Honoring Black History Month, 2025

Updated February 4, 2025
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Black artists in America : from the Great Depression to civil rights
Jenkins, Earnestine
Paper Book
Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day--from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of...
Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists
Farrington, Lisa E.
Paper Book
Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of...
Creative quest
Questlove
Paper Book
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire * PopSugar * The Huffington Post *  Buzzfeed * Publishers Weekly A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove--inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life Questlove--musician,...
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on...
You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience -- an anthology
Burke, Tarana
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching:...

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