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CHILDREN’S BOOKS, WEEK OF 8-22-2022

African founders : how enslaved people expanded American ideals / David Hackett Fischer.
Basketball : a love story / Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, and Dan Klores.
Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics / Keeda J. Haynes.
Black food : stories, art & recipes from across the African diaspora / edited & curated by Bryant Terry ; photographs by Oriana Koren.
The Black history book / contributors
Bress ‘n’ nyam : Gullah Geechee recipes from a sixth-generation farmer / Matthew Raiford ; with Amy Paige Condon ; photography by Siobhâan Egan ; styling by Bevin Valentine Jalbert.
The deeper the roots : a memoir of hope and home / Michael Tubbs.
The devil you know : a Black power manifesto / Charles M. Blow.
Dressed in dreams : a black girl’s love letter to the power of fashion / Tanisha C. Ford.
Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America / Michael Eric Dyson.
Freedom! : the story of the Black Panther Party / Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II / Robert Child.
Life, I swear : intimate stories from Black women on identity, healing, and self-trust / curated by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo.
The matter of Black lives : writing from the New Yorker / edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick.
The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride / David J. Dennis Jr., in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr.
My seven Black fathers : a young activist’s memoir of race, family, and the mentors who made him whole / Will Jawando.
Of blood and sweat : Black lives and the making of White power and wealth / Clyde W. Ford.
A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars / Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz.
Raise a fist, take a knee : race and the illusion of progress in modern sports / John Feinstein.
Reclamation : Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a descendant’s search for her family’s lasting legacy / Gayle Jessup White.
Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture / Randall Kennedy.
Say their names : how Black lives came to matter in America / Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston.
Sisters in arms : a novel of the daring Black women who served during World War II / Kaia Alderson.
The Soul of a nation reader : writings by and about Black American artists, 1960-1980 / edited by Mark Godfrey and Allie Biswas.
Struggling to learn : an intimate history of school desegregation in South Carolina / June Manning Thomas.
Such color : new and selected poems / Tracy K. Smith.
Things I have withheld : essays / Kei Miller.
Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / Linda Villarosa.
Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer’s enduring message to America / Keisha N. Blain.
Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer / Kate Clifford Larson.
Women and mixed race representation in film : eight star profiles / Valerie C. Gilbert.
The world according to Fannie Davis : my mother’s life in the Detroit numbers / Bridgett M. Davis.
You truly assumed / Laila Sabreen.