This year’s Black History Month theme, from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, is African Americans and Labor, celebrating and investigating the many ways work is critical to an understanding of the experiences, history and culture of Black people in the United States.
Our display centers the wide range of experiences and expression in the work of the literary life. Here are a few of the titles we are reading and recommending for Black History Month this year:
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry and illustrated by Vashti Harrison
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free by Lee Hawkins
The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert
Let Us March On by Shara Moon
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks