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National Conference of African American Librarians

by Troy Johnson

National Conference of African American Librarians Troy Johnson Article Authors and Publishers: Exhibit at the National Conference of African American Librarians The Black Caucus of the American...

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The New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book Of Answers For Kids

by The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick

The New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book Of Answers For Kids The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick 9780471192176 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Discover ancient African ci...

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Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

by Vanessa K. Valdés

Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Vanessa K. Valdés 9781438465142 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Examines the life o...

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Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert 0000000409932699 Brandy Colbert is an award-winning author hailing from Missouri. Her work primarily focuses on young adult and children's literature, with titles such as “Little & Lio...

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There’s Always This Year (paperback): On Basketball and Ascension

by Hanif Abdurraqib

There’s Always This Year (paperback): On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib 9780593448809 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Longlisted for the National Book Award &b...

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The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick

The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick MULTIPLE

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The New York Public Library

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Elinor Des Verney Sinnette

Elinor Des Verney Sinnette 000000008088669X Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, former Acting Director of Howard University's Research Center and staff member of The New York Public Library, was a renowned e...

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Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen 0000000114593327 Jeffery Renard Allen, an award-winning author of poetry, short stories, and novels, is known for his celebrated novel, 'Rails Under My Back'. He's a fellow at pr...

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J.D. and the Great Barber Battle

by J. Dillard

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle J. Dillard 9780593111543 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new ill...

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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds 0000000050509463 Jason Reynolds is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Jason Reynolds, an acclaimed author and professor, aims to engage readers, espec...

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Akeem S. Roberts

Akeem S. Roberts NONE Akeem S. Roberts is an illustrator, animator, and cartoonist based in Brooklyn, New York. Versed in many styles, Akeem is passionate about breathing life into stories through a...

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Dashka Slater

Dashka Slater 0000000037310986 Dashka Slater is an award-winning journalist who writes for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones. She is also the author of fifteen books ...

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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

by Breanna J. McDaniel

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller Breanna J. McDaniel 9780593324202 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning author and illustrator...

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 000000040525486X Troy Johnson, founder of AALBC.com, is involved with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a NYPL research library and ar...

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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780807049396 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Boo...

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T.R. Simon

T.R. Simon NONE T.R. Simon is an acclaimed author renowned for “Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground” and co-author of award-winning “Zora and Me” with Victoria Bond. Also co-authored “Oskar and the Eight ...

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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector

by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector Elinor Des Verney Sinnette 9780814321577 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press This is the first full biography o...

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Kevin Young

Kevin Young 0000000109530225 Kevin Young, born in 1970, is a renowned poet and teacher influenced by Hughes, Berryman, Dickinson, and Basquiat. A Harvard graduate, Young authored multiple poetry book...

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 9781594483295 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book ...

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Teju Cole

Teju Cole 0000000077460567 Teju Cole, an acclaimed writer, art historian, and photographer, serves as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and is a photography critic for the New Yor...

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Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)

by Michael Eric Dyson

Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) Michael Eric Dyson 9780195312102 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Of the seven deadly sins, prid...

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Brian Jones

Brian Jones 0000000061168545 Brian Jones is the esteemed Director of The New York Public Library's Center for Educators and Schools. Brian Jones is the Director of The New York Public Library’s Cente...

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Khalil G. Muhammad

Khalil G. Muhammad 0000000119521226 Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, is a renowned historian, author, and scholar. He has held positi...

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Christine Kendall

Christine Kendall NONE Christine Kendall transitioned from a corporate career to a successful author of children's literature. Her book, Riding Chance, was recognized as one of the 50 Best Books for ...

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763680466 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s to...

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The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

by Phillis Wheatley

The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Phillis Wheatley 9780195060850 Poetry Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The past...

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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey 9780525511816 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Finalist For The National Book Critics Circ...

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Brooms

by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall

Brooms Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall 9781646142675 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido A queer, witchy Fast and the Furious that shines light on history not often told. Best of the Year: Booklist...

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Carter Reads the Newspaper

by Deborah Hopkinson

Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...

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Hoop Queens

by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Hoop Queens Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763635619 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press "Young basketball fans will have a hard time keeping still… . A great choice to energize poetry units." — BO...

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Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart 0000000109588494 Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is a recognized author and fellowship recipient from institutions like Northwestern University and Princeton University. She has w...

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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian

by Ethelene Whitmire

Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252081309 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branc...

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Michelle D. Commander

Michelle D. Commander 0000000497642121 Dr. Michelle D. Commander is Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. She is an interdisciplin...

