Turning Pages: February 2025 Book Suggestions

As we embark on the second month of Black History Celebrations, we acknowledge the Father of Black History - Dr. Carter G. Woodson. "History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning." Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro.

• An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Bawadi

• Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley

• The Engineers: A Western New York Basketball AStory by Anwar Dunbar

• Girls On the Rise (children's) by Amanda Gorman

• Good Dirt (novel) by Charmaine Wilkerson

• Harlem Rhapsody (novel) by Victoria Christopher Murray

• Honeysuckle and Bone (novel) by Trisha Tobias

• Memoirs of an African Musician: My Life, My Djembe, My Culture by Famoudou Konate

We also carry Black History buttons, pins, bookmarks, pencils, activity books and more.

Coming on Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 3 pm in the Merriweather Library - AFRICAN AMERICAN READ-IN.  

February 2025