💠Black History Month ðŸ’
Honoring the past, constructing the present, and making plans for the future--Black History Month is about all of these simultaneously. At Jessup Library we are honoring books representative of the past, including John Lewis's March graphic novel series about the civil rights march on Washington in August 1963, and Kathryn Johnson's My Time With the Kings: a reporter's recollections of Martin, Coretta, and the civil rights movement--and looking to the present with books such as The Fire This Time: a new generation speaks about race, edited by Jesmyn Ward, which explores race in modern society, and inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's beautiful collection of poems in Call Us What We Carry.
This Black History Month, Jessup Library is also celebrating the fictional writers who have influenced and represented Black artists in the past and present. From Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Alex Haley's Roots, and more recently, Colson Whitehead's seminal The Underground Railroad, our library has books for everyone trying to educate themselves about past, present, and future.
