Celebrate Black History Month with a story about Black Culture and the Arts! The Krupp Library has two current exhibits with a focus on the Black art, creativity, storytelling, and history. Here is just a sampling of the titles available to you at the library. Remember, all the books in the exhibit cases are available for circulation, so if you see something you would like to read, just ask a library staff member for assistance and we will happily check it out to you!
Leisure Collection
Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson
The Main Level New Acquisitions
Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning by Christopher Driscoll, Monica Miller, and Anthony Pinn
Jean-Michael Basquiat Reader by Jordana Moore Saggese
Why Wakanda Matters by Sheena Howard
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Graphic Novels
March: Book One by John Lewis and Nate Powell
It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980 by Dan Nadel et al.
The High Desert by James Spooner
The Black Panther: The Complete Collection Vol 1 by Christopher Priest et al.
Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos by Jay Jackson
Upper Level New Acquisitions
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-1985: A Source Book by Catherine Morris et al.
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
Three Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Hip Hop's Multibillion Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenberg
Black Music Matters: Jazz and Transformation Studies of Music Studies by Ed Sarath
