🎇Celebrate Black History Month

 

"The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up." Henry Louis Gates

What do we think about when we think about Black History Month? We think about so many complex past and present struggles and triumphs that we wonder how they could all be part of the same month of appreciation--but they are. For that is what Black History Month is about: celebrating the achievements of African Americans and appreciating that there is so much more that we have to learn as a society in order to fully do so. 

To aid in that endeavor, we are displaying a collection of our books that celebrate African Americans, past and present. From nonfiction books on important historical figures, such as The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., or The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which delves into how the government, from local to national, has continued to make laws to enable the segregation of neighborhoods and cities in America. We also have many amazing African American fiction books, from Alex Haley's classic Roots to Colson Whitehead's powerful The Underground Railroad, and Langston Hughes's book of poems Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest, written during the Harlem Renaissance. 

If any of these seems intriguing--we welcome all to come browse!