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stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom
Khodi Dill - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive... |
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Black Internet Effect
SHAVONE CHARLES - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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With witty humor and a strong sense of self, musician, model, and technology executive Shavone Charles recounts her journey through Google, Twitter, and more - and outlines her mission to make space for herself and other young women of color both online and IRL.Pocket Change Collective... |
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Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
Tiffany Jewell - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid, Tiffany Jewell, this YA nonfiction book, highlighting inequities Black and Brown students face from preschool through college, is the most important, empowering read this year.From preschool... |
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And We Rise
Erica Martin - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks... |
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Tommie Smith - Norton Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist"Phenomenal . . . Timely and timeless, a must-read not just for sports fans but for everyone."?New York Times Book ReviewOn October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith,... |
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist will serve as a guide for teens seeking a way forward in acknowledging,... |
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The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
Heather McGhee - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.. The future can be prosperous for everyone,... |
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All You Have to Do
Autumn Allen - Listening Library
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.In ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, two Black young men attend prestigious... |
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Come Home Safe: A Novel (Blink)
Brian G. Buckmire - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn't commit. Come Home Safe explores the pain, the truths, and the hopes that come with growing up as a person of color in America, as well as why "the talk" and discussions about social justice are so important... |
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We Are the Scribes
Randi Pink - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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A young adult novel by Randi Pink about a teenage activist who is visited by the ghost of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman. Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator who frequently appears on CNN as a powerful Black voice fighting for legislative social change within... |
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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Alverne Ball - Abrams ComicArts - Megascope
Format: Hardcover
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In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed... |
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Unequal: A Story of America
Michael Eric Dyson - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America.The true story of racial inequality - and resistance to it - is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where... |
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Kekla Magoon - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that... |
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Veronica Chambers - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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In 2020, the world watched history being made in the streets of America. The rallying cry of Black Lives Matter captured global attention and spurred thousands of people of all ages, races, genders, and backgrounds to stand up for major progressive social reform. The widespread protests,... |
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Black Girl Magic: A Poem
MAHOGANY L BROWNE - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Black Girl, they say you ain't 'posed to be hereMuch of what twenty-first century culture tells black girls is not pretty: Don't wear this; don't smile at that. Don't have an opinion; don't dream big. And most of all, don't love yourself. In response to such destructive ideas, internationally... |
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train... |
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Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
Crystal Marie Fleming
Format: Hardcover
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Why are white supremacists still openly marching in the United States? Why are undocumented children of color separated from their families and housed in cages? Where did racism come from? Why hasn't it already disappeared? And what can young people do about it?Rise Up! breaks down... |
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When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter-- spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment.Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where... |
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This Is My America
Kim Johnson - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont... |
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... |
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Ibi Zoboi - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today - Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America.Black is...sisters navigating... |
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The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Infused with honesty, heart, and humor, The Black Kids is a true love letter to Los Angeles, highlighting the beauty and flaws of the city, and the people who call it home." - Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this... |
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One of the Good Ones
Maika Moulite
Format: Hardcover(Original)
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A shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting impact of prejudice and the indomitable spirit of sisterhood that will have readers questioning what it truly means to be an ally, from sister-writer duo Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.ISN'T BEING... |
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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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Say Her Name
Zetta Elliott - Jump At The Sun
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating... |
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Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought... |
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The Black Lives Matter Movement
Peggy J Parks - Referencepoint Press
Format: Hardcover
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Black Lives Matter was born in July 2013 after a jury exonerated the killer of an unarmed black youth named Trayvon Martin. Since that time it has become known as a formidable, often controversial, civil rights movement that seeks equality and fair treatment of black citizens by law enforcement... |
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