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Artwork by Ashanté Josey for Black History Month 2023.

Black History Month: Teen

For Black History Month 2024, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is celebrating the Black experience in art, centering both Black artists and subjects. Historically, Black artists have and continue to create, shape, inspire, and pioneer visual arts, music, cultural movements and more. Join us as we honor the Black experience through book displays, resources, library programs and community events happening this February and throughout the year! Celebrate Black History Month with these book picks!


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All You Have to Do

Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and an eAudio on Hoopla 

 

 


The Beautiful Struggle

A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one’s family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances.

The Blackwoods

Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood’s lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby. 


Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History

Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip hop’s forebears, founders, mavericks, and present day icons, this book chronicles the epic events, ideas and the music that marked the hip hop generation’s rise. 
You can also check out this title as eBook on Libby.

Charisma's Turn

Follows the story of Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could change her future.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla. 

 


Cool, Awkward, Black

A girl who believes in UFOs; a boy who might have finally found his Prince Charming; a hopeful performer who dreams of being cast in her school’s production of The Sound of Music; a misunderstood magician of sorts with a power she doesn’t quite understand. These plotlines and many more compose the eclectic stories found within the pages of this dynamic, exciting, and expansive collection featuring exclusively Black characters. From contemporary to historical, fantasy to sci-fi, magical to realistic, and with contributions from a powerhouse list of self-proclaimed geeks and bestselling, award-winning authors, this life-affirming anthology celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness–both in the real world and those imagined.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and an eAudio on Libby. 

 


Dreamer

A graphic memoir of Akim Aliu, a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby. 


Fatima Tate Takes the Cake

Aspiring baker, seventeen-year-old Fatima navigates the challenges of parental and communal expectations in her strict Muslim community while staying true to her dreams.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and an eAudio on Libby. 

 


Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution

Seventeen-year-old neurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love. But living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and an eBook on Hoopla. 

 



Stay Up: Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom


Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay

High school senior Harriet is still coping with her mother’s death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.

This title is also available for checkout as an eAudio on Libby.

 


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