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Black History Month (Staff Picks 2024)

 

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1. All boys aren't blue: a memoir-manifesto

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Author:
Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-
Average Rating:
2.6 stars
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Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young -adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

2. Becoming

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Author:
Obama, Michelle, 1964-
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...