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Celebrating Black History Month

The Library celebrates Black History Month with two displays that feature a diverse body of works by African American writers and thinkers.

The first display, located near the current periodicals section, explores a wide range of authors and literary genres, past and present. Richard Wright’s articles in The Chicago Defender, August Wilson’s drama Two Trains Running, the Collected Plays of Zora Neal Hurston, Jesmyn Ward’s National-Book-Award-winning Salvage the Bones, and Yusef Komunyakaa’s collected poems Neon Vernacular are among many prize-winning works. As Black History Month progresses, new offerings will be added each week.

The second display, near the Reference Desk, highlights new and recently-acquired books from the Library’s collections that hail from a variety of academic disciplines. Books in this display support the Global Black Studies minor and cover African American history, the Black experience, the African diaspora, the performing arts, and contemporary social justice issues. Some titles in this display include:

You may check out items from both displays. Both displays will be up through the end of February.