Black History Month

 

Black History Month 2023 Exhibits and Resources

Faces of Resilience and Hope: Kingsborough Celebrates African American Artists

Visit the Bookstore Breezeway and enjoy an exhibit curated by the Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) of artists from the 19th century to the present; each poster a QR code to learn more about the artist.

Library Resources

Check out Kingsborough’s Robert J. Kibbee Library resource list of curated Black authors, films, and Black History databases. Black History Month Film series, provided by the KCC Library, will be available to stream on Kanopy for free for the entire year.

Black History Month Library Resources 2022 

Nonfiction Books*

• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Study
• Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America 
• Blackness in Opera
• Going There: Black Visual Satire
• Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
• Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

Literature/Poetry 

• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
• Just Us: An American Conversation 
• Call Us What We Carry: Poems
• Head Off & Split: Poems
• The Fifth Season  
• Harlem Shuffle

Databases

• American History Online
• Artstor 
• Black Thought and Culture
• 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive

Film and Television 

• I Am Not Your Negro**
• The Revival: Women and the Word**

*All titles are able to be checked out as physical books or as Ebooks. 

**These films will be available to stream on Kanopy FOR FREE for an entire year. More information on how to access Kanopy can be found here .

Resource List: Black History Month Library Resources 2022