Memoir
Taking Flight
Michaela DePrince, Elaine DePrince
DePrince recalls her path from Sierra Leone to ballet training and professional performance.
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Essays
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
hooks brings classroom experience to questions about freedom, authority, and participation in education.
Poetry
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
A novel in verse follows brothers whose closeness is tested on and off the basketball court.
Picture book
The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson
Children find ways to speak about their differences and begin making connections in a classroom.
Picture book
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes
Julia Finley Mosca
A picture-book biography follows physician and inventor Patricia Bath and her work in eye care.
Essays
The Ground on Which I Stand
August Wilson
Wilson considers artistic control and the institutional conditions Black theatre needs to flourish.
Fiction
The Mothers
Brit Bennett
A Southern California church community looks back on the choices and relationships that bound three young people together.
History
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Alexander traces the legal and political machinery of mass incarceration and its consequences after sentencing.
Short stories
Water Street
Crystal Wilkinson
Linked stories enter the lives of neighbors in a small Kentucky community, revealing their private and shared histories.