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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy... |
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The Silence of Our Friends
Mark Long - First Second
Format: Book
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As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families—one white, one black—find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs... |
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The Black Mage
Daniel Barnes - Oni Press
Format: Paperback
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Harry Potter meets Final Fantasy in this subversive original graphic novel where race, history and magic collide. When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community... |
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March: Book One
John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from... |
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LaGuardia
Nnedi Okorafor - Berger Books
Format: Paperback
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Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo and Nebula award- winning author and the writer of Marvel's Shuri, this deluxe trade paperback collects issues #1-#4 of the mini-series and includes artist sketches and afterword from the author.In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with... |
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Sabrina Jones - New Press, The
Format: Paperback
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"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."—Michelle AlexanderMore than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing... |
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Marvel
Format: Paperback
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A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting TChalla with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman... |
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I Am Alfonso Jones
TONY MEDINA - Tu Books
Format: Paperback
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Named to the 2018 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens list (Young Adult Library Services Association) and the New York Public Library's list of Best Books for Teens.Alfonso Jones can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean... |
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Hot Comb
Ebony Flowers - Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Paperback
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An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award-winning cartoonistHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming-of-age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond... |
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Big Black: Stand at Attica
Frank "Big Black" Smith - Archaia
Format: Paperback
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A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion against the injustices of the prison system remains one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American history.FOUR DAYS IN 1971 CHANGED THE COURSE OF AMERICAN... |
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover
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Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues... |
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Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1970s-1981
Ed Piskor - Fantagraphics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, plus the charismatic players behind the scenes like Russell Simmons;... |
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Black History in Its Own Words
Ron Wimberly - Image Comics
Format: Print book
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A look at Black History framed by those who made it. BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN ITS OWN WORDS presents quotes of dozens of black luminaries with portraits & illustrations by Ronald Wimberly. Featuring the memorable words and depictions of Angela Davis, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Kanye West,... |
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Superman Smashes the Klan
Gene Luen Yang - DC Comics
Format: Paperback
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The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!Tommy adjusts... |
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Don Brown - Clarion Books
Format: Paperback
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Sibert Honor Medalist · Kirkus Best of 2015 list · School Library Journal Best of 2015 · Publishers Weeklys Best of 2015 list · Horn Book Fanfare Book · BOOKLIST Editors Choice . On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrinas monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees... |
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Fights
Joel Christian Gill - Oni Press
Format: Paperback
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Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young... |
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Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business
David F. Walker - Image Comics
Format: Paperback
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Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate, but those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins split between curing monsters and killing them.... |
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Josephine Baker
José-Louis Bocquet - SelfMadeHero
Format: Paperback
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s,... |
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