History does not start and end in dusty textbooks. History begins in our decisions today, leaving lasting impressions on yesterday and setting us up for tomorrow. We are making Black history: Now. The books on this list capture the richness of Black history, from the first days of this country, to the time of Harriet Tubman, from the marches of the sixties, to the movements of resistance in 2023. Every era has something to say to us, and these books provide a breadth of historical perspective for children and adults to enjoy. | Author Therese Taylor-Stinson introduces Harriet Tubman’s lived spirituality—a profound internal liberation that came from deep roots in mysticism, Christianity, nature spirituality, and African Indigenous beliefs. Harriet’s luminous spiritual life reveals the path to our own spiritual truth, advocacy, and racial justice as we follow in her footsteps. Buy This Book ? | Inspired by the protests that happened during the Minneapolis Uprising after the police killing of George Floyd, Sarah Rising by Ty Chapman provides a child’s-eye view of a protest and offers an opportunity for children to talk about why people take to the streets to protest racial injustice. Buy This Book ? | Black Hands, White House, by Renee K. Harrison bears witness to the role enslaved, Black-bodied people played in building the US. This book adds significantly to the burgeoning and in-depth conversations on racial disparity, race relations, history-making, reparations, and monument erection and removal. Buy This Book ? | In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America. Buy This Book ? | Author Nadra Nittle remembers and understands Toni Morrison for all of who she was: a writer, a Black woman, and a person of complex faith. As Nittle’s wide-ranging, deep exploration of Morrison’s oeuvre reveals, to fully understand the writing of Toni Morrison one must also understand the role of religion and spirituality in her life and literature. Buy This Book ? | Author Lerita Coleman Brown beckons readers into their own apprenticeship with Howard Thurman. Known as the godfather of the civil rights movement, Thurman served as a spiritual adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and other activist-leaders in the 1960s. Thurman championed silence, contemplation, common unity, and nonviolence as powerful dimensions of social change. Buy This Book ? | Dear Reader, Your support is crucial to helping us improve AALBC.com. Your paid subscriptions, book purchases, suggestions, engagement on the site, social sharing, advertisements, and feedback help support AALBC’s mission of celebrating Black culture through books. Peace and Love,
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