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February is Black History Month. To recognize the month, we're recommending books (fiction and non-fiction) that helped us to better understand the Black experience in America across time. Note: Stephany failed to mention the title her last book during the episode. It is Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward.
Books Mentioned
Julia
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
- I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Stephany
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Brown Girl Dreaming written and narrated by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin, narrated by Kevin R. Free
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Other Mentions
- https://www.blackhistorymonth.gov/
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
- When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
- Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- National Center for Civil and Human Rights
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