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Punching the Air

by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam 9780062996497 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt New York Times and USA Today bestseller • Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor • Walter Award Winner • Goodr...

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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian

by Ethelene Whitmire

Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252038501 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branch o...

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Laban Carrick Hill

Laban Carrick Hill NONE Laban Carrick Hill (1960 – 2021) has written two young adult novels: A Brush with Napoleon, based on the life of the French Romantic painter David, and Casa Azul, based...

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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781619635548 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A 2017 New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year ...

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Anna Carries Water

by Olive Senior

Anna Carries Water Olive Senior 9781896580609 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and siste...

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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward 0000000049339751 Two-Time National Book Award Winning Author Jesmyn Ward, a Mississippi-born author and University of South Alabama professor, has penned novels like “Where the Line Bleeds...

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Rita Dove

Rita Dove 0000000114709625 Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her poetry collections, novel, and drama. She's been reco...

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Razorblade Tears (paperback)

by S. A. Cosby

Razorblade Tears (paperback) S. A. Cosby 9781250252715 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● May 31, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Instant New York Times Bestse...

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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Bryan Stevenson 9780593177044 Nonfiction Ember Ember Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young AdultsBryan Stevenson’s incred...

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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

by Carol Anderson

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Carol Anderson 9781635571370 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith...

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Stacy Innerst

Stacy Innerst NONE Stacy Innerst is an award-winning children's book artist and educator based in Pittsburgh. Notably, his work on “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R. B. G. vs. Inequality” earned a ...

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Denizé Lauture

Denizé Lauture 0000000054539790 Denizé Lauture was born in Haiti on May 11, 1946. The firstborn of thirteen children, he was the son of Lhomond and Ergenie (née Prevot) Lauture. Lauture emigrated fr...

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Kevin McGruder

Kevin McGruder 0000000071766805 Kevin McGruder is an Assistant Professor of History at Antioch College with interests in African American institutions, urban history, and gay and lesbian history. He ...

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Calvin H. Sinnette

Calvin H. Sinnette NONE Dr. Calvin H. Sinnette is a New York-born avid golfer and Howard University Medical School graduate known for his research on African American golf history. He successfully ad...

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The Jailhouse Lawyer

by Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull

The Jailhouse Lawyer Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull 9780593834329 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A USA Today Bestseller! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Public Library ...

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David Greenberg

David Greenberg 0000000071453622 David Greenberg is an author and professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and a frequent commentator on historical and political...

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Trace

by Pat Cummings

Trace Pat Cummings 9780062698841 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins In a debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Erin Entrada Kelly, award-winning author/illustrator and educator Pa...

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Hell of a Book: A Novel

by Jason Mott

Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott 9780593330982 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chau...

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Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall 0000000110812465 Watch a Powerful Tribute to Paule Marshall and John A. Williams Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke, was a renowned author and educator. She was selected by Lang...

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Yard Show

by Janice N. Harrington

Yard Show Janice N. Harrington 9781960145314 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award Finalist for the Midland Auth...

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Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush

by Patrice Lawrence

Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush Patrice Lawrence 9798887770338 Nonfiction Nosy Crow Nosy Crow From Patrice Lawrence, author of Our Story Starts in Africa, named a 2022 Best Book for Kids by th...

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Destroyer of Light

by Jennifer Marie Brissett

Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781250268631 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of alien...

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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781681199443 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a...

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Brother

by David Chariandy

Brother David Chariandy 9781635572049 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with li...

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The Snowy Day

by Ezra Jack Keats

The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 9780140501827 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House New York Public Library's #1 book on the list of “Top Check Outs of All Time” Originally published in 1962, The...

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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

by Douglas Kearney

I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always Douglas Kearney 9798891060128 Poetry Wave Books Wave Books Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the American Book Award Minnesota Book Awar...

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Insha’allah, No, Maybe So

by Nadia Roumani and Rhonda Roumani

Insha’allah, No, Maybe So Nadia Roumani and Rhonda Roumani 9780823454419 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A sweet and playful picture book about a common Arabic word for life’s uncertainties that w...

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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530153 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The Society of Illustrators Ori...

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Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life

by Marilyn Nelson

Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life Marilyn Nelson 9780316298025 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and ...

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The Perseverance

by Raymond Antrobus

The Perseverance Raymond Antrobus 9781951142421 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books A Best Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Poetry School, New York Public Library, and Entropy Ma...

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My Life as a Rhombus

by Varian Johnson

My Life as a Rhombus Varian Johnson 9780738711607 Fiction Flux North Star Editions A 2009 New York Public Library "Stuff for the Teen Age" Selection Boys + Love = Trouble Right? Staying on track at...

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