PICTURE BOOKS
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton (Coretta Scott King Author Award)
January's Sparrow by Patricia Polacco
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom,  by Carole Boston Weatherford
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptol
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci


NOVELS
Barracoon:The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Calling Me Home: a novel by Julie  Kibler
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
Devotion: an epic story of heroism and friendship by Adam Makos
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Newbery Honor Award; Coretta Scott King Award)
Holes by Louis Sachar
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
The Lost Quilter by Jennifer Chiaverini
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (The Newberry Award)
My Father & Atticus FInch: A Lawyer's Fight for Just ice in 1930s Alabama by Joseph Madison Beck
The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William & Ella Craft
Secret Daughter: a Mixed-Race Daughter and Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross
Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Oprah's Book Club)
The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (Newbery Honor Award)
The Wolf and the Buffalo by Elmer Kelton

MOVIES
12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofer, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fasabeder
42, starring Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford
Akeelah and the Bee, starring Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer
Antwone Fisher, starring Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Jay Bryant
The Color Purple, starring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldbert, Oprah Winfrey
Devotion, starring Johnathan Majors & Glen Powell
Drumline, starring Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
Fences, starring Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Glory starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington
Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae
Holes starring Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, staring Oprah Winfey, Rene Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed BIrney
Lady Sings the Blues, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor
The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawk
Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo
The Pelican Brief, starring Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Sam Sheperd
Remember the TItans, starring Denzel Washington, WIll Patton, Wood Harris
Roots, starring  LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos
Selma, starring Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo
The Tuskegee Airmen, starring Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner