The Centennial Shelf: Stories That Shaped Us
2026 Black History Month
Recommended Works
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley and Malcolm X | Book |
B
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Balm in Gilead | Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot | Book |
| Baltimore Still Rising | Dr. S. Rasheem | Film |
| Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own | Eddie Glaude | Book |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Book |
| Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America | Michael Harriot | Book |
| Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires | Shomari Wills | Book |
| Black Lives Matter: Kim and Tammy's Series | Tamara E. Moore & Kimberly F. Pittman | Book |
| The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Stanley Nelson Jr. | Film |
C
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | Book |
D
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Do The Right Thing | Spike Lee | Film |
| The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children | Gloria Ladson-Billings | Book |
| Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat | Robert H. Cataliotti | Book |
E
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| EVIDENCE, NOT EXCEPTION: Clarity, Accountability, and the Work of Becoming | Devin Walker | Book |
F
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints | Peter Medak | Film |
| Fight the Stigma | Devin Walker | Film |
| Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching | Jarvis R. Givens | Book |
G
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Get Out | Jordan Peele | Film |
H
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| A Harriet Tubman Poem: Kim and Tammy's Series | Tamara E. Moore & Kimberly F. Pittman | Book |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Book |
| House Party | Reginald Hudlin | Film |
I
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | Film |
| I'll Make Me A World | Jarvis R. Givens | Book |
| Indigo | Beverly Jenkins | Book |
J
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| James | Percival Everett | Book |
| What is Juneteenth: Kim and Tammy | Tamara Elizabeth Moore & Dr. Kimberly Felton Pittman | Book |
K
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | Book |
L
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| The Living Is Easy | Dorothy West | Book |
| Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | Film |
| Love Jones | Theodore Witcher | Film |
M
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Mimesis of I Am | Einar | Book |
| The Mis-Education of the Negro | Carter G. Woodson | Book |
N
O
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | Ava Duvernay | Film |
P
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 | Chanta M. Haywood | Book |
| Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion | Jon Michael Spencer | Book |
Q
R
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto | Tricia Hersey | Book |
| A Right Worthy Woman | Ruth P. Watson | Book |
| Rustin | George C. Wolfe | Film |
S
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| School Daze | Spike Lee | Film |
| Shirley | John Ridley | Film |
| Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar | Film |
| Sinners | Ryan Coogler | Film |
T
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Book |
U
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Under The Skin, Above The Pavement: Urban Ecology, Embodied Masculinity, and the Science of Risk | Carlin D Nelson | Book |
V
W
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | Book |
| The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes | Poem |
| We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance | Kellie Carter Jackson | Book |
X
Y
| Title | Author/Director | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow Wife: A Novel | Sadeqa Johnson | Book |