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• Poemhood

  Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology

  McBride, Amber

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• Shovels Not Rifles

  a Novel

  Wesley, Gloria Ann

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• Those Pink Mountain Nights

  Ferguson, Jenny, 1985-

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• Twice as Perfect

  Onomé, Louisa

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• Until We Break

  Dawkins, Matthew

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• The Underground Railroad

  Next Stop, Toronto!

  Shadd, Adrienne L. (Adrienne Lynn), 1954-

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• Hurricane Summer

  Bromfield, Asha

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• Righting Canada's Wrongs. Africville

  An African Nova Scotian Community Is Demolished -- and Fights Back

  Wesley, Gloria

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• Until We Are Free

  Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

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• Black Enough

  Stories of Being Young & Black in America

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• Ain't Burned All the Bright

  Reynolds, Jason

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  Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revolution in Our Time

  the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

  Magoon, Kekla

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  With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers--as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community. Also available as an eBook.

• Chlorine Sky

  Browne, Mahogany L.

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  Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.

• The Awakening of Malcolm X

  Shabazz, Ilyasah

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  No one can be at peace until he has his freedom. In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares, he drifts through days unsure of his future. Slowly, he befriends other prisoners and writes to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angel of Greenwood

  Pink, Randi

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  Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."... Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Facing the Sun

  Mather, Janice Lynn

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  Change is coming to Pinder Street after a hotel developer purchases their community's beloved beach. When Eve's dad is diagnosed with cancer, she wants nothing more than to trade her worries for some red lipstick and a carefree night. Faith only has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Justyce

  Stone, Nic

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  Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.

• This Is My America

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  Every week Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time: her dad has only 267 days left. Then the police arrive in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charming as a Verb

  Philippe, Ben

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  Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor…Read moreRead more of this annotation