Happy Black History Month ✊🏾

I just read the street it was good

Omg!!! Thank you!! Some of these books I have never heard of. I got them in my shopping cart!

Your list is fantastic.

"Kindred" left me an emotional wreck. I often recommend it.

James Baldwin is one of my favorite authors ever. I'm working through his work slowly, but surely.

"Darkwater" is the book I wanted "The Souls of Black Folk" to be. I suggest it as a follow-up.

Every book you listed is one I've read, on my wish list already, or now on my wish list. I had expected to see Zora Neale Hurston, but I'm thinking maybe you've been reading her books already.

This old white woman thanks you. I always want to learn about people who aren't like me, because we are all part of the human experience

Generally little known book and certainly not recognized as a classic – Standing At The Scratch Line by Guy Johnson.

The man who had pushed away from table spoke. “How we know you can provide real protection? You ain’t got no army! You—”
Pete interrupted. “Cool down, Tyson, we is here askin’. We ain’t here demandin’!”
King smiled. “There ain’t no proof I can give you, but—just one but: ain’t nobody ever took somethin’ from me that I didn’t want to give up and lived.”
“How we know that?” Tyson challenged.
“Do you want to try to take somethin' from me?” King had not raised his voice but the threat was so clear that Tyson’s companions stumbled over themselves to diffuse the situation.

Loved this video! Thank you for your list!

I have read the blacker the berry twice and his other novel infants of spring. He only had two published novels before his passing at age 27

Have just read Another Country by James Baldwin. Incredible writer – one of the greatest modern authors.

Hello my love 💕 how are you doing I just found your YouTube channel I think if they had more black history glasses in schools across the country that never be less young black people in jails and prisons across the country especially in the inner cities. It's so sad that the majority of people of color do not know who they are or where they are from my mom grew up in the south . The first I went to North Carolina to visit my grandparents aunts and uncles and other relatives black people could not do anything you could not shop in the Some stores as the white people. I'm from New York City and I am a self taught black man oh and by the way when I was growing up I used to go to bars to eat and drink 🍻 one of the bars which I Sometimes went to I met a man that mans name was Malcolm x if you saw the movie 🍿 it was the same bye bar when where he hid the man over the head with a bottle. I met his wife Dr Betty shabazz over the phone. She passed away some years ago. Where are you from I have a friend who has a black history book 📚 store in his house 🏠

There was another African American author who wrote I feel was a Sci-Fi story before O. Butler. Pauline Hopkins, (Penname Sarah A. Allen) born in 1859 wrote "Of One Blood" just one of her publishef works.

Blacker the berry is a fantastic read. Dont remember author but Coffee going to make you black is another. I

These woke black tropes get so tiring. I was praying I’d get through this video and hear at least one book that isn’t drenched in black pity and trauma.

If slavery, poverty, crime and racism are the only things a black mind has to offer then it’s noting intriguing or relatable about it. It’s just boring and repetitive 🥱🤦🏽‍♂️

We can’t get no black detectives, black sci fi, black thrillers, black fiction that isn’t drenched in self pity and racism, classicm and queerness?

Kindred & The Bluest Eye are top reads for me. I’d like to read more from both authors as well.

Adding the bell hooks title to my TBR!