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Home » Services » Celebrating African American Literature

Celebrating African American Literature

Year of yes
See no color
Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
Negroland : a memoir
Between the world and me
The sisters are alright : changing the broken narrative of black women in America
Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
Balm : a novel
God help the child
The Turner house
The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird
Little Melba and her big trombone
The abduction of Smith and Smith : a novel
The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
Citizens Creek : a novel
Brown girl dreaming
Forty acres : a thriller
Ruby : a novel
The crossover
Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
When I was the greatest
Queen sugar : a novel
Josephine : the dazzling life of Josephine Baker
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