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Black History Month

From politics to the arts, Black History is everywhere. Check out these books to learn more about the stories of important figures and lesser known tales of Black history.

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  • Black AF History

    the Un-whitewashed Story of America

    Harriot, Michael
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow, 2023. — 973.04 HAR
  • Queen Mother

    Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore

    Farmer, Ashley D.
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Pantheon Books, [2025] — B MOORE
  • A Dream Deferred

    Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power

    Phillip, Abby,
    Book, 2026New York : Flatiron Books, [2026] — B JACKSON
  • Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — B BALDWIN
  • The Black Utopians

    Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America

    Robertson, Aaron, 1994-
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 305.89 ROB
  • Black Detroit

    a People's History of Self-determination

    Boyd, Herb, 1938-
    Book, 2017New York : HarperCollins, [2017] — 977.43 BOY 2017
  • The Containment

    Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

    Adams, Michelle, 1963-
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025] — 344.73 ADA
  • The Swans of Harlem

    Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

    Valby, Karen,
    Book, 2024New York : Pantheon Books, 2024. — 792.8 VAL
  • The First Eight

    a Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation

    Clyburn, James E., 1940-
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — B CLYBURN
  • Racebook

    a Personal History of the Internet

    Onyebuchi, Tochi
    Book, 2025New York : Roxane Gay Books, 2025. — 303.48 ONY
  • Revolution in Our Time

    the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

    Magoon, Kekla
    Book, 2021Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2021. — YA 320 MAG
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    Book, 2010New York : Random House, c2010. — 304.8 WIL
  • Begin Again

    James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

    Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
    Book, 2020New York : Crown, [2020] — 305.8 GLA
  • Afrofuturism

    a History of Black Futures

    Book, 2023Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2023] — 305.89 AFR
  • Black Panther

    a Cultural Exploration

    Womack, Ytasha,
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Epic Ink, 2023. — 741.59 WOM
  • Those Who Saw the Sun

    African American Oral Histories From the Jim Crow South

    Avery, Jaha Nailah,
    Book, 2023Montclair : Levine Querido, 2023. — 305.89 AVE
  • Africatown

    America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

    Tabor, Nick,
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — 305.89 TAB
  • The Survivors of the Clotilda

    the Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

    Durkin, Hannah,
    Book, 2024[New York] : Amistad, [2024] — 306.36 DUR