Celebrate Black History Month!
"While many recipes have been lost to us, these recollections permit us a glimpse into the private thoughts and lives of these national treasures, the only two African Americans inducted into the American Hall of Fame." --Carolyn Q. Tillery, African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee
Celebrate Black History Month 2025 with some incredible reads--dive into history with recipes and journals, the personal lives of historical figures through historical fiction, and young voices discovering themselves and activism through art.
African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute by Carolyn Q. Tillery
The Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama has been a mecca for African Americans for over 100 years. Founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881, it has grown from a school to a major foundation in progress and education. This incredible cookbook traces Tuskegee history through recipes, vintage photos, journal entries, and more--now updated with 19 previously unpublished profiles and an author note!
The Artivist by Nikkolas Smith
This incredible and beautiful children's picture book about a young boy who sees the inequalities of life and has the deep desire to do more, and finds through art, he can be an Artivist.
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
Something has hunted Kidan Adane's family--and now it has taken his sister. In a world where her human bloodline gains power through vampire companionship, Kidan turns to the one place she never wanted to go: Uxlay University, where ancient human families and their vampire companions live and study. Kidan is convinced a vampire took her sister, and the University with all its dark corners and secrets--especially the secrets kept by the vampire Susenyos--has the answers she seeks, but maybe not the truths she's ready to face.
New Kid: A Newbery Award Winner by Jerry Craft
Jordan Banks loves drawing cartoons about his seventh grader life. Instead of being sent to the art school of his dreams, his parents send him to an academic minded private school where he is one of the few kids of color. Jordan finds himself stuck between two very different worlds, and unsure if he knows how to navigate either. Can he find a path through it all while remaining true to himself?
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Set in 1919 following Jessie Redmon Fauset as she moves from Washington, D.C. to Harlem to accept her new role in her lifelong dream of becoming the literary editor of The Crisis--as well as the first Black woman to ever hold this position. Under her boss and founder, W. E. B. Du Bois--who is also her lover--she is determined to prove she is there through her skill and passion. She discovers new young voices, writes her first novel to great success, and turns The Crisis into a voice that every African American writer wants to be apart of.