🖤 Juneteenth 2024: Authors to Celebrate
Art
Black Meme | Legacy Russell
Young Gifted & Black | Bernard Lumpkin
Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection | Courtney Martin
The “F” Shows | Thelma Golden & Studio Museum
Black Futures | Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler
The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin
Binti | Nnedi Okorafor
Dawn | Octavia Butler
Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi
Fiction
Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison
White Teeth | Zadie Smith
Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin
Tar Baby | Toni Morrison
The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett
Non-Fiction
Caste | Isabel Wilkerson
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
Up From Slavery | Booker T Washington
I Know What The Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice & Vision of Black American Women Writers | Rebecca Carroll
Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin
Poetry
Citizen | Claudia Rankine
The Complete Poetry | Maya Angelou
The Collected Poems | Langston Hughes
The Matrix | N. H. Pritchard
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of Earth | Alice Walker
Science
The Disordered Cosmos | Chanda Prescod Weinstein
Gifted Hands | Ben Carson
Death By Black Hole | Neil Tyson
The Jazz of Physics | Stephon Alexander
Hidden Figures | Margot Shetterly