Black History Month 2021

Lambeth Libraries’ Black History Month includes books, music, and culture for everyone as well as history.

Black History Month is wonderful opportunity to learn about and celebrate African Caribbean Heritage and Culture in events curated by Lambeth Libraries.

Check out our Black History Month programme of over 30 events and choose some books from our Black Writers Challenge below.

Something new from history – Black History Month 2021

Lambeth Libraries Black History Month 2021 invites you to interact with culture through October. Book up and be part of something new from history everyday.

Black Writers Challenge

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Paperback

Real one

Author: McKinney, L. L. author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: DC Comics,

Resource type: Physical

Note: English

208 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.

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A kick in the belly : women, slavery and resistance

Author: Dadzie, Stella, 1952- author.

Year: 2020.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Content type: Catalogue

Publisher: Verso,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. English

xii, 209 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22 cm

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1913618196

Paperback

Black London

Author: Nanton, Avril, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Inkspire,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes index. English

192 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 18 cm

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Hardback

Black joy

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Penguin Books,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Adolescent. English

xviii, 395 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

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1529148251

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Misfits : a personal manifesto

Author: Coel, Michaela, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Ebury Press,

Resource type: Physical

Note: English

x, 112 pages ; 19 cm

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Every leaf a hallelujah

Author: Okri, Ben, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Head of Zeus,

Resource type: Physical

Note: "An Apollo book"--Title page verso. Juvenile. English

94 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm

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1529359279

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The girl with the louding voice

Author: Daré, Abi, author.

Year: 2020.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sceptre,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Originally published: 2020. English

314 pages ; 20 cm

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0571368980

Hardback

Why Solange matters

Author: Phillips, Stephanie (Music journalist), author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Faber & Faber,

Resource type: Physical

Note: English

256 pages ; 20 cm.

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024151570X

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Assembly

Author: Brown, Natasha, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Content type: Catalogue

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton,

Resource type: Physical

Note: Includes bibliographical references. English

105 pages ; 21 cm

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1529075688

Hardback

A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis

Author: Nakate, Vanessa, author.

Year: 2021.

Language: English

Format: Hardback

Publisher: One Boat,

Resource type: Physical

Note: English

304 pages ; 24 cm

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Black Writers Challenge 2021 full reading list - Lambeth Libraries challenge you to read as many books by black writers and/or illustrators as you can by the end of 2021. You can tell us what you're reading using #BlackWritersChallenge @BHMLambeth on Twitter, Facebook or @Lambeth_Libraries on Instagram.

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