With Juneteenth season coming to an end, it’s a great time to share the short list of books that center personal and communal liberation.
- How I Search for My Ancestors by Woodrow Nash with Shelly Fraser Mickle (Pelican, 2021)
- Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth by Angie Thomas (Balzer+Bray, 2020)
- Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, 1991)
- Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Michele Wood. (Candlewick, 2020)
- Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne (Viking, 2020)
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand. (Frances Lincoln, 2020)
- Love is a Revolution by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury, 2021)
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Ember, 2018)
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2020)
- We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden (Oct 2019)
- The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman (Viking, 2021)
- Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson (Delacorte, 2018)
- This is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew and Ashley Lukashevsky (Penguin Workshop 2020)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World, 2015)
- When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2020)
- A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell (Viking, 2020)
- What to the Slave is the 4th of July by Frederick Douglass
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