S4, Chapter 5: Stories to Celebrate Black History Month

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February is Black History Month.  To recognize the month, we're recommending books (fiction and non-fiction) that helped us to better understand the Black experience in America across time.  Note: Stephany failed to mention the title her last book during the episode.  It is Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward.


Books Mentioned


Julia

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
• I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
•  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Stephany

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• Brown Girl Dreaming written and narrated by Jacqueline Woodson
• The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin, narrated by Kevin R. Free
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Other Mentions

• https://www.blackhistorymonth.gov/
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
• When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights (https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/)










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