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Black History Month: Staff Favorites
Navigate through the slides and click on any cover to locate the item in the PrairieCat Catalog. Many titles can also be found in Hoopla, Libby, or Axis360.
Biography and Memoir
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Michelle Obama - Becoming (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Billy Porter - Unprotected: A Memoir (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Ashley C. Ford - Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele - When They Call You a Terrorist
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Stephanie Johnson - Tanqueray (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Michele Harper - The Beauty in Breaking (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Angela Davis - Angela Davis: An Autobiography (also available in Hoopla)
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Jesmyn Ward - Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (also available in Libby)
Fiction
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James Baldwin - Go Tell It On the Mountain (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Tade Thompson - Rosewater
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Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Nnedi Okorafor - Binti (also available on Axis360 and Hoopla)
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Zakiya Dalila Harris - The Other Black Girl (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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David Walker - Bitter Root (also available on Hoopla)
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Brendan Slocumb - The Violin Conspiracy (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Jasmine Guillory - By the Book (also available on Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Black Panther (also available on Hoopla, and Libby)
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John Layman and Rob Guillory - Chew (also available on Hoopla)
Nonfiction
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Resmaa Meakem - My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (also available in Hoopla)
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Stacey Abrams - Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Terry Crews - Manhood
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Ricky Turner - And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
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Mikki Kendall - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Ibram X. Kendi - How to Be an Antiracist (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Michelle Obama - The Light We Carry (also available in Axis360 and Hoopla)
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Janet Mock - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More
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bell hooks - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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Hanif Abdurraqib: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (also available in Axis360)
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Isabel Wilkerson - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
Teens
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Nicole Yoon - The Sun is Also a Stor (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff - Long Way Down (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Justina Ireland - Dread Nation (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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George M. Johnson - All Boys Aren't Blue (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Jay Coles - Tyler Johnson Was Here (also available in Axis360)
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Dhonielle Clayton - The Belles (also available in Hoopla)
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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - Ace of Spades (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Kristina Forest - Zyla & Kai (also available in Axis360)
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Justina Ireland - Rust in the Root (also available in Libby)
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Dhonielle Clayton - Whiteout
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Angie Thomas - Concrete Rose (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Tracy Deonn - Legendborn (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Angie Thomas - On the Come Up (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Nic Stone - Dear Martin (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
Music
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Beyoncé - Renaissance
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Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection
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Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding
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Bill Withers - The Best of Bill Withers Lean On Me
"I know, I know, I know...you'll love this CD."
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
"Arguably Coltrane’s greatest album and one of the greatest albums in Jazz."
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Sam Cooke - The Best of Sam Cooke
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Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
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Tupac - All Eyez on Me
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Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
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Ray Charles - The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
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Solange - A Seat at the Table
"Standout track: Don't Touch My Hair."
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Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
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Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
"His music is a combination of folk, soul, jazz, Americana, roots rock, and country."
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Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
"Kendrick once again shows how his creativity and self-expression are at the highest level. "
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Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
"Anything by Prince."
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Trombone Shorty - Backatown