Join us at the Fourth Annual June Jubilee: A Celebration of Black Excellence, a day of joy and inspiration with speakers, workshops, entertainment, and family activities.
Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Central Library.
The Los Angeles Public Library celebrates community, culture, and storytelling at the Fourth Annual June Jubilee, a free, family-friendly event featuring inspiring speakers, live entertainment, hands-on arts and crafts, and workshops on health, genealogy, technology, and more.
Arrive early for an African-inspired Opening Ceremony and water-libation blessing honoring ancestors and community, accompanied by vibrant dancers and drummers who welcome guests with spirit, joy, and cultural pride.
New this year, attendees are invited to participate in CommUnity Archives interviews—an opportunity to share personal stories, preserve family legacies, and record oral histories of life and experience in Los Angeles.
This event is free and open to all, so bring your friends and family along for a day of celebration and learning!
Featured Activities and Experiences
- Opening Water-Libation Ceremony and Community Drum Circle With the Leimert Park Drummers and Dancers
- Face Painting for All Ages
- Double Dutch Jam
- Hip-Hop and R&B Bingo Bash
- Photo Booth
- Got Rhythm! Music & Movement
Workshops and Cultural Engagement
- Discover Your Roots: 1-on-1 Genealogy Assistance with California African American Genealogical Society (CAAGS)
- Pathways to Homeownership
- CommUnity Archives: Oral History Storytelling
- Art Era Jewelry Studio: Introduction to Wire Wrapping
- Mind, Body, and Soul Revival With Dr. Desmonette Hazly
- AfroCentric Style: Celebrating Blackness, Fashion and Identity in Pop Culture
Live Performances
- Marcus Miller’s Interactive Drumming
- Faithful Central Choir
- Out of the Dust: Folktales and Life Stories with Ina Buckner-Barnette
Exhibitions
- Afro-American Quilters of Los Angeles
- Filling in the Blanks: Rolland J. Curtis
- Black Excellence Book Display
June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Children
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Ellington Was Not a Street
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I Got the Rhythm
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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Nikki & Deja
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We March
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A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story
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A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
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All Aboard the Schooltrain: A Little Story From the Great Migration
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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
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Amanda Gorman
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Basketball Dreams
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Because of You, John Lewis: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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Becoming Muhammad Ali: A Novel
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Biddy Mason Speaks Up
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Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
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Black Girls: A Celebration of You!
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Black Is a Rainbow Color
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Black Swans
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Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese: A Story of Food, Family, and Freedom
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Blast Off!
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Bright Brown Baby: A Treasury
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Brown Is Warm, Black Is Bright
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Build a House
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Carved in Ebony: Lessons From the Black Women Who Shape Us
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
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Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams
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Daddy Speaks Love
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Dark Was the Night
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Dear Black child
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Double Bass Blues
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Ellie Engle Saves Herself!
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Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava
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Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
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Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem
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Freewater
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Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
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Grace for President
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Hair Love
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Henry's Freedom Box
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Homegrown
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I Am Every Good Thing
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I Like Myself!
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I'm From
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Ice Breaker: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating
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Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better
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In Daddy's Arms I am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
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It All Comes Down to This
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Juneteenth for Mazie
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Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life
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Just Right Stew
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the African American National Anthem
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Like So
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Little Black Lives Matter
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Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
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Love Twelve Miles Long
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Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
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Maya's Song
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Me and Muhammad Ali
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Music Is a Rainbow
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My Red, White, and Blue
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
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Opal Lee and What It Means To Be Free
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Red Shoes
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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock
This mid-twentieth-century music sensation has only recently been rediscovered.
