Black History Month: Books for Thought

By Alicia Baird

Black History Month (February) is fast-approaching. Here are some books to entertain you, educate you and inspire you.

Sidney Poitier

Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Lawrence Hill

The Book Of Negroes

Any Known Blood

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

J. California Cooper

The Wake of the Wind

The Future Has a Past: Stories

Uwem Akpan

Say You’re One of Them

Austin Clarke

The Polished Hoe

Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Jacob Hoye

Tupac: Resurrection

Barbara Smucker

Underground To Canada

Eric Jerome Dickey

Genevieve

Liar’s Game

Hill Harper

Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny

Letters to a Young Sister DeFINE Your Destiny

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