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TURNING PAGES: MAY 2023 Book Suggestions

In remembrance of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) who was born on May 19, 1925 and was assassinated on February 21, 1965. Ossie Davis eulogized him by saying: " If you knew him you would know why we must honor him. Malcolm was our manhood, our living black manhood! This was his meaning to his people."





  • Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman

  • Brave Enough To Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing by Toni Collier

  • By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

  • Disruptive Thinking: A Daring Strategy to Change How We Live, Lead and Love by T.D. Jakes

  • Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

  • Symphony of Secrets (a novel) by Brendan Slocumb

  • We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems by Jessica Care Moore

  • When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World by Caseen Gaines


For the Young Reader:

  • Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince (children's book) by Alliah L. Agostini

  • Daddy Dressed Me (children's book) by Michael and Ava Gardner



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