We’re celebrating Black History Month all February long! We’ve compiled a list of fictional stories, memoirs and biographies that are focused on some important Black Americans. Also, we added movies and tvs shows that we recommend checking out. At the bottom of the post, we included websites that highlight events for Black History Month.
Fiction Books
Inivisble Man by Ralph Ellison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Another Country by James Baldwin
Sing Unburied Sing by Jesym Ward
Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jeminson
Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Passing by Nella Larson
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Nora Zeale Hurston
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
Non Fiction Books
A More Perfect Party by Juanita Tolliver
Stamped from the beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
1619 Project by Caitlin Roper
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
How to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Under the Sking: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives by Linda Villarosa
Biographies and Memoirs
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Just as I am by Cecily Tyson
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Promise Land by Barack Obama
Black in Blue by Imani Perry
Harriet Tubman by Jean Marie Wiesen
Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Tuskegee Airmen
King: A Life by Jnathan Eig
John Lewis by David Greenberg
The Dead are Rising by Les Payne
Ida: A Sword among lions by Paula Gidding
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Sheilds
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
Movies
Sounder
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Boyz n the Hood
13th
Pariah
Selma
12 Years a Slave
Summer of Soul
Moonlight
Harriet
Hidden Figures
Ballerina’s Tale
Fences
Black Panther
Race
Marshall
One Night in Miami
Till
Judas and the Black Messiah
Malcolm X
Soul
A Raisin in the Sun
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
42
Just Mercy
Bessie
The Hate U Give
TV Shows to Binge
Bel-Air
Irrational
Everybody Hates Chris
Living Single
Atlanta
Euphoria
For Life
High Fidelity
How to get away with Murder
Abbott Elementary
Insecure
Black Cake
Dear White People
Lovecraft Country
Harlem
Watson
Poppa’s House
Paradise
The Neighborhood
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