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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/10/2023

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother
by
James McBride

James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/9/2023

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Ambitious Girl
by
Meena Harris

When a young girl sees a strong woman on TV labeled as "too assertive" and "too ambitious," it sends her on a journey of discovery through past, present, and future about the challenges faced by women and girls and the ways in which they can reframe, redefine, and reclaim words meant to knock them down.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/8/2023

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Hair Love
by
Matthew A. Cherry

Zuri’s hair is curly, and it has a mind of its own. Zuri loves her hair. When her dad styles her hair, he works hard to style it the way Zuri likes it.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/7/2023

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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by
Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of a Southern love story. This novel is highly acclaimed in African-American literature.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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The Color Purple
by
Alice Walker

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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A Raisin in the Sun
by
Lorraine Hansberry

Hansberry’s play focuses on the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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All Boys Aren’t Blue
by
George M. Johnson

George Johnson’s memoir
manifesto is a biography written from personal knowledge, an essay on a learned subject and a public declaration of policy and aims

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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Cultivating Genius
by
Gholdy Muhammad

Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education.

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28 Days, 28 Authors. Black History Month 2023

2/6/2023

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The Bluest Eye
by
Toni Morrison

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different.

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