
- Door of No Return 01: Black Star by Kwame Alexander
- Girls Survive: Lena and the Burning of Greenwood, a Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story by Nikki Shannon Smith
- Harlem Renaissance by Melissa H. Mwai
- Hope's Path to Glory: the Story of a Family's Journey on the Overland Trail by Jerdine Nolen
- Juneteenth: Our Day of Freedom by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
- Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
- Mama's Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. Mann
- Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key by Tracy Occomy Crowder
- Once in a Blue Moon by Sharon G. Flake
- Onyx & Beyond by Amber McBride
- Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- Recipes for Change: 12 Dishes Inspired by a Year in Black History by Michael Platt
- Sports Superheroes 01: Stephen Curry by Josh Cycel
- Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut by Charles F. Bolden Jr.
- The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anita Crawford Clark
- We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 by Shelia P. Moses
Picture Books
- Before the Ships: the Birth of Black Excellence by Maisha Oso
- Black Girl, Black Girl: Celebrate the Power of You by Ali Kamanda
- Bridges Instead of Walls: the Story of Mavis Staples by Mavis Staples
- Dancing Through Space: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights by Lydia Lukidis
- The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson
- Dazzling Zelda: the Story of Fashion Designer Zelda Wynn Valdes by Aura Lewis
- The Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford
- How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander
- I Heard: an American Journey by Jaha Nailah Avery
- Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: the Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows
- Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade by Yohuru Williams
- Make a Pretty Sound: a Story of Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children's Music by Traci N. Todd
- Mama's Library Summers by Melvina Noel
- My Hair Is a Book by Maisha Oso
- Our Joyful Noise by Gabriele Davis
- Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Stokes: the Brief Career of the NBA's First Black Superstar by Ty Chapman
- They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Film and Television
- American Fiction
- Bob Marley, One Love
- The Book of Clarence
- For Ahkeem
- Gospel
- Hidden Figures
- I Am Not Your Negro
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Invisible Beauty
- The League
- The Learning Tree
- The Little Mermaid
- Making Black America: Through the Grapevine
- Marian Anderson: the Whole World in Her Hands
- The Musicians' Green Book: an Enduring Legacy
- One Night in Miami
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Hate U Give