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MCC Libraries: Monthly Displays: Black History Month

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2025 Theme: African Americans and Labor

MCC Black History Month Events

Select Books on Display

The 100 Best African American Poems by Nikki Giovanni
Bedford & Lowell campuses
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones; Renée Watson; Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator)
Bedford & Lowell campuses
The African American Almanac by Lean'tin Bracks; Jessie Carney Smith (Foreword by)
Lowell campus
African American Poetry by Kevin Young (Editor)
Bedford campus
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
Bedford & Lowell campuses
Afro Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa (Editor)
Lowell campus
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham
Lowell campus
Black History 1619-2019 by Sandra K. Yocum; Frances P. Rice
Bedford campus
The Black Lives Matter Movement by Peggy J. Parks
Lowell campus
Black Magic by Chad Sanders
Bedford campus
Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner
Bedford campus
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Bedford campus
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by Damaris Hill
Lowell campus
Breach of Peace by Eric Etheridge
Lowell campus
The Cambridge Guide to African American History by Raymond Gavins
Bedford campus
Children of Promise by Charles Sullivan
Lowell campus
Colorization by Wil Haygood
Bedford campus
Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele
Lowell campus
Dream a World Anew by Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult (Editor); Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Editor)
Bedford campus
Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin
Lowell campus
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Lowell campus
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
Lowell campus
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham by Hannah Durkin
Bedford campus
Kamala's Way by Dan Morain
Bedford campus
Life upon These Shores by Henry Louis Gates
Bedford campus
Light for the World to See by Kwame Alexander
Lowell Campus
Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell
Lowell campus
The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron
Bedford campus
Malcolm X by Manning Marable; G. Valmont Thomas (Read by)
Bedford campus
The Matter of Black Lives by Jelani Cobb; David Remnick
Lowell campus
The New Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Maria Tatar (Editor)
Bedford campus
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Bedford & Lowell campuses
The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse
Bedford campus
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Lowell campus
Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Lowell campus
She Came to Slay by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Bedford & Lowell campuses
So Tall Within by Gary D. Schmidt; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
Bedford campus
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Bedford campus
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Bedford campus
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
Bedford campus
Unbound by Tarana Burke
Lowell campus
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Bedford & Lowell campuses
Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Lowell campus
Wake by Rebecca Hall; Hugo Martínez (Illustrator)
Bedford & Lowell campuses
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele
Bedford campus
Working the Roots by Michele Elizabeth Lee
Lowell campus

Ebooks

Academic Video Online

Avon video streaming black history month

Black Studies in Video
Academic Video Online

Kanopy Streaming Media

African American Speeches from Kanopy Streaming Media

African American History- Great Speeches Part 1
Kanopy Streaming Media

Black History is American History

Sojourner Truth - Ain't I A Woman?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have a Dream Speech

Yearly Observances

Additional Library Resources

Discover Black History with Artstor collections
In honor of Black History Month, we have consolidated a list of varied resources available on the Artstor/JSTOR platforms, from licensed collections to freely available community generated collections. We invite you to explore the resources – historic chronicles from manuscripts, newspapers, documents and recordings, the story of African American art told by the works themselves, photographic archives portraying the lives of celebrated African Americans and those we no longer know. Discover great works, official records, iconic portraits, ephemera and memorabilia.

Black History Month

Additional Resources

African American Health
African American Trail Project
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
BlackPast.org
"BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world"
Center for Racial Justice in Education
"At Center for Racial Justice in Education, we believe that the histories, stories, and voices of Black people should be centered, honored, and uplifted in school curricula every day"
A Century of Great African American Speeches
NAACP
National African American Historic Landmarks by State
National Civil Rights Museum
National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC)
National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM)
National Voting Rights Museums and Institue (NVRMI)

Local Resources

The Arts

General

Literature

Famous Black Writers - Biography.com
Poetry Foundation Black History Month
Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture.
The Zora Canon
The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written by African American Women

STEM

Voting History