Happy Black History Month! Now is the time to start reading books by Black authors.
Just kidding! You should be doing that year-round.
This is the time of year where you will see Black faces and initiatives all over corporations. I won’t go into my feelings about that here, but I will take any chance I get to shout about Black books from the rooftops!
Here are some of my anticipated books for February (spoiler alert: they’re all by Black Authors):
Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison
Release date: Feb. 1
Mama Morrison keeps blessing us!
Change Everything: Radical Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Release date: Feb. 1
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Kristen R. Lee
Release date: Feb. 1
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Release date: Feb. 1
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
Release date: Feb. 1
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters by Jessica P. Pryde
Release date: Feb. 1
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
Release date: Feb. 15
I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James last year!
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Release date: Feb. 15
Akwaeke Emezi was featured on my list of favorite books I read in 2021
Home.Girl.Hood by Ebony Stewart
Release date: Feb. 15
I saw Ebony Stewart live for the first time in 2019, and I’ve been a fan girl ever since!
Sayhername: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence by Kimberle Crenshaw
Release date: Feb. 22
Liberation is Lit 