These three books pay tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Book 1: HBCU Made edited by Ayesha Rascoe
Book 2: America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1873-2009
Book 3: I’ll Make a Way or Find One by Juan Williams and Dwayne Ashley
Today’s books feature/highlight courageous/brave African Americans.
Book 1: The classic. Black Profiles in Courage by Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and Alan Steinberg.
Book 2: Brave. Black. First. by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Book 3: The Black Knight by Clifford Worthy.
On this partly cloudy day in some cities, I am choosing sun over the clouds. The three books below have the word “sun” in the title to also be the light in our reading.
Book 1: Hello There, Sunshine by Tabitha Brown
Book 2: The award winning The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Book 3: Those Who Saw the Sun by Jaha Nailah Avery
It’s all about the “we” in these Wednesday’s titles.
Book 1: The History of We by Nikkolas Smith
Book 2: We Are Here by Tami Charles
Book 3: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banyo
Book 4: We Speak for Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Book 5: We Refuse A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
Today’s books focus on African Americans and technology. I confess I have not read either books. However, I am interested in reading them.
Book 1: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Black Tech Leaders in Technology by Theresa Merritt-Watson
Book 2: A Black Journey in Tech by Dwight D. Jones, Sr.
This post will feature just a few of the award-winning titles by the late, great, dynamic duo Fredrick and Patricia McKissack. Together they wrote 50+ books. These books are well researched, written, and a must read! https://www.read.gov/exquisite-corpse/mckissack.html
I will feature three books on spirituals.
Book 1: All time classic. All Night, All Day by the late Ashley Bryan Just a beautiful book!
Book 2: When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Hudson
Book 3: Wade in the Water by Arthur C. Jones. A scholarly book on the wisdom of spirituals
Far from being a chef, I certainly love, honor, and respect those who are chefs in the kitchen. I love eating their food!
Today, I will feature at least one chef who prepared a dish for other Black librarians and me at one of our national conferences. His name is Bryant Terry, and his cookbook was Vegan Soul Kitchen. The dish was seasoned, tasty, and vegetarian! Loved it! He has written several more cookbooks since this book was published.
Book 2: I highly recommend Detroit Public Library’s 2023 African American Booklist. The theme integrated cooking, history, culture and more. It is a pdf and I believe you will find at least one book that will satisfy your culinary curiosity!
Today’s books focus on either a person’s entire life or a segment of a person’s life.
Book 1: Finding Me by Viola Davis. A powerful must read!
Book 2: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. https://justmercy.eji.org/
Book 3: The Movement Made Us by David Dennis, Jr. and David Dennis, Sr.
Today will feature/highlight books with African American sermons.
Book 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love. A classic filled with Dr. King’s most powerful and memorable sermons.
Book 2: Daughters of Thunder by Bettye Collier-Thomas. A collection of sermons by African American women preachers.
Book 3: Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson. His powerful message about race relations to White America.
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