Black Lives Matter Book of the Week

See also our Antiracism Book List

We are excited to offer this weekly feature and to share a wide array of books about Black lives in America. Each month we will promote a variety of recent books for adults, young adults, and children. We hope that by bringing these books to our readers' attention we can start to contribute to the nationwide conversation that is occurring.

You can select a book below to read a brief description of it and to find available formats.
  1. Life and Times of Hannah Crafts
  2. Chef Edna
  3. Thicker than Water
  4. Surviving the City
  5. beyond the shores
  6. Artivist
  7. American Sirens
  8. Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be
  9. Black AF History
  10. Black American Portraits
  11. Kids Book About Racism
  12. Serving Herself
  13. Getaway
  14. Africana
  15. JD and the Great Barber Battle
  16. Birthing Liberation
  17. Burn Down, Rise Up
  18. Art of Ruth E Carter
  19. Bold Words
  20. How We Do It
  21. Love Radio
  22. soil
  23. Bisa Butler Portraits
  24. Swim Team
  25. Above Ground
  26. Black Flamingo
  27. Half American
  28. Day for Rememberin
  29. Body Liberation Project
  30. we werent looking to be found
  31. Wounded World
  32. Freewater
  33. Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
  34. we are all so good at smiling
  35. Reparations Now
  36. Revolutionary Women
  37. H is for Harlem
  38. Education of Kendrick Perkins
  39. Lifting as We Climb
  40. Love and Justice
  41. Standing in the Need of Prayer
  42. Blk Art
  43. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
  44. Master Slave Husband Wife
  45. choosing brave
  46. Previously Owned
  47. Upper World
  48. Grimkes
  49. AphroChic
  50. Real Santa
  51. Under the Skin
  52. How You Grow Wings
  53. Light We Carry
  54. Magnolia Flower
  55. Running While Black
  56. Halfway Home
  57. Root Magic
  58. My People
  59. Inheritance
  60. Against the Hounds of Hell
  61. Black Skinhead
  62. Raising Antiracist Children
  63. We Refuse to Forget
  64. The Hate U Give
  65. My Remarkable Journey
  66. Hurricane Child
  67. Constructing a Nervous System
  68. Kings of BMore
  69. Love and Justice
  70. Agent Josephine
  71. Only Black Girls in Town
  72. Miss Chloe
  73. Planeta Blu
  74. Black Food
  75. My Rainbow
  76. On Juneteenth
  77. Troublemaker for Justice
  78. Black History Book
  79. Clean Getaway
  80. Racism Not Race
  81. Black Girl Unlimited
  82. Torn Apart
  83. Finding Me
  84. The Me I Choose to Be
  85. White Lies
  86. Me (Moth)
  87. Black Joy
  88. This Book is Feminist
  89. Allow Me to Retort
  90. Feminist AF
  91. Chasing Me to My Grave
  92. Recognize
  93. How to Make a Slave
  94. Cant Stop Wont Stop
  95. Angela Davis:  An Autobiography
  96. One Last Word
  97. Reclamation
  98. Black Birds in the Sky
  99. Our African Unconscious
  100. The People Remember
  101. How the Word Is Passed
  102. song below water
  103. Rage of Innocence
  104. Molly of Denali
  105. We Were There
  106. Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
  107. Read Until You Understand
  108. Algorithms of Oppression
  109. White Smoke
  110. Breaking it Down
  111. Sprouting Wings
  112. You Can Keep that to Yourself
  113. Parker Inheritance
  114. All That She Carried
  115. Long Way Down
  116. We Are Each Other&#39s Harvest
  117. King of Kindergarten
  118. Disordered Cosmos
  119. Blackout
  120. You ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
  121. One Drop
  122. Tristan Strong
  123. Notes from a Young Black Chef
  124. A Blade So Black
  125. Better Not Bitter
  126. When Aidan Became a Brother
  127. How We Fight for Our Lives
  128. All Boys Aren&#39t Blue
  129. Ground Breaking
  130. Our Skin
  131. Caste
  132. Tell Me Who You Are
  133. Surviving the White Gaze
  134. History of the Black Population of Amherst
  135. Parenting for Liberation
  136. Age of Phillis
  137. Every Body Looking
  138. Time to Teach
  139. Freedom Over Me
  140. Grieving While Black
  141. Concrete Rose
  142. The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  143. Four Hundred Souls
  144. The Oldest Student
  145. Bingo Love
  146. My Grandmother&#39s Hands
  147. Do Lord Remember Me
  148. The Home Place
  149. Black Enough
  150. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
  151. You Can Keep That to Yourself
  152. King and the Dragon Flies
  153. The Beauty in Breaking
  154. The Truths We Hold
  155. An Indigenous Peoples&#39 History of the United States for Young People
  156. Race After Technology
  157. From Here to Equality - Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
  158. The City We Became
  159. Dread Nation
  160. Farming While Black
  161. Say Her Name
  162. Vanguard
  163. Towers Falling
  164. Memorial Drive
  165. One Crazy Summer
  166. Brother Robert by Annye C. Anderson - An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson’s stepsister
  167. Gordon Parks
  168. March - Book 3 161x235.jpg
  169. This Is Major
  170. Stamped
  171. Horace Pippin

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