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Black Lives Matter African American Young-Adult Authors, a Timely Activists and Victims of Police Brutality Tyler Johnson was here All American boys by Jay Coles by Jason Reynolds When Marvin Johnson's twin When sixteen-year-old Rashad is brother, Tyler, is shot and killed by mistakenly accused of stealing, Black Lives a police officer, Marvin must fight classmate Quinn witnesses his injustice to learn the true meaning brutal beating at the hands of a of freedom. police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's Matter The beautiful struggle : a alternating viewpoints. memoir, adapted for young adults A song below water by Ta-Nehisi Coates by Bethany C. Morrow BIO COATES, TA. / TEEN A metaphorical tale follows the Adapted for teen readers, a father- experiences of a black teen siren son memoir documents the and her haunted best friend, who National Book Award-winning find themselves targeted by author’s youth in the “murder capital” of 1980s violence when they are unable to Baltimore and his relationship with his father, hide their supernatural identities Vietnam veteran Paul Coates, throughout the latter’s in an alternate world that activism as a Black Panther and Afrocentric scholar. discriminates against magic. Black enough : stories of Say her name being young & black in by Zetta Elliott America 811.6 ELL / Teen Inspired by the African American by Ibi Zoboi Policy Forum’s #SayHerName TEEN Black campaign and the work of such Featuring contributions by a notables as Lucille Clifton and prestigious group of best-selling, Nikki Giovanni, a collection of award-winning and emerging poems stands as a tribute to Black Lives Matter African American young-adult authors, a timely activists and victims of police brutality. literary collection shares modern insights into what it is like to be young and Black in today's America. For more information visit: A Booklist for Teens 2021 Black Lives Matter blacklivesmatter.com by Duchess Harris policy.m4bl.org 305.896 HAR / TEEN Black Lives Matter examines the blacklivesmattersyllabus.com police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up npr.org/sections/codeswitch to racial tensions in the United Memorial Hall Library mhl.org/memorial-hall-library-and-black- 2 North Main Street States, and the goals the lives-matter-0 Andover, MA 01810 movement has for the future. 978-623-8400 | mhl.org Light it up Brown girl dreaming When they call you a by Kekla Magoon by Jacqueline Woodson terrorist : a story of Black A follow-up to the award-winning BIO Woodson, J. / Teen Lives Matter and the How It Went Down finds the In vivid poems that reflect the joy of power to change the world community of Underhill thrown into finding her voice through writing upheaval by the police shooting of stories, an award-winning author by Patrisse Khan-Cullors an unarmed 13-year-old girl, a shares what it was like to grow up 323.092 KHA / TEEN mistake that triggers clashes in the 1960s and 1970s in both the Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in between justice-seeking protesters and white- North and the South. an over-policed United States supremacist demonstrators. where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools Ghost boys A good kind of trouble and lessons that would lead her on to found one of by Jewell Parker Rhodes the most powerful movements - by Lisa Moore Ramée TWEEN Parker-Rhodes #BlackLivesMatter- in the world. After attending a powerful protest, After seventh-grader Jerome is shot Shayla starts wearing an armband by a white police officer, he This side of home to school to support the Black Lives observes the aftermath of his death Matter movement, but when the and meets the ghosts of other fallen by Renée Watson school gives her an ultimatum, she black boys including historical Twins Nikki and Maya Younger is forced to choose between her figure Emmett Till. always agreed on most things, but education and her identity. as they head into their senior year they react differently to the I am Alfonso Jones March. Book three gentrification of their Portland, by Tony Medina Oregon, neighborhood and the by John Lewis Teen Graphic Medina new--white--family that moves in Teen Graphic Lewis The ghost of fifteen-year-old after their best friend and her mother are evicted. A first-hand graphic novel account Alfonso Jones travels in a New of the author's lifelong struggle for York subway car full of the living On the come up civil and human rights continues and the dead, watching his family to cover his involvement in the and friends fight for justice after by Angie Thomas Freedom Vote and Mississippi he is killed by an off-duty police A follow-up to the award-winning Freedom Summer campaigns, and the Selma to officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department The Hate U Give finds an Montgomery march. store. ambitious young rapper pouring her frustrations into a first song only to find herself at the center of Dear Martin One person, no vote : how a viral controversy that forces her by Nic Stone not all voters are treated to become the menace that her Profiled by a racist police officer in equally public reputation has portrayed her to be. spite of his excellent academic by Carol Anderson achievements and Ivy League Stamped : racism, acceptance, a disgruntled college 324.62 AND / TEEN youth navigates the prejudices of In gripping, enlightening detail antiracism, and you new classmates and his crush on a Anderson explains how voter by Jason Reynolds white girl by writing a journal to suppression works, from photo ID 305.8 REY / TEEN Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And A history of racist and antiracist iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the ideas in America, from their roots century later. organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the in Europe until today. basic right to vote to all Americans..
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