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Celebrate Juneteenth!

June 13, 2022

Juneteenth, held on June 19th, is the oldest national celebration of the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Commemorate this important day in history with books, audiobooks, and e-books that reflect on the experiences, struggles, and joys of African Americans. 

Nonfiction

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.

How the word is passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America by Clint Smith

They were her property white women as slave owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

We were eight years in power : an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates

The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart by Alicia Garza

A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Fiction

The underground railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead

Homegoing : a novel by Yaa Gyasi

Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid by Jason Mott

Conjure women : a novel by Afia Atakora

Roots : the saga of an American family by Alex Haley ; with a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley

Poetry

Citizen : an American lyric by Claudia Rankine

The Breakbeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, & Nate Marshall, editors.

The collected works of Phillis Wheatley edited with an essay by John C. Shields

Such color : new and selected poems by Tracy K. Smith

I am the rage : A black poetry collection by Martina McGowan

Other people’s comfort keeps me up at night : poems by Morgan Parker

Call us what we carry : poems by Amanda Gorman

Brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Children’s

What is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel

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