Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Before I began attending The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library System’s Social Justice Book Clubs and Learning Circles devoted to teaching and discussing Black History, I had never heard of Octavia E. Butler....
Tagged: Black History
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
When I was a kid, I drove my mother nuts. I began each day with questions I believed critical to life and limb and needed to be answered immediately. I continued...
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was a little nervous when I read that one of the most important voices in America today, Ta-Nehisi Coates, had written a novel. I cherished his nonfiction starting with We...
Make Me Rain: Poems and Prose by Nikki Giovanni
You cannot read Nikki Giovanni’s poetry and prose without being grateful to be a part of her life. She’s mentored us through poems like Nikki Rosa [“Black love is Black wealth...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Flashback to the early 1960s. I’m attending a top-rated high school in a New York suburb and the one subject in which I continue to participate wholeheartedly is History. It’s the...
The Revisioners: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Strong Black women form the centerpiece of Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s Revisioners, which focuses on the power of women, intergenerational trauma, mother-child relationships, caretaking, dementia, and the legacy of white entitlement and...
