The Book Snug Podcast

S4, Chapter 5: Stories to Celebrate Black History Month

• Stephany Yoder and Julia Dagen • Season 4 • Episode 5

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February is Black History Month.  To recognize the month, we're recommending books (fiction and non-fiction) that helped us to better understand the Black experience in America across time.  Note: Stephany failed to mention the title her last book during the episode.  It is Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward.

Books Mentioned

Julia

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  • Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
  • I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  •  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Stephany

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • Brown Girl Dreaming written and narrated by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin, narrated by Kevin R. Free
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Other Mentions

  • https://www.blackhistorymonth.gov/
  • Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown
  • A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
  • National Center for Civil and Human Rights




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