Black History Month

American wings : Chicago’s pioneering Black aviators and the race for equality in the sky / by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein.

Blackbirds singing : inspiring Black women’s speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century / Janet Dewart Bell, PhD.

Black writers of the founding era, 1760-1800 / James G. Basker, editor with Nicole Seary foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.

Black TV : five decades of groundbreaking television from Soul train to Black-ish and beyond / Bethonie Butler.

Black love letters / edited by Cole Brown and Natalie Johnson art by Natalie Johnson [foreword by John Legend]

Make your own history : timeless truths from Black American trailblazers / Joseph H. Holland.

Razzle dazzle : new and selected poems, 2002-2022 / Major Jackson.

Black punk now : fiction, nonfiction, and comics / edited by James Spooner, Chris L. Terry.

Juke joints, jazz clubs & juice : cocktails from two centuries of African American cookbooks / Toni Tipton-Martin photographs by Brittany Conerly.

Historically Black colleges and universities’ guide to excellence / William R. Harvey.

Sing a Black girl’s song : the unpublished work of Ntozake Shange / edited by Imani Perry foreword by Tarana Burke.

The Black Angels : the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis. / Maria Smilios.

Rocket men : the Black quarterbacks who revolutionized pro football / John Eisenberg.

For the culture : phenomenal Black women and femmes in food : interviews, inspiration, and recipes / Klancy Miller photography by Kelly Marshall illustrations by Sarah Madden.

The first migrants : how Black homesteaders’ quest for land and freedom heralded America’s Great Migration / Richard Edwards and Jacob K Friefeld preface by Angela Bates.

How we do it : Black writers on craft, practice, and skill / edited by Jericho Brown presented by the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

Black folk : the roots of the Black working class / Blair LM Kelley.

Beyond the shores : a history of African Americans abroad / Tamara J. Walker.

Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures / edited by Kevin M. Strait, Kinshasha Holman Conwill foreword by Kevin Young contributions by Reynaldo Anderson [and 20 others] in association with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Black earth wisdom : soulful conversations with Black environmentalists / edited by Leah Penniman.

Where I’m coming from : selected strips 1991-2005 / by Barbara Brandon-Croft.

Black women writers at work / edited by Claudia Tate foreword by Tillie Olsen.

BLK ART : the audacious legacy of Black artists and models in Western art / Zaria Ware.

The new guys : the historic class of astronauts that broke barriers and changed the face of space travel / Meredith Bagby.

I can’t wait to call you my wife : African American letters of love and family in the Civil War era / by Rita Roberts.

Historically Black : American icons who attended HBCUs / Alonzo Vereen illustrated by Gordon Rowe.

Twice as hard : the stories of Black women who fought to become physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century / Jasmine Brown.

Aphrochic : celebrating the legacy of the Black family home / Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays photographs by Patrick Cline.

Black women will save the world : an anthem / April Ryan.

American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America’s first paramedics / Kevin Hazzard.

Isn’t her grace amazing! : the women who changed gospel music / Cheryl Wills.

Unbossed : how Black girls are leading the way / Khristi Lauren Adams foreword by Chanequa Walker-Barnes.

Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II / Robert Child.

Carved in ebony : lessons from the black women who shape us / Jasmine L. Holmes.