Black Lives Matter
Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
Dee Romito
jE Romito
Black Lives Matter, Black History, Read Woke, Picture Books, Biographies
Georgia Gilmore was a cook at the National Lunch Company in Montgomery, Alabama. When the bus boycotts broke out in Montgomery after Rosa Parks was arrested, Georgia organized a group of women who cooked and baked to fund-raise for gas and cars to help sustain the boycott. This picture book highlights a hidden figure of the civil rights movement who fueled the bus boycotts and demonstrated that one person can make a real change in her community and beyond
Baby goes to market
author Atinuke
jBOARD BOOK Atinuke
Read Woke, Black Lives Matter, Board Books
"Join Baby and his doting mama at a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace for a bright, bouncy read-aloud offering a gentle introduction to numbers."--Publisher's description.
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Baby says
John Steptoe
jBOARD BOOK Steptoe
Black Lives Matter, Read Woke, Board Books
A baby and big brother figure out how to get along.
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Shades of black : a celebration of our children
Sandra L Pinkney
jBOARD BOOK Pinkney
Read Woke, Black Lives Matter, Board Books
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African-American children.
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Dream big, little one
Vashti Harrison
jBOARD BOOK Harrison
Read Woke, Black Lives Matter, Board Books
Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history, Dream Big, Little One is the board book adaptation of the author's Little leaders: bold women in Black history.
A version of Little Dreamers for little fingers! -Casey
Race to incarcerate : a graphic retelling
Sabrina Jones
364.973 /Jones
Black Lives Matter, Graphic Novels
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country’s foremost experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice system. His book Race to Incarcerate has become the essential text for understanding the exponential growth of the U.S. prison system; Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling The New Jim Crow, calls it "utterly indispensable." Now, Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid and compelling comics narrative. Jones's dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of the penal system’s shift from rehabilitation to punishment and the ensuing four decades of prison expansion, its interplay with the devastating "War on Drugs," and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans.
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Monster : a graphic novel
Guy A. Sims
GRAPHIC NOVEL Myers
Black Lives Matter, Graphic Novels
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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I am Alfonso Jones
Tony Medina
GRAPHIC NOVEL Medina
Black Lives Matter, Graphic Novels
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower
Damian Duffy
GRAPHIC NOVEL Butler
Black Lives Matter, Graphic Novels
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
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Incognegro
Mat Johnson
GRAPHIC NOVEL Johnson
Black Lives Matter, Graphic Novels
Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother -- and himself. Suspenseful, unsettling and relevant, Incognegro is a tense graphic novel of shifting identities, forbidden passions, and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
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