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• Black History for Every Day of the Year

  Olusoga, David,

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  Black History for Every Day of the Year by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga, gives readers a unique and vital celebration of Black history, sweeping across the world and through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Like Fate

  a Blood Like Magic Novel

  Sambury, Liselle

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  While struggling with her new role as Matriarch, Voya has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future, and with a newfound sense of purpose, she vows to do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and prevent the destruction…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All American Boys

  Reynolds, Jason

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  When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March

  Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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• March

  Book Two

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March

  Book Three

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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• Cinderella Is Dead

  Bayron, Kalynn

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  Black, queer girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of 'Cinderella'.

• American Street

  Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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• After Tupac & D Foster

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.

• Black Girl Magic

  a Poem

  Browne, Mahogany L.

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• Flygirl

  Smith, Sherri L.

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  During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

• Dread Nation

  Ireland, Justina

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• My Name Is Henry Bibb

  a Story of Slavery and Freedom

  Cooper, Afua

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• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

  Philippe, Ben

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  When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

• Concrete Rose

  Thomas, Angie

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  If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If It Makes You Happy

  Kann, Claire

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• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah

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  At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body.

• Harlem Summer

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014

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  Mark takes a job in a publishing office, but what he wants is a chance to play his saxophone for piano-playing musical giant, Fats Waller. First he must make a delivery for Fats, but when the delivery goes awry, a gangster wants his money…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I Was the Greatest

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another…Read moreRead more of this annotation