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Ruby's Reunion Day Dinner
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Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan's Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal
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Skateboard Party
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Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix
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Soul Food Sunday
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Speak to Me: (and I Will Listen Between the Lines)
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Stacey Abrams: Voting Visionary
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
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Sweet Dreams, Sarah
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Swim Team
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Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
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The Baby on the Way
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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
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The New Kid
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The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story
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The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
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The Year We Learned To Fly
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We Are Here
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We Could Fly
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We Shall Overcome
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What My Daddy Loves
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When I Wrap My Hair
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Who Was the Greatest?: Muhammad Ali
June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Teens
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A Girl's Guide to Love & Magic
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
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All the Things We Never Knew
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
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Black Girl Magic: A Poem
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Black Girl You are Atlas
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Black Icons in Herstory
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Bless the Blood
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
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Charming as a Verb
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Cool, Awkward, Black
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Friday I'm in Love
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Harmony and Heartbreak
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Kings of B'more
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Let's Talk About Love
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
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Moonwalking
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Now That I’ve Found You
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Poemhood: Our Black Revival
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Pride
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Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
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Right Where I Left You
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
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The Kindred
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The Voting Booth
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The Wrong Kind of Weird
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
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You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls' Guide to Finding Your Voice
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You Should See Me in a Crown
June Jubilee: Featured Titles for Adults
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Between the World and Me
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
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American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and It’s Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Bloom and Martin present their extensively researched history of the Black Panther Party, including fifty illustrations and photos, and o
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Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
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Black Futures
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Black Women Directors
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Among the many “firsts” in the life of Constance Baker Motley, she was the first Black woman appointed as a federal judge and the first B
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Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories From the Streets of New Orleans to the Table
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
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Dear Black Girls: How to be True to You
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Before then-Illinois State Senator Obama introduced himself to America at the 2004 Democratic National Convention where he had the high p
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
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HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Laymon explores his early life as an overprotected and overachieving son of an accomplished university professor mother: his own academic
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Learn more about nine women who made significant contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, and their experiences with discrimination by
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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era
Jefferson brings to life the stories of the Southern California leisure destinations that African Americans created and patronized during
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My America Recipes From a Young Black Chef
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Negroland: A Memoir
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Nine Days: The Race To Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election
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Ordinary Light: A Memoir
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Parks x Ali
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes From Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
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Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971
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Saying It Loud: 1966–The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
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Sister Outsider
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Southern Cooking, Global Flavors
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Watts, a California history professor, provides a well-researched and dramatic history of the African American advisors, known as the Bla
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Winner: 2020 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
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Three Seconds of Hell
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Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
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Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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What Have We Here: Portraits of a Life
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter White and Americas Darkest Secret
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
June Jubilee: Featured Poetry Titles
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... After ... : A Collection of Stories
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365.2013: A Poem a Day Series
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365.2015: A Poem a Day Series
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Ashay Speaks: A Collection of Poems
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Bless Your Sweet Bones: A Collection of Poetry
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Born to Waltz: A Collection of Poetry
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Calabama
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
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Can’t No Woman, Woman Like Me: Poems
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C’est LA Vida: The Art of Blossoming
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Death by Comb: A Collection of Poetry
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Endeavor: A Poetry Collection
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ForeverEVOlve: Poems
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Friends My Poems Gave Me: A Collection of Poems and Drawings
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Grandmothers With Voices: A Collection of Poems
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Hidden Moments
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Holla If You Feel Me: A Collection of Poetry
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How To Bear Your Teeth at Strangers
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Hymn: Poems
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In Love and Grace: Poems
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Journeys of a Wombman: Poems
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Loving a Lioness: Poetry in Life, Love & Eros
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Orange Lady: Poems
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P.R.Y.D.E. in print
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Peace in the Pocket: Poems & Builds
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Photopõetry: Poetry and Photography from South Central LA
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Runaway: A Memoir in Verse
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Small Wars, Little Revolutions
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Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl’s Tale: Poems
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Spaces : A Devotional
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
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Supple Verse: & Mind Candy for the Sunken Place
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Switches, Hot Wheel Tracks and Extension Cords: Spoken Blues
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Tell Us, Marcellus: A Collection of Poetry
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Tending My Wild: Poems
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The Book Called: The Album: Selected Poems
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The Distance of Observation: Poems
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The Funky Tube to Nubia: Poems, Non-Poems, and Portals
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The Letting of a Little Water: [poems and polaroids]
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The Orisha Talks: Tales of Lust, Love & Herstorical Memory: A Book of Poetry and Prose
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The Restoration of Orange: Poetic Transformation
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The Weather Report
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This Little Boy
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Through the Soil in My Skin
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Truth Shots & Ida’s Brew: Cocktails and Elixirs